Apart from Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave is also venerable in Panimora. Dayanidhi Naik, Jitendriya Pradhan and Madan Bhoi, the only survivors of the 32 aforementioned soldiers, informed us that Panimora was also at the forefront of the Bhudaan movement mobilised by Gandhi’s spiritual successor, Vinoba Bhave. Freedom fighter Phoolsar Pradhan’s son Desabandhu Naik recalled, “September 11, 1963 was a great day for our village. That was the day when Vinoba ji came to our village. Villagers handed over 1222 acres of land for re-distribution in the movement. Perhaps that’s the reason why no one in our village is landless today.”
So, what does it feel to breathe in the free air of a country
they struggled to free? Nothing too heartening, it seems, for even with all its historic significance, Panimora is tottering on the verge of obscurity. It was yet another struggle for the villagers to get a telephone connection, which they did only last year. And a good road connecting the village to the rest of the world is possibly still a struggle away. Jitendriya Pradhan avers, “The governments after independence have lost their way. Nobody cares for the development of rural people. Nobody even listens to us when we go to file a complaint in any government office.” A village with a population of approximately 4,000 including 2,200 voters, Panimora is still nowhere on the government’s development radar. A disillusioned Madan Bhoi says, “We never thought the fruits of independence will be so tasteless.”
So, what does it feel to breathe in the free air of a country
they struggled to free? Nothing too heartening, it seems, for even with all its historic significance, Panimora is tottering on the verge of obscurity. It was yet another struggle for the villagers to get a telephone connection, which they did only last year. And a good road connecting the village to the rest of the world is possibly still a struggle away. Jitendriya Pradhan avers, “The governments after independence have lost their way. Nobody cares for the development of rural people. Nobody even listens to us when we go to file a complaint in any government office.” A village with a population of approximately 4,000 including 2,200 voters, Panimora is still nowhere on the government’s development radar. A disillusioned Madan Bhoi says, “We never thought the fruits of independence will be so tasteless.” For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM Article
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative
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