Less payment in NREGA and other government schemes
Bhan Sahu is reporting from various villages in Rajnandgaon where villagers are paid less than the official rates. She says in one village people got only Rs 70 for a days work under NREGA but when they protested collectively they got the full payment of Rs 100. Similarly some people have got Rs 2000 less than the amount they signed for in Indira Awas Yojna and in the same village headman has captured a land where villagers want to build a pond under NREGA
Posted on: Sep 07, 2010. Tags: BHAN SAHU NREGA
NREGA : Dharna if no payment in a week
Bhan Sahu reports from Rajnandgaon that in entire district many people have not been paid for their work in NREGA from the month of April. People are getting desperate after no action from government side after repeated requests for payment. And now they are planning a demonstration if the due payments are not made within a week
Posted on: Sep 05, 2010. Tags: BHAN SAHU NREGA
Bad situation of roads in villages
Bhan Sahu is reporting from Rajnandgaon that on the one hand government is widening main roads even at the cost of destroying houses and small businesses of poor on the side but they are not giving any attention to roads connecting to villages and people are suffering
Posted on: Sep 05, 2010. Tags: Bhan Sahu
A song on deaths of children due to dirty water
Kilkariyan kahti hain Jeene do hame…Children say let us live…Bhan Sahu sings a song to protest hundreds of deaths taking place in India caused by drinking dirty water
Posted on: Sep 05, 2010. Tags: BHAN SAHU WATER
Woman Sarpanch suffers due to lack of education
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
