Adarsh Gav - Ideal Village - Hivare Bazar... Ahmadnagar - India

Adarsh Gav - Ideal Village - Hivare Bazar... Ahmadnagar - India

This village is located in Ahmednagar district, around 10 km from Parner Taluka. This village is rewarded with Adarsh Gav(An Ideal Village) award. And different organizations have given few more awards to this village. The villagers and Sarpanch Mr. Popatrao Pawar have contributed a lot to make this village an ideal village.

They say that before 1991, the condition of this village was very bad. There was a liquor shop and most of the people used to drink a lot. School was not in good condition. There were no toilets, so people used to go road side to finish their morning work. :) So basically condition of village was very bad.

In 1991, Mr Prataprao Pawar became Sarpanch of the village. Having Commerce degree, he could have easily got nice job with high perks, but he chose to become Sarpanch. He wanted to do something for village. He wanted to change the things.

After becoming Sarpanch, during first meeting with village leaders, he decided to improve school buliding. As he was educated Sarpanch, villagers thought that, he will surely improve things. And they followed their leader. Step by step they improved lot of things in village.

Now each house have their own toilets.Villagers keep the village clean. They have kept big dust bins for thorwing waste material. They have put many water pumps in the village, idea behind that is even if you can go anywhere in village, you will get atleast drinking water. They have built a Marriage hall, which can be used free of cost by the villagers during their son/daughter's marriage.

They have done different projects for improving the ground water level in the village. They have stopped people from taking artificial bore wells, as it reduces the ground water level. They have planted lot of trees basically by carrying out 'One person one plant' project. Each boy/girl in school has planted one plant and he/she has to take care of that plant untill it becomes tree.

They have received some award for carrying out the water conservation project.

For doing this, they didn't hire anybody, but they themselves have done this. This is basicall called as 'Sramadan' - Donate our time by working for the village. Now for keeping village clean they have created schedule saying who will do sramadan during what time.

Mr. Prataprao Pawar has taken lot of initiatives, created project plans and showed them to the indian government at different times to get the money for those projects. Indian government approves lot of plans for improving villages, but most of the plans go in vein as different Sarpanchs are not much educated and they are not aware of these things. But Prataprao has used these plans in better way to make his village an Ideal village. I really feel proud of writing about this village!!!

Check this link about rain water harvesting - http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/Rural/Hirve.htm