PM Modi pat people’s Bori-bandh initiative in Jharkhand’s rebel-hit villages

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RANCHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised the Bori-bandh advertising marketing campaign in Jharkhand’s rebel-hit Khunti district all through his ‘Mann ki Baat’ on Sunday for establishing an occasion that how public participation brings constructive change inside the society. An in depth report on the initiative was printed in ‘The Sunday Standard’ method once more in January 2021.

Under this advertising marketing campaign, small dams are constructed by filling sand and soil in used cement baggage which may be saved on one atop the alternative to stop water from flowing into the native rivulets. This helps current water for irrigation all 12 months lengthy and as well as maintains the water- desk inside the space.

“Khunti has become an attractive example of how public participation can bring positive changes in the society along with it,” said the Prime Minister in his ‘Mann ki Baat’. People in Khunti have found a method out to care for the scarcity of water by means of the Bori-bandh advertising marketing campaign, which helps in retaining water inside the rivers further enabling villagers to irrigate their fields and develop greens and improve their income, he added.

Notably, no matter having fairly just a few small rivers, rivulets and streams flowing by means of the realm, a whole lot of the farmers inside the space would solely deal with to develop kharif crops and endure low irrigation effectivity on account of a shortage of sufficient water present till recently. But, the state of affairs modified totally after 2019, after the district administration, in affiliation with an NGO — Sewa Welfare Society — and the Gram Sabha, took an initiative to assemble ‘bori bandh’ (low-cost confirm dams) all through the realm which will merely retain water for irrigation.

Interestingly, ‘Bori-bandh’ is solely managed by means of ‘shramdaan’ (voluntary donation of human sources by means of labour) and presently, there are higher than 275 low-cost bori bandhs inside the district.
Khunti Deputy Commissioner Shashi Ranjan said that PM Modi’s reward has given a elevate to the morale of the villagers.

“Morale of the villagers has definitely been boosted after Prime Modi lauded this initiative in his Mann ki Baat,” said Ranjan. This is a perfect occasion for the parents residing in tribal areas as they’re going to moreover ship social and monetary changes by establishing bori-bandh by means of public participation, he added.

According to functionaries inside the Sewa Welfare Society, the advertising marketing campaign has now taken the type of a movement as people have started making bori-bandh on their very personal and have made further such check-dams than that made by the group. The mission has modified the lives of over 8,000 farmers residing in further than 70 villages beneath Arki, Murhu, Khunti, Torpa and Karra Blocks of the Khunti district — by serving to them develop crops throughout the 12 months all through 1000’s of acres, he said.

“As of now, more than 150 acres of land is being cultivated with the help of these small check-dams in the region, which is increasing day by day. Interestingly, after the check-dam was constructed on Banai River passing through Ganaloya and Gurmi village under Murhu block, several feet of water is retained in it throughout the year at a stretch of nearly 12 km, which is being used by the villagers for cultivation and other purposes,” said President of Sewa Welfare Society Ajay Sharma.

Due to these check-dams, the water desk has moreover elevated as a lot as 5-6 meters inside the space, which itself is a constructive sign, he added.

RANCHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised the Bori-bandh advertising marketing campaign in Jharkhand’s rebel-hit Khunti district all through his ‘Mann ki Baat’ on Sunday for establishing an occasion that how public participation brings constructive change inside the society. An in depth report on the initiative was printed in ‘The Sunday Standard’ method once more in January 2021.

Under this advertising marketing campaign, small dams are constructed by filling sand and soil in used cement baggage which may be saved on one atop the alternative to stop water from flowing into the native rivulets. This helps current water for irrigation all 12 months lengthy and as well as maintains the water- desk inside the space.

“Khunti has become an attractive example of how public participation can bring positive changes in the society along with it,” said the Prime Minister in his ‘Mann ki Baat’. People in Khunti have found a method out to care for the scarcity of water by means of the Bori-bandh advertising marketing campaign, which helps in retaining water inside the rivers further enabling villagers to irrigate their fields and develop greens and improve their income, he added.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Notably, no matter having fairly just a few small rivers, rivulets and streams flowing by means of the realm, a whole lot of the farmers inside the space would solely deal with to develop kharif crops and endure low irrigation effectivity on account of a shortage of sufficient water present till recently. But, the state of affairs modified totally after 2019, after the district administration, in affiliation with an NGO — Sewa Welfare Society — and the Gram Sabha, took an initiative to assemble ‘bori bandh’ (low-cost confirm dams) all through the realm which will merely retain water for irrigation.

Interestingly, ‘Bori-bandh’ is solely managed by means of ‘shramdaan’ (voluntary donation of human sources by means of labour) and presently, there are higher than 275 low-cost bori bandhs inside the district.
Khunti Deputy Commissioner Shashi Ranjan said that PM Modi’s reward has given a elevate to the morale of the villagers.

“Morale of the villagers has definitely been boosted after Prime Modi lauded this initiative in his Mann ki Baat,” said Ranjan. This is a perfect occasion for the parents residing in tribal areas as they’re going to moreover ship social and monetary changes by establishing bori-bandh by means of public participation, he added.

According to functionaries inside the Sewa Welfare Society, the advertising marketing campaign has now taken the type of a movement as people have started making bori-bandh on their very personal and have made further such check-dams than that made by the group. The mission has modified the lives of over 8,000 farmers residing in further than 70 villages beneath Arki, Murhu, Khunti, Torpa and Karra Blocks of the Khunti district — by serving to them develop crops throughout the 12 months all through 1000’s of acres, he said.

“As of now, more than 150 acres of land is being cultivated with the help of these small check-dams in the region, which is increasing day by day. Interestingly, after the check-dam was constructed on Banai River passing through Ganaloya and Gurmi village under Murhu block, several feet of water is retained in it throughout the year at a stretch of nearly 12 km, which is being used by the villagers for cultivation and other purposes,” said President of Sewa Welfare Society Ajay Sharma.

Due to these check-dams, the water desk has moreover elevated as a lot as 5-6 meters inside the space, which itself is a constructive sign, he added.