The Maoists have prohibited the people of Nayakbada village in Jajarkot district from using their community forests. It appears that the Maoists had asked the villagers to help in the formation of a local people's committee and when they refused, the rebels reacted thus. Since the economic condition of the villagers is very weak, most of the men in the area migrate to India in the winter and take up all sorts of menial work. They save some money and return to their villages in the spring to cultivate and sow their fields. During winter, the women start collecting fodder for their cattle, firewood and other household goods. These women are now facing a great problem. For some time now, the Maoists have stopped the women from taking their cattle out to graze, have prevented them from cutting grass, and from collecting fodder and firewood.

The tragedy is that while the Maoists state that they are fighting for the rights of these people, they are torturing the very people they claim to represent. The Maoists have stated that if the villagers refuse to help them, then they will have no option but to chase away all the villagers and empty the villages. They then hope to fill these empty villages with people who support them. The villagers have so far refused to help the Maoists in any way. Another source of information states that the villagers are fed up with the behaviour of the Maoists after they began collecting taxes. These poor villagers earn hardly anything. If they pay taxes to the Maoists, how are they going to survive?

Recently, people from ward 5 of Dahagaon village in the same district, are reported to have chased away some Maoists who had come to collect donations from the villagers. It seems that the Maoists used to enter the village, terrify and threaten the people, eat their food, extort money in various ways and make people suffer. It seems this time when the Maoists came, the villagers got together, took and threw away their guns and locked them up with their cattle in the barns. They released them the next morning but only after warning the Maoists not to enter the village again.