Question

how did chakriya vikas pranali technique help in resolving the various problems of Sukhomajri village​

Answer 1

The nearly 1,500 gujjar villagers of Sukhomajri have long since realised the truth in Jethu Ram's and Mishra's mantra. From the late 1970's when Mishra convinced the villagers after much initial hostility and suspicion about the benefits of soil conservation and efficient use of forest wealth, the villagers have participated in the Chakriya Vikas Pranali, a method of sustainable development. Two decades of this programme had seen Sukhomajri become a self-sustaining village. There was enough grass for fodder after the villagers prevented their cattle from overgrazing, there was sufficient mungri or its full grown version bhabber to harvest and sell as raw iiiaterial for pulp, there was enough water after four earthen dams were built to collect monsoon water. Sukhomajri had set a rare example of conservation and social planning.

Twenty-five years later that green of hope and prosperity seems to be turning a jaded brown of despair. The reason: soon after the village found its own path to prosperity, government departments, lackadaisical and callous till then, decided to step in. In 1995 in what can be termed a brutal stroke, the forest department arbitrarily divided the 400hectare hill tract between Sukhomajri and its neighbour village Dhamala. Residents of Sukhomajri were no longer allowed to collect fodder from the area demarcated for Dhamala.

This division of land apart from ruining the resource management programme has also created social tension in the area.The Dhamala village consists of upper caste Jats who had influenced the forest department to divide the forest so that they could grab nearly 80 per cent of the grass which fell in their part of the forest. The Jats, apart from getting a lion's share of the forest could also thus stymie the Gujjars who were the people who actually helped raise the quantity and quality of bhabber.