A poem to support the struggle of Adivasis from Gujarat

Priyanka Sarkar from Cuttack in Orissa has sent a poem for tribals of Panchmahal district of Gujarat who are fighting a tough struggle to get their lands under Forest rights act. Priyanka had heard about their struggle through a message on CGnet Swara. She hopes her poem will give strength to the struggling tribals

Posted on: Aug 31, 2010. Tags:

Woman Sarpanch suffers due to lack of education

Bhan Sahu is reporting from villager Parsatola in Ambagarh Chowki of Rajnandgaon district in Chhattisgarh which has a woman sarpanch Chamarin Bai who is uneducated. Educated secretary of the panchayat took away more than one lakh rupees from the account of the panchayat. When Chamarin Bai came to know about it she complained to authorities and the secretary was jailed for 3 months. Now the secretary is out of jail and have been reappointed in another panchayat but he has not returned the siphoned off money and the uneducated woman sarpanch is running from pillar to post but not getting any help. Bhan says it is good that we have made women sarpanchs but we also need to help them with education

Posted on: Aug 31, 2010. Tags: Bhan Sahu

Song by a child

My name is Roop Kumar Daharia. I study in class 6. I dream of becoming a famous playback singer and wants to share a song with you

Posted on: Aug 31, 2010. Tags: Roop Daharia

Anti liquor rally in Chhattisgarh from 2nd october

Kaladas Daharia is reporting about planned Anti liquor rally in Chhattisgarh from 2nd October.He says government is earning royalty by sale of liquors but that is destroying people and women are the main sufferers and it is also destroying the peace. He appeals everyone to join the movement

Posted on: Aug 31, 2010. Tags: CHHATTISGARH KALADAS DAHARIA

Whistleblower Act should be implemented soon

Priyanka Sarkar from Orissa talks about suspicious death of RTI activist and whistleblower Ramesh Ghadegaonkar who was raising the issue of corruption in Public distribution system in Mumbai. She demands that Whistleblower Act which was presented in the parliament last week should be implemented immediately so that lives of people fighting against corruption can be saved

Posted on: Aug 30, 2010. Tags: Priyanka Sarkar

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