Yashwant Ramteke from Dantewada in Chhattisgarh is talking to an adivasi who is telling him that Essar Steel has taken their land but have thrown them out of work whereas they are employing outsiders. He says they have destroyed the land which they have not taken and whenever we request them for job to our youth they give excuses. This must change. For more Yashwant Ji can be reached at 09424278552

Yashwant Ramteke from Bacheli in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh is telling us that National Mineral Development Corporation has a scheme that local adivasis will be given permanent jobs after 3 years of industrial training but there are many who have not got jobs after 9 years. He is talking to an adivasi after changing his name who has not been given job after 6 years. His name has been changed to avoid administration harming him. For more Ramteke Ji can be reached at 09424278552

Yashwant Ramteke from Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh is talking to an adivasi who was badly beaten up by an official of forest department. The adivasi tells him he and his freinds were beaten up because they were picking up firewood for their homes. Yashwant says these kind of incidents keep happening here where adivasis get beaten up on minor issues by officials but these are incidents do not make headlines. For more Yashwant ji can be reached at 09424278552

Reena Ramteke from Gariaband in Chhattisgarh says on 9th July I had send an interview on Swara with Kham Singh ji from village Dhiralaj where he had said that 42 of them have not got NREGA wages from one and half year. After that we got a call from Patrika newspaper and when the news was published officials came running and made payments to 14 people and said money has finished and they will be back within a week. But a month has now passed and they are not back yet. For more Reena ji can be reached at 07828625176

Yashwant Ramteke from Bijapur in Chhattisgarh is talking to a person attending a rally today demanding CBI enquiry into the killings in villages near Basaguda. He also helps us listen to an Adivasi Mahasabha leader. As we know 17 villagers were killed in a CRPF raid where some independent enquiries have found that the people killed were innocent villagers and not Naxals as claimed by the police. For more Ramteke ji can be reached at 09424278552