Summary: Delhi-based PACS communications manager Priyanka Sarker reports for Christian Aid from the scene of partner Ekta Parishad’s ‘Jan Satyagraha 2012’... India's momentous march. The ‘Jan Satyagrahis’ – as the marchers are known in Hindi - started out from Gwalior City on 3rd October as 50,000 people moving as one. It is expected that other groups will join along the way to Delhi and that numbers will swell to 100,000. This one-month long march is calling for greater rights to land and resources for the country's poor, landless and displaced. In this report Priyanka experiences the energy and the pace of the march on its first day; witnesses the hardships already being felt by marchers in the first kilometres, and takes heart in acts of kindness and solidarity she sees bestowed along the way by the people of Gwalior. http://www.christianaid.org.uk/whatwedo/in-focus/india-march-for-justice/index.aspx http://www.pacsindia.org/ www.ektaparishad.com #EktaParishad #Jansatyagraha #landrights #marchforjustice #M4J #landless #adivasis #dalits #India
