OBJECTIVE OF HANDICRAFT PRODUCTION

Despite the direct and indirect benefit of the people accrued from implementation of the Kangsabati Reservoir Project there remains a vast stretch of drought prone area where mostly the SC/ST and other backward class population live with limited means of livelihood and lack of human facilities.  They are anyhow surviving with poor communication, scanty and erratic rainfall, low fertility of soil, absence of capital and entrepreneurial capacity, low technology transfer, low social and per capita income, unemployment and poverty.  For this reason, one of the main problems facing the handicrafts industry is the need for research and technical development, assistance to the craftsman and manufacturers with new ideas in design to suit the taste of the modern consumer in India and abroad.  The shift in demand in domestic and export markets had isolated the small trader and producer from the recruitment of these new markets.  So we need financial assistance and to develop design and technical guidance to rural and scheduled tribes and backward class people to solve their poverty.  

PROPOSAL AND SCHEME OUTLINE OF DESIGN AND TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME AT KHATRA (DISTRICT BANKURA)

INTRODUCTION: 

Conception of Khatra:

Government of West Bengal has accepted on principle, the creation of an outlying and full fledged subdivision entitled as Khatra subdivision in the district of Bankura.  A cabinet decision followed by formal notification segregating 8 PSs namely Taldangra, Simlipal, Raipur, Sarenga, Ranibandh, Khatra, Hirbandh and Indpur and 8 blocks namely Taldangra, Simlipal, Raipur-I, Raipur-II, Ranibandh, Khatra-I, Hirbandh and Indpur.

KHATRA AT A GLANCE:

1.   Total Population (as per Population Census 1991)                       = 8,08,332.

a)  Scheduled Castes                                                                                      =204,051 (22.24%)

b)  Scheduled Tribes                                                                                       =1,81,245 (22.42%)

2.  Geographical area                                                                                      =2406.90 sq.km.

3.  Forest Land                                                                                                   =464.42 sq. km.(19.30%)

4.  Agricultural land                                                                                          =1172.05 sq.km. (48.70%)

5.  Average annually                                                                                       =1500 mm.

6.  Police Station                                                                                               =7.

7.  Block Development and Panchayat Samiti                                       =8.

8.  Gram Panchayet                                                                                         =59.

9.  M.P.                                                                                                 =1 (Small Reserve for Scheduled).

10.  Assembly Member                                                                                 =4.

a)  Scheduled Tribe reservation                                                 =2

b)  Scheduled Caste Reservation                                                               =1.

c)  Ordinary                                                                                         =1.

11)  Zilla Parishad Members                                                         =16.

At present, KACDC have organized the following courses.  They are as follows:

1.       Six Months’ Course on Training on Handloom Weaving -

Sponsored by West Bengal Women Development undertaking Government of West Bengal.  50 SC, ST, OBC and Muslim Women under this sponsored course and other 50 women also engaged in this training.

2.        Training on Handicraft.

a)       Training on Jute Diversification.

b)      Woolen Products by Curush.

c)       Date Palm Leaf products.

d)      Kantha Stitch.

e)      Hand Embroidery.

f)       Bamboo.

g)      Terracotta, etc.

3.        Income generating production.

a)       (Candle) Agarbati.

b)      Detergent powder.

c)       Mushroom.

PROBLEM OF THE TRIBALS OF BANKURA AND PURULIA

PROBLEM OF THE TRIBALS OF BANKURA AND PURULIA

LAKSHIMDRA KUMAR SARKAR

Published in Aajkaal Patrika, Kolkata

The Bankura and Purulia is a drought prone region of West Bengal.  These regions get more affected in drought than other regions of West Bengal. 

I have travelled the villages in the foothills of the mountains are Bagmundi, Bandowan, Mukundapur , Jhilimili and have understood the problems of the tribals.

The tribals mainly live in Purulia, Saturia police station and Neturia police station, in the south Kayra, Maanbazaar has 7 regions, kurbandh ,  Jamteria, Borgoria, Borokhari, Aakro, Dighi etc.  and east of east of Burrabazar, Hura and Prishna.  Other than this , some tribes also live in the west.

