Friday, April 22, 2011

Popatrao Pawar



Popatrao Pawar

A messiah of the people of Hiware Bazar, Popatrao Bajugi Pawar traversed a long and checkered path in making his village an ‘Adarsh gaon’, a unique model based on the twin principles of self governance and self reliance.
Popatrao Baguji Pawar left Hiware Bazar as a teenager to pursue higher education in the city of Ahmadnagar. He completed his Masters’ degree in Commerce from the New Arts and Science College, Ahmednagar University. Apart from academics, he also dabbled in many extra – curricular activities. He was an avid sportsman and participated in both state national level Cricket tournaments.
Inspired greatly by the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Jayprakash Narayan, Anna Hazare, Vinoba Bhave and Baba Amte, he was driven by a deep desire to save his village from desolation and isolation. He returned to his village on the insistence of his friends and family members where he embarked upon a comprehensive development program.
Thus begun the journey of this young determined leader who worked tirelessly for the prosperity of his village.
He was elected unanimously as sarpanch of the village panchayat in 1990, following which he convened a gram sabha which had been conspicuous by its absence for many years. Key issues were identified and prevalent socio – economic problems were addressed in this annual village panchayat meeting. He was instrumental in the formation of the Yashwant Agriculture and Water Deployment Trust and in its integration with the state level developmental program, the Adarsh Gram Yojana (AGY).
Since then, there has been no looking back for this dynamic and suave leader whose has to a phenomenal extent fulfilled the dreams and aspirations of his people. Today, he is a role model for all the panchayat leaders of the state of Maharashtra. He is also associated with important national and state level committees: he is the Chairman of the Samrudh Goan Sakalpa va Prakalp Samiti (Govt. of Maharashtra), a member of the Employment Guarantee Punarvilokan Committee, (Govt. of Maharashtra), a member of the Information Rights Board, Nashik region, a member of the Watershed Committee (Govt. of Maharashtra), a member of the Watershed Executive Committee (Govt. of Maharashtra), a member, EGS Committee (Govt. of Maharashtra), a member of the Planning Commission (Govt. of Maharashtra), a member of the Jalswarajya project, Maharashtra state, a member of the NSS Committee, Govt. of Maharashtra, a member of CAPART, Govt. of India, an Expert Guide, Rural Development Committee, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. (put these in bullet points if u like)
He has won numerous honours and awards like the Ideal Village & Best leader Award-1998, Sahyadri Bhushan Award-2001, Comrade Sahane Master Award-2002, Adarsh Sarpanch State level Award-2002 , Maharashtra Foundation Award (America)-2004 , Mahavir & Mahatma Award-2005 and Phule-Ambedkar Award-2005, to name a few.

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36 comments:

  1. Hello, We are a group of students from Mumbai working together to improve the lives of people in two villages - Kumbhalgarh and Hassachipatti in Maharashtra

    We are very inspired to meet with Mr. Pawar and get ideas about how we can can improve our efficacy.

    I request if you could please let us know how we could contact Mr Pawar - if you could please share any phone number or e-mail address we would be greatly obliged

    Please reply at abhimanyu.vasishth@gmail.com or 98206 15016

    Thank you

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  2. Good work sir, your works its required work.

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  3. Hello, We are from Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation!!!

    We are promoting Social Tourism in Maharashtra, in regards to it please let us know the contact details & email address of Mr. Pawar to contact.

