Sampark Madhya Pradesh

Members of Lok Jagriti Manch raising an issue in the village

The Lok Jagriti Manch  mobilised the people for various rights based actions to secure their entitlements from the Government as follows:

1. The people of Rasodi and Morjhia villages contested the decision of the District Level Forest Rights Committee of rejecting 132 claims for individual forest rights. They conducted a Gram Sabha and reaffirmed the claims of these people and passed a resolution and forwarded to the district administration for action. These people are still de facto in possession of the land.
2. The people of 214 villages passed resolutions in the Gram Sabhas for the creation of Village Health and Nutrition Committees of the Panchayat and forwarded these to the Sub-divisional Magistrate resulted into committees have formally constituted in 71 villages to monitor the implementation of the National Rural Health Mission.
3. A strong movement is underway to free the area of the menace of tobacco, drug and alcohol addiction. 1700 people are part of this campaign which involves taking out anti-addiction rallies and petitioning the administration to take action against illegal suppliers of tobacco, drugs and alcohol. 150 people have freed of addiction of various harmful substances.