Yashwant Ramteke from Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh is telling us about villages which do not exist in any official record. He says he met people from a village called Karka about which the local Tahsildar had no idea though the village is just few kilometers from Bailadila mines. Because the village is not in revenue or any other kind of records, the village gets no Govt support and does not have any handpump or school or electricity. There are many such villages here which do not exist according to Govt.For more Yashwant Ji can be reached at 09424278552

Yashwant Ramteke from Bacheli in Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh says National Mineral Development Corporation which has iron ore mines in the area uses double standards as far as safety of the workers is concerned. He says NMDC takes care well of its full time employees but daily wage laborers who are mainly local adivasis they are ignored. He speaks to one such worker who says when they try to raise these issues NMDC officials threaten them of firing from their work. For more Yashwant Ji can be reached at 09424278552

A 50 mw hydro power station has again been proposed at Bodhghat by Ramsey company from Hyderabad and some preliminary steps were taken. But 42 villages had meetings of their gram panchayats and have decided that this power project would destroy their water, forest and land. The villagers have demanded that the power plant construction should be stopped forthwith. For details please contact Yeshwant Ramteke at 09424278552

Yashwant Ramteke is talking to two entrepreneur adivasi boys who had applied for bank loans after being cleared from Khadi & Gramodyog dept and Pradhanmatri Rozgar Yojna. Yashwant says there are many such cases in this adivasi district and government should be more careful in stopping these adivasi youth in getting diverted in other direction by engaging them in these employment schemes. He says this delay in disbursing loans is also against the Reserve Bank of India norms. Yashwant can be reached on 09424278552

Yashwant Ramteke from Dantewada says as the summer is just arriving the water problem is again becoming severe. He gives example of a village near Dantewada where Public Health department has made a check dam spending Rs 1 crore. But soon after its completion cracks have developed and the village is again dependent on tube well which are getting repaired. He says the situation is particularly bad in Konta block of the district. Yashwant can be reached at 09424278552