    Please reply on :
    Rujuta Joshi : 8879222090 - ( deeptanawade.mtdc@gmail.com)

    Samit Chavan : 8879222088 - ( samitchavan.mtdc@gmail.com)

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  4. This is Vishal kumar, Student of IIT bombay college.
    Can you please send contact details of Mr, Pawar to me, I need to Invite him to our social festival.
    My mail id : vrinsan@gmail.com
    Contact: 8879346174

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  5. We are a group of students and teachers from "Cluster Innovation Center" University Of Delhi. Inspired by the success stories of Hiware Bazar, we are working on a project to study the development model of Hiware Bazar in order to create templates to be replicated in some selected villages in Uttar Pradesh for bringing about transformation in required spheres. For this, we would be visiting Hiware Bazar and the nearby villageS such as Ralegan siddhi in early June 2014 for about 10-15 days. In this context i would request you to provide contacts (email , phone) of Pawar saheb and also guide us for us our stay and visits.
    kindly respond to
    Dr. Vikash Kumar Verma
    email id - vikasvermadu@gmail.com
    Niket Sagar
    email id - niketsagar94@gmail.com

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  6. We are a group of students and teachers from "Cluster Innovation Center" University Of Delhi. Inspired by the success stories of Hiware Bazar, we are working on a project to study the development model of Hiware Bazar in order to create templates to be replicated in some selected villages in Uttar Pradesh for bringing about transformation in required spheres. For this, we would be visiting Hiware Bazar and the nearby villageS such as Ralegan siddhi in early June 2014 for about 10-15 days. In this context i would request you to provide contacts (email , phone) of Pawar saheb and also guide us for us our stay and visits.
    kindly respond to

    Niket Sagar
    email id - niketsagar94@gmail.com
    Phone no.- +91-9540875237

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  7. Conservation Wildlands Trust is a philanthropic trust working in the Pench Tiger Reserve, M.P. and Maharashtra.

    We wish to contact Pawarji for a project that we are running. We would really appreciate it if you could share his contact details with us.

    Thank you very much
    Pooja Choksi

    E: pooja@conservationwildlands.org
    T: 66154598

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  8. We are a group of students with our teacher from 'Government College Of Engineering, Aurangabad'. We wish to visit 'Hivare Bazar' and meet Pawar Sir to share his ideas and getting valuable guidance for our project. So, please share contact details with us.
    Thank you very much.

    Manisha Kathar
    Email ID:- manishakathar1@gmail.com

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  9. Hello,
    I work in John Deere, Pune and couple of us at John Deere want to visit Hivare Bazar and meet Mr. Popatrao Bazar. It will be great if you can share his contact details.

    Thanks,
    Mahesh Masurkar
    maheshmasurkar@gmail.com
    Ph: 9158892274

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  10. I am Bhagwanrao Bedse I am sirpanch of my village (-kakani sakri i want invite to Mr popatrao for the new ideas,schemes and help develop to our village,so kindly provide contact of pawar sir

    Contact us 09765391445
    bhagwanbedse@gmail.com

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  11. I am Bhagwanrao Bedse I am sirpanch of my village (-kakani sakri i want invite to Mr popatrao for the new ideas,schemes and help develop to our village,so kindly provide contact of pawar sir

    Contact us 09765391445
    bhagwanbedse@gmail.com

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  12. I am shivjay kolwankar.my family and class teacher want to visit the hivare bazar .can you give me the contact details
    my emali id:-shivjaykolwankar92@gmail.com
    contact no :- 9757486316

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  13. I want to meet shri pawar

    my phone no 07799119920
    nagaraj ramarao, secunderabad, telengana state

    I speak marathi very well. I was born and brought up at Ambernath, Dist Thane, Maharashtra

    nagaraj ramarao
    mail id nagaraj.1954@gmail.com

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    1. thank u . it shows efforts will never go in vain

      my big namasakarams to him.

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  14. Myself gajanan kale, working in mahindra reva electric vehicle. Really excited to see the progress and tremendous development in HIWARE BAZA. Would be greatful to meet Mr. Pawar, can I get the contact details of Mr. Pawar, would like to deploy the similar strategy in my village, jalgaon district.
    My details;
    Gajanan kale
    Phone number- 9035034606

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  15. my self sharad gunjegaonkar working for Umarkhed dist yavatmal for village development and want to visit with ten sarpach in the week to hiware bajar please call me
    sharad ganjegaonkar 8980147950

