Since independence, it is a passenger bus in a Naksishi-affected village in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra. Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned this historic initiative in the episode “Mann Ki Baat” aired on May 25. Since then, another village from the same area is the conversation in the town, at least among netizens.
PM Modi’s evaluation of Gadchiroli in Mann Ki Baat
“Friends, it’s a common thing to travel by bus. But I want to tell you a village where the bus first arrived. This day has been waiting for the day. When the bus first arrived in the village, people welcomed people with drums.
“There is a paving road in the village; people need it, but a bus has never been able to run here before. Why? Because this village is affected by Maoist violence. This place is in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, the name of this village is Katejhari. Katejhari is Katejhari. This is the situation of Katejhari throughout the environment. The basic facilities even start to reach such areas.
Better access to healthcare, education and other economic opportunities
With the historic moment of Katejhari, infrastructure will begin to improve in the villages, which will also provide better opportunities for economic opportunities, health care, education and overall development in the region.
Gadchiroli is characterized by its dense forests, rugged terrain and tribal culture, about 920 kilometers from Mumbai. Its nearest city, Nagpur, covers an area of about 180 kilometers.
Arjun Ranga and Cycle Pure Agarbathi, CEO of N Ranga Rao & Sons
For N Ranga Rao & Sons CEOs Arjun Ranga and Cycle Pure Agarbathi, the arrival of regular bus services is more than just infrastructure milestones. “Gadchiroli is not a common place,” Ranga wrote in a blog post on LinkedIn, a professional web portal.
His cycle with the region has been purely associated with the region since 2014, when it began a partnership with the Gadchiroli Agarbatti Project (GAP) with a livelihood initiative supported by the Maharashtra government. This partnership allows hundreds of rural women to make a living, even in the depths of the pandemic.
“It has grown into a self-sustaining ecosystem that attracts more than 1,200 women today and has touched the lives of nearly 1,000 tribal women in Agarbathi production, cotton core manufacturing and bamboo processing,” Ranga wrote.
“This is a special place” | Check out the CEO’s LinkedIn post
The bike has purchased over 5500 tons of original fragrant wood and 8,00,000 cotton wood cores, providing support for the tribal community to handle non-wood forest agricultural products.
The initiative has matured into a strong rural network, producing world-class prayer products used in 75 countries.
According to Ranga, women in Gadchiroli are “learning and leading”.
Ranga wrote that from understanding quality control and managing inventory to repairing machines and handling accounts, they already have the increased ownership, adding that the average household income in the region has increased more than triple.
Production during Covid-19
Even during the peak of the crisis on the 19th, when most parts of the world were locked, women in Gadchirori appeared and produced 150 tons of incense in just 60 days and received a salary of Rs 3 million.
