Raipur. 19 December 2020. Working people create the story of prosperity by finding the right path and resources. Shri Sampat Singh has one such family in Pipariya of Korea district, moving towards prosperity. This family, which has been in the line of unskilled labor for the maintenance of the family after Kharif farming, has got the means of water harvesting in the form of Dabri from the MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). The way itself has changed.
The family of Shri Sampat Singh of Pipariya village of Manendragarh development block is no longer worried about employment in the months following the rains. After getting a small water supply from MNREGA, his family is on the path of economic progress. After making Dabri, they took twice the yield of paddy, and now they are growing income by cultivating tomato and chilli along with potato in their garden.
The family of Mr. Sampat Singh consists of four members including mother Mrs. Mankunwar, father Mr. Budhu Singh and wife Mrs. Sunita. About the construction of Dabri in his farm, Mr. Sampat says that there is a total of eight acres of agricultural land in the village named after his father, out of which four acres are adjoining the house. Due to lack of means of irrigation, the entire land was irrigated. Since his uncle and other farmers in the village became Dabri in the fields, his change in farming and life inspired him to make Dabri in his farm. With the help of the Gram Panchayat, Dabri has been built in their field from MNREGA. They are preparing to plant wheat as a rabi crop this year due to Dabri.
Mr. Sampat Singh says that under the MGNREGA in September-2019, one lakh 80 thousand rupees were sanctioned for the construction of Dabri in the field in the name of his father Mr. Budhu Singh. Dubri was completed during lock-down this year. In this work, his family received wages of Rs 18 thousand as MNREGA wages. Mr. Sampat Singh bought an electric power pump with this amount, which he uses for irrigation from Dabri. They have added five kg of fish seed for fisheries in Dabri. This Dabri, carved out of MNREGA, is also providing additional means of earning in the form of vegetable farming and fisheries, along with strengthening the agriculture based livelihood of Shri Sampat Singh and his family. The support received by the MNREGA is showing their family the path to prosperity.
