Rally in Kanker demanding improvement in NREGA and FRA

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

Posted on: Sep 13, 2010. Tags: BHAN SAHU NREGA

Less payment in NREGA and other government schemes

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

Posted on: Sep 07, 2010. Tags: BHAN SAHU NREGA

NREGA : Dharna if no payment in a week

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

Posted on: Sep 05, 2010. Tags: BHAN SAHU NREGA

Bad situation of roads in villages

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

Posted on: Sep 05, 2010. Tags: Bhan Sahu

A song on deaths of children due to dirty water

Kilkariyan kahti hain Jeene do hame…Children say let us live…Bhan Sahu sings a song to protest hundreds of deaths taking place in India caused by drinking dirty water

Posted on: Sep 05, 2010. Tags: BHAN SAHU WATER

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