Prakash Gupta is visiting village Kanaknagar in Pratappur block of Surajpur district in Chhattisgarh today. While talking to the Sarpanch he finds out that people worked under NREGA five months back in February 2012 but are yet to paid. The sarpanch tells him that more than Rs 7 lakh wages are due and the officials tell him that the funds have not arrived. He also says if this illegal delays continue people will loose interest in working in NREGA in future. For more Prakash ji can be reached at 07697852665

Prakash Gupta is in Salk village of Surguja district with Jan Chetna Yatra of Chhattisgarh Bachao Andolan where he helps us listen to Adivasi leader Jung Sai who says adivasis have been cheated by the administration who wants to take away all on which an adivasi is dependent. He says we are awakened now and will not allow this to happen. Prakash talks to a farmer in the crowd to react on the speech who says we will give our lives but not the land. For more Prakash can be reached at 07697852665

Prakash Gupta from Surguja in Chhattisgarh says Right to Information is not able to help expose corruption in NREGA. He says he had heard about corruption in NREGA in his village so he applied under RTI to get some details but he did not. Then he went for appeal but the higher official is still sitting on his application after months though legally he should decide on it in 45 days. He says it looks like higher officials shielding corruption which should be investigated. For more Prakash can be reached at 07697852665

Prakash Gupta from Surguja in Chhattisgarh is telling us about Village Secretariate scheme which was launced on 26th January 2004. He says the idea was to solve villagers problems in thei villages and it was instructed that once in a week the village secretariate will listen to all the complaints of the villagers where representatives from all the Govt departments will be present. But today this scheme only runs on the paper. For more Prakash can be reached on 07697852665

Prakash Gupta from Surguja in Chhattisgarh is telling us about the situation of Korwa primitive tribe also known as God sons on our first President. He says today after Govt expenditure of huge amount of money for their development Korwas are dependent on selling fire wood from jungle. The day is not far when all the forest will finish and also their current life line. There is a need for a serious audit of development money spent on the nme of Korwas. For more Prakash can be reached at 07697852665