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Hiware Bazar is a village in the Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra.
The village experienced mass exodus during the severe drought in 1972. However the village experienced a turnaround after 1989. Popatrao Baguji Pawar, the only postgraduate in the village contested for the post of gram panchayat sarpanch and won.
He managed to get the illicit 22 liquor retail outlets closed, secure bank loans for farmers and started rainwater harvesting, water conservation and management programs, which involved building 52 earthen bunds, percolation tanks, 32 stone bunds and nine check dams. By the 1990s, reverse migration started as families started returning home. In 2012, the village with its 235 families and an overall population of 1,250, had a monthly per capita income Rs 30,000, up from Rs. 830 in 1995, plus it had 60 families with an annual income of over 10 Lakh rupees. This development has now resulted in as many as 50 millionaires in the villageand has become the richest village in the country.
In 1995, only a tenth of the village's land was arable and 168 of its 182 families were below the poverty line. By 2010, the average income of the village had increased twenty-fold: 50 of the villagers had become millionaires (in Indian rupees), and only 3 families were below the poverty line. The grass harvest increased from 100 tonnes in 2000 to 6,000 tonnes in 2004, and the milk production rose from 150 litres a day in the mid-1990s to 4,000 in 2010.
The initiatives greatly improved the socio-economic conditions in the village, and the village was declared as an "Ideal Village" by the Government of Maharashtra. At the "National Ground Water Congress" in New Delhi on 11 September 2007, the village received the "National Water Award" by the Government of India.
All because of one man's vision and leadership Papatrao Baguji Pawar.
INCREDIBLE BHARATHIYA VILLAGERS
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| Papatrao Baguji Pawar |
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