Popatrao Baguji Pawar Explained

Popatrao Baguji Pawar (born 1960) is the farmer sarpanch of Hiware Bazar, a gram panchayat in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra India.[1] [2] He was the only post graduate in the village. In 2020, he received the Padma Shri honour from the Government of India for his contribution in the field of social work.[3]

He is the Executive Director of Maharashtra state government's Model Village programme.[4] He is credited to have transformed it from an impoverished village into a model of development that the government of Maharashtra wishes to implement across the state.[5] [6]

Pawar led Hiware Bazar's transformation from a drought- prone village to a green and prosperous model village, thus successfully reproducing Anna Hazare's Ralegaon Siddhi model of village development.[7] He featured in an India Today cover story as the person who demonstrated how rural water resources could be revived.

The Hiware bazare gram panchayat, with Pawar as its sarpanch, won the first National Award for community led water conservation in 2007.[8]

In an interview with Nikhil Wagle on IBN Lokmat, Pawar describes his entry into public life as an accident.[9] [10] In relation to the control of malaria he is quoted to have said "Show me one mosquito (in Hiware bazar) and take away Rs 100."[11] He speaks regularly at Policy BootCamp,[12] a flagship summer school in public policy conducted by Vision India Foundation.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Ajit Menon. Praveen Singh. Esha Shah. Community-based natural resource management: issues and cases from South Asia. 20 March 2013. 10 September 2007. SAGE Publications. 978-0-7619-3574-2. 37.
  2. News: Panchayati Raj training centre to come up at Hiware Bazar. https://archive.today/20130103085601/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-11/pune/31144857_1_hiware-bazaar-watershed-development-training-centre. dead. 2013-01-03. Kothari. Vishwas. 2012-03-11. The Times of India. 19 March 2013.
  3. News: आदर्श गाँव की नींव रखने वाले पोपटराव बागुजी पवार को पद्मश्री सम्मान. khabartak. 25 January 2020.
  4. News: 38 more 'ideal' villages to come up in Maharashtra by June. Byatnal. Amruta. 2011-05-12. The Hindu. 19 March 2013.
  5. Book: Md Babar. Environmental Changes and Natural Disasters. 20 March 2013. 1 January 2007. New India Publishing. 978-81-89422-75-2. 155.
  6. News: Popatrao Pawar. Bhupta. Malini. 2010-07-17. India Today. 19 March 2013.
  7. Book: Planning Commission of the Government of India. Maharashtra Development Report. 20 March 2013. 1 January 2007. Academic Foundation. 978-81-7188-540-4. 293.
  8. Book: Down to Earth: Science and Environment Fortnightly. 20 March 2013. 2007. Society for Environmental Communications. 19.
  9. Web site: IBN-Lokmat presents Great Bhet with Popatrao Pawar, a leader with a difference. 2011-07-11. India PR Wire. 19 March 2013.
  10. Great bhet: Popatrao Pawar. Great bhet . 2011-07-17. IBN Lokmat. 3. Wagle . Nikhil(host).
  11. News: Big talk, tall promises & zilch. Mukhim. Patricia. 2012-01-29. The Statesman. 24 March 2013.
  12. Web site: Team | Vision India Foundation.

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