Herman Minj from Sundergarh district in Odisha is talking to Mr Barla who is an Right to Information activist. This adivasi RTI activist tells him that he has filed more than 150 applications so far and local officials are aware of power of RTI now and behave more responsibly for the act. He has managed to get local officials fined by Rs 25,000 for providing late information but due to this work he has also been to jail for 24 days. He is now out on bail and his case continues. For more Mr Minj can be reached at 09937705887

Chandra Pratap Singh from Navrachna SamajSevi Sanstha in Bilaspur Chhattisgarh says that he has just heard about attack on social activist Ramesh Agrawal. He says it is very sad news and police should immediately look at the case to find out who was behind the attack and why. For more Mr Singh can be reached at 09406248764

Captain Deep Singh Sekhawat from Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan says Govt here is hell bent in taking 72,000 bigha land of farmers to give to 3 cement companies. Farmers are sitting in dharna from last 685 days against it but no one is listening to them. Opposition party BJP is also not supporting the agitating farmers. The companies continue to cut Khejri trees which are very important for the environment of the region which will be more severely affected if these companies come to the area. You are requested to help the agitating farmers. For more Shekhawat ji can be reached at 09460148924

Hem Singh Markam is an adivasi from Sujankhar village in Pandaria block of Kawardha district of Chhattisgarh. He says I had reported few days back that a forest ranger is threatening us to throw us out of our village but I got no response. The ranger wants to do plantation on our land. The ranger’s number is 9981635708. He made us work for free promising land deeds.We have never got deeds for our land. People are scared for their future though they have started their farming with monsoon. The number for SDM is 07754254250. You are requested to please call them and help us. For more Markam ji can be reached at 07697818938

Ashok Singh Paigam from Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh is telling us the story of Kohram Say Gond an adivasi who is living on a forest land from 1960s. He has paid fines to forest department all these years. According to Forest Rights Act he should be getting the land deed but not only the officials ill treat him whenever he requests for the same, the forest department has burnt his house quite a few times. He requests us to help Mr Gond and many similar adivasis who have not got their legal rights. For more Paigam Ji can be reached at 09893827032