Popatrao Baguji Pawar

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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. [6]

The Hiware bazare gram panchayat, with Pawar as its sarpanch, won the first National Award for community led water conservation in 2007. [6] [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.

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  2. ↑ Kothari, Vishwas (11 March 2012). "Panchayati Raj training centre to come up at Hiware Bazar". The Times of India . Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  3. ↑ "आदर्श गाँव की नींव रखने वाले पोपटराव बागुजी पवार को पद्मश्री सम्मान". khabartak. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  4. ↑ Byatnal, Amruta (12 May 2011). "38 more 'ideal' villages to come up in Maharashtra by June". The Hindu. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  5. ↑ Md Babar (1 January 2007). Environmental Changes and Natural Disasters. New India Publishing. p. 155. ISBN   978-81-89422-75-2 . Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  6. 1 2 3 Bhupta, Malini (17 July 2010). "Popatrao Pawar". India Today. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  7. ↑ Planning Commission of the Government of India (1 January 2007). Maharashtra Development Report. Academic Foundation. p. 293. ISBN   978-81-7188-540-4 . Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  8. ↑ Down to Earth: Science and Environment Fortnightly. Society for Environmental Communications. 2007. p. 19. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  9. ↑ "IBN-Lokmat presents Great Bhet with Popatrao Pawar, a leader with a difference". India PR Wire. 11 July 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  10. ↑ Wagle, Nikhil(host) (17 July 2011). "Great bhet: Popatrao Pawar". Great bhet. Season 3. IBN Lokmat.
  11. ↑ Mukhim, Patricia (29 January 2012). "Big talk, tall promises & zilch". The Statesman. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  12. ↑ "Team | Vision India Foundation".


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