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Story of Meromdega Panchayat

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Story of Meromdega Panchayat

District – Simdega

Block – Thethaitanger

Panchayat – Meromdega

State – Jharkhand

The people of Meromdega village of Meromdega Panchayat of T Tangar block of Simdega district were very mentally retarded. Because they were very hesitant to do any thing or work. They always lived in this fear. If we say anything, what will the people of the village society understand and what will they think. If someone wanted to eat something, he used to eat it secretly out of shame. Even if they wanted to wear something, they used to hesitate. Because they were ashamed of this. What will the people of the village society say and think if they do what they want, due to all this, the dream or thinking of the women of the village never changed and they were never able to change themselves or the environment of the village society. And all this could not happen only because of their narrow thinking and fear and shame. Then an organization started working in many panchayats of Thethaitanger block and that work was done with women and adolescents. When the work was started by the organization, the workers of the organization Chotanagpur Kalyan Niketan started going to every hamlet of Meromdega Panchayat and started telling the villagers of every hamlet about their organization and the work done by the organization. By doing this, gradually the workers started making their own and their organization’s identity in the field, then after a few days, women, adolescents and other villagers also started recognizing the workers. After that, a meeting was held with the women and they were told about their rights and changing their perspective. They were made aware in every way. Leadership development work was also done with them. And they were told about their own identity. That you are a woman, it does not mean that you just stay within the four walls of the house, you also have some rights, you also have some desires. Which you have to fulfill by moving ahead of yourself. In this way, women and adolescents were made aware by holding meetings with them. In this way, they were made aware and empowered. All the women and adolescents and other villagers of the Panchayat in my area of ​​work never hesitate to approach any officer or do any work. And if any such incident happens, they themselves take advice about what they should do. In this way, the Chota Nagpur Kalyan Niketan organization and the workers of the organization brought about a change in the villagers and gradually they started knowing about their rights and the schemes coming in the Panchayat Raj. And then there was a change in the people there. This is a small change that was made by our organization Chotanagpur Kalyan Niketan. Which is the same till date. Now whenever there is any such incident or meeting, they definitely call us or the workers of our organization. This is the only change that has come, which can change further in the future.

Story of Kiran

Name – Kiran (fictional)

Age – 26

Mother – Taramani Kerketta

Father – Safal Kerketta

Village – Tapudega Panchayat – Meromdega Block – Thethaitanger District – Simdega

State – Jharkhand

In Tapudega village of Meromdega Panchayat of Thethaitanger Block of Simdega district, there was a girl named Kiran (Uten Pyari Kerketta) who was the youngest in the family. But when she was 3 years old, she suddenly had an epileptic attack. Due to which Kiran’s family members were very worried and they were taking rural medicines.

In this way many years passed and Kiran became about 19-20 years old but her disease could not be cured. When her family told this to the villagers, the villagers told them about exorcism and rural medicine and asked Kiran’s family to do it. Kiran’s family listened to the villagers and apart from exorcism, showed her here and there but Kiran still could not be cured.

After that, Chota Nagpur Kalyan Niketan Sanstha came to know about a girl who is suffering from epilepsy. Then the members of the Sanstha went to the house of that girl and met her family and the girl. After knowing about the complete disease of that girl, the members of the Sanstha told about their work and talked to them about getting treatment from a doctor. On hearing this, Kiran’s family told the member of Chota Nagpur Kalyan Niketan Sanstha that we have never shown her to a doctor except rural medicine and exorcism. We do not know whether my daughter’s epilepsy will be cured or not. But the members of Chota Nagpur Kalyan Niketan Sanstha informed that now every disease has a cure which can be cured in a very good way, then Kiran’s family members accepted this and agreed to go to the doctor and with the help of Chota Nagpur Kalyan Niketan Sanstha, Kiran who is suffering from epilepsy was taken to Rin for consultation with the doctor, after that, as the doctor had said, take the medicine prescribed by us regularly and do not be careless in any way, Kiran’s family members kept feeding her medicine from time to time, in this way, Kiran became much better than before and she did not even eat food earlier, but now she eats, laughs and talks properly and was feeling much healthier than before, after this, Kiran’s family members thanked the institution on their behalf that we always remained in the circle of rustic and exorcism, never thought of going to the doctor, if perhaps we had gone to the doctor earlier, then my daughter would not have to suffer from epilepsy for so many years, she would have been cured earlier. It gets cured but we village women mostly lose our lives and the lives of our family by getting involved in exorcism and rural medicines. This is a matter of great sadness for us. A member of Chota Nagpur Sanstha told this and said that if you are suffering from any physical problem, first of all you should consult a doctor and only then you should do something because people often lose their lives due to superstition. This is a small true incident which is from Tapudega village of Thethaitanger block and Meromdega Panchayat.

