The motivation for the first week field stay was to achieve my learning goals along with an opportunity to get exposure of the village life, learn various sub systems in the village, their livelihoods patterns and their inter-relations. In the second week, I understood the realty of village lifestyle and learn many things with the interaction of female. Sometimes I was think that how village people are not much aware for their rights and daily activities in the home but staying two week with villagers, I could understood that what is the reason. They have limited resource like water, land, finance, knowledge etc. but they manage everything in this.

1. Presented By:
Anoop Kumar Mishra
Mob: 9977424820
Email: anoopkumar@srijanindia.org
Presented To:
SRIJAN India, Chhindwara

2. Village Profile
Place:
Chhindwara,
Madhya Pradesh Village Name:
Loniya Maru,
Chhindwara Total Household:
110 (Approx)
15
No. of HHs
6
98
OBC SC ST
2
1 1
3
2
4
1
OBC

3. Panchayati Raj System

4. Activities in the Week
1. Visited WADI’s (8)
2. Interaction with Farmers: (WADI, Vegetables, Irrigation, Income,
Expenditure etc.)
3. Discus with middleman in the village
4. Interaction with female farmers who were working in the field
5. Importance of wells
6. Seen Vermi compost irrigation process
7. Meet and interact with primary teacher of school
8. Discus with many group of farmers (Male and Female) on Livelihood
patterns, PRI, Govt. Scheme and major problems of the village
9. Source of Income of the village: (Agriculture, wages, Dairy, Poultry, Goat,
Business, Forest Produce etc. )

5. Activities in the Week
1. MGNREGA: (Currently not running, 100 day, Wages:120
‘Less’, Timely pay by bank, Setting Politics)
2. Nature of work: (Khanti, Bandh, Road, Tree plantation, Well
etc)
3. Other govt. schemes in the village: (Nirmal bharat,
Maryada Abhiyaan, Solar light, Anganwadi, PDS, Electricity,
Agricultural Subsidy, Education, Pension, Indra Awas, Ladli
Laxmi Yojna, PMGSY etc.)
4. PRI: (Sarpanch, Sachiv, Vice Sachiv, Patwari, Rojgaar
Sahayak, Gram Sewak ‘Kotwar’, Panchayat Member ‘12’)
5. Meeting with three SHG’s: (Sitaram, Aastha and Gayatri)

6. Observations:
1. Middleman activities
2. Struggle for water
3. Villagers are not much poor
4. They are very happy
5. Lifestyle
6. Daily activities
7. Income~Expendeture
8. Hard work
9. Female have right for decision making

11. Learning's
1. Enjoys Nature's gifts
2. Life : full of difficulties
3. Village Chaupal
4. Hard Working
5. The villagers pass a healthy and peaceful life
6. Socially bounded together
7. Corporate and independent
8. Superstitious and conservative