                The communication system is very poor in South Purulia.  The undivided region of Malbhum came under West Bengal  in 1974.  Bidhan Chandra Roy by the request of TATA , seven miles of road in Purulia have come under Bihar.  Since it is of no use to the Bihar government, they neglect it.  The government of West Bengal do not want to build the road from Bundwan to Purulia.  So a traveler needs to walk 3 miles to go from Bundwan to Purulia.  If someone has to go to Jaanbazar, then he has to take a bus to Purulia.  Other than this there are many rivers but there are no bridge on those rivers.

                It is not possible to say where the ration’s wheat, sugar , rice goes.  There is problem in transport communication. 

At the entrance of Khatra in Bankura district , the government has created a concrete structure.  It has been constructed in such a low position that the waters of the river Kangsabati have immersed the concrete structure.  Beside that the concrete structures are lying there.  A school was constructed in the land at the starting of 1981.  The land allotted for the school building has been used but only a small portion and the rest of it has been divided under 3 persons.  In the Jamrai village of Maanbazaar police station, Ananta Soren has taken a patta on someone else’s land.  They want to show the legal documents in the different places of Purulia.  If they cannot take care of them , then the land has been distributed among the tribals. 

                The tribals are taken off of everything.  The illiterate tribes are duped and the lands are taken away from them.  22 bighas of land have been taken and the tribals have started protesting.  On the month of September in 1980, 6000 tribals have protested in a meeting where the punishment for the molestation of the tribal women and the cancellation of license of the liquor shops in Purulia.

                The government have provided free education and providing stipend to the tribal students.  Though there are schools in the tribal village, the teachers do not know Santali language.  As a result, the girls and boys stop going to school.  The recruitment of the teachers have stopped.  So the teachers are not getting employed in the tribal villages.  The population in the tribal village of Mukundapur is 800 but no school can be built.  It is accused that the money of the stipend of the tribal students are stolen by the teachers.  The Agrikil School of Purulia keep the students for 2 months in hostel and the rest of the money is stolen away.  A protest is going on.  While working in Burdwan, a stipend has been arranged from 5^th to 8^th class.

The right value is not given

The tribals do not get the right value.  At Jhilimili of Bankura, there is a  “Charaku Large Size Multipurpose Company Cooperative Society.”   I heard that homeopathy doctor is there who lives in Srirampur.  He comes to the health centre once a week.  Even when there is a crucial stage of some patient, he is not found.  He cleans and purifies the place where the tribals stand with cow dung, tulsi leaves and water from the Ganges just in front of them.

                Deforestation

The forests of South Bengal are located in Purulia, Bankura and Midnapore, Jhargram subdivision.  From these areas, a lot of woods are collected.  But at present some selfish people are

TRIBAL JOURNAL LOOKS FOR FUNDS, NEW LEASE OF LIFE

TRIBAL JOURNAL LOOKS FOR FUNDS, NEW LEASE OF LIFE

[The Asian Age “An English Daily published from Calcutta to revived Adibasi  Sambad coverage anchor story for Adibasi Sambad in the year of 1997]

(After 3 issues closed down, Adibasi Sambad due to financial crisis, KACDC organized and All India Conference to revive Adibasi Sambd at Khatra Tennis Court Premises in 6 and 7^th August 1994).

By Sonali Majumdar

Calcutta , July 18:

A 49-year-old journalist, Mr. Lakshimdra Kumar Sarkar, is in Calcutta to save Adibasi Sangbad – India’s first newspaper for tribals.  Mr. Sarkar is confident that a monetary grant will be enough to get the newspaper back in circulation.

                Adibasi Sangbad , published from Khatra sub-division, Bankura, folded up in October 1993 after only 3 issues.  Mr. Sarkar, the editor has also applied for a 6 lakh loan from the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Finance Corporation.  “I am yet to receive a reply from the corporation,”  says Mr. Sarkar.

                A correspondent with a Bengali daily, Mr. Sarkar gave up his job in 1992 to start a newspaper for tribals.  “I felt the city’s dailies are not doing justice to the tribals,” he says.  Therefore, in August 1993, he launched the monthly Adibasi Sangbad from Khatra with much fanfare.  Mr.  Mahadev Hansda, an adibasi, was the assistant editor of the paper.  Writer Mahasweta Devi and eminent Santhal poets Saradaprasad Kisku and Rupchand Hembram were present on the occasion.  Mr. Ranjit Chatterjee provided the financial support during those three months.