STORY OF JORAMAINE

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Name – Jormaine Kindo

Age- 32

Father- Suresh Tete

Mother- Lalita Tete

Address Village – Tapudega Ban Toli Panchayat – Meromdega Block – Thethaitanger

District- Simdega State – Jharkhand

In Tapudega Ban Toli village of Meromdega Panchayat of Thethaitanger block of Simdega district, there lived a woman named Jormaine Kindo who was 32 years old and had two children, a boy and a girl. She was brought from Taraboga village of Bolba block after marriage and was very happy in her married life.

Jormaine suffered from epilepsy. Jormaine had this epilepsy disease since the age of 2. Even after knowing all this, her husband married her. And even after marriage, she kept falling due to her disease. But one day, the worker of Chotanagpur Kalyan Niketan Sansthan went to meet the Mukhiya of her Panchayat regarding work and the worker explained the work of her SFM project in detail and also discussed the help given by the organization to women in it, and the Mukhiya was told that our organization Chotanagpur Kalyan Niketan supports such women who are suffering from mental and physical diseases. As soon as the Mukhiya heard this from the worker, he immediately told about the woman of his village, Jormaine Kindo, and immediately took her to her house and told everything. Meanwhile, Jormaine’s husband came and while telling about his wife, he said that till date we have only got rural medicines and exorcism done, never thought of taking her to a doctor. But when you people are telling like this, then I will also take my wife to a doctor once. I will definitely take her if you all help me, on hearing this the worker of Chota Nagpur Kalyan Niketan said that you don’t worry your wife will be fine. Saying this she told her and her husband to come to our institution and after giving them the address and phone number of the institution she left from there.

The next day Jormaine and her husband were taken to Ranchi Rin Pass with the help of the institution and were shown to the doctor there, the doctor gave Jormaine medicine after seeing her illness and after showing her to the doctor they came back. Jormaine started taking the medicine as the doctor had told her to take. Meanwhile the workers of the institution kept visiting Jormaine from time to time to see her health and inquire how she was after taking the medicine, in this way one month passed and Jormaine became very fine, her health started improving a lot, she became healthy, beautiful and a little healthier like before. The most important thing in this was that Jormaine herself started getting better and along with that she told all these things to other women also. Due to which we got information about more such women. And we were able to help them too.

This was the story of a small Jormen told by the workers of Chota Nagpur Kalyan Niketan Sanstha. And today she is very happy in her life.

Madina Story

Name – Madina (fictional)

Age- 29 years

Father- Kinal Ba

Mother- Manonit Ba

Address Village – Asanbeda  Panchayat – Tukupani   Block – Thethaitanger   District – Simdega

State- Jharkhand

There is a girl named Madina in Asanbeda village of Tukupani Panchayat of Thethaitanger Block of Simdega district. She was suffering from epilepsy since childhood. Her family members did not know anything about whether there is any cure for this disease or not and they never paid much attention to Madina.

Because Madina was from a hilly area which was very far from the city and they had no connection with the rest of the world and they thought that this disease will go away on its own with time. They never thought it necessary to get Madina treated. Whenever she fainted due to epilepsy, everyone would take her to the Vaidya or the village Pahan for exorcism. While all this was happening, her illness was gradually increasing, and she was becoming physically weak and this was also affecting her mentality. Whenever she did something, she would forget it and she could not remember anything due to which she had to leave her studies as she would often fall in her school as well.

