Team News Riveting
New Delhi, September 29
The efforts of women self-help groups (SHG) in Madhya Pradesh in Dindori and Chhatarpur districts have found place in the Mann Ki Baat of Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered on Sunday.
Rendering the 114th episode of Mann Ki Baat, Modi said at some places woman power enhances water power whereas at other places water power also strengthens woman power. “Friends, I have come to know about two very inspiring efforts from Madhya Pradesh.” Here in Raipura Village of Dindori, construction of a large pond has raised the groundwater level considerably. The women of this village benefited from this.
The Prime Minister said here the women associated with ‘Sharada Aajeevika Self Help Group’ had also entered into a new occupation of fish farming, the Prime Minister said. These women have also started a Fish Parlour where their income is also enhancing through the sale of the fish.
The efforts of women in Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh are also commendable. When the big pond of Khomp village started drying up, the women took the initiative to rejuvenate it. The women of ‘Hari Bagiya Self Help Group’ removed a large amount of silt from the pond… they used the silt removed from the pond on barren land to set up a fruit forest.
“You know that ‘Jhansi’ is in Bundelkhand, whose identity is linked with water scarcity,” Modi said while referring to the achievement of a women group in Uttar Pradesh. Here, in Jhansi, some women have given a new lease of life to the Ghurari river. These women are associated with a Self Help Group and they have led this campaign by becoming ‘Jal Saheli’, he said.
No one would have ever imagined the way these women have saved the dying Ghurari river. These Jal Saheli created a check dam by filling sand in sacks, stopped the rain water from getting wasted and filled the river to the brim with water. These women have enthusiastically contributed to the construction of hundreds of reservoirs and their revival. This has not only solved the water problem of the people of this area; Happiness too has returned to their faces.
