A village the world should be proud of: Popatrao Pawar at TEDxGateway 2013

[@KETANRAMTEKE]

Translation: The village which was drought-prone from 1972-1989 having an average rainfall of mere 200-300 millimeter and because of that there was hunger, poverty, unemployment, lack of quality education as there was no water and no irrigation, because of that villagers started to migrate to the city in hope of better life. And those who were living in the village had only one source of income, local liquor manufacturing (moonshine,vine). What they did was drinking, and fighting. It became kind of punishment for government employees to be posted here in our village. Because of that, government schemes were not coming in our village. Situations of village were so dire that I myself left the village for my studies. I completed my Masters in Commerce, I played cricket 2 times on national levels from Pune University. Played state level, also in Pune and Mumbai, there was bright career ahead of me, but in 1989 when I visited my village, I saw the condition of my village, my entire family opposed me, they said to focus on my own career rather than the career of the village. But that didn't stop me, I remembered my childhood, women and youth supported me and I became the Sarpanch(head of the village). We started from seven points of development, those were baning tree cutting, donation of labor, ban on open defecation, family planning, ban on liquor, ban on open grazing, groundwater management. With these, we worked on projects to conserve soil and water. It brought the air of change in the village. Villagers started producing cash crops and per capita income of villagers increased from just Rs. 800($12) to Rs. 30000($450 plus) and it became the village with the highest GDP in the entire country. When this happened, then people who left village started to come back again to the village. 112 families left Mumbai, Pune, Thane and returned to Hiware Bazaar(Name of the village.). Friends, you will be surprised to know that in Mumbai per capita water consumption is 300 liters. 50 families from Mumbai returned to the village and we saved 200,000 liters of Mumbai water(it was light-hearted pun by the speaker). If every village becomes self-sufficient then we can build a strong India. Now one village becomes the development model for the nation, we want to make 5 villages like this in every district of Maharashtra(Western state of India). Not only this, village development authority of India announced that they will clone the exact leadership and development model of our village and implement in 100 more villages in the whole country. Representatives of 112 nations visited our village to study our development model. There was a time when people were leaving our village as there was no food and job security but today migratory birds from South Africa visit our village. We created one village with the abundance of water and clean environment. Poverty is nowhere to be seen now in our village. We developed the dairy sector, started taking cash crops and like that our village became an example for the nation. There is only one Muslim family in our village and villagers decided to build a mosque for that single family, similarly, we built a church, the temple for Buddhist. We all came together, we worked on water management, crop management and now there is no fight between us. There was a one time when our village was blacklisted in police dairy but today we don't need police in our village. There are incidents of dengue in cities like Mumbai but we challenged anyone to find a single mosquito in our village and get a reward of Rs. 100. Today there is a problem of bridging the void between villages and cities and if we can solve it then we will be able to create the powerful nation of which our Bapu(Mahatma Gandhi) once envisioned of. With that thought in mind, I finish my story. Namaskar. :)

[@ruspatil]

@ketan , excellent work of translation. Thank you and keep up the good work.

[@KETANRAMTEKE]

@@ruspatil It's a real good Ted Talk and no one should miss out on it just because of language barrier. Thank You for kind comment _/\_

[@shankarcheerala3089]

Thank you Very much Ketan for translation

[@discoveryouridentity]

Sir Apka Contact Number Please. I want To Very Eagerly To Learn This Model.

[@abhipatil4844]

too good salute

[@studywithoa3245]

I only come here after studying hiware bajar case study we need more and more such kind of decision making persons with 100% positivity, Down to earth..💯

[@shubhamkhade8430]

Society needs people like this. Respect sir.🙏🙏🙏

[@candydsouza7983]

The whole world need people like you, our nation salutes you .Jai Hind.

[@ashishwilson7118]

It sounds like an amazing story! Huge amount of respect. One request please add English subtitles.

[@milindbhoot]

Lets create 6.5L sarpanch like Popat.