One day when a Gram Sabha was organized in the village, workers of Chota Nagpur Kalyan Niketan had also come in the meeting and they told everyone about their work area, then a woman from the village informed them about this family that the family was in a very pitiable condition. As no one in the family is aware and educated, they do not know anything about these things and they are financially weak too, they need help too. On knowing this, the worker got the address of the victim’s house and went to her house and talked to Madina’s parents. During this, they said that we will treat our daughter by exorcism only, so there is no need for English medicine because they did not know anything about all these things and they were afraid to get the child treated. The people of the village had explained to them, the public representatives of the village also told them in their own way that it is very important to get the girl treated. After this, after a lot of persuasion, her parents agreed to get the girl treated. Thereafter, the worker of the organization took the application for the treatment of the children and the child was treated for which he was taken to Rin Pass hospital and examined and then he was given medicine. She was asked to take it daily and after the treatment, she started taking this medicine daily. After two-three months, a lot of changes were seen in the health of the girl and the girl is now quite healthy. The worker keeps visiting her from time to time and takes information about her treatment and medicine and the best thing is that the child has started her studies again and feels healthy.

Story Of Rani

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Name – Rani (Fictional Name)

Age- 30 years

Father- Rakbar Pradhan

Mother- Phulmani Devi

Address Village – Charmunda Panchayat – Tukupani Block – Thethaitanger District – Simdega

State- Jharkhand

This is the story of a girl named Rani from Tukupani Panchayat under Thethaitanger Block of Simdega District.

It was my visited time for the meeting with beneficiaries. I had gone to Charmunda Toli, near Hai Ghat, Tukupani with CKN staffs. I did not know Rani at that time, but I had gone to Rani’s house for taking interview.I was casually talking to her family members. At that time, I suddenly saw Rani and after seeing her, I felt that Rani’s mental state was not looking normal, but at that time I did not feel right to talk to her mother immediately in this regard because I did not know completely whether her mental state was actually fine or not. After this, to satisfy ourselves whether Rani’s mental condition is really fine or not, we thought of talking to the warder of that village. And I went to the warder, on meeting him I came to know that Rani has a brother and a sister, and her father had died about ten years ago. Rani’s mental condition has not been normal for about 5-6 years due to the poor financial condition of the family, she has not received any treatment.

After being satisfied with this, I went back to Rani’s house and talked to her mother and she told me that Rani is not in this condition since childhood, but when Rani was about 12 years old, she had gone to the forest with other people to grazzing cows and goats for daily work and suddenly fainted on there, from there she was brought home, after this she always felt that someone was coming to kill her. And she did not do normal things, her mother thought that the reason for all this was black magic and for this she had also got exorcised by the village doctor. Rani’s father had passed away and the financial condition of the house was also not good, in such a situation they were unable to get Rani treated.

On hearing all this I told Rani’s mother that we have an institution named Chotanagpur Kalyan Niketan in which I work and our institution helps such women whose mental condition is not good, there is no such thing as black magic in which one should not even believe, rather by getting the girl treated her mental condition can improve, I told her that we will help them in getting the girl treated, for this her mother agreed and said that we want to get our girl treated. For this I took some of her documents and after two-three days I took her to the hospital for treatment where after examining the girl she was given some medicines. After this Rani was continuously taking her medicines. I went to Rani’s house and did follow up thrice in which Rani’s family was advised to give her medicines on time. Along with this, Rani was advised to give nutritious food to her. Her mother told that Rani sleeps a lot after taking the medicine. After a few months when I went to meet her again, I found that Rani’s mental condition has improved.

Rani is still taking these medicines and there is a lot of improvement in her condition. She is living her life well. When I was coming back from Rani’s house, I met Ward on the way and he said that Rani’s condition has improved a lot compared to before. Her mother was saying that if she had not met Aarti Didi of the organization, our daughter’s life would not have improved. Ward also said that I have also told other women of the village about this that if there are any such women whose mental condition is not good, they can contact the community mobilizer of the organization.

Story of change due to scheme in Tukupani Panchayat of Thethaitanger block of Simdega district.

Earlier many women in this Panchayat were deprived of schemes. When I visited work area during work, I met a woman who looked very worried and sad. Then I talked to her and asked her why are you so worried. Then she told me that my health is bad for a long time. Because a few days ago I had an accident due to which I got injured in my both legs. The financial condition of the house is not good due to which I am not able to get my treatment done. Due to this I am worried.

