Got their identity and own land & resources with Human dignity

The Rampur Futamuda village, District Dhamtari, people are living in this village since 1976. Few villagers were cutting down trees of the forest so the people of neighboring village lodged complaint to the officer-in-charge of forest department. So the forest department harassed the villagers who used to cut down the trees. So the harassed villagers left the village. In 1995-96 forest department officer did case on Rampur Futamuda village people for land registration (patta), that’s why Devsingh( head of the village)  and 15 to 20 other people went to jail and a women (Nagina ) lived in jail up to  3 years  and both came out of  jail  in 2004. They got harassed and beaten up in jail. In 2007, those 15-20 villagers came out of jail. But they again got harassed in June 2012 by the forest officer and the forest department had set their shelter on fire. Their livelihood was dependent on agriculture, bamboo making and selling of wood. But due to the action of forest department they had to face lot of hardship. They don’t have identity proof as they are not having voter Identity card

Due to the combining effort and support of Rachna Manch and Lok Swabhagi Manch    their complaint was lodged before the collector of Dhamtari. Then survey was conducted and came up with an effective solution. At Present the villagers got land and got their names listed in voter list. Finally they got their own identification. They have also constructed their house on the land given by the collector