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Mr. Vikas Pawar
Mr. Hanmantrao Pawar
Mr. Rajaram Pawar
Mr. Vasant Pawar

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Coordinates:   17°15'24"N   74°8'17"E

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  • Hi.... myself Prashant Bajirao Pawar, one of the son of Chachegaon. I proud of on my birthplace. I'll make my Chachegaon and people of Chachegaon Reach by health and wealth as Ralegan Siddhi.
  • Hi,myself sharad hindurao pawar(nana), living near bhairavnath temple. I am member of joint family
  • Hi Dear, Read real story of HIWARE BAZAR, The Village Roadshow The migrants are returning. The numbers are small still, but the possibilities are big. Can the New Indian Village survive beyond Maharashtra? Vinita Deshmukh finds out ‘‘Find me a mosquito and get an award of Rs 100,’’ triumphantly announces Popatrao Pawar, sarpanch of Hiware Bazar. The arrogance becomes him. A few years ago, Hiware Bazar was just another village in Ahmednagar: Crime-ridden, drought-prone, a source of ready labour for the big city. Today, it is a prosperous village with abundant water, closed drains, public toilet blocks — and open arms for its returning migrants. Forty families have made their way back home over the past five years; the number can only grow. Seventy-five km away from Hiware Bazar, Gawdewadi has undergone a similar transformation. One hundred and fifteen families have come back to the village since 1995, abandoning lives as fruit-vendors and hawkers in the city for a better quality of life close to the earth. Dramatic as they may sound, these are not stories of overnight changes — and that’s the very reason why their proponents believe the success will hold and, more important, inspire. Hiware Bazar and Gawdewadi are the fallout of forces that kicked into being soon after the 1972 drought triggered the great Maharashtra migration. Consider Baburao Pimple. Originally from Gawdewadi, he moved to Mumbai in 1975 to become a fruit-vendor in Crawford Market. For three decades, he lived there, initiating 40 youths from his home village into the trade in city markets. After-hours were taken up by the Nav Yug Gram Vikas Mandal, an association of Gawdewadi villagers in Mumbai. In 1995, he crowned his ‘reform Gawdewadi’ efforts by moving back to the village himself. ‘‘Mumbai was a bad dream,’’ he says. ‘‘I lived there for 30 years and never knew a moment’s peace.’’
  • Hi Dear, Read real story of GAWADEWADI, Force of nature IF Gawdewadi is a model for the New Indian Village, Gawdewadi’s inspiration was, invariably, social crusader Anna Hazare’s Ralegan Siddhi village and politician-turned-environmentalist Mohan Dharia’s NGO Vanarai. The state government, too, had a role to play: After the 1972 drought, it actively promoted watershed development in rural areas. But it was Ralegan Siddhi that showed the extent of the miracles that could happen through strong leadership and mass cooperation. Though the state government did try to replicate the model through the Ideal Village scheme, it wasn’t till the 1980s’ NGO resurgence that the New Indian Village began to take shape. ‘‘We are facilitators,’’ says Dharia, whose Vanarai has made a difference to 300 villages across the state. ‘‘Villagers need direction and information about the government schemes they can take advantage of to rebuild their villages. But success can come only to those villages that possess a strong leader and a believing populace.’’ The combination changes lives. Ask Hirabai Nawale. In the early ’80s, she lived in a single room in Thane with her four children and an alcoholic husband. After the family moved to Pune, Ashok Nawale found a job as a driver. But his drinking habit caused him to leave work after a while. Then, in 1990, Hirabai’s father suggested they move to Ralegan Siddhi, where Hazare had banned alcohol. ‘‘Everyone was very scared of Anna, so my husband just had to stop drinking,’’ says Hirabai. ‘‘Now he earns Rs 3,500 per month as a tempo-driver. We save the entire amount because the daily expenses are met from the canteen I run.” Reverse migration may be still a young phenomenon, but it is happening.
  • I Lot off miss my nativie place viz. Chachegaon I love my birth place. I proude on my motherland. Prashant..............
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