Encouraged and excited by each other's actions

[Jayashri Kamble]

Ashadhi is the Yatra of my village. Every year Ashadhi Ekadashi is celebrated in Nandwal this year too. But, this year Ashadhi Yatra was conducted with enthusiasm and joy. in this yatra a large number of people from other villages come to the Nandwal. 

A lot of toy shops and food stalls in the yatra so there is a lot of waste. The Gram Panchayat always takes the initiative to clean the village after Yatra. Because large quantities of garbage to prevent the spread of disease. For this cleanliness drive, Gram Panchayat every time invited to many people of the village, youth groups but no one comes. But this year a very different change was noticed that some people of the village participated in cleaning and no one invited them but all of them were participeted on their Own.we took salt activity many of them. So i was very happy.

After the yatra it takes a lot of time to clean up but this time due to the large number of people it took less time and the cleaning was done very well as the people of the village came and the people of the Gram Panchayat also felt very good. I am a resident of the village, so I have never done this kind of cleaning together, but this year I was very happy to do it. At the end, all the people who gathered for cleaning had a meal in the temple.

 After all this, I met some people. And ask them why this year they participated in cleaning? One participant said "I want to do something for the village but I didn't get such an opportunity but because of AVANI' s salt Activity I realize that I have the power to do anything, since then I made up my mind that I can do anything and for the village. I was very happy that this cleaning opportunity came to me on the occasion of Yatra and I participated in it.  

Another participant said that "some people in the village do some things together for village then i think that i should also join this cleaning work.

Participant whom we did not get salt activity they said, " This is a religious program and they get to serve God that is the work of Virtue . I question them, there is a yatra every year then why did you participate this year then they replied that we like the initiative of Gram Panchayat for this works together this time so we participated this year.

[Sadia Jafrin]

So inspiring to see the transformation.