DRISTI stands neither behind nor in front but “With” the PeopleTaking a Right based Approach; Kapadvanj Don Bosco creates news by organizing the Morcha with regard to no payments for the four weeks of work under NREGA, comprising of 102 workers amounting to Rs. One and half lac.
On 2nd July 10, Fr. Mayank Parmar sdb, and DRISTI staff along with a tempo load of Rampura (Sorna) villagers go to a District Development Office and submits their memorandum saying “If we don’t get our payments in two days we are going to the labor court for the payments with compensation”.
After having a morcha on 14th June 10, we realized that most of all the villages’ payments were done immediately. Now fifteen days were over and we found out only one village was still to be paid and that is Rampura (Sorna) of Kapadvanj taluka. We, the DRISTI staff together with Fr. Mayank and Sailesh Parmar, Suresh Parmar addressed the people on 1st of July 10 in a public meeting in their own village. Villagers realized that was the only village in the whole of Kapadvanj taluka which was left without payments. So people got alarmed thinking if they don’t fight for their wages nobody is going to pay any attention and their hard labor will go in vain. They immediately form a union and decided to go to Nadiad to meet District Development Officer Ms. Manisha Chandra, on the following day we found forty people comprising of men and women got in to the Tempo with placards to the DDO’s office. 
We wanted to meet Ms. Manisha Chandra the DDO of Kheda district. But she was busy with some other meeting so we met the Mr. Alpesh Chauhan P.A. of Ms. Chandra who also looks after the NREGA programme of the District. Mr. Chauhan addressed the people and told them that the action will be taken immediately without further delay.True to his words, the team from the District and taluka came in the village that very evening. They studied the case and immediately sanctioned the money.
We were very much delighted to see all the people were in Chikloi post office to get their payments. People took a relief for having achieved the target of getting the money after having gone through the hard way.
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Father Mayank,
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to find people stand with needy today. you are doing a wonderful work. You have just followed Ghandiji's way (Dhandi March) to raise voice of poor to the high authorities. May God give us many more priests like you to support our catholic society. keep up. May God bless u.
Great initiative for people. lage raho fatherji
ReplyDeleteIs there any website of Dristi? what kind of work they do and what activities they do to helpe Christians
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