Dhawdapada is one of thevery backward village of Jhabua, where there was no Gram Sabha and dissemination of government schemes were very low. Benefits of government schemes were limited to few members of village, which are close to PRI members.
When Jeevika Project started to work in villages, we spread awareness about agriculture and good governance. On 26th January, 2014 there was first time when villagers participated in gram sabha and applied for various government schemes.
In March 2014, 75 villagers got job under MNREGA scheme, for pond construction at Bamniya worth of rupees 10800000 /-, which is more than 5 Km far from village. According to MNREGA guidelines, if working site is 5 KM far from worker residence, registered at job card, workers have right to get travel allowance. Initially MNREGA workers were not getting ant travel allowance. Jeevika staff motivated them to get travel allowance and demand for it to site engineer. When workers demanded it, initially engineer himself didn’t know about it so he denied their request. But workers again requested for it, then engineer enquired about it and found it true, so he agreed to pay them 10 rupees each per day.
Travel allowance has been transferred in their respective accounts. Villagers thanked Jeevika staff for giving such important information and helping their livelihoods
by JEEVIKA Jhabua team
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