Digital-Divide/D0/Model-Village-Hiware-Bazar/English
Title of script: Script for Model Village – Hiware Bazar (Digital Divide) Author: Mayank Milind, IIT-B, Summer Intern 2013 Video: Spoken Tutorial Team, IIT Bombay Keywords: Problems faced Hiware bazar, Current condition of Hiware Bazar
Visual Cue
Narration
Opening Slide
Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Model Village : Hiware Bazar
Learning Objective
In this tutorial we will learn about:- 1. 1.Problems faced by people of Hiware Bazar, 2. 2.Current Condition of Hiware Bazar and 3. 3.Practices that helped bring about these changes Show Slide Title: Problems faced by the people of Hiware Bazar
Pic 1 Problems faced by the people of Hiware Bazar
The people of Hiware Bazar depended on rain for agriculture, Pic 2
Heavy soil erosion had degraded the land quality. Pic 3 Drinking water was scarcely available.
Pic 4 They did not have enough fodder.
Pic 4 Fuel wood was also unavailable.
Show Slide Title: Social Problems Pic 5 These lead to a lot of social problems like:-
- Unemployment. People were finding it difficult to get jobs - Migration. People started migrating from the village - Increase in crime rate
Show Slide Title: Current Condition in Hiware Bazar Pic 6 Current Condition in Hiware Bazar
Per capita income increased from Rs 830 in 1995 to Rs 30,000 in 2012 The village has 60 millionaires The number of families below poverty line decreased from 168 in 1995 to only 3 in 2012
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During the same period milk production per day increased from 150 litres to 4000 litres
Pic 8 Literacy rate has grown from 30% to 95%
Pic 9
The crime rate has come down drastically Employment has increased
Show Slide
Title: Practices that helped improve the condition
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Practices that helped improve the condition.
Five pronged approach (Panchsutri) 1.Free voluntary Labour (Shramdan) 2.Ban on Grazing (Charai bandi) 3.Ban on Tree-cutting (kurhad bandi) 4.Ban on liquor (Nasha Bandi) 5.Family planning (Kutumb Niyojan)
Show Slide Title: Shramdan Pic 11
ShramDan
People started working together for community welfare. Villagers developed a work culture
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They came together to construct check dams near the hill to reduce water flow speed. Check dams helped in increasing the ground water table and reduce soil erosion
Show Slide Title: Charai bandi Pic 13 CharaiBandi Overgrazing of cattle was banned.
Pic 14 Overgrazing leads to desertification (land degradation) and soil erosion.
Pic 15 Ban on grazing increased the production of grasses from 200 tonnes in 1994-95 to more than 5000-6000 tonnes in 2001-2002
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Kurhad Bandi Cutting of trees was banned. Trees help in preventing soil erosion
Pic 17 Soil erosion causes degradation of land and hence less farm produce. Trees slow down rain water and helps in increasing groundwater level. Tree wastes are useful in increasing soil fertility.
Pic 18
Nasha Bandi
22 liquor shops were closed.
Consumption of liquor and tobacco was completely banned.
Gram Sabha tied up with the bank to provide loans to those who had liquor shops.
Crime rate reduced .
People got involved in more productive work which helped the community.
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Kutumb Niyojan
A strict one child per family rule was imposed.
Birth rate has been reduced to 11 per thousand
It helps prevent pregnancy related health risks in women.
Family Planning also reduces infant mortality.
It helps empower people and enhance family education.
Family Planning is the key to creating a sustainable community.
Show Slide Title: Conclusion
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From this tutorial we can conclude that
Collective effort of the village can bring great changes. Panchsutri principles have proved to be very effective. Following these practices can lead to creation of more such Model Village.
End This brings us to the end of this tutorial.
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About the contributors
The Script is contributed and narrated by Mayank Milind Drawings by Saurabh Gadgil
This is Mayank Milind signing off from IIT Bombay.
Thanks for joining.