                The eight-page newspaper priced at Rs. 4 was unique because for the first time, tribals had a platform from which they could voice their opinion.  “Articles from adibasis simply poured in, Mr. Sarkar recalls.  They wrote on the poor state of the irrigation system in the villages, sociocultural problems like witch-hunting and many other issues.

                There were a few success stories as well.  The October issue, carried a story about their adibasi girl, Neoti Hembram, who became a state level champion in weightlifting.  It also had drawn by adibasis.

                Five thousand copies of the newspaper were circulated in Bihar, Bengal and Orissa and the response was overwhelming.    About a thousand letters poured in from various states.

                However, Mr. Sarkar had to close down the newspaper due to a funds crunch.  He had even proposed to Bengali dailies to circulate two pages of Adibasi Sangbad for mutual benefit.  The daily incorporating the Sangbad can rest assured that it will notch up the circulation of a few lakhs more. “  He  says confidently. 

                Although newspaper was a thing of the past, Mr. Sarkar has started a programme of initiating young boys into journalism.  About 250 children from Purulia, Midnapur  and Ranchi have taught the basic tenets.  “Now they can run a newspaper on their own,” Mr. Sarkar saves with pride.

BOOK REVIEW

BOOK REVIEW

Lokoshilpey o Ganajagaroney Grambangla (Village of Bengal in the light of folk art and public awareness)

Shanti Sinha, Sakalbela Rabibar, 22 january, 2012, 7 magh, 1418, Page 4.

Getting the book on “Anti-Witch Movement of Purulia,” living in Purulia for 41 years, a special chapter came up in my mind.  The dense forests that encircle the mountains from Bandowan to  Maanbazaar, Hurakashipur, Baghmundi, Jhalda, Raghunathpur, Hetjari, Ragoonkodor, Barabazar, etc. and other remote areas, the densely populated area have superstitions of the Middle Age lifestyle.  It is a preplanned story of calling a woman as a witch and pointing some men as wizard in the public life.  We are against the dangerous social evil and a protest has been started once by Saradaprasad Kisku in Darikadoba village who was a teacher and poet.  Mahadev Hansda became their co-warrior, teacher-poet Gomosta Prasad Soren, Poet  Kalendra Mandi, Maheswar Besra, poet-dramatist Rupchand Hansda, teacher Manmoth Baskey, poet Baleswar Soren, etc. are the creative minded citizens.  Mahasweta Devi, a writer and a social worker from Kolkata, journalist Niranjan Haldar, in the style of a journalist Bikraman Nayar , journalist Lakshimdra Kumar Sarkar went to the spot many times.  Then the exploited tribals required support and he gave resignation and worked in the tribal regions of Purulia, Bankura and devoted his life in this work.  These incidences occurred 20 years ago.

Lakshimdra Kumar Sarkar was connected with the tribal development since then.  A service center has been set up in the red soils.  I have seen his social work through my own eyes.  He has written a documentary book  on anti-witch movement.   On the basis of a population census and by interviewing those who were exploited as witches, this is a true account.  In the trial of the murder of Lakshman Tudu, the verdict of Sudhir Milan Tudu in the court of Purulia, the leader of the anti-witch movement, the social unrest leading to the news  of Jagaran Soren, the biography of sarada Prasad Kisku and his letters have been  compiled in the book.  At the beginning of the book, the emergence of the Santals and their migration, hunting festival, folk belief on witch cult, the women’s right in Santal society and the history of the anti-witch movement has been explained in simple words along with photographs has been discussed.  Lakshimdra Kumar Sarkar   has been connected with tribal population for a long time and on the basis of population census, he wrote this book.  His dedication, honesty and personal touch is really praiseworthy.  In this type of primary source book, many editions are really painful.  I feel the future editions of the book will be better.  

PURULIAR DAINI BIRODHI ANDOLAN (THE ANTI-WITCH MOVEMENT OF PURULIA), LAKSHIMDRA KUMAR SARKAR, SANCHAYAN PRAKASHANI, Rs. 200.

ADIBASI SANGBAD-FIRST TRIBAL NEWSPAPER IN INDIA

ADIBASI SANGBAD

Reported by Pranab Hazra, Bankura.

