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MY DREAM OF AN IDEAL VILLAGE

Ajay Kumar Nandy S-3/38, Niladrivihar,

Bhubaneswar

ajay.nandy49@gmail.com

A large majority of the people of our country live in the village area. Hence, we

should have an idea of an ideal village. I have also spent my child hood in a village

which is located in a very remote and interior area near the border line of the two

states of Odisha and West Bengal. This area is called as Upanta Anchal. Almost

everybody of my village were depending on cultivation and there were no other

source of income for them. There was only one UP school and we were going to

nearby small town for getting higher education after passing Class-V. There was no

road and electricity. The walking roads were full of mud, clays and water during

rainy season. People were listening radio and very few people were reading Samaj or

Prajatantra Oriya newspapers. There was only one dispensary in the nearby town in

which the compounder was sitting with one big bottle containing red colour liquid and

a tin box in which some yellow gel were there. It was very difficult to see the face of

the doctor in the dispensary. For any type of injury the Compounder was giving that

yellow gel and for any other diseases, he was giving that red liquid in a glass bottle.

With great difficulties and pains, I got education and established myself and

whenever I tell to my wife and children about my past sufferings, they do not believe.

In order to override my past sufferings in my village, I get pleasure in seeing my

village as an ideal village.

Now my ideal village has Pukka road in some areas but there is no drain for the

drainage of dirty water. Till date some people are not having a latrine and they are

putting their garbage on the roads. The dwelling-house of my ideal village should be

very neat and clean. The dwellers of these houses look to the house sanitation and

house-drainage. The houses should have sufficient windows to let in light and air.

All the houses are roofed by good tiles at least. But till date maximum people are

living in thatched mud houses.

The villagers of my ideal village should grow food for themselves and fodder

for their cattle. They eat fresh and healthy food. They grow good grass for fodder

and also leave sufficient land for pasture. But at present, the villagers are selling their

agricultural products, milk etc. in the local market for maintaining their family.

Maximum vacant lands are encroached and acquired by government for establishing

any office etc. for which the people are not able to maintain their cows due to lack of

grazing fields.

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My ideal village should have good supply of drinking water. There should be

enough tube-wells and there should be separate ponds for men and cattle. Now the

government has given pipe lines for supply of drinking water. But in maximum time

water is not coming and the tube-wells are not working for which the people are

forced to use the dirty ponds water as drinking water.

The people of my ideal village should be good farmers and good artisans and

they should grow food crops, commercial crops and oil-seeds. They should adopt the

modern method of cultivation and techniques with the assistances of the personnel of

the Agriculture Department. They should do all kinds of home-industry including

spinning, weaving etc. But till date all the lands are not irrigated. Only few deep

wells are there which are not working. Due to scarcity of water during summer, only

they are cultivating their land in rainy season and due to irregular of Manson rain and

high cost of fertilizers and seeds, maximum cultivators have left farming and they are

now depending on Governments one rupee rice. There is no small scale or cottage

industries or units in my village.

In my ideal village there should be Primary schools, High schools and

Industrial Training Institute. But now government schools are there up to Class-X

but the schools are not having sufficient teachers, education environment as is

happening in other government schools for which the persons who are having money

are sending their children to the nearby Private Schools like Saraswati Sishu Mandir,

Convent school etc. and the persons who are not having money are forced to send

their children to the government schools for availing midday meals and subsequently

they are leaving their education and going to the nearby town for doing work.

In an ideal village, there should be dispensaries and veterinary dispensaries.

But till date no dispensaries or veterinary dispensaries have been established in my

village. The people are going to the nearby small town for their medical treatment and

the domestic animals are dying without treatment. There is no Post Office, Public

Library, Playground, gymnasium and club-house.

The people of my ideal village should be very neat and clean. They should be

quite enlightened and have a sense of discipline and co-operation. They should have a

spirit of service and sacrifice. They should follow the principles of plain living and

high thinking. They are never idle. They should be active and cheerful and constant

labour should be their chief motto. I like to cite here the quoting of Mahatma Gandhi

in his letter to Munnalal Shah on 04.04.1941 about an ideal village : That village

may be regarded as reformed, where everybody wears khadi, which produces all the

khadi it needs, in which every inhabitant spends some of his time in one or more

processes relating to cotton, which uses only oil produced in indigenous oil-presses,

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which consumes only jiggery manufactured in the village itself or in its

neighbourhood and only hand-milled flour and hand pounded rice; the village, in

other words, where the largest possible number of village industries are flourishing,

in which nobody is illiterate, where the roads are clean, there is a fixed place for

evacuation, the wells are clean, there is harmony among the different communities

and untouchability is completely absent, in which everybody gets cows milk, ghees

etc., in moderate quantities, in which nobody is without work, and which is free

from quarrels and thefts, and in which the people abide by the sevaks advice in all

matters. This is possible in the existing conditions. I can not of course say about

the time required.

An ideal village makes all possible provision for the all-round development of

people. The government should frame various village development policies for the

socio-economic, political, health, educational development of the villagers and

should be implemented in a proper manner and its implementations should be

reviewed periodically. Actually speaking the government funds are not reaching at

the people as these are swallowed by the leaders, bureaucrats on the way for which all

the government village welfare plans have failed. The government should also work

for the establishment of Smart Villages in India.

