Munni Devi in MP is walking with a foot march from 1st January 2013 demanding 5 acres of land to each landless dalit and adivasi. She advises to all the listeners of Swara that please do not ask for doles like mid-day meal and NREGA wages but fight to get 5 acres of land. If you have land you can feed and educate your children, she says. She requests all of us to join the culmination of the foot march in Bhopal on 9th June. For more Munni Ji can be reached at 07354606167

Sankhu Prasad Ji is callng from Budhar block of Shahdol district of MP to say that in Ghughri village Govt has started construction of a dam. Damdilal Ji lost 6 acres of land in the dam but have not got any compensation. The dam work started in Dec 2012 and on 8th January 2013 Damdilal died of heart attack. You are requested to call Collector Bhargava Ji at 9425141835 for investigation. For more Sankhu Ji can be reached at 09009783853

My name is Munni Devi. I am calling from Rewa in Madhya Pradesh. I see so many malnourised children around and Govt welfare schemes are not reaching people. I request Govt to give each dalit and adivasi family 5 acres of land and some education. Then they will take care of their children and there will not be any need for these schemes. Now they are forced to migrate in search of work leaving their children. For more Munni Ji can be reached at 07354606167

Rajesh Tripathi from Janchetna in Raigarh in Chhattisgarh is telling us about a court ordering Jindal industries to return 6 acres of land to an individual Harpriya Patel in Dongamahua village in Tamnar block. He says it is a story of an individual but it is a big morale booster for the entire region where industries like Jindal have captured lots of land illegally. Jindal had built a colony on the land which court has ordered to return. For more Rajesh Ji can be reached at 09424183510

Naim Ezaz from Dhanbad, Jharkhand is telling us about gas leakage from land near Katari river (Dhanbad-Bokaro Highway) in Tarkitand village,Baghmara block of Dhanbad. The gas leakage has also caught fire. When people raised this issue before the officers of Bharat Coking Coal Ltd, Western Jharia, the officers refused to help saying that the area is not under their ambit.Villagers of the region are frightened due to this situation. If nothing is done to control this situation, then it can cause danger to the lives of the villagers.Naim Ezaz can be reached on 09939181231