Aajkaal

Edition 13, volume 166, Thursday 18 Bhadra, 1915, Shakabda, 23 Bhadra 1400 Bangabdo, 9^th September 1993

It’s a great news that the news of the first tribal newspaper in India called “Adibasi Sangbad” was published from Khatra in South Bankura got an importance in your newspaper.  Lakshimdra Kumar Sarkar motivated the tribal families.  Three types of reactions can be observed from this initiative.  They are suspicion, enthusiasm and fear.  There is suspicion that before the researchers usurped money of the government in the name of tribal research and book publication.  They got their reputation.  But there was no communication between the educated people, researchers and the tribals.  There was no development of the tribals.  The innocent tribals have understood that this is a betrayal from the educated society.  For a few years, some work was going on with the tribal society, though there was suspicion, there is interest and enthusiasm in the publication of “Adibasi Sangbad.”  I have not seen such an enthusiasm just from the second day after the birth of a newspaper.  On the other hand, this enthusiasm has created a fear.  There is an adequate natural resources in the forests of these tribals.  The valuable natural resources get depleted due to the traders of the city.  One section of the tribals are immersed in superstitious beliefs.  They are satisfying their own needs.  They are afraid that the “Adibasi Sangbad” will enter the society and create awareness.  As a result, the vicious circle will be exposed.  These people are always busy planning to stab the infant.

EMINENT PERSONALITIES PRESENT IN THE “RURAL-URBAN WRITER, POET, ARTIST, SINGER, GATHERING FAIR”:

EMINENT PERSONALITIES PRESENT IN THE “RURAL-URBAN WRITER, POET, ARTIST, SINGER, GATHERING FAIR”:

DATE:  NOVEMBER 20, 1997

LOCATION:  Paschimbanga Bangla Academy Mancha.

Personalities present are as follows:

1.  Lok Kobi Tulsicharan Mondol.

2.  Sadhucharan Das (Folk Singer).

3.  Kabi Siddheswar Sen.

4.  Kabi Shakti Sengupta.

5.  Kabi Chandicharan Das.

6.  Biswajit Singh Mahapatra.

RECOGNITION TO

SHAKTI SENGUPTA

Shakti Sengupta was felicitated on:

Date:  November 20,  1997.

Shakti Sengupta is a poet, essay writer, researcher, kind hearted person, musician and artist.

Organizations who participated in the felicitation ceremony:

Sahitya Sanskriti Bashar.

Rarh Bangla Sambad.

R.B. Sarkar Prakashani

Khatra, Bankura.

This leaflet distributed to the Bangla Academy audience and Khatra’s peoples.

SANTALI LANGUAGE AND ENVIRONMENT

DEBATE:  TOPIC

SANTALI LANGUAGE AND ENVIRONMENT

Seminar on Environmental Pollution held on 20 November 2000 at Paschimbanga Bangla Academy.  Rarh Bangla Sambad organised this seminar.  From left standing Shyamal De, a social worker, sitting Mrs. Saraswati Sarkar, a social scientist, Dr. Sankar Chakraborty, a social scientist, Amalendu Roy ,Ex-project director, Purulia district science centre and Amalesh Chowdhury, activist participated this seminar.

Aajkal’s report:  “The Position of Santali Language after 50 years of Independence: An important Seminar was organized on Saturday on Initiative of Individual, Society and Nation” and “Environment in Different View” at Pashchimbanga Bangla Academy.  The organizers are the representatives of people of Bengal “Rarh Bangla Sambad” and “Poribesh Chetana Samiti.”  The speakers on environment are Professor Amalesh Chaudhury, Nilotpal Dutta, Saraswati Sarkar, Shankar Chakraborty, Amalendu Ray, Dr. Subhendu Mukherjee and Shyamal Dey.  The speakers on Santali language are Dhirendranath Baskey, Gurucharan Murmu, Saradaprasad Kisku, Baidyanath Soren, Purnachandra Soren, Kushal Baskey, Subodh Hansda and Lakshimdra Kumar Sarkar.  Rabindra Sangeet was sung by Jayanti Soren.  The program took away everybody’s attention.

Aajkaal:  22 November 2000.

L.K. SARKAR AND KACDC OBSERVED INDEPENDENCE DAY ON 15TH AUGUST, 2003 AT BARODA SABAR COLONY, MUKUTMANIPUR, BANKURA

L.K. SARKAR AND KACDC OBSERVED INDEPENDENCE DAY ON 15^TH AUGUST, 2003 AT BARODA SABAR COLONY, MUKUTMANIPUR, BANKURA AND ALSO ORGANIZED A SEMINAR ON “TRIBAL UNREST ALL OVER INDIA AND HOW TO BEING ALL OUT DEVELOPMENT.”  SABAR CHILDREN AND MEN, WOMEN, ALSO PARTICIPATED IN THIS SEMINAR AND RALLY.

