My name is Santoshi Kansare. I am a handicapped girl and entitled to govt support but the officials harassed me a lot in last few years. I have fought back and is now getting back my rights slowly. I am educated and have resources to fight so I have done that but there are many handicapped brothers and sisters who are not equipped and accept their fate. I request the authorities to punish the people who harassed me and continue to do so and do the same with officials who harass other handicapped people stopping them from getting govt facilities. For more Santoshi ji can be reached at 09009143345

Raju Kumar from Semaria block of Chatra district tells us that his area is a hilly area and the monsoon rains disappear there within few hours. He says his region today is known for hunger, drought and violence. Majority of people are dependent on farming for their livelihood and they need to migrate in summer for work to other states. He says I am quite confident that if we can stop this running away monsoon water in ponds by making bunds this place will definitely be not known for hunger in future. For more Raju ji can be reached at 09835235929

KM bhai from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh is telling us that at one side Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is calling NREGA a successful program whereas we have examples where laborers are not getting wages for months. He is telling us story of a village where laborers have neither got their wages for work done 10 months ago nor they are getting any new work. An enquiry has found their complaint to be true but they are still waiting for payments. For more KM bhai can be reached at 08756011826

Imran Khan from Bhopalpatnam in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh is telling that with farmers, wood smugglers also wait eagerly for monsoon here. With monsoon the smugglers have started putting very expensive teak woods on the river side. They are waiting for water flow in river Indravati. The members of Forest security committee are earning and forest department is not concerned. Once there is enough water in Indravati these logs would go to Andhra and Maharashtra markets. For more Mr Khan can be reached at 09424280085

Raju Rana from Chatra district of Jharkhand is telling us about Birhor primitive tribals from his area. He says Birhors are hunter and gatherer but due to depleting forests they do not get much prey in forest and have started to live a settled life of farming and manual laborer from some time. They still go for collecting hunting 4/5 times a month but they mainly get some roots from forest. He says no one cares for them and he is telling a recent incident when a groupd of doctors came to help the Birhors they were also misbehaved by the powerful village leaders. For more Raju can be reached at 08651164322