Posted by: N D Sharma on: October 1, 2011
Miracles are happening in Shivraj Singh Chauhan’s ‘Swarnim’ (golden) Madhya Pradesh. One such miracle took place at Sagoni Kalan village in Damoh district. A piece of government land, which a few Scheduled Tribe (ST) families have been cultivating (unauthorisedly?) for over 40 years and had eventually been allotted to them by issuing ‘pattas’ (ownership rights), [...]
Posted by: N D Sharma on: September 5, 2011
The Anna Hazare effect has started showing up, if only one knows how to use it. A social activist of Damoh, a backward district in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, has used it successfully. Santosh Bharti has for long been crusading against illicit tree felling, illegal mining, illegal grant of favours to the chosen [...]
Posted by: N D Sharma on: November 3, 2010
Around the time chief minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan was indulging in his periodic fetish of signing MoUs worth lakhs of crores of rupees in an extravaganza organised with the public money at Khajuraho in the latter half of October, not far from there a poor farmer family must be ruing the day the people of [...]
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