Sabar children rally with this slogan that “WE ARE NOT BORN CRIMINAL” please give our rights and all facilities which was recorded in our Indian constitution.  Please do not avoid us.

Tribal unrest all over India and how to bring all out development “this seminar” held at Boroda Sabar Colony, near Mukutmanipur.  Sabar boys and girls are demanding with in front of banner.

Group formation meeting with tribal male volunteers at Mosleha Primary School Premises L.K. Sarkar talking.

At Khejuria village of Ranibandh block, L.K. Sarkar talked with villagers to know the problems there.

encouragement from mahasweta devi on Mr. Sarkar's achievement and other activities

I will be happy and interested to see many editions of the book –MAHASWETA DEVI

I am waiting for a long time to see this book of Lakshmindra Sarkar to get published.  This work has great importance.  Lakshimdra has done something that was not done before.  The belief of witch cult was not restricted to the adibasi society.  There is belief in witch cult and other superstitions in nontribal society and tantric methods are applied to ward off evil spirits.  The murders of people accusing them as witches are more in number in the Santal society and Ho society of Singhbhum.  In the last few years, the number has increased.  A vicious circle works in the murder of a witch.  Because behind the motive of every murder, there is grieve.  Along with it, the belief of witch cult is there.  The good news is that in the society of the tribals, a disbelief and the protest has started.

The noted Santal poet Saradaprasad Kisku is a brave fighter and a social worker.  For this reason, Saraprasad and his co-fighters had to pay a price and is still paying it.  Still they firmly believe in themselves.  If it happened in some other country, then Saradaprasad and his co-fighters would have been proudly recognized.  We do not know how to pay respect to the respected people.  People should be united to fight against witch cult.  On the basis of this book, ‘witch cult should be banned by law.’  This protest can also be done.    The socially conscious and scientific minded people will also take part.  I will be very happy to see many editions of the book and will be encouraged.

A DIFFERENT PROTEST

Written by Bikraman Nair

(Noted journalist-Anandabazar)

The people of West Bengal are aware of the anti-witch movement in Purulia.  The superstition of the Santals in Bengal and Bihar became significant.  The social scientists think there are two reasons behind it.  Firstly, this protest is to acquire political power.  Secondly, an aged poet is supporting the young protestors in the public protest.  Saradaprasad Kisku taught us how to go through the tough times and the Bengalis must learn a lesson from them and go back to their youth protest.

When Mr. Sarkar was young, he started the work of bridging the gulf between the tribals and the nontribals.  In spite of being their companion in good and bad times, they were still unknown to us.  The author’s book on ‘Santali Bhasha, Lipi O Sahityochorchar Eatibritto’ is an account of the language and culture of the Bengal’s biggest community.  It is an account of the history of the anti-witch movement of Purulia and a contemporary struggle in the tribal life.  Mr. Sarkar is the right person who has introduced us the ‘contemporary protest’ in the political atmosphere of West Bengal. 

In nine chapters, after the first chapter of emergence of witch, the public protest that started and the description has been given serially.  The murder of Jagaran Soren, the trial of Sudhir-Milan, through a peculiar cultural revolution, the inside story has been mentioned here.

The neglect of those living in the plains and the suspicion of the political workers – both of them ignored Sarada and his followers.  Among them Mahadeb Hansda and Rupchand Hansda are worth mentioning.  They have asked the society to wake up and they have incorporated science and logic.  We must know the story.  Other than this, more work needs to be done.  This history compels us to think in the right way.

The reports published in different newspapers, the letters of Saradaprasad Kisku, the leader of the protest and the report of PUCL  are the references of the book.

 

 

LAKSHMINDRA KUMAR SARKAR AND HIS ACHIEVEMENTS

He had set up organizations like Grameen Mahila Samiti, Human Resource Research Bureau, Sahitya Sanskrity Bashar, R.B. Sarkar Prakashani etc. Two new organizations will be inaugurated soon.  Adibasi Press Club and Adibasi Krishak Club with the help of NABARD.  We hope that Lakshimdra will be successful in his work.

