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was continuous family feuds and Jogonnath was forced to go to Kolkata andresided there for sometime.The pond that has been dug on Mondal’s fifteen kathas of land was done in themonth of ‘jaistha’ and after that due to the monsoons he has not been able tosow any seeds anywhere on his small plot. Mondal has plans to plant the ‘boro’rice in a neighbour’s adjacent field and is awaiting his permission. If he is allowedthen he would be able to use the water from his own newly dug pond andwould also be able to sell the few ‘bhetki’ fish that are growing in it.He does not have a job card and as he had gone out of station at the time, hehad been unable to work under the Project. When he returned he heard that hehad been allotted thirteen thousand and five hundred rupees for his pond. Hecontacted the other villagers who had job cards and the pond was then dug.He himself helped the labourers a little but had got no money for it as he did notdig the soil himself. The supervisor had to be paid about four or five hundredrupees.Mondal regrets that he had spoken with the Panchayat Pradhan whether hewould be able to get any carpenter’s job but the Panchayat gave a carpenter’stool box to someone who according to Mondal, does not even know how tohold the tools. However he does agree that the hundred days work is proving tobe very helpful. He says that the payment for the work done under the NREGAProject comes in late and if people go to the Panchayat to ask more than oncewhen the payment would come, then they are spoken to roughly and senthome. That is another reason why people prefer going out of the village thanworking under the NREGA Project.Mondal’s sons send him some money from time to time out of which he is tryingto save some amount for his son’s marriages. “I must make them settle down andto do that I need money,” he says and adds, “I don’t have any savings at all so Itry to put by all I can from what my children send me.” He says that he has plansto buy a pump that would help him to husk rice as well as water his plants if hegets that opportunity.Jogonnath has never taken a loan from anywhere. He mentions that neither henor his wife had ever gotten to know how a woman’s self help group works andtherefore had never been able to get the opportunity of taking loans from thatfront.He does however has to borrow small amounts from friends and neighbourswhen either he or his wife requires a doctor’s treatment but then he is able toreturn them soon enough.
Mondal is scared to take a loan for his farming job. “If the harvest is not goodand the crops fail then I would be at a total loss and would have no way toreturn the loan. If I somehow manage with my wife then we would have nothingmore to lose than our own labour.”“Women are far better off than they were in my mother’s time,” says Jogonnath.“They have an opinion of their own now and they get people to hear them aswell.” He adds that as women are getting educated now, they are also earningmoney and sometimes more than males.In conclusion it can be said that due to the delay in payments many peopleprefer to stay away from the village like they used to and therefore are being leftout of the Project like Mondal’s sons in this case.Another point to be noted is that the payment made by the beneficiary to thesupervisors. If a supervisor is being paid five hundred rupees then where is thesuccess of the NREGA that is claiming to have the ponds dug without any cost tothe villagers?
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Page 3 and 4: The people of the village were dire
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
Page 13 and 14: “My younger son could have come h
Page 15 and 16: and that has helped improving the h
Page 17 and 18: sold in the local market but due to
Page 19 and 20: 7. SUBHADRA SARDARNREGA has offered
Page 21 and 22: She could have said that the six mo
Page 23 and 24: give him and his wife food. They on
Page 25 and 26: 9. MAMATA SARDARNREGA has made vill
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
Page 40 and 41: some temporary interim project that
Page 42 and 43: occurred,” says the aged farmer,
Page 44 and 45: two able sons who work in Barrackpo
Page 46 and 47: has not yet been received, Sujan st
Page 48 and 49: Rabindranath has approached the pan
Page 50 and 51: he does not belong to the party in
Page 54 and 55: 21. RADHAKANTA GAYENNREGA has incre
Page 56 and 57: 22. ANUKUL MONDOLEmployment on NREG
Page 58 and 59: 23. PRABASH CHANDRA MONDOLNREGA app
Page 60 and 61: The NREGA program has sponsored pro
Page 62 and 63: usually buy about 1 kg of oil but w
Page 64 and 65: “My husband sends me money on a m
Page 66 and 67: Abhilash has been working as a labo
Page 68 and 69: 27. ANIL MONDOLNREGA has provided h
Page 70 and 71: 28. DHIRENDRANATH SARDARNREGA is mo
Page 72 and 73: 29. KARTIK MUNDANREGA : Boon for un
Page 74 and 75: are able to work and the Panchayat
Page 76 and 77: nine hundred that he earns from bir
Page 78 and 79: “I have a neighbour who had three
Page 80: The roads project should also be un

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