Bad situation of roads in villages
Bhan Sahu is reporting from Rajnandgaon that on the one hand government is widening main roads even at the cost of destroying houses and small businesses of poor on the side but they are not giving any attention to roads connecting to villages and people are suffering
Posted on: Sep 05, 2010. Tags: Bhan Sahu
A song on deaths of children due to dirty water
Kilkariyan kahti hain Jeene do hame…Children say let us live…Bhan Sahu sings a song to protest hundreds of deaths taking place in India caused by drinking dirty water
Posted on: Sep 05, 2010. Tags: BHAN SAHU WATER
Woman Sarpanch suffers due to lack of education
Bhan Sahu is reporting from villager Parsatola in Ambagarh Chowki of Rajnandgaon district in Chhattisgarh which has a woman sarpanch Chamarin Bai who is uneducated. Educated secretary of the panchayat took away more than one lakh rupees from the account of the panchayat. When Chamarin Bai came to know about it she complained to authorities and the secretary was jailed for 3 months. Now the secretary is out of jail and have been reappointed in another panchayat but he has not returned the siphoned off money and the uneducated woman sarpanch is running from pillar to post but not getting any help. Bhan says it is good that we have made women sarpanchs but we also need to help them with education
Posted on: Aug 31, 2010. Tags: Bhan Sahu
Police harasses tribal woman activist in Bastar
Bhan Sahu is reporting about harassment of a tribal woman activist called Jaya in Bastar who works on the issue of domestic violence and other social issues in tribal villages. On the day of Rakhi police in plain clothes arrived at Jaya’s house and tried to intimidate her. Bhan says it looks any woman who comes out of her house to work on social issues is seen as anti social in the eyes of the government
Posted on: Aug 30, 2010. Tags: BASTAR BHAN SAHU
Non payment of NREGA wages in Rajnandgaon
Bhan Sahu reports from Direjhal village in Nawagaon block of Rajnandgaon district where villagers have not been paid wages of Rs 3.5 lakhs in works under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act from April. Similarly the payment has also not been done in Tatekasa block of the same district
