Giridhari Patra is telling us about a meeting on the Niyamgiri hills last month where tribals worshipped Niyam Raja the God. He says they also sacrificed two goats and two chicken and everyone took oath with the blood of sacrified animals that what may come they will not leave the hill and will fight any company take over of the hill till their last bredth. They also discussed how to fight latest attacks of calling them maoists. For more please contact Giridhariji at 09583022500

Dhiran from Kota block of Bilaspur says forest department is using money from NREGA for road construction but are not following the NREGA norms and wages payment are delayed. He gives example of one road construction work in forest area from 2009-10 where more than 60 workers are yet to get paid fully and in another work 40 workers have not been paid from 4 months. For details please contact Dhiran at 09407960520

Sanjay Sharma from Ambikapur in Surguja district in Chhatttisgarh is telling about a case of laborer Mr Mahilaram of village Kakna in Rajpur block of the district who lost one of his eyes while working in NREGA on 19th July 2008. Though NREGA has provision of compensation for injury while working he has not got any compensation after repeated complaints. For details please contact Sanjay Ji at 09754332440

Prakash Gupta from Ambikapur says 3 days back on 5th March I had reported about less and non payment in NREGA work in Batauli block of Surguja district. Today an officer from the district came to the panchayat to investigate and spoke to concerned laborers who told the officer that they have got wages at the rate of Rs 70 instead of Rs 100. Panchayat secretary said wages of more than Rs 48,000 is due while the engineer in charge of the work said all payments have been made. For more Prakash can be reached on 07697852665

Sanjay Ji from Bhopalpatnam is reporting about a rally of farmers which was also supported by panchayat officials. The farmers gave a 14 point memorandum to officials demanding control in price rise of food items and diesel, petrol and a ban on sale of foreign liquor in Bhopalpatnam