Related to Culture

One Ray of Light

Written by Dolon Mitra

Published in Nandan, February 2004.

A ray of light has fallen travelling millions of light years.  Adibasi Press Club was created by a group of fighters.  A group of people who are hunter-gatherers living in a green environment deprived of traditional education. 

On January 11, 2004, I reached the Adibasi Press Club to attend the inauguration ceremony on 11 a.m. and the venue was Raipur Sabuj Sangha Club in the district Bankura.  The short statured man in round eyes with strings attached spectacles surrounding the head, with a French cut beard along with a big smile came forward.  Lakshimdra Kumar Sarkar introduced us to the general secretary Hanu Hansda.  Everybody was saying the same thing that the “Bharat Sarkar” never thought about us but Lakshimdra Sardar was thinking about me continuously.  He is going to take the responsibility of planning today and also for future plans.  Along with him, there are important intellectuals of the parties of Left Front government and Amiya Patra who are constantly thinking.  He is going to take the responsibility of today’s and future plan.  On June 30, 1855, Sidhu and Kanhu died in the fight against the British forces before 92 years of independence.  If somebody forgets to light a lamp on August 15, the tribals’ lamp on the muddy balcony on June 30 in “Hul Day” did not get extinguished and they keep it burning in the memory of the martyrs’. 

After 57 years of independence, we shot an arrow in the mouth of India to suggest that ‘though we are neglected, we are not taught to be lagging behind.’

The Santali language became a part of our Indian constitution in the 8^th toposhil.  Presently the Adibasi Press Club awarded the fighters of the language revolution and writers.

Among them the personalities who received the awards are:

1.   Salkhan Murmu (Chairman of All India Language Forum).

2.   Rupchand Hansda ( Chairman of All India Santali Writers Association).

3.  Kherowal Soren (Writer, awarded by Government of West Bengal).

Presently, in the meeting of the tribal society of the state, the invited speakers are:

1.   T.K. Lapaz (Well known Santali researcher and historian).

2.    Nityananda Hembrom (All India Majhi Madwa).

3.    Mondol Hembrom ( Noted Santali Linguist).

4.    Kartick Hansda (General Secretary, Adibasi Youth Association, West Bengal).

5.    Anthony Murmu (General Secretary, All India Language Forum, West Bengal Branch).

6.    T.C. Baskey (Secretary, Jiui Patrika).

7.    Sukumar Hembrom (Youth Representative).

8.    Bishambhor Mura  (Birosa Munda Death Anniversary Committee).

Besides them, the representatives of the organizations of Santali language and literature, respectable individuals, boatman, member of parganas, poet, secretaries of reputed journals and magazines were present.

There was an interaction between the tribal and the nontribal journalists.  A great revolution happened silently.

  

AAJKALER AYENA

Volume No. 27, Monday 6^th Baisakh, 1405.  20^th April, 1998.

AWARDED LAKSHMINDRA

Born in Kolkata.  Age 42.  He has researched on folk culture and tribes.  The two books that have created sensation among the tribes and the intellectuals are “Santali Bhasha, Lipi o Sahityacharchar Eatibritto” and “Puruliar Daini Birodhi Andolan.”  Some books related to tribal society are near to completion.  He left the fixed job of “Aajkaal” and he worked on the tribal society intensively for many years.  He had set up an organization at Khatra of Bankura district with hard work.  Khatra Adibasi Cultural and Development Center.  Along with the protection of the cultural heritage, he was actively involved in the economic development of the native people.  Mr. Sarkar who is a follower of Saradaprosad Kisku who first led the anti-witch movement, is a well known name.  Governor K.V. Raghunath Reddy had awarded him for his remarkable achievement.  Lakshindra Kumar Sarkar did not get any government help or grant.  Though he has a huge debt, he is still carrying on his work.  He trained the tribal boys and girls and published a full length newspaper.  He named it:  Adibasi Songbad.  It had to be stopped due to financial reasons.  Subsequently he published a monthly journal called “Rarh Bangla Songbad.”  Lakshimdra is engaged in developing branches of “Manimela” through that will help give moral education to the children.  He had to travel the mountains and roads of the villages in a bicycle.  For the self-employment of the old people, he has started workshops for training in handicrafts.  Lakshindra has set up the village women society.