Villagers cutting forest to make agriculture land, Forest dept not bothered...
Kameshwar Rana from Hazaribagh district in Jharkhand is telling us that people near his village are cutting lots of forest for making agriculture farms. They have reported to forest officials but they do not take any notice. He says if this continues forest will finish in the area. He wants us to help though he says forest officials keep changing their mobile phones so he does not have any number for them. For more Mr Rana can be reached at 09504416713
Posted on: Jun 16, 2013. Tags: FOREST KAMESHWAR RANA LAND
Adivasis living on forest land from 70s but no land deeds, No NREGA either
Jagdish Yadav is visiting a forest village of adivasis called Chhaparia in Panchayat Madri in Dabhaura block of Rewa district in MP where people tell him that though they are living and working on forest land from early 70s they are yet to get land deeds under forest rights act. There is no NREGA work in so entire young population migrates in search of work. Collector had promised to solve their FRA problem but nothing has moved.Pls call collector at 09425147740. For more Yadav Ji can be reached at 09893905883
Posted on: Jun 11, 2013. Tags: FOREST JAGDISH LAND NREGA
Meeting in Puri to discuss how to save forest land individaully and collectively
Rabi Pradhan Ji is visiting inaugural 3 day meeting of Akhil Bhartiya Van Jan Shramjeevi Sangathan in Puri in Odisha. He meets Biranchi Baria a delegate from Paikmal area of Bargarh district who tells him that more than 350 people from 16 states are discussing in this 3 day meet on how to save their forest land individually and collectively against the wishes of multinational companies. For more Rabi Ji can be reached at 09938794504
Posted on: Jun 04, 2013. Tags: FOREST LAND RABISHANKAR PRADHAN
Forest wealth from Himalayas: Atish can help in fever, bite from honey bee...
Dr. Ramesh Pant talks about the importance of a herb named Atis which is found only in Himalayas. It has power to cure lot of diseases such as frequent fever, bite form honeybee. Dr. Pant explains different mixtures that can be made to cure different kind of illness. One can only find this for six months in a year. There are experiments being done which is looking at curing dreaded disease such as cancer as well. For more Dr Pant can be reached at 09536879387
Posted on: Jun 03, 2013. Tags: DR RAMESH PANT FOREST
Baiga adivasi applied for land under forest rights but dept burns his house...
Bhagwat Patel in Umaria district of Madhya Pradesh is visiting a village of Baiga adivasis called Narbar where he meets Bishram Baiga who tells him that he is living on a forest land from more than 15 years and have applied for land deeds under forest rights act but instead of giving him his rights forest dept has burnt his house and is harassing him. They have complained to district authorities but no one listens. For more Patel Ji can be reached at 09424368571
