Village Stay_Nagnur Village

ntroduction:
The Nagnur village comes under Shurshetti Koppa Panchyath, Khalgatigi Taluk of Dharwad district. It is 25 KM away from Hubli city. Only road transportation available for this village. Four our team members and me visited this village on 11th and 12th of Feb 2009. Before this we had orientation in Gramachethana. Mr. Deepak, coordinator BIAF explained the motive behind Gramachethana. After that I moved to Kmapli Koppa along with my Classmates. We had practical experience of the PRA. I have been in matrix group. We did the matrix ranking regarding Compost. The ranking showed that still villagers are fond of Farm Yard manure (FYM).

History of the village:
‘Nagnur’ means village of snakes. We got different stories from the people regarding village history. One of the elders said that the village was called Laxmipura after that it changed to Yalghatigi Nagnur and Nagnur. Other sources said that some body found Nagalinga in the village long back that is why villagers named Nagnur.

Transect Walk
We started our journey from Gramachethana. Naganur village is 2 KM from Gramachethana. On the way we saw ground nuts, cotton, and sugarcane & sunflower crops in the field. When we entered in to the village Coconut trees welcomed us in front every houses. We met some youths & old men few of them helped us for transect walk. We observed that houses are built very systematically side by side. In the entrance of the village there are houses built in the planned way given by Govt. Roads are very big. Majority houses are Kachha houses.
When we entered the village people were busy with their works. They were waiting for bus at Basavanna temple, some people were going to the field, and others were having tea at hotel & children were playing in front of community hall. There are 5 temples in the village; Basavanna Temple, Devamamman Temple, Hanuman Temple & Durgamman temple. There is a primary school, an Anganwadi , community hall, Milk Dairy, Panchayath office. There is a Durga.
Village was clean. Everyone has drawn rangoli in front of their houses. It shows their indigenous knowledge, local customs & practices. Rapport building was main challenge for us. As soon as we entered the village we initiated rapport building.
When we met people our team members were saying “ Namskara “ to villagers. We clearly explained them reason for coming to their village. Afternoon we visited field we collected some information regarding soil and crops.

Demographic details:
In this village360 habitants have been living. Village is having 1390 population in that male 686 and female 704 are there. Total 891 voters are there in that male 473 and female 418. There are 230 BPL families living in the village. Village is having 90% literacy. 1431 Acre land has been cultivated in the village in that 348 Acre irrigation land and 1083 Acre dry land is there.

TIME LINE (Historical Mapping): Health and Hygiene
1970 &
Now
‘Cholera’ disease was very common
But now we can see the Cancer, AIDS etc.

Hospital facility was not there
PHCs is there in nearby village
Less cleanliness
Since BIAF intervention villagers sensitized about hygiene.

Open deification was more

Sanitation increased

Dependent on well/pond for drinking water
Every one using tap water

People were use to bath once in a seven days
Now they are use to bath every day

It was the late evening when we started our activities because people still returning from the fields. Later we gathered the people for social mapping.


Social Mapping: We started this activity in the late evening due to non availability of the people.
To gather the people was the main challenge for our group. One of our group mate given idea of applying Kunkum to the ladies. The idea was worked out.

Resource Mapping

We did this activity on 2nd of our village stay. Initially villagers scared or hesitated to involve in this activity. No one has come forward to draw the map. At last we convinced a boy draw the map as per instruction given by other villagers.