Hem Singh Markam is an adivasi from Sujankhar village in Pandaria block of Kawardha district of Chhattisgarh. He says I had reported few days back that a forest ranger is threatening us to throw us out of our village but I got no response. The ranger wants to do plantation on our land. The ranger’s number is 9981635708. He made us work for free promising land deeds.We have never got deeds for our land. People are scared for their future though they have started their farming with monsoon. The number for SDM is 07754254250. You are requested to please call them and help us. For more Markam ji can be reached at 07697818938

Ashok Singh Paigam from Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh is telling us the story of Kohram Say Gond an adivasi who is living on a forest land from 1960s. He has paid fines to forest department all these years. According to Forest Rights Act he should be getting the land deed but not only the officials ill treat him whenever he requests for the same, the forest department has burnt his house quite a few times. He requests us to help Mr Gond and many similar adivasis who have not got their legal rights. For more Paigam Ji can be reached at 09893827032

Sukalo Devi an adivasi woman from Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh says forest department with Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) is harassing us and are not allowing to take wood which is our right. She says we women have cought forest department people at midnight when they were transporting wood. They should be punished. According to new law it is our forest and we will not allow forest dept or JICA to take it away. They are doing plantation which is also not good. Please help us.For more Sukalo ji can be reached at 09415233583

Dr SK Haneef from Khammam district on border of Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh is telling us that forest department has put fire to 20 houses of adivasis who came from Chhattisgarh 5 years ago due to political unrest in their state. These Internally displaced people ( IDPs) were living in reserve forest area in Andhra Pradesh. Forest officials have also taken away their belongings after razing their houses. Last month also forest department had burnt IDP adivasi houses in similar fashion nearby. For more Dr Haneef can be reached at 09490353568

Laxman Kashyap from Darbha block in Jagdalpur district of Chhattisgarh says forest department has spent lakhs in plantation in 40 acre land near his village Kankapal but there is not a single plant there. There is no board giving details of the work. They have built a road and laborers were not paid proper wages. He alleges that similar irregualrities can be found in nearby villages too. He requests us to call local ranger at 09407644622 to enquire. For more Laxman ji can be reached at 09407927957