• Do you know of any association in
your village or town which discusses
problems faced by all the people (not
just of one caste or community)?
What do they discuss? What
suggestions do they have for solving
those problems? Discuss some
examples in the class.
Answers
I got the opportunity to visit my village for 7 days. I had a few experiences in my village which is not normal. I am listing down my experiences.
1: When I came out of the Railway station. My father suggested me to take the auto. The distance between my house and the Railway station is only ably about 800 meters. I was not in the mood to take an auto. But I can not cut his words so I took the auto. While coming by auto I realized why my father was telling me to take the auto. The reason, the road was overloaded with drainage water and it was having unbearable smell. The road was covered with drainage water is not only in few areas but it was covered in most of the part of the road.
When I tried to find out the reasons why water is on the road, is it because of rain, but here no rain happened for a long time. I came to know there is drainage but there is no place to release drainage water.
Fig: Street with water
2: The people in India are having one common problem they will build the house in their land along with on the road by encroaching the government land, which leads to congestion on road. Same thing I observed in my village. It is not possible to drive a car in our street.
3: My village is on the bank of two rivers and one canal. My village is 1 km away from the bank of the river. But there is a lot of scarcity of water for 2 months in summer. The attitude toward