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

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

Yashwant Ramteke from Dantewada tells us that to protest against Bodhghat hydel power project a rally was organised in Jagdalpur yesterday Chhattisgarh Swabhiman Manch. The leader Subhash Maurya says though Govt is not telling anything the proposed dam on Indravati for 50 MW project will submerge more than 72,000 people from 100+ villages in 32 panchayats. He also alleged that Govt is ignoring all the laws while going ahead with this project which they are doing with a private company. For more Ramteke ji can be reached at 09424278552

Yashwant Ramteke is raising the issue of villages on the other side of Bailadila hills who are at the border of Dantewada and Bijapur district. These village are neither forest villages nor they are counted as revenue villages. For this reason they do not get any government support of any type. He says we have raised this issue in the past in CGnet and we have also told about this to administration in Bijapur but nothing has moved. For more Yashwant ji can be reached at 09424278552