Omprakash Baghel from Surguja district in Chhattisgarh is helping us listen to a song by Pandri Bai a Pahari Korwa Adivasi woman. The song says there is lots of water in the river and there are no boats and how will I go to see my friends and relatives. For more on the song Omprakash Ji can be reached at 9479598133

Macha Kannaiah is caling from Maraigudem village, Dummugudem Mandal, Khammam district of AP. He says in his Gondi language that our village is at the border with Chhattisgarh. We have no health and road facility. So many Adivasis are unemployed. Government is not providing jobs to adivasi youth. In our area we want a hospital and good road to go to villages. Please help us. For more you can reach Macha Kamaiah ji at 09963529824.

Asfaq Ali,secretary of Chhattisgarh Muslim education society says though the state has a Scheduled Caste, Tribe and Minority welfare department but it is not doing anything for education of these people. He gives example that Urdu schools in the state have not got any teachers and they are also not getting any land for making school buildings. There is provision of stipend for students but that is also not functioning. For more Asfaq Ji can be reached at 9406029172

Dr Haneef is visiting a village Kottur in Khammam district in Telangana ( earlier Andhra Pradesh) where 50 Internally displaced Person (IDP) adivasi families now live. They migrated from Chhattisgarh because of ongoing conflict there between Maoists and security forces. Boys and girls from the community sings a song in their Gondi language where they are describing the problems they are facing in their new lives in a new place. For more Dr Haneef is at 09490353568
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Mohan Yadav Ji is visiting Bhanupratappur in North Bastar ( Kanker) district in Chhattisgarh where he meets a woman Traditional healer Kiran Dongre. He asks Kiran Ji what type of patients she looks after. She claims that apart from patients of sugar, gas, malaria she has also cured some cancer patients with medicinal herbs from forest. She says they do this work free of cost and do not charge any money from patients. For more Mohan Ji can be reached at 9479598133