Baikunthpur raipur 27 november 2020. Both daily use water and drinking water supply became a major challenge for an Adivasi family living away from the village’s main road. There was a shortage of drinking water due to the joint tribal family of 17 people with no permanent means of water, as well as it was compulsory to go to the water in the morning to get relief. Under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, the family, who got the diagnosis of the problem reached under the year 2017 Hamar Gaon Hamar Yojana, solved this problem by the well received under the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA scheme. The family of Sulochini Devi is now jointly using the perennial of the well for its daily use and now this family is working hard in the fields around their well, leaving a blank in the Rabi crop and in the fields potato onion tomato radish By planting vegetables like these, every year additional income of 25 to 30 thousand rupees has also started earning.
The family of Mrs. Sulochini resides in Bichhali, a dependent village of Dangaura, a village panchayat under Manendragarh district panchayat. In this family, Sukhiram, son of Sulochini Devi, Gajroop Singh and Ramdhan have a total of 17 family members living together. There is around 3-4 acres of agricultural land around his house, which is for rainfed dependent farming only. Three years ago, this family made the family aware of their major problem water, under the Hamar village Hamar scheme, reached the village panchayat. While making the list of works in the gram panchayat, the demand for the well was listed for this family and based on the proposal of the gram sabha, a well of one lakh 80 thousand was approved from the district panchayat in the year 2017 itself. Under the supervision of Technical Assistant Mrs. Anju Rani, the construction work of this well started in January 2018 and was completed in June. He told that there are a total of three different job cards including the members of this family, out of which 8 members working in this well received about 43 thousand seven hundred rupees as wages.
Suleachini Devi is now very old, her family’s son Sukhiram is the only one who takes care of farming and household. Sukhiram said that there was a huge benefit from the well’s construction. The biggest problem was for drinking water in the rain. She is now finished with the well being built. Also, there is always plenty of water available for the daily use of the whole family. After the paddy crop, we could not do anything to work for others or to go for wages under MNREGA was the only option. But now well after the paddy crop, the mustard planted low water consuming crops like potato pea. With this, 25 to 30 thousand rupees are earned from vegetable cultivation. This year, Sukhiram had already planted a crop of radish and lalabhaji, which he has earned by selling 9 thousand rupees. Also, radish crop is also being prepared in his second field. Now this family of Sulochini Devi is now a well under MNREGA
Baikunthpur: A well made for drinking water and additional income for the joint family of Sulochini
