It was a sunny morning in March. Rohini Meshram, 42, boarded a bus, heading from her village of Kasaari in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district to Gadchiroli town.
The previous day, Rohini had been barely able to scrape together Rs 100 to buy vegetables. But she borrowed Rs 400 from a neighbour to buy a round-trip bus ticket, determined to visit the collector’s office at Gadchiroli.
