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Just rolled down the window glass of my car to feel the encroaching heat of deserted west midnapore .if I am not wrong it was an event of last year in the month of mid may. I was in kharagpur, the district head quarter of west midnapore to attend a district conference of my company on our newly launched health drink for diabetic people.
Way to somorbhola Jhargram
Way to somorbhola Jhargram
Somorbhola Jhargram
Extended my leave for one more day to meet my childhood friend romit parui who is a primary school teacher at binpur 2 in jhargram which was almost 65 km far from kharagpur. As Romit told me that the road is very bad and it will take almost 4 hours to reach his place I started early from my hotel.lots of greeneries along the path of my journey gave me a sence of joy and repeatedly I expressed my gratitude towards the mother earth for her beautiful creation and simultaneously was feeling agitated having remembered the negative feedback which I got from Romit for these places .However the road was literally bad and I was trying to think the hardship which has to face by the locals in rainy season. In mid noon I reached at binpur. Romit was eagerly waiting for me as it was almost a decade passed we could not meet .After our lunch I was enquiring about that village which made Romit very much concerned since his student life and I also got to know regarding the village from him .Having seen my curiosity Romit felt very happy and asked me to move on. Both of we set in from his house and after an hour we reached at that village ; somorbhola, the last village of jhargram subdivision .
Pond of somorbhola Jhargram
Residence of Somorbhola
Somorbhola
Students from Somorbhola
Students from Somorbhola
The sign of poverty was glittering in every corner of somorbhola. I was wandering to find out the resource of drinking water but alas! Among the gathering of locals ragubir mahato, a contract labour of a local stone crusher company informed me that they never had any healthy water resource unit at their village. There are total 60 households and 180 population at somarbhola.
Place of Worship in Somorbhola Jhargram
Place of Worship in Somorbhola Jhargram
Place of Worship in Somorbhola Jhargram
House in Somorbhola Jhargram
Each and every family members are bound to use the water of a nearby dirty reservoir for their regular use including drinking, bathing , washing ,cooking .The children of that village are suffering from almost all kind of skin disorder and many of them are suffering from thalassemia. Women of that village regularly use dry leaves during their mensturation and lots of deadly practices they are doing in their regular lifestyle .I carried some dry foods for the distribution among the villagers. During distribution many of them asked for multiple need for their village and I promised them to provide some needful measures for their village.
On the returning way from Somorbhola Jhargram
During return back I remained blank for quite some time having thought that being a citizen of India we always cherished lot of achievements and victories related to the progression of our country but there also lots of villages remain in our country where the lifestyle of the inhabitants remain as primitive as the stone age!!!
Having returned back to kolkata I communicate with the officials of turnstone global with whom we from our company do lots of volunteering work around west bengal and request them to intervene into the matter.
After physical verification by the coordinator and supervisor team of turnstone global, they take an initiative to setup two deep tube well, proper sanitation system in the samorbhola village and appoint a health coordinator to look into the regular health issues among the villagers.
Let’s join hand together and donate to bring back some changes in our society by sacrificing a very small quantity of our regular happiness.
Narrated By: Mahesh Agarwal
