Murari Adivasi is a small farmer of Kalothara village, about 45 km from Shivpuri. He has 4-acre agriculture land and he could only cultivate kharif crop and that too if the rainfall was good. He used to work as a labourer to raise his six-member family, including two children. Very hard working Murari wished to […]
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Raju Adivasi resides in Neemdana village, 13 km from Shivpuri. Like all 76 Scheduled Tribe households dependent on manual labour work for livelihood Raju was also working as a labourer and sometimes driving. Like most of the tribals, he is not educated and earned little which was barely able to meet needs of wife and
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This is the story of five farmers who are doing vegetable cultivation in Imaliya and Guraval villages. They share their experience of success in vegetable cultivation which has been well advocated in solving the problem of food security and livelihood for earning. They are rich source of minerals, vitamins, fibre and contain a fair amount
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The Rev village located about 28 km from Datia is located on Hatlai link road adjacent to Dinara road. The village has 175 families, whose main occupation is agriculture and animal husbandry. Like most of the villages in the area, Rev village had acute drinking water as water table was low and aquifers had high
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A remote village about 15 km from Pichhor development block in Shivpuri district is dominated by Lodhi and other caste people. The village also houses nearly 15 families belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. A tribal woman Parvati is struggling with her life in this village. Parvati had in her family her husband Bhagwandas,
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Vamna is a village about 7 km from Pichhor development block in Shivpuri district. Vamna has a hamlet Shejpur, where Saharia tribals reside. The total population of Sarharias is 380 in 32 families. In September Sarpanch of Devkheda village came to Shejpura and engaged 50 tribals to pluck his private khandas. The tribals plucked 70,000 khandas, but
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Dwarka, in Birauli gram panchayat, is a village 20 km away from Pichhor development block of Shivpuri district. The village has Human Rights Centre and Child Rights Centre, run from the room of one Chatur Singh Adivasi, and these centres cover Vamna, Tal-ke-Tapara, Devgarh and Kararkheda villages. The Human Rights Centre educational books, human rights
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An awakening week of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) was observed in Gram Panchayat Tanga. This village had high rate of migration and during the awakening week the villagers were told not to migrate to other places as they would get work in the village itself under the NREGS. The villagers kept on waiting,
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Bhadora is a gram panchayat in Pichhor development block of Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh. The village is inhibited by Yadavas, Lodhis, tribals and people of other castes. After microplanning of the village, six volunteers, including two women, attended five day training organised by the district administration and UNICEF. When the trainers were told the
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Hamirpur is a village in Datia tehsil and 5 km from Datia city. The village has 75 families and population of 641 out of whom 44.5 are Scheduled Castes, 11.2 Scheduled Tribes and the rest Backward Classes. Before implementation of Water Aid Project began in January 2004 the village had single toilet in the home
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