Brijesh Kumar from Rewa district in Madhya Pradesh says handpump in the dalit-adivasi part of their village is not working from last 4 months. They have given written complaint to officials quite a few times but there is no action. There is a handpump near a upper class landed person who does not allow dalits and adivasis to take water from there and the poor people are forced to fetch water from far. For more Brijesh ji can be reached at 08120314021

Ramkailash Kol from in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh says many handpumps in adivasi areas in his village are not working for many months now but complaints do not work. He says the authorities are not concerned about hardship of adivasis. He requests us to call CO Balwant Singh 09977845752, Secretry Babbu Sen 098937 and Sarpanch Ramashray Harijan 08120646351. For more Ramkailash ji can be reached at 07354671394

Hem Singh Markam from Kabirdham district in Chhattisgarh says I reported on this platform that there are no handpumps and electricity in my village. Then I got a call from a moderator who told me to find out a number of concerned officer where Swara members can call and request. I gave the number of Block officer but still we have not got a hand pump in our village . The number of officer is 07741232133. Please help us. For more Markam Ji can be reached at 09893062106

Priyanka Borpujari from Mumbai says she called up the Block officer Balwant Singh following up the complaint for the non working hand pump from 7 months from Seema of District Rewa Madhya Pradesh. The message was recorded in Swara couple of days back. But the officer washed his hands off the matter, and said he could only ask the Panchayat officer, as the handpump had been out of order for seven months and why no one had complained earlier. For more Priyanka can be reached at 09820741992

Jangluram Baiga, a tribal from Sujankhar village in Kawardha district of Chhattisgarh says sometime back I had requested on this platform about a handpump in my village but no one has listened yet. There is no drinking water source upto 3 kms from my village and people are suffering. He says we have many other problems, like we do not have electricity, we do not have ownership of land etc but the problem of water is the biggest. For more Baiga ji can be reached at 09893062106