Police harasses tribal woman activist in Bastar

Bhan Sahu is reporting about harassment of a tribal woman activist called Jaya in Bastar who works on the issue of domestic violence and other social issues in tribal villages. On the day of Rakhi police in plain clothes arrived at Jaya’s house and tried to intimidate her. Bhan says it looks any woman who comes out of her house to work on social issues is seen as anti social in the eyes of the government

Posted on: Aug 30, 2010. Tags: BASTAR BHAN SAHU

Non payment of NREGA wages in Rajnandgaon

Bhan Sahu reports from Direjhal village in Nawagaon block of Rajnandgaon district where villagers have not been paid wages of Rs 3.5 lakhs in works under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act from April. Similarly the payment has also not been done in Tatekasa block of the same district

Posted on: Aug 25, 2010. Tags: BHAN BHAN SAHU NREGA RAJNANDGAON

Tribals not given rights for land under Forest Rights Act

Bhan Sahu from Rajnandgaon reports that 15,190 tribal people from 104 villages in Mohla, Chowki and Manpur blocks have been campaigning under the leadership of Jan Shakti organisation from last few years but have not got any rights for their land. Many people were fined for using that forest land before Forest Rights Act came into existence

Posted on: Aug 22, 2010. Tags: BHAN SAHU FOREST LAND

Bargi dam displaced are living a miserable life

Continuing her dispatches on the occasion of Independence day Bhan Sahu send a report about displaced people of Bargi dam in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh. The displaced adivasis are living a miserable life without water, electricity and enough food where as government is making lots of money by selling electricity and water. She says we have got independence from British but it will not be a real independence till our adivasis, women and children are free of malnourishment.

Posted on: Aug 18, 2010. Tags: Bhan Sahu

Are women independent in India today?

Bhan Sahu is reporting from Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh about a social activist Kirti. She goes to villages to talk to people about how to fight social injustice but when she returns her own home she needs to be under ghunghat. She needs to do all her work under veil. Are women free in this independent India, she asks. This tradition of veil in spreading and has now also entered the tribal society now

Posted on: Aug 17, 2010. Tags: Bhan Sahu

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