Digital Skills & Development

Skills for self development

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Unity and brotherhood

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

I like to keep the environment clean.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Culture and social practices

— Common Ground

Our grammar speaking, everything will be discussed.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

NTFP related cottage industries

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

We will follow our traditions. Hmm

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Our help resides in our village forest.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Poultry and goatery training

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Marketing the produce

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Traditional agriculture

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Our presence is also necessary in the Gram Sabha, and our opinions are also needed. Therefore, our full voice is appropriate.

— Pankajini Chhatria

Nature around the villages

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

We know that even before we go for farm work, we cook, teach the children in school, and then we go back to the farm.

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

For instance, our girls are bathing in the open, so palm leaves are being used to cover those areas. There is also dirty water in the drain, and we will clean that as well.

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Creating public awareness on important issues

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

A Gram Sabha is supposed to be held in our village. A Gram Sabha is supposed to be held in our village.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Forests, river, canal, environment and school

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

I have expertise in farming. In farming, we sow paddy, then transplant the seedlings, and harvest the rice crop. And we...

— Pankajini Chhatria

We have the ability to save the forest.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

It feels good to see all the trees, the very green cultivated plants, all the fruits, and the farming activities in the village.

— Anupama Mahanand

Hydroponic farming

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Firstly, there is a situation. For example, regarding the canal, they don't realize that bathing itself makes it unclean. Some villagers were asked to clean these areas. And they complied, cleaning everything in the village. All the wells and tubewells have been cleaned and are now working and being maintained.

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Laborers in our village can get employment apart from farming.

— RAJNIKANT RATNAKAR · Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh

We always found him; he was my friend. He stays for two to three days. He enhances the village's character.

— RAJNIKANT RATNAKAR · Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh

Turmeric farming and processing

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Organic fertilizer making

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

We want to form a forest committee in our village.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

The villagers protect the forest like a mother and worship it as a village deity. They build check dams to conserve water flowing in the streams and use it for cultivation.

— Pankajini Chhatria

We like the landscape best where the place is like forests and fields, about what it can always be for me.

— Laxmanlal

The green trees and buildings all around our village are very good.

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

No, that means we don't go hunting. But now, slowly, people understand that it is about cultural tradition concerning the jungle.

— Priti majhi

No, that means we don't go hunting. But now, slowly, people understand that it is about cultural tradition concerning the jungle.

— Priti majhi