Bhan Sahu is reporting from villager Parsatola in Ambagarh Chowki of Rajnandgaon district in Chhattisgarh which has a woman sarpanch Chamarin Bai who is uneducated. Educated secretary of the panchayat took away more than one lakh rupees from the account of the panchayat. When Chamarin Bai came to know about it she complained to authorities and the secretary was jailed for 3 months. Now the secretary is out of jail and have been reappointed in another panchayat but he has not returned the siphoned off money and the uneducated woman sarpanch is running from pillar to post but not getting any help. Bhan says it is good that we have made women sarpanchs but we also need to help them with education

Bhan Sahu is reporting about harassment of a tribal woman activist called Jaya in Bastar who works on the issue of domestic violence and other social issues in tribal villages. On the day of Rakhi police in plain clothes arrived at Jaya’s house and tried to intimidate her. Bhan says it looks any woman who comes out of her house to work on social issues is seen as anti social in the eyes of the government

Bhan Sahu reports from Direjhal village in Nawagaon block of Rajnandgaon district where villagers have not been paid wages of Rs 3.5 lakhs in works under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act from April. Similarly the payment has also not been done in Tatekasa block of the same district

Bhan Sahu from Rajnandgaon reports that 15,190 tribal people from 104 villages in Mohla, Chowki and Manpur blocks have been campaigning under the leadership of Jan Shakti organisation from last few years but have not got any rights for their land. Many people were fined for using that forest land before Forest Rights Act came into existence

Continuing her dispatches on the occasion of Independence day Bhan Sahu send a report about displaced people of Bargi dam in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh. The displaced adivasis are living a miserable life without water, electricity and enough food where as government is making lots of money by selling electricity and water. She says we have got independence from British but it will not be a real independence till our adivasis, women and children are free of malnourishment.