Achi news desk-
On-the-ground reporting by Amr Ojala from Palgar
– Photo: Amar Ojala
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Many tribal villages are beginning to be located about two and a quarter hours away from the financial capital of the country, Mumbai. Daisar is a tribal village in Palgar Lok Sabha constituency, about three and a half kilometers from Mumbai Surat highway. About 150 tribal families live in this village. The government made arrangements to build houses for the tribal families of the village, but not everyone could get these houses. Now the situation is such that some live in a dilapidated house and some live in a hut made of grass and thatch. AmarUjala.com met the people of this village who fall in the Palghar Lok Sabha constituency. So people not only expressed their pain but also made them aware of every problem from livelihood to survival. There is resentment against the leaders. The villagers say that when elections come, leaders come. After that no one came to take a look.
The whole story of the tribal village
A paved road was built inside the village, but the residential houses are still made of mud and thatch. Karuna Krishna Shelar, a resident of this village, lives in her mud house. He said that the government provides permanent homes in the village. When she met the Sarpanch and Panchayat officials of her village, they pointed out so many flaws in the paper that she could never complete them. As a result, she still lives in a Kucha house with her family. Krishna says that when it rains, her one room house leaks. In such a situation there is no protection for the children and their children at home from the rain. Krishna says the hope of getting a government house now seems like a dream. Pointing to an elderly woman from his village who was standing nearby, he said if they still don’t have a house, then how are we going to get one.
Many houses are in a dilapidated condition
Naresh Nausbir, a resident of the same village, says that his house is very dilapidated. He says that when several government houses were built in his village. In such a situation there was hope that they might also be able to get rid of the dilapidated house. But until now he has not received a home and no leader has come knocking on his door. His wife Urmila says that somehow he gets two meals a day. Her husband Naresh says he is going to the forest to collect wood. Some money is earned from selling them. His wife also does the same job. The two people say that by evening they can manage to earn around 200 rupees, only then the stove in the house is on. He says that now the elections have come, the leaders are coming again. But the governmental efforts made so far to promote their livelihood have not reached their doorstep.
