Ideal Village : Dream to Reality | POPATRAO BAGUJI PAWAR | TEDxIIMIndore

Popat Rao Pawar talks about how changes in the way villages function can drive development. He talks about practices which can create a sustainable village and stop outflow of its residents to towns in search of jobs.

Currently the executive director of Maharashtra State Government’s model village program, Popatrao Baguji Pawar has led Hiware Bazar's transformation from a drought- prone village to a green and prosperous model village. As the former sarpanch of the village, he is known for successfully reproducing Anna Hazare’s Ralegaon Siddhi model of village development. He traversed a long and arduous path in creating the ‘adarsh gaon’ self-governance and self-reliance. He featured in an India Today cover story as the person who demonstrated how rural water resources could be reviewed The Hiware bazar gram panchayat, with Pawar as its sarpanch, won the first National Award for community led water conservation in 2007. He has also won the prestigious International Ground water Management Award in 2009.

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