No payment of Tendu insurance policy after 2 years

Bhan Sahu is reporting that according to government insurance policy in Tendu leaf collection if a person dies during tendu leaf collection then the family gets compensation of Rs 20,000 but affected families have not got the payment from last 2 years. She also talks about some non payment of installment of Indira awas yojna. Due to rain the half built house is now destroyed but the beneficiaries are yet to get their next installments

Posted on: Sep 25, 2010. Tags: Bhan Sahu

Shortage of teachers in rural schools

Bhan Sahu is reporting from Mahul area in Rajnandgaon district where in the high school there are no teachers for Maths, Science and English. Students come from far off places to this school but there is no replacement for transferred teachers after 3 months of the start of the session. In Chichli villager there are only 2 teachers to teach the class 9 and 10. How can a single teacher handle all the subjects, she asks. It is not only these two villages it is the story of most of the rural villages

Posted on: Sep 22, 2010. Tags: Bhan Sahu

Mogra dam displaced assured of compensation by January

Bhan Sahu from Rajnandgaon is reporting that displaced families of Mogra dam are yet to be compensated for their inundated land. They gave an ultimatum of 2 weeks to the government but when there was no response they sat on a demonstration on the dam and tried to open the dam gates. Government has now assured them that the compensation will be paid by the month of January. Bhan says if the compensation is not paid by promised date then people have decided to start a hunger strike

Posted on: Sep 21, 2010. Tags: Bhan Sahu

First woman fist wrestler not allowed to talk to press

Bhan Sahu is reporting about situation of women in our society. Some time back she had sent a report about first woman Panja ( fist)wrestler from Chhattisgarh who has won quite a few awards. This time when she tried to get her interview for a video story, the girl was happy to talk but others did not allow her to speak. She says a woman who has done pioneering work in a new filed by being the first woman player but she is not allowed to talk about her work, this is the situation of women in our sociery

Posted on: Sep 19, 2010. Tags: Bhan Sahu

Women afraid to visit near CRPF camp in Kanker

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

Posted on: Sep 15, 2010. Tags: Bhan Sahu

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