The Woman

Debashis Panda

Graduate in civil engineering from college of engineering

& technology

Bhubaneswar

She is not fallible anymore, she is not timid anymore, and she doesnt lack substance

or significance anymore. She was tortured, she was wounded with satire, she was

throttled by servitude but she dared look beyond that confinement and she cuddled her

freedom.

She is now empowered, she is now fortified, and she is now laden with wide ken.

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Instead of doing mela baby khana khaya? and babu aur bolo na she engrosses in a

conversation that makes sense: from discussing about Indias foreign policy to

disgracing the judiciarys decision on granting a bail to Salman khan.

Instead of changing her DP, 10 times a day, she laments the death of innocents in

Nepal quake.

Instead of taking pleasure from movies like Spiderman twilight, she savours

movies like 12 years a slave life is beautiful.

Instead of watching pogo, CN, and saas bahu serials, she watches Arnub and Karan

thappar.

Instead of conforming to the western culture blindly by wearing short skirts, she

champions Indias ethos by being gloriously clad in traditional attire.

Instead of idolizing Sunny Leone, She idolizes Tessy Thomas.

She does so because she is not a mere SHE anymore. If you can be a patriot, she can

be too. If you can be nationalist, she can be too. If you can be cognitive, she can be

too. If you can have responsibility, she can have too as she no more wants to be

quoted the way Rani Laxmi Bai was quoted by Hugh Rose ( who had defeated Rani

Laxmi Bai):

Here lay the woman who was the only MAN among the rebels.

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Prachi

Shruti Sahoo

Kumar Rishav Autocrat Aryan

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Kumar Arman

Himanjali Bhuyan

Vishal Sharma

Puspika Sahoo

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Sanghamitra Maharana

Suchismita Mahanty Ram Searching for newlands

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Deepak Kumar Nath You have made us all proud,

with your sincere determination and serious efforts. With the same spirit and zeal, you

shall always make us proud. Well done and Congratulations on the success.

To accomplish great things we must not only act,

but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Our heartiest congratulations to

Rudrakhya Badu on your achievement today! You really deserve it.

We congratulate Amar Barik & Ramesh Sahoo for

their job promotions! Hard work truly pays off at the end of the journey. We wish all

the success on your next endeavor.

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Congratulations Sadashiba Mishra Arjun & Pravin Kumar on your engagement!

While its no surprise to those who love you, may this time in your life be filled with

lots of love and joy, as well as many days of unexpected bliss! Looking forward to the

wedding of the year. Save a dance for Us.

Grandchildren are the gifts of yesterday, the pride of

today, and the joy of tomorrow. A grandchild fills the empty space in your heart that

you never knew you had. OFB Congratulate the Puja Mishra Family for their first

Grand Child.

A moment of joy yet again.Congratulations Ramesh

Sahoo for becoming Uncle to his sisters new born baby.We are sure that you will be

a great uncle to the child.Lots of blessings and best wishes to the entire family on

behalf of OFB.

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This season was marked by many marriage

events of our OFB members. We congratulate Sushant Binekar,Shakti Ranjan

Patra,Santanu Kumar Dash, Sarada Senapati ,Dr. Prakash Mohanty,Liti

Amanta Pritimanjari, Shantilata Sahoo,& Son of Niharika Sethi on their marriage.

We hope and wish all the couples enjoy the pleasure & fun that togetherness brings in

their life. May your life hereafter be filled with happiness and delights. Good luck for

the days to come.

The bond between a mother and child is one of

the strongest in existence. It is a kind of love that is never understood until it happens

to a lady.On behalf of OFB family we congratulate Sagareeka Sahoo Mahapatra &

Family on the arrival of their baby boy, We also congratulate Amrita Panda &

Family on the arrival of their baby girl. Your journey of discovery has begun. Your

baby will provide answers to questions you never thought to ask.All the best for the

new phase in life.

You have not lived today until you have done

something for someone who can never repay you.One of our member has proved this

line to be true in real life.We appreciate the good work done by Chittaranjan

Bhuyan in uniting a lost son(Arjun Bhuyan) with his parents(From narasinghpur)

through social media after 20 years.You are truly an inspiration for all of us.OFB is

proud of you.

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From the entire OFB family we congratulate

Anshuman & Ashutosh nephews of Himanshu Sabot for making their city and

parents feel proud of them by scoring excellently well in 10th

& 12th

exam. It is an

achievement you both have truly earned.May your zeal always forward you to do

ahead in life.Well done!!All the very best for your future.

Many many congratulations to Puja Mishra on

receiving your PhD. Graduating PhD is not an easy task at all.

It takes a lot of sweat & Hardwork.May your

graduation brings in a new zeal in you to chase new goals and enjoy every minute of

your life. Best wishes for this important milestone in your life and career. May there

be many more to come.

Congratulations!!! Mr Rashmiranjan Choudhury for qualifying the UGC-NET

exam with JRF.Your amazing perseverance as well as your dedication has at last paid

off! Accept our warmest wishes for a bright future and success in life.

Note:- Our team has tried their best to cover as many updates as possible but still

might have missed few. Kindly accept our sincere apologies for that.

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