Many of you will remember the case of Pitbasu Bhoi from Surguja district in Chhattisgarh whose son had died in hospital when he was still waiting for his NREGA wages after working for 100 days. Once it was reported on Swara he was paid his wages but not the compensation for late payment. He has since complained to all the officials including collector of the district but no one has bothered to respond. Mr Bhoi can be reached at 09617863327

Subhash Gayali from Jharkhand says here in villages lots of people are very enthusiastically supporting movement of Anna Hazare. He talks to a villager in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand who says they hope we will be able to defeat the demon of corruption with the help of this movement which they fully support. If corruption is not controlled then we may not remain a free country he says. Subhash ji can be reached at 07739338917

Subodh Gupta from Surguja in Chhattisgarh is telling a story of a teacher who forced children from his school to work in his farm for sowing. When people complained about it to officer, they found the allegation to be correct and now have promised to take action. Block president has also said that this kind of incident is common in villages where officials use their subordinates for their personal work. He has also promised to take action against the practice. For more Subodh can be reached at 09424262158

Subhash Gayali from Jharkhand is telling us about an incident today in Noamundi area of West Singhbhum district where village women stopped a govt survey team. The women asked the survey team whether they have permission to do survey from the Gram Sabha. When the survey team could not answer satisfactorily the team was physically stopped by the women’s team. Women said this is a 5th schedule area and no work can be done without permission from Gram Sabha. The survey team has filed a police case. For more Subhash ji can be reached at 092639622

Subhash Gayali is telling us about a one day token hunger strike in front of Raj Bhavan in Ranchi by villagers from East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. He says people said they wanted to protest on various breach of contracts by companies. They alleged that Uranium thrown by UCIL is affecting people’s lives but we are told that Uranium Corporation is under PMs office so state Govt can not help. So people now will be forced to protest outside PM’s office. Subhash can be reached at 09204522381