Bhan Sahu says we have started Panchayati Raj institutions for empowerment of poor but have not trained people. And in result the government appointed employees, the secretaries are making fools of elected Sarpanchs. Many sarpanchs are facing enquiries when the real culprits are the secretaries. Thanks to reservation for women and backward sections many have come forward. As an example she tells the story of a dalit woman sarpanch of Hachid village in Gormi panchayat in Chhattisgarh who is forced to leave the village in the fear of secretary and police also does not help. For more please call Bhan sahu at 09406033089

Bhan Sahu is talking about annual celebration of clean villages ( Nirmal Gram) on 15th October. She says many villages have been declared Clean Village on paper by the government but the ground reality is different. Schools and Anganwadis do not have supply of soap. The latrines in schools are permanently locked. She says at one end people do not have drinking water in many villages and government is spending crores in the name of making the villages clean

Bhan Sahu is reporting from a village in Mahasamund district where a poor adivasi girl who was a victim of misbehavior and police is not helping her even after intervention from Chhattisgarh Mahila Manch. The girl is now forced to live in a different village in fear. Bhan says it is not the story of one girl but poor in general do not get any support from police

Women from 10 districts of Chhattisgarh has assembled in a 3 days workshop of Chhattisgarh Mahila Manch in Pithora of Mahasamund district. They are singing a song from the workshop. They are also discussing on the vision and mission of the state of Chhattisgarh and trying to understand what is the difference between a platform and an organisation

Bhan Sahu interviews Bharat Mandavi of Jan Shakti organisation who talks about their fight to get deeds for the forest land under Forest Rights Act on 2005. He says “we have been fighting for years to get our lands regularized where we have been farming from years and we will continue this fight against this historic injustice till our death.We will not leave our land at any cost”.