Popatrao Baguji Pawar

Popatrao Baguji Pawar (born 1960) is the farmer sarpanch of Hiware Bazar, a gram panchayat in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra India.[1][2]

He is the Executive Director of Maharashtra state government's Model Village programme.[3] He is credited to have transformed it from an impoverished village into a model of development that the government of Maharashtra wishes to implement across the state.[4][5]

Pawar led Hiware Bazar's transformation from a drought- prone village to a green and prosperous model village, thus successfully reproducing Anna Hazare's Ralegaon Siddhi model of village development.[6] He featured in an India Today cover story as the person who demonstrated how rural water resources could be reviewed.[5]

The Hiware bazare gram panchayat, with Pawar as its sarpanch, won the first National Award for community led water conservation in 2007.[5][7]

In an interview with Nikhil Wagle on IBN Lokmat, Pawar describes his entry into public life as an accident.[8][9] In relation to the control of malaria he is quoted to have said "Show me one mosquito (in Hiware bazar) and take away Rs 100."[10]

References

  1. ↑ Ajit Menon; Praveen Singh; Esha Shah (10 September 2007). Community-based natural resource management: issues and cases from South Asia. SAGE Publications. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-7619-3574-2. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  2. ↑ Kothari, Vishwas (2012-03-11). "Panchayati Raj training centre to come up at Hiware Bazar". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Byatnal, Amruta (2011-05-12). "38 more 'ideal' villages to come up in Maharashtra by June". The Hindu. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  4. ↑ Md Babar (1 January 2007). Environmental Changes and Natural Disasters. New India Publishing. p. 155. ISBN 978-81-89422-75-2. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 Bhupta, Malini (2010-07-17). "Popatrao Pawar". India Today. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  6. ↑ Planning Commission of the Government of India (1 January 2007). Maharashtra Development Report. Academic Foundation. p. 293. ISBN 978-81-7188-540-4. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  7. ↑ Down to Earth: Science and Environment Fortnightly. Society for Environmental Communications. 2007. p. 19. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  8. ↑ "IBN-Lokmat presents Great Bhet with Popatrao Pawar, a leader with a difference". India PR Wire. 2011-07-11. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  9. ↑ Wagle, Nikhil(host) (2011-07-17). "Great bhet: Popatrao Pawar". Great bhet. Season 3. IBN Lokmat.
  10. ↑ Mukhim, Patricia (2012-01-29). "Big talk, tall promises & zilch". The Statesman. Retrieved 24 March 2013.


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