Dilip Jaiswal from Suruguja district in Chhattisgarh is talking to local people who are affected of coal mining in the area. He says the compensation money is now finished and people are bothered by dust. The all pervasive dust not only makes their lives unbearable it is destroing their crops and trees around but Govt is planning to open more coal mines in the area. For more Dilip can be reached at 09685698271

Khuturam Sunani is interviewing a labor in Bolangir district of Odisha who says they worked under NREGA more than a year back but they have not got the wages. He says the law says the NREGA payment will be done in 7-15 days and all the laborers are in dire need of money. Many have taken advance from brokers and are in the process to migrate to work outside. For more Khuturam ji can be reached at 09437657625

Kedar Sunani from Ghantiguda Gram Panchayat says no one has got Above Poverty Line ration cards in the entire Panchayat. He says though his panchayat is a poor panchayat and they have complained to all the officers but no one has got the ration cards and the next panchayat elections are nearby. He says all the panchayats in the area have got ration cards so why single out this panchayat. For more Mr Kedar can be reachd at 08018280972

Bineshwar Nayak from Jharkhand is telling the story of his village where dalits are still treated very badly. He says some of us educated boys tried to revolt aginst teh system but our elders are too much economically dependent on the upper caste people so we did not succeed. He says the British has left but caste system still continues after so many years of independence. For more Bineshwar can be reached at 08409482115

Mangal Kunjam from Dantewada in Chhattisgarh is interviewing an adivasi boy Pankaj Telam who tells him in Gondi that the local mining company National Mineral Development Corporation who is mining in the area from many years is only taking pictures of adivasis to use them in their posters. He says if you go to their offices you will find lots of pictures of adivasis but they have not done much for the development of adivasis rather they are exploiting them. For more Mangal can be reached at 09407708515