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  16. We are going to announce one award for you kindly contact us for the same 09881980055 Ravindra Patil

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  17. Dear Mr.Pawar,

    I have been following your work closely especially in the community participation in water harvesting. I am from the National Emvironmental Engineering Research Institute, nagpur. I would like to visit your site on a field inspection... Can you please indicate a suitable time... my email id is prpujari123@gmail.com

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  18. Respected Sir,
    I am Shrilakshmi Samyuktha, final year student of Architecture, from Adhiyamaan College, Hosur, Tamilnadu. I am doing a Thesis project on smart villages in India and so I wanted to do a case study on Hiware Bazar and would like you to assist me with further instructions on this matter.

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  19. Respected sir,

    I am Priya Porwal, doing Phd in ICT Technologies to Make villages smart...I want to visit the place..to identify the problem and also want to see the existing work done by you...
    Please assist me sir, and can I meet you this Saturday (25 Feb 2017) or Sunday (26 Feb 2017).
    Please do reply sir, My contact No. is - 9920424885

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  20. Dear sir, We are group of villager's & trying to work on development activity in village. We would like to meet you for your guidance & also want to see work done by Hiare Bazaar.

    Request your convenient time in month of March.

    Thank you,
    Shankar Patil
    9372417275
    smp25576@gmail.com

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  21. Dear sir, We are group of villager's & trying to work on development activity in village. We would like to meet you for your guidance & also want to see work done by Hiare Bazaar.

    Thank you,
    Dildar shaikh
    9272778766
    dildarshaikh777@gmail.com

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  22. Prasad rao here..film director..pls forward ur number.8369294354.

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  23. Dear sir

    We would like to get in touch with you for a documentary. Please let us know how to take this forward. Our contact is Suhaas.shetty@Gmail.com . Our contact number is 9867720284

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  24. Hello Sir,

    I am Anup Reche , my father is farmer . We have land at Chandur Railway , Dist Amravati ,Maharashtra .

    We want to start water conservation at our farm
    Please guide us .

    Thanks & Regards,

    Anup Reche

    anup.reche@gmail.com
    9619047722

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  25. we wish to invite Shri.Popatrao Pawar for social function at village Nandeshwar,Mangalveda as Chiefguest.
    shri.Sadashiv Dange-9860007285

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  26. please send contact no. of shri popatraoji pawar

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  27. मी जनवारांची छावणी टाकली स्वखर्चानी
    मला मदत करा
    मी दोनशे शेतकर्यांचे जनवारं संभळतोय

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  28. please will i get the contact number ,, we would like to visit the place 9900596080

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  29. महोदय जी,
    मेरा नाम भूपेंद्र पिता प्रह्लाद बेले निवासी ग्राम तिगांव तहसील पांढुर्ना जिला छिंदवाड़ा मध्य प्रदेश 480338 का निवासी हूं हमारे क्षेत्र में पानी की बहुत कमी है इस समस्या से निजात पाने हेतु हमने *ग्राम विकास समिति तिगांव* के माध्यम से *पानी बचाओ मुहिम* को चला रहे हैं महोदय जी तकनीकी मार्गदर्शन हेतु हमारी पूरी टीम आपके विलेज को विजिट करना चाहते हैं
    अतः महोदय जी से विनम्र पूर्वक निवेदन है कि विजिट हेतु आप के समय अनुसार डेट उपलब्ध कराएं एवं नीचे दिए गए नंबर पर सूचित करें धन्यवाद
    Email-bele.bhoopendra@gmail.com
    Mob- 9407272295,8319189272

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  30. Please provide contact details of Popatrao Pawar Saheb

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  31. Shri.Popatrao Pawar Sir Can get Your Mail ID Want to Share Some Ideas and Want Your Guidance Regarding Devlopment of Gram Panchayat
    My contact no.9673070100
    Email ID- siddharthadhav100@gmail.com

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  32. Mr, popatrow pawar that's great man but my village change from me please help you.... Please your contact number...

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