The Indian village of Millionaires?
Do you know that an Indian village is known as the Indian village of Millionaires?
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Popatrao Baguji Pawar
The village, Name is Hiware Bazar. Located in Maharashtra. More than 50 residents living here are Millionaires. Interestingly, this village wasn't always this way. At one point this was a drought-prone village. It faced severe water crises. The credit to turn around this village goes mostly to one parson.
In 1989, Pawar ran for the panchayat Elections, after winning the elections he brought about the miracle of development. First, he upgraded schools, to give quality education to kids, then he addressed, the water shortage crisis. He banned tubewells. So that the groundwater cannot be exploited. People were educated about the crops they should grow. So that a large quantity of water isn't consumed. Deforestation was banned. Abd more than 1 Million trees were planted in the village. Today, there only 3 families are living below the poverty line in Hiware Bazar. More than 50 people are millionaires. And can you imagine that these millionaires are all farmers?
Hiware Bazar :
A village in the Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra, India. It is noted for its irrigation system and water conservation program, with which it has fought the drought and drinking Bazar problems.
Country - India
State - Maharashtra
Region - North Maharashtra
Division - Nashik
District-Ahmednagar
Taluka - Nagar
History :
The village experienced a mass exodus during the severe drought in 1972. However, the village experienced a turnaround after 1989, Popatrao Baguji Pawar, the only postgraduate in the village contested for the post of gram panchayat sarpanch and won unopposed. He managed to get the illicit 22 liquor retail outlets closed, secure bank loans for farmers, and started rainwater harvesting, water conservation, and management programs, which involved building 52 earthen bunds, percolation tanks, 32 stone bunds, and nine check dams. Its development plan was based on the village Ralegan Siddhi, 35 km away, also in the same district, turned around by Anna Hazare. By the 1990s, reverse migration started as families started returning home. In 2012, the village with its 235 families and an overall population of 1,250, had a monthly per capita income of Rs 30,000 up from Rs830 in 1995, plus it had 60 families with an annual income of over 10 Lakh rupees.
In 2012, the joint state and central government plan were announced to establish a national-level center for training in the Panchayati raj system for watershed development, sanitation, and capacity building at the village, to be built at the cost of Rs 12 crore.
Conservation and Social change program :
Hiware Bazar lies in the drought-prone Ahmednagar district. Before 1989, the village was facing several problems such as migration of the villagers to the nearby urban areas, high crime, and scarcity of water.
In 1990, after Popatrao Baguji Pawar was elected as the sarpanch ( village chief ) the village used funds from a government scheme and launched a program to recover its past glory. The village is conceptualized and planned after (Ralegan siddhi) another village noted for its conservational initiatives.
The villages implemented a drip-irrigation system to conserve water and soil, and to increase food production. They avoided crops like sugarcane and bananas, which require high use of water. The program included rainwater harvesting, digging trenches around the hill contours to trap water, afforestation, and building percolation tanks. These initiatives were complemented by a program for social change, which included a ban on liquor, adoption of family planning, mandating HIV/AIDS testing before marriages, and shramdaan (voluntary labor for the development of the village).
The initiatives greatly improved the socio-economic condition in the village, and the village was declared an "ideal village" by the Government of Maharashtra. At the "national groundwater Congress" in New Delhi on 11th September 2007, the village received the "National Water Award" from the Government of India.
In 1995, only a tenth of the village's land was arable and 168 of its 182 families were below the poverty line. By 2010, the average income of the villagers had increased twenty-fold: 50 of the villagers had become millionaires (in Indian rupees), and only three families were below the property line. The grass harvest insisted from 100 tonnes in 2000 to 6,000 tonnes in 2004, and the milk production Rose from 150 liters a day in the mid-1990s to 4,000 in 2010.
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