The Report - North 24 Parganas

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1. BIMAL SARDARNREGA has the potential to generate increased savings and ensureenhanced well being of the people in the villagesBimal Sardar is 45 years old. He is from Bispur, Hingalganj. He is primarily a farmerand has wife and three children. Bimal has also been fortunate to become agrandfather very recently. With his meagre incomes he has only been able tomanage the expenses of his elder daughter’s marriage. Because the family istoo big for the piece of land he owns, Bimal has to spend time working on thefield of other land owners.Bimal has received primary education up-to class III only. But he hopes toprovide primary education to his children. “If I am able to educate my children,then they might be able to lead a better quality of life. I hope they can findproper skill based jobs for themselves with some amount of education.”Bimal says, “I think we are barely surviving. But situations have improved frombefore. In the past, I would not be able to afford the cost of wearing a vest.Before my children were even smaller and the entire responsibility of thehousehold was on me.”The family has about one bigha of land but none that is used only for cultivationpurposes. A pond has been excavated on three kathas of land and about Rs.15000 has been sanctioned for it’s excavation. Bimal and his family grow somevegetables around the pond. The monthly earnings total to about Rs. 200 and300. The daily expenses of the family amount to Rs. 75 to Rs. 80 making it quiteimpossible for the family to afford at times. “If there is food for one evening, thenthere is none for three,” Bimal says. Bimal also owns some cows. But the cowshave become old and therefore they do not provide a lot of milk. In addition, hehas also mortgaged a piece of his land for some extra funds which has to bereturned before the year ends so that the land is not lost for cultivation for a year(a general norm is that if loans related to mortgaged land are not returned withinthe season of cultivation of an year, the land becomes irretrievable for anotheryear).“I haven’t received loan for increasing opportunities of work. I haven’t receivedthe form for application of such loans and hence could never apply for one.”Bimal thinks that selling off his two old cows and replacing them with two newwould help him increase his earnings as the new ones would produce more milk.The village also needs some support for infrastructural development – there areno roads and electricity in the village. Lack of education among women is also atop priority issue that needs to be addressed he feels.
The people of the village were directly employed to excavate the pond onBimal’s house premises by means of the NREGA project. “I thought this would bea good option for some water, fishes and vegetables. “ But now of-course, thefamily does not have enough funds to invest in these businesses. Bimal alsowishes to plant some fruit bearing trees such as mango and banana. Thesecould also be additional sources of income for him he feels apart from thebenefits of having the luxury of a beautiful environment.Bimal has found employment through NREGA for about 10 to 15 days. TheNREGA card was however first made when work on road construction tookplace within the village and this has been extremely beneficial for the villagers.“The NREGA program has been very beneficial for villagers like us who need tostay closer to their homes for other kinds of work such as fish rearing andcultivation. The program also pays well and so money can be saved.” But workon NREGA is not continuously available and so Bimal’s wife has to make someadditional earnings by fishing. Bimal says there is still a lot to be done in thevillage. The river banks are being blocked with excessive sedimentation and soare some of the shallow lakes in the village.
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Page 5 and 6: pond. He also says that the people,
Page 7 and 8: 3. LAXMAN SARDARNREGA has improved
Page 9 and 10: have enough fish to sell as well as
Page 11 and 12: The Sardar family used to live in a
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Page 17 and 18: sold in the local market but due to
Page 19 and 20: 7. SUBHADRA SARDARNREGA has offered
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Page 23 and 24: give him and his wife food. They on
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Page 27 and 28: 10. SAHADEV SARDARVillagers depend
Page 29 and 30: also says that their own pond took
Page 31: any money for the basic food items
Page 34 and 35: 13. BISHNU SARDARNREGA has been eff
Page 36 and 37: 14. RABIN GHOSHNREGA has generated
Page 38 and 39: 15.RAICHARAN SARDARNREGA has assure
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Page 42 and 43: occurred,” says the aged farmer,
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was continuous family feuds and Jog
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21. RADHAKANTA GAYENNREGA has incre
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22. ANUKUL MONDOLEmployment on NREG
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23. PRABASH CHANDRA MONDOLNREGA app
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The NREGA program has sponsored pro
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usually buy about 1 kg of oil but w
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“My husband sends me money on a m
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Abhilash has been working as a labo
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27. ANIL MONDOLNREGA has provided h
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28. DHIRENDRANATH SARDARNREGA is mo
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29. KARTIK MUNDANREGA : Boon for un
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are able to work and the Panchayat
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nine hundred that he earns from bir
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“I have a neighbour who had three
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The roads project should also be un
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