Yashwant Ramteke from Bijapur in Chhattisgarh is talking to a person attending a rally today demanding CBI enquiry into the killings in villages near Basaguda. He also helps us listen to an Adivasi Mahasabha leader. As we know 17 villagers were killed in a CRPF raid where some independent enquiries have found that the people killed were innocent villagers and not Naxals as claimed by the police. For more Ramteke ji can be reached at 09424278552

Yashwant Ramteke from Dantewada tells us that to protest against Bodhghat hydel power project a rally was organised in Jagdalpur yesterday Chhattisgarh Swabhiman Manch. The leader Subhash Maurya says though Govt is not telling anything the proposed dam on Indravati for 50 MW project will submerge more than 72,000 people from 100+ villages in 32 panchayats. He also alleged that Govt is ignoring all the laws while going ahead with this project which they are doing with a private company. For more Ramteke ji can be reached at 09424278552

Yashwant Ramteke is raising the issue of villages on the other side of Bailadila hills who are at the border of Dantewada and Bijapur district. These village are neither forest villages nor they are counted as revenue villages. For this reason they do not get any government support of any type. He says we have raised this issue in the past in CGnet and we have also told about this to administration in Bijapur but nothing has moved. For more Yashwant ji can be reached at 09424278552

Yashwant Ramteke from Dantewada says in nearby Barsur a private company has quietly started work on a 50 MW hydel power project on river Indravati and villagers are not happy about it. But when adivasis try to oppose it the police beats them up and sends them back. This issues needs looking into. For more Yashwant ji can be reached at 09424278552

Yashwant Ramteke from Dantweda in Chhattisgarh says National Mineral Development corporation ( NMDC) run iron ore mines are the only big industrial activity in Bastar district at the moment. NMDC takes good care of its regular employees but mainly local adivasis are employed by contractors who does not take good care of them and adivasis get exploited because they are not educated and they do not know their rights. When it is raised with NMDC they say it is not their duty to ensure well being of these daily wage laborers which much change. For more Ramteke ji can be reached at 09424278552