[@SandeepSahajpal]

Fully endorse your views. Thanks for posting it.

[@patlollavijay8616]

Y create we should become one 👍

[@amolpawar1661]

Hats off to you n your teamwork...

[@Satish-ei5to]

This is a great achievement. Can someone brief us ,how many villages changed since 2013 to 2021?

[@vskharage8067]

Very inspirational !!! I have personally seen the positive changes in this Village. Congratulations Popatrao Ji !

[@k.m.chavan]

Great...

[@pro.dr.arunjadhav4062]

It is roll model of rural development in India

[@omkarkulkarni6058]

Hats off! Respect to such a visionary for creating without any political support.

[@sanket55699]

Great Initiative by Popatrao Pawar...Aadarsh gaon Hivare Bazar... Must visit Village...

[@rakshit2310]

Proud of you.. Popatraobhau... Salute

[@Chandrani09]

We need a human being like you 😊

[@ymeghanat]

Thank you sir, All india need leader like you🤗

[@jr9934]

Let's all start with being 1%of Popatrao Pawar and teach our children too. This world would be a beautiful place

[@DIY0790]

Great work ❤

[@ayushpawar3605]

sahi imandar leadership ko sadar namaskar

[@akshitgupta442]

Sir, apke initiatives ne aankhoin mein aansu la diye. Hun to mein jammu se, par ek din zarur hivre bazar aaunga. Sir, asli deshbhakt to aap hain, yeh neta log nahi, lage rahiye popat pawar sir ji

[@prasannapawar4697]

always welcome brother 🙏😊

[@discoveryouridentity]

Sir apka contact number please

[@NegiSidharth]

I am ready sir :)

[@adityakaldate18]

Proud to be from Ahmednagar hya sarpanch sahebana mantri banvayla pahije

[@kamleshrathorerunning]

True inspiration

[@ramachandrannarayanan2402]

Hats off to Popatrao Pawar> Please keep up the good work. You are a model not only to Bharat but the whole Duniya.

[@prabalkumar2644]

Respect sir

[@Abdulkhan-n1p1t]

शानदार शानदार

[@Chandrani09]

Proud to you 😊

[@narendranshanmugam9292]

If the Tamil nadu Government takes step like this our state will be wealthy and good.

[@nipungangawate045]

Please correct the spelling of 'India' in the first line of the description. Its spelled as 'Inida'.

[@ujwalmeticulous]

Amazing.

[@nishant20ify]

Hopefully the world can be hivre bazaar someday

[@abhipatil4844]

wow

[@prabalkumar2644]

Ek har ganv aatmnirbhar banega tabhi bharat powerful banega

[@adityashrivastava8458]

u r an inspiration...

[@jigyasasahare9169]

Waoooo❤

[@rishurazz2644]

Thanks to dhruv rathhe to know him

[@OutOfYourThink]

Good administrator

[@gutsygaming6709]

Great inititatives

[@av9518]

Please English version / English subtitles

[@Patrick-hb9dbj]

See above comments

[@laxmipriyasahoo4680]

I am here for Dhruva sir

[@supriyasute6820]

We are proud of you sir.

[@virendraverma6971]

Nasrin

[@kayceebesitan5053]

Can someone translate this in English, so the whole world will understand.

[@Sanjay-gc1fd]

lookup the other comment.

[@playlistjust]

English subtitles please?

[@tusharsharma9595]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiware_Bazar

[@jeetgaikar762]

Jay maharashtra🚩🚩😍

[@anandlondhe504]

Vision development new india

[@vitthalpadul9399]

सरपंचाचा नंबर पाठवा 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@ashokjadhav5346]

वडगाव आमली आपल्या गावाशेजारी

[@vitthalpadul9399]

सरपंचाचा नंबर द्या 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@molekulaTV]

I really thought it will be in English....

[@nishant20ify]

India*

[@hscmathematics6125]

Tumi cm zalat tar Maharashtra cha bhal hoil....