Adivasi says land taken away by powerful, No old age pension for 9 months...

Jagdish with Land Rights Cycle Yatra in Jaba block of Rewa district in Madhya Pradesh has reached Kanchanpur village where more than 600 dalits and adivasis live. He meets a 90 year old adivasi Chhotelal who tells him that powerful people have captured his land but he got no support from the administration after repeated requests. Many old women have not got their old age pension from 9 months. They are on verget of starvation. For more Jagdish Ji can be reached at 09893905883

Posted on: Oct 26, 2012. Tags: JAGDISH LAND

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