Practice Session Harmony in Society Current State

Practice Session: Harmony in Society

Current State – Society based on Domination, Exploitation Assumptions (eg. Money is everything) Accumulation By Any Means Domination & Exploitation Mastery & Exploitation In Every Individual In few Individuals In Society Over Nature Terrorism War Resource Depletion Pollution Madness for Consumption Hkksx m. Uekn Madness for Profit yk. Hk m. Uekn Fragmented Society … Madness for Sensual Pleasure dke Family? 4

Survey 2002 -2003 Itra – 2300 population. Income is 2. 58 cr/year just from Grain, Milk and Vegetables. As income increased, misuse of money increased. Expensive marriages… 10 tractors, 50 motorcycles bought … most of them are idle Gurah – 2500 population. Mostly shuttering work. Monthly income is 9000; 3000 spent on liquor, gutka, gambling… competition to make pucca houses… Sandila – 2200 population. Spends Rs 8 Lakhs/year on gutka (equivalent to food for 1200 -1300 people for 1 year) Is physical facility available in sufficient quantity? Is there right utilization of available physical facility? 5

As crops rot, millions go hungry in India – Reuters 2 -July-2012 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Every day some 3, 000 Indian children die from illnesses related to malnutrition, and yet countless heaps of rodent-infested wheat and rice are rotting in fields across the north of their own country. It is an extraordinary paradox created by a rigid regime of subsidies for grain farmers, a woeful lack of storage facilities and an inefficient, corruptionplagued public distribution system that fails millions of impoverished people. http: //in. news. yahoo. com/crops-rot-millions-hungry-india-031352121 --finance. html 7

Report – Available PF enough? Right Utilization of PF? More than 1 billion tons of food lost or wasted every year, UNbacked report finds (11 May 2011) About a third of all the food produced for human consumption each year – or roughly 1. 3 billion tons – is lost or wasted, according to a new study commissioned by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Production is 6 times requirement Food Wastage is 1/3 rd of production Wastage is enough to feed 1300 crore people/year Have we understood right utilisation? Is it a question of production? Is it a question of relationship? Is it a question of right understanding? http: //www. un. org/apps/news/story. asp? News. ID=38344&Cr=fao&Cr 1 9

Hiware Bazaar Watch the video "Hiware Bazaar" (23 Minutes) We will discuss your observations: 1. What is the goal of this village society? 2. What is the program followed by this village society? 3. Man influences society/system or man has to conform to society/system? Is there space in the current system for individuals to express themselves? 4. Reflect on your family goal, family program & participation of each member of your family 12

Summary – Hiware Bazar (Education-sanskar) 1995 2012 School Curriculum Defunct Curriculum has compulsory course on water management 32 students studying medicine in nearby colleges Liquor Shops 22 NIL Sanitation Open defecation 100% toilets No sweepers hired by village – all work done by residents 13

Summary – Hiware Bazar (Justice-Suraksha) 1995 Families / Population Gram Sabha Forest 2012 182 / ? 235 / 1, 250 93 families have returned Participative, Transparent Grazing domestic 10 lakh trees planted 90% success rate. cattle on forest No grazing in forest – grow fodder instead. land. Trees cut Babool trees in forest used to harvest gum for firewood Girl Children Second daughters marriage expenses borne by gram panchyat Diversity Mosque made by community for only muslim family Collaboration Community labour Environment No cars used within village – and outside use car pools; use cycles within village (gram sabha 2008) 14

Summary – Hiware Bazar (Production-Work, Exchange-Storage) 1995 2012 Average Rainfall / Year 400 mm (190 mm in 2010) Irrigated Area 20 hectares / 976 70 hectares / 976 hectares Water Conservation 52 earthen bunds, 2 percolation tanks, 32 stone bunds, 9 check dams. Tubewell only for drinking water, not for agriculture Wells / Water Level 90 / 80 -125 ft 294 / 15 -40 ft Crops Included sugarcane Maize, jowar, bajra, onions, potatoes… planned after monthly water availability assessment. Now sugarcane is restricted to ½ acre & only for fodder 20% chemical fertilisers plan to go 100% organic soon Organic farming Milk Production / Day 150 liters 4, 000 liters Per Capita Income / Month 830 30, 000 (60 millionaires) Families / Below BPL 168 3 (Hiware Bazar puts it at 12) 15

Summary – Hiware Bazar (Health-Sanyam) 1995 Primary Health 2012 Open, transparent 16

“I took 21 years to transform my village. Now I have zipped the strategy to take just 2 years. With community participation, we can create a new era of rural change” Popatrao Pawar, Deputy Sarpanch 2012 17

