Bhan Sahu from Rajnandgaon reports that 15,190 tribal people from 104 villages in Mohla, Chowki and Manpur blocks have been campaigning under the leadership of Jan Shakti organisation from last few years but have not got any rights for their land. Many people were fined for using that forest land before Forest Rights Act came into existence

Continuing her dispatches on the occasion of Independence day Bhan Sahu send a report about displaced people of Bargi dam in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh. The displaced adivasis are living a miserable life without water, electricity and enough food where as government is making lots of money by selling electricity and water. She says we have got independence from British but it will not be a real independence till our adivasis, women and children are free of malnourishment.

Bhan Sahu is reporting from Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh about a social activist Kirti. She goes to villages to talk to people about how to fight social injustice but when she returns her own home she needs to be under ghunghat. She needs to do all her work under veil. Are women free in this independent India, she asks. This tradition of veil in spreading and has now also entered the tribal society now

Bhan Sahu from Rajnandgaon has sent a report that teachers are getting
sent to census duty from rural schools and teaching is getting
affected and children are suffering

Bhan Sahu from Rajnandgaon has reported that people have not been paid after 4 months of work in National Rural Employment Guarantee program. She says after summer it is the worst time for the farmers economically and they were hoping the payment from NREGA will help.But they are forced to borrow to sow seeds and send their children to school