Praful Chandel is reporting from a village in Bilaspur where he reached at 6 in the morning to witness death of a child who died of malaria last night. He says government must work to stop this menace but the government officials neither have any plans nor they want to talk about what they are planning to do to stop this dance of death which has taken more than 100 lives in this district of Chhattisgarh

Bhagirath Verma from Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha says labor laws in this country are as old as the independent nation but these laws are hardly applied. Laborers are dying almost regularly in factories from accidents and their families are not even paid proper compensation. If victim families from a recent accident are not paid proper compensation the laborers will be forced to go on strike and the administration will be responsible for any untoward incident

Judas from Janjgir-Champa district of Chhattisgarh says earlier it was known that malaria is a problem only in hilly and forested areas like South Bastar. But so many have died due to malaria this year in plain areas of the state. He says 2 people have died in his area in last couple of days and government needs to investigate it and find out why this is happening and also how many have actually died of malaria this year after Diwali

Yashwant Ramteke from Dantewada is saying that the work on Essar pipeline which takes away iron ore from Dantewada to Vishakhapatnam has again started. This pipeline goes through deep tribal areas which are under control of maoists. Earlier Maoists had destroyed the pipeline at many place and the work was closed for years. He says the restart of work has raised a question in people’s mind asking whether there has been a deal struck between Maoists and Essar. Police should investigate it, he says

Bhan Sahu talks to Omkar Thakur here whose son is a patient of Sickle cell anaemia. He says he has not got any help from the government so far and government should run awareness campaign about the disease and also help the patient families financially