This is a very good example of what people can do together (there is still a lot of space for good work in the current system)! After 21 Years… Hiware Bazaar Today (November 2012) § 250 -300 people visit Hiware Bazaar every day § Popat Rao Pawar has been made State minister, Chairman of Maharashtra's Model Village Programme § He has been given charge of 100 villages – to implement similar model Contacts: Mohan Habib Sayyed (works on village water management) 18

Kuthambakkam Village, near Chennai Study the village cluster with Kuthambakkam as the nodal village. This is after 15 Years of working together… Kuthambakkam Today (Feb 2012) Working with 740 panchayats in 2012. Active projects with about 50 panchayats (there about 2. 75 lakh panchayats in India) Elango Ramaswamy, Ashoka Fellow, Trust for Self Governance & Ex. Sarpanch of Kuthambakkam Gram Panchayat, Kuthambakkam, Poonamallee Block, Thiruvallur District TN 600124 Phone: Email: Web Site: +91 44 2681 1247, +91 99406 82201 panchayat@yahoo. com http: //www. modelvillageindia. org. in 19

Goals 1. Network Economy - concentrate on Prosperity creation rather than poverty eradication. More than 80% of village consumption can be met through value-addition done to the local produce. The remaining can be supplied by village trade groups (This initiative will focus on evolving self-dependent economy in the rural areas rather than worry about their place in the global market). - Assured and Sustainable employment - Access and Food Security - Developing Collective Entrepreneurship - Conserve energy 2. Decentralise – Continue strengthening panchayats by sharing and learning best practices among panchayats to enable them to function as Local Self Governments to establish self reliant villages (Facilitated by the Panchayat Raj system, these efforts will have a ripple effect) 20

Gram Panchayat (Village Governance) A few hundred years back, India was held together through strong community leadership and community based actions. . . they created and sustained community based infrastructure, governance and trade. The people governing themselves would truly bring democracy to the grass-roots and take a mighty step towards reviving the village economy to its past glory It would build within them confidence in their ability and pride in their locality A strong local governance will ensure the success of every national plan A network may contain 20 -25 villages and a population of 50, 00060, 000 people – a sustainable economic zone 21

Network Villages Nucleus village Network village #1 Surplus production for outside consumption and buying services and products Network village #2 Network village #5 Network Village Economy - selfsustaining economy zone Production for local consumption Network village #4 Network village #3 22

Village Network Economy Money economy does not report real values. . . the value of a rupee is different in different hands. . . what might be food for 4 -5 days in the poor man's hands is the price of a cigar for the rich man J. C. Kumarappa The network villages share their produce between themselves and supplement each others' production and processing What is produced in excess is sent to outside world - other village clusters or towns for money power which in turn can buy products and services not available in the village 23

Initial Results: Occupation 24

Progress - Transformation RIGHT UNDERSTANDING (le>) in the self RELATIONSHIPS (laca/k) with human beings 3 SSSS PHYSICAL FACILITIES SSDD (lqfo/kk ) with rest of nature ladze. k&fodkl 2 ekuo psruk Transformation& Progress 1 Human Conciousness SVDD Animal Conciousness tho psruk MUTUAL HAPPINESS MUTUAL PROSPERITY (m. Hk; lq[k) (m. Hk; le`f)) 26

Human Society – Society based on Relationship, Co-existence Human Target – As an Individual Human Target – As a Family 1. Justice 2. Prosperity 3. Participate in Human Society Human Target – As a Society Integrated Society 27

Undivided Family, Universal Human Order Human Target (ekuo y{; ) Co-Existence 2 Fearlessness (Trust) 3 In Every Family In Society In Nature/ Existence Right Understanding & Right Feelings 1 Prosperity In Every Individual 1 2 3 4 4 Universal Human Order – Human Order ¼ekuoh; O; o. LFkk½ Societal Order in which fulfillment Five Dimensions ¼i¡kp vk; ke½ of the Human Target is ensured 1. Education – Sanskar 1 2. Health – Sanyam 2 4 3. Production – Work 3 4. Justice – Suraksha 4 3 5. Exchange – Storage 2 In such a Societal Order, every human being lives with happiness & prosperity; and there is an assurance of its continuity 29

Dynamic Relationship between Individual & Family… Society Sanskar (t), Environment (t), Self-exploration (t) Sanskar (t+1) 1. Education-sanskar 2. Environment / Tradition 1. Participation in larger order Family environment / tradition = ∑ Sanskar (all family members) a) Understanding, Feelings & Thought b) Physical Facility Participation = Understanding goal (individual + family) & Effort for it's fulfillment Participation includes effort for getting rid of problems or incompleteness [what’s missing + solution + my role in the solution] 2 key outputs – 1. Own sanskar / understanding & realisation 2. Environment / tradition at level of family… society 30

