Today is the day of the Antyodaya for the people of villages Pimpashenda and Kolamkheda – two of the last of the last hamlets in Kinwat, Nanded district were provided with the last of the key infrastructure – Road and Electricity respectively.
Pimpalshenda – as the name itself indicates – is a village situated at the tip(Shenda) of border between Maharashtra and Telangana. Being land locked on all three sides by Telangana state, the current access to the village is through Telangana and also stream to be crossed to access the village. During monsoon, the stream overflows and access to the village is totally cutoff. Because of this, the people of that village had boycotted previous assembly and general elections. They needed road badly. Till now they had inner roads, drains, school and anganwadi. They also had separate Gram panchayat building. However without road connectivity to the adjacent market, hospitals and bigger towns, the village suffered from so many issues.
All this suffering to be no more. A new approach road to the village passing through the forest will cut short the distance between the village to their nearest market area by 25KMs. The permissions and clearances to build the road through the forest took time, as a detailed report had to be prepared to be submitted to forest authorities. The funds to build the road was already available under Chief Ministers Gramin Sadak Yojana.
Special efforts were taken by Collector Nanded to follow up on the forest clearances. And finally after a year, everything materialized. The people of the village were beyond happy when the District Collector came with his entire team to do bhumipoojan of the road in their village.
After doing the Bhoomipujan, we then visited another hamlet called Kolamkheda, belonging to Kolam tribe – a primitive tribe. This hamlet was not having 24×7 gaothan feeder. So a 100KV Double Pole Transformer was sanctioned by ITDP Kinwat to provide 24×7 gaothan feeder to that hamlet.
Still there are handful of such villages, or more specifically hamlets under big grampanchayats, bereft with key infrastructures like Road, drinking water. Hopefully they will be covered soon in a span of two to three years.
Signing off with photo moments of the day
KEERTHI KIRAN PUJAR 
Good work sir.
I wish you complete many projects which comes under Government yojana , before leaving our tribal area.
But sir there is one thing that , you will be always remembered for efforts you made for the tribal people.
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