Then I told her not to worry, and told her about Ayushman card. There is a provision for free treatment of Ayushman card holders in case of any serious disease through Ayushman card. Hearing all this, the woman said that I do not know anything about how this card is made and where it is made and there are many women in our village who are suffering from serious diseases and due to poor financial condition of the family, they are not able to get their treatment done and the financial condition of my house is not good already. I listened to all her things and told all these things to the secretary of the organization. Next day our organization organized a camp in Tukupani Panchayat to connect women with these schemes and cards of needy people were made.

In this way, many women were connected with the schemes and gradually changes were seen in the village.

Story of Sangeeta

Name – Sangeeta Devi (Fictional)

Age – 43

Husband – Salmon Kerketta

Village – Meromdega Bartoli Panchayat – Meromdega Block – Thethaitanger District – Simdega State – Jharkhand

 

A woman named Sangeeta (Sushma Kerketta) lived in Bartoli village of Meromdega Panchayat of Thethaitanger Block of Simdega district. Sangeeta’s maternal home was in Budhra Toli of Simdega district. Her parents were farmers. She had two brothers and a sister. She used to go to school and also helped her parents. Meanwhile, Sangeeta fell in love with a boy named Salmon and later Sangeeta got married to that boy. All this happened with the approval of Sangeeta’s parents. Both were very happy with each other and they opened a hotel, which they both used to manage together. And both were very happy together. In this way, their marriage passed for one year and they had a son, which brought more happiness in their life. Salmon took very good care of his children and wife. And he used to work well. In this way, Salmon and Sangeeta had three children. And they started growing up. After so many years, suddenly many changes were seen in Salmon. He used to shout at his wife and children on every small thing. He also allowed them to consume drugs. And whatever money came from the hotel’s earnings, he used to spend it all on drugs. And he did not listen to his children and wife and neither did he fulfill their needs. He used to beat them on small matters.

Sangeeta was a member of the women’s group. Therefore, she was aware of the work being done on women’s culture in her area. Which was working for women and children. Sangeeta kept tolerating the atrocities happening to her for years, but when Sangeeta started getting tortured a lot by her husband, she talked about taking help from Chota Nagpur Kalyan Niketan Sansthan and gave an application to the organization for help, and the organization’s worker took Sangeeta to the police station to file a case against her husband. Sangeeta said that if I scare the police a little bit, then it is possible that my husband will get scared and will not beat us. After that her husband was called to the police station and he was explained and mediation was done and he was warned that if such a thing happens in the future, he will be given a severe punishment. After this incident, a lot of change was seen in Salmon. And he is much better now than before. And today his family is living happily and prosperously. Whenever such a thing happens, Sangeeta meets people in any such place, then she definitely discusses Chota Nagpur Kalyan Niketan also says that if there is any kind of violence, then you must go to the organization that organization helps us.

Story about the change in women representatives.

When I visited my operational area, I found that the women representatives and women of the village are completely ignorant about their rights and their work. They do not have any complete information about their rights and due to which they are deprived of many benefits. They are completely illiterate and lack awareness. Due to not getting information about anything on time, they have to remain deprived of everything and they did not participate in any meeting of the village because they thought that what do they have to do with worldly affairs and what benefit will they get by attending the meeting. But whenever I met the women representatives one-on-one, they told me that no one gives importance to the ward member, then I told them that if they go to the meeting, they will get a lot of information which will lead to their development along with the development of their village. It is their duty to share whatever information they get during their meetings with the people of their village and tell them about it too.I made women aware in the meetings of Mahila Mandal and told them that it is very important to attend the meetings. Gradually, as the work progressed and my words started reaching all the villages, the women representatives started going to the meetings of their Panchayat as before. Women also became eager to come to the meeting and started sharing their views in the meeting. The women who were never able to present their views before anyone, also started presenting their views to the Gram Sabha and women started becoming empowered.

The women representative told that now she participates in any meeting of the Panchayat and also whenever there is a Gram Sabha, Mahila Sabha or any meeting in the village, she participates in it and tells everyone the things heard by the Panchayat, due to which she tells people about many schemes. In this way, through the work of women empowerment, many levels of changes were seen in the women representatives. All this was possible only because of the program being run by Chotanagpur Kalyan Niketan organization, due to which the women representatives started becoming aware about their rights, they started speaking openly about their rights and the biggest thing is that now they do not have to be called for meetings, rather they themselves participate in their meetings. In this way, through their work, we got to see many changes, which made us very happy.