Responsibility, Participation Irresponsibility, Expectation Individual: Responsibility, Swatantrata Happiness Participation in larger order Individual: Irresponsibility, Partantrata Unhappiness Expectation from larger order Family of Such Individuals: More people Less effort person Responsible Family Happiness & Prosperity Participation (10 x 10%); undivided family Family of Such Individuals: More people More effort person Irresponsible Family Unhappiness & Deprivation Expectations; fragmented family … … Society: Continuity of Happiness & Prosperity Society: Unhappiness & Deprivation Relationship, Undivided Society Universal Human Order Domination, Fragmented Society Inhuman Governance Indiv – Family cluster – Village cluster – Nation – World Family 101 ~102 ~1010 31

Responsibility & Participation Individual takes responsibility for most of his needs, passes on rest (abt 10%) to be fulfilled by larger order (swayam mein vyavastha) & Is actively participating in larger order (badi vyavastha mein bhagidari) 10 such individuals next larger order has 10 x 10% to fulfill - It is a managable load for the larger order. Enrichment of people is possible - Relationship or dominance, both options are available to the larger order. Depending on level of understanding, one mode is predominant - Individual is happy & engages more with larger order - Individual is able to see that he has been responsible and active in participation. This is fulfilling for him - In the state of fulfillment, he is able to rightly evaluate himself & make plan for further self-development - Fulfilled individual is able to help others in understanding & living accordingly 32

Lack of Responsibility &/or Lack of Participation Individual takes responsibility for very few of his needs, passes on rest to be fulfilled by larger order (swayam mein a-vyavastha) &/or Is not actively participating in larger order (badi vyavastha mein bhagidari nahin) - it is an overload for the larger order. 10 -100 people have to be exploited directly/indirectly to work for each indulgent person - dominance remains only option for the larger order & it is also the prevalent mode. Dominance is not naturally acceptable - Individual is unfulfilled & complains about the larger order - Individual is not able to see that his unhappiness is due to his own irresponsibility &/or lack of participation - Without seeing his own connection to his unhappiness, he is also not able to make any plan for fulfillment through self-development (continues to assume I am OK, problem is outside with others & the system) - Unfulfilled individual tries to run away/escape from this, by way of more sensation, more accumulation of physical facility… 33

Indulgence (Bhog) Abstinence (Tyag) Right Utilisation (Sadupyog) Use is primarily for getting sensation / taste (aswadan) Minimise usage of physical facility Use based on purpose/property (& then taste) Consumption, accum. of physical facility for sensation/taste Abstain from use of physical facility or sensation / taste Prosperity 1. Recognising need 2. Fulfillment of need Other is -Means of sensation -Means of feeling -Resource for physical facility Renunciation of relationship Other is like me Feeling is important In the relationship Exploitation of Little interaction with -Human being (10 -100 -Human being people need to work for -Nature 1 indulgent person) -Nature Enrichment of -Human being (responsibility & participation) -Nature 34

Undivided Family, Universal Human Order Human Target (ekuo y{; ) Co-Existence 2 Fearlessness (Trust) 3 In Every Family In Society In Nature/ Existence Right Understanding & Right Feelings 1 Prosperity In Every Individual 1 2 3 4 4 Universal Human Order – Human Order ¼ekuoh; O; o. LFkk½ Societal Order in which fulfillment Five Dimensions ¼i¡kp vk; ke½ of the Human Target is ensured 1. Education – Sanskar 1 2. Health – Sanyam 2 4 3. Production – Work 3 4. Justice – Suraksha 4 3 5. Exchange – Storage 2 In such a Societal Order, every human being lives with happiness & prosperity; and there is an assurance of its continuity 36

Indicators of Net Achievement (Individual, Family, Society…) 1. Index of Understanding: % of Population with Right Understanding e. g. % individuals who live with solution & response (who facilitate right understanding & relationship in others) vs problem & reaction (who are mostly talking about problems, get irritated, angry or quarrel) 2. Index of Prosperity: % of Prosperous Families e. g. families that have recognised their need for physical facility and produce/have more than their need 3. Index of Fearlessness (Trust): % of People one has Trust on Intention – Unconditionally, Continuously 4. Index of Sustainability (Co-existence): Enrichment of Nature e. g. Air Quality, Water Table, Water Quality, Average Annual Improvement of Soil Quality, Definiteness in Weather 37

The problem is not – the incorrect actions of bad people The problem is – the inactivity of the good people 39

Starting Point… Individual… Followed by Family… Society… 1. Understand Your Natural Acceptance Swatva 2. Live in accordance with it Swatantrata 3. Participate in Larger Order Swarajya 40