Bhan Sahu reporting from Kanker says that women in Muski village in Durgkondal block is afraid to go to forest for collecting fire wood alone. There has been an incident of misbehavior with a woman in the past. Muski is the same village where there was an exchange of fires between CRPF and Naxals in August. She also talks about social activist Prakash Korram who was wrongfully implicated by the security forces in the same area. Now out of jail but Prakash needs to fight the case. It is becoming more difficult for social activists like Prakash to work in Bastar because police is framing them as Naxals she says

Bhan Sahu is reporting from Kanker that a rally was organised in Bhanupratappur area under the banner of Jan Van Adhikar Manch demanding better implementation of NREGA and Forest Rights act. Under NREGA people are not getting 100 days work and in FRA they are getting ownership for less land than what they are applying for. She reports that liquor mafia is misusing the permission given to tribals to brew liquor and there is a rally on 2nd October to protest that. Jan Van Adhikar manch is planning for a bigger rally in October to press for similar demands

Bhan Sahu is reporting from various villages in Rajnandgaon where villagers are paid less than the official rates. She says in one village people got only Rs 70 for a days work under NREGA but when they protested collectively they got the full payment of Rs 100. Similarly some people have got Rs 2000 less than the amount they signed for in Indira Awas Yojna and in the same village headman has captured a land where villagers want to build a pond under NREGA

Bhan Sahu reports from Rajnandgaon that in entire district many people have not been paid for their work in NREGA from the month of April. People are getting desperate after no action from government side after repeated requests for payment. And now they are planning a demonstration if the due payments are not made within a week

Bhan Sahu is reporting from Rajnandgaon that on the one hand government is widening main roads even at the cost of destroying houses and small businesses of poor on the side but they are not giving any attention to roads connecting to villages and people are suffering