On further interacting with the villagers the team got to know about their plight. Their problems include lack of electricity and proper sanitation. Most of these villagers rely on agriculture for their income, but due to improper irrigation facilities, they have to look for other low paying employment opportunities like rock cutting and wood cutting. A truck of rock or wood would pay them only about Rs 400 they say. Mr. Mangesh has been working for the development of this village with his team and has set up sedimentation process filter to provide the villagers with potable water.
The team also got the learn that there is no hospital in the village and the nearest hospital is in the Jonha village which is about 10 kms away. If the health concern gets serious they need to travel all the way to RIMS hospital in the Ranchi city. There is one school in the village which teaches only till class 5, for further studies children are sent to school in Jonha village.
The team from IIM Ranchi interacted with the villagers and assured them to come up with implementable ideas to help better their village and lives.
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