Arvind Anjum from Visthapit Mukti Vahini in Jharkhand is reporting about their struggle to stop the closure of dam gates when rehabilitation is not complete. He says it is a big victory for the people. Visthapit Mukti Vahini is an organisation of 15,000 people of 116 villages in Chandil area where a dam is being built from last 30 years. People are demanding that their compensation should be increased and they should be allowed to use water from the dam. Government has responded by increasing the number of officers working on rehabilitation

धरती में सोना उगाने वाला भाई रे

माटी को हीरा बनाने वाला भाई रे

अपना पसीना बहाने वाला भाई रे
उठ तेरी मेहनत को लूटे हे कसाई रे

धरती भी तेरा है, अम्बर भी तेरा

तुझको ही लाना है अपना सबेरा
तू ही अंधेरा में सूरज है भाई रे

तू ही लडेगा सुबह की लडाई रे
तब सारी दुनिया लेगी अंगडाई रे

You have heard about beatings of Adivasis by forest officials in Devlikuan village of Gogamba block in district Panchmahal of Gujarat in this forum. On 9th September they went to local officials asking to check on what happened to their FIR which was filed on 28th July. But the officials sent them back after humiliating them. As you know forest officials had beaten the adivasis who were working on their ancestral forest land on 9th July and an FIR was filed only when adivasis had protested under the banner of a local NGO. According to forest rights act the adivasis should get the deeds for the land but forest department wants to throw them out of their land

Kailash Meena from Sikar district of Rajasthan is reporting that you are aware that recently 164 trucks filled with explosives have got disappeared which may have gone to wrong hands. According to reports 30 trucks originated from Sikar district from the same illegal mines which are also damaging people’s houses and destroying water sources. They punish the people who oppose them with the help of police and administration

Priyank Joshi from Water organisation is reporting from Jabalpur that in many villages in that area a Jeene Ka Abhiyan program has started. In the program people in many villages took part in Teachers Day program where they took oath not to bad mouth women, Not to beat any woman and not to take intoxicating product in front of children. They also cooked food together and eat to stay away from caste discrimination. Villagers have made samitis which will organise similar programs in the future