Savita Rath from Raigarh says today activists have been arrested on the charge of misbehaving with Jindal employees in a public hearing. In reality in public hearing the activists had raised the issue of misbehavior by Jindal employees with then SP Dhruv Gupta inside his official chamber. The public hearing was video recorded. Savita can be reached at 07869234650. Former SP Dhruv Gupta confirms the incident and can be reached at 9479192300 and 9424206667

Savita Rath is reporting from a hunger strike place where farmers are protesting low rates for their land being taken for a dam on Kelo river in Raigarh. She says the market rate of land in area is around 12 lakhs and govt is giving Rs 50,000 to farmers. The farmers have complained to authorities. They have sat on relay hunger strike from last week but non authority has bothered to listen to them. Now they are planning to close the work of the dam from 2nd May. She also speaks to a fasting farmer who says we need your help. Savita Ji can be reached on 07869234650

Savita Rath from Raigarh says she had called Swara on 15th March to inform that children of Anganvadi in her village did not have proper food as supplies were stopped from govt. She says the next day after the story went out, officials visited the village and arranged cooked food for the children. The officer has also assured in writing that the supplies that were due from few months now shall be delivered by 1st April. She thanks everyone who made the effort to activate the administration. For further details, contact Savita ji on 9589667419

Savita Rath from Raigarh says when people went to take bath this morning in Kelo river they found many dead fish. After exploration she found that more than 3 ton fish have died in Kelo river in last one week. She says the villagers alleged that industries at the bank of river are emptying their toxic waste at night. Since no action has been taken yet she requests that government should be pressurized to take action asap. For more please contact Savita ji at 09589667419

Savita Raj from Barlia village in Raigarh in Chhattisgarh says their Self Help Group of adivasi woman is running a ICDS (anganwadi) center in the village but they have not received any help from the government from 1st January. She says we are a group of poor adivasi women we managed to give cooked food to children in last few months but we can not manage any more and today we could only give little dry food to children. I request govt to send our due rice immediately to help these malnourisehd children. Savita can be reached at 07869234650