How to celebrate festivals: A lesson from a tribal village in Mandla

Mithilesh Kumar from Mandla is reporting how some young boys from his village got together after Independence Day celebration and decided to clean the village. First we should do our duty before demanding rights was the thought. Now on Teachers Day apart from felicitating the teachers they collected ration from each family to prepare a community kitchen to fight caste segregation and also talked about how children learn from bad behavior of parents and how we treat our women folk

Posted on: Sep 05, 2010. Tags: MANDLA MITHILESH KUMAR

Students protest unedible Mid day meal in School

Jeet Kumar, a student is reporting from Navin Government School in Jamul, Bhilai that his school has started a new system of getting food packets from outside for Mid day meal for students which is of very low quality. He says when they found insects in the food for continuous three days they protested and now have a meeting with the authorities to sort this out. He says they demand return to the old system where mid day meal was cooked in the school

Posted on: Sep 01, 2010. Tags: EDUCATION JEET KUMAR MID-DAY MEAL

Himanshu Kumar reports on reality of rural Gujarat

Himanshu Kumar on his cycle Yatra is reporting here about the reality of rural Gujarat as he is finding. He says people are very angry. Government on one hand giving thousands of acre of land to industry but is not giving land rights to tribals. There are instances of hunger death and the nation does not know the news like land for Nano factory was given by closing down a university

Posted on: Aug 27, 2010. Tags: Himanshu Kumar

Himanshu Kumar reports from Gujarat on Cycle Yatra

Abhay Singh Rathwa is a Gujarati tribal boy who is cycling with Himanshu Kumar of Vanvasi Chetna Ashram Dantewada from 27th June from Raj Ghat in New Delhi. When the yatra reached Baroda police has visited Mr Rathwa and enquired about his future plans. Himanshu Kumar feels that it is a scaring tactic and in future police may harass Mr Rathwa as they are already harassing many tribal activists in Gujarat by calling them Naxals

Posted on: Aug 25, 2010. Tags: Himanshu Kumar

Interim compensation paid to Matwada victim widows

After order from Chhattisgarh high court administration has paid interim relief of Rs 1 lakh each to widows of 3 tribals who were killed by police and SPOs in a Salwa Judum camp called Matwada on 18th March 2008. The ongoing case demands a compensation of Rs 25 lakh each, a CBI enquiry and punishment for perpetrators of the crime. This is one of the first cases where state has paid relief to an alleged victim of state atrocity

Posted on: Aug 19, 2010. Tags: Himanshu Kumar

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