bettiah nearing the conclusion of the west champaran leg of his over sixweekold padyatra jan suraaj leader prashant kishor told reporters here on saturday that he has no belief in either kranti revolution or andolan agitation my role is that of a sutradhaar enabler he saidkishor meanwhile catalogued a surfeit of all that he has learnt from conversations with citizens in remote villages of the ills plaguing the district and bihar palaayan migration is vikraal frighteningly mammoth it has been an eyeopener for me he said listing a string of reasons from the closure of stone mining denial of forest rights to tribals and rampant corruption across government servicesdespite the fertility of soil and robust agriculture farmers suffer from unavailability to black marketing of fertilizer sugar mills pay a little more for their preferred varieties of sugar cane but these dry faster and are disease prone mills in fact accept the lesser varieties late in the season that inflicts a loss to farmers by way of drying leading to a 30 drop in production kishor said he lamented that the minimum support price for cane in bihar is rs 60 lesser than neighbouring uttar pradesh he also listed the lack of assured irrigation despite a network of canals and the woes inflicted by floods from rivers originating in nepalthis district was declared open defecation free odf but i could not find one village where you dont have to cover your nostrils with gamcha to escape the stench kishor said and put the blame for the lack of toilets in villages on netas and babus they have made money from the allocated funds for building toilets he allegedkishor further flagged the har ghar nal ka jal project one of cms pet projects included in his seven resolves i found this yojana functioning only in six to seven panchayat wards he claimed alleging that the situation was worse in arsenicinfested villages he charged officials with cheating the beneficiaries of the old indira awas yojana of funds allocated for upgradation and the newer pm awas yojana kishor recalled seeing hordes from the marginalised sections living in leaking thatch huts without even cots it is a jungle raj of officers now he alleged charging public representatives with insensitivity the system has collapsed under nitish kumar he said listing the breakdown of health services and the crumbling of the education system schools serve khichdi and colleges distribute degrees he lamentedwould then kishor in light of his findings in the field change his 2015 punchline bihar me bahaar hai in promotion of nitishs 2015 campaign to bihar badhaal hai kishor was prompt in reaction you cannot blame nitish for the rot that has evolved over decades but he discerned two phases of nitish at the helm till 201213 that is till narendra modi came centre stage nitish ushered in changes as part of a wellcoordinated coalition but after that he has been part of several government changes he saidthere is need to change