Rajkumar Sahu from Pragatisheel Cement Shramik Sangh Chhattisgarh says on 22nd March High Court gave a judgement to regularize many casual workers of Holcim plant. But no one has bothered to implement the decision. Workers are also sitting on a demonstration from last 4 days but no one has bothered to talk to them. He requests help in implementation of High Court judgement. Rajkumar Ji can be reached on 09685349162

Bhan Sahu is telling story of a village near Ambagarh Chowki in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh where there were 15 families who used to make liquor for their living. But village headman and some women got together and have forced those families to not make liquor. They say now children have also started drinking in the village and those families should find other occupation rather than selling liquor. She tells about two women in the village who are forced to live with their parents due to drinking habit of their husbands

Bhan Sahu from Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh says it is 5 years since Mohla dam was built but evicted people are still running from pillar to post for their compensation. In November when they did a dharna officials have given them an assurance that all payments will be done before new year and dharna was withdrawn. But the officials have paid only a few influential people by now and rest adivasis are still struggling to get money for their own land. Bhan Ji at 09406033089

Bhan Sahu is speaking to Kishan Kumar from Ludhiana who says a form of manual scavenging is being used by Ludhiana municipality which uses people from Valmiki community to clean the sevages manually. 2 people have died in the process recently. This practice need to be challenged when manual scavenging is banned by the law

Bhan Sahu from Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh is reporting that farmers are getting different rates of insurance for their crop in the same district and they are very confused. They are also not sure if the government will give any bonus this year for the paddy it has procured. There are no clear answers available to these questions from the government officials which is making the farmers worried