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

Bhan Sahu is visiting an adivasi village Murpar in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh today. She says Govt claims to spend so much money for development of adivasis but in this village the school has only two para teachers, the hospital always remains closed, only one bus comes to the village, farmers have not got subsidized fertilizers and their NREGA payment of more than Rs 30 lakhs is due from more than 5 months. Bhan Ji can be reached at 09406033089

A caller from Ramgarh district of Jharkhand says here the process of opening post office accounts for NREGA is going on. The headman in the village is asking for Rs 50 to give the forms and then post office is demanding Rs 1000 to open each account. They are saying no cheques will be issued unless we pay that money. For more the caller can be reached at 09771332877

Sanjay Sharma from Surguja in Chhattisgarh says National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to state on the case of Somar Sai. He reminds us that when the case was first raised in Swara Govt of India had sent a notice to state but because the letter had a misspelling the Govt had replied saying there is no one with that name. Mr Sai died in 2008 and his wife Laxmi is still running from pillar to post to collect his NREGA wages. He also thanks the person who took the case to NHRC. Sanjay ji can be reached at 09754332440

Prakash is interviewing a veteran social activist Vijay Gupta from Balrampur in Surguja district of Chhattisgarh, who says the situation of NREGA in the block is very bad. Most of the work being done under NREGA is of road construction where officers are making money after machine work. He says there is hardly any work being done of water conservation which requires manual labor. For more Prakash can be reached at 07697852665