Programme for the members of the Self-Help group at Palyakere, people at the
government Primary School and invited resource persons from the Primary Health
Centre, Chelur.
To address the health issues prevalent in the village, I have approached the MLA to
sanction the Primary Health Unit (PHU), but it is yet to happen. I also collected
Rs. 80,000/- for this purpose. Regular visits of the ANM to the village were
organized, to take care of the pre-natal and postnatal care of the village women.
Regular contact and dialogue with the Aanganwadi worker has led to 100percent
security of women in respect to simple ailments like fever, Diarrhoea, headache etc, I
personally distributed some tablets to the poor people for simpler ailments. Regular
health camps for women are conducted in the village. I tried to ensure maximum
response to the pulse polio vaccine program by getting some pamphlets printed and
distributing them in the village to create awareness about Polio.We were successful
and all the children below five years of age were immunized. In order to supply
drinking water in places where there is a shortage, two new bore wells were dug.
I feel that my biggest achievement was to conduct gram Sabhas in my village and
in the Panchayat, even though it was thoroughly opposed by my fellow Panchayat
members, including the Panchayat President and local leaders. I struggled through
court and managed to get an interim order passed in the Panchayat to conduct
gram Sabhas in all the villages of the Panchayat.
I tried to organize and motivate the farmers to form a Farmers committee and
to register it to avail government benefits under the Jala Samvardhane Yojna
Programme.
I organized mass marriages in the Panchayat, in order to minimize the expenditure
as well as the burden faced by the brides’ parents. The training workshops organized
and by The Hunger Project - ASEDA have made a huge difference to my working;
I strongly believe that whatever work I have been able to do in the Panchayat was
because of these trainings. I aspire to contest the next election and if I am elected, I
will try my best to get all the girl children educated and healthcare services for all in
the gram Panchayat.