REAL PROBLEMS IN THE REAL WORLD

I saw them…..

How they were living in the forest wearing just one cloth and pretending that weather doesn’t have control over them. How they used to cover themselves with one piece of cloth in the times of winter. How they travel miles and miles just to buy salt and sugar and how those children help their parents in farming. It was not unfamiliar yet surprising said Naresh Bunkar Sir. 

Naresh Bunkar Sir, a social activist working from the last 15 years with the tribal people in the Central India has had many good and bad experiences in his life. He had spend entire life working for tribal people like- Baiga Tribe, Gondi Tribe and so on..  

In these 21 years of life, did I ever struggle for clothes, for food, for water?????  Being a child of a middle class family, born and brought up in the city, we are facing so many problems like- We don’t have 24 hour electricity, don’t have cooler for summer days and so on…

Today, I am questioning myself if these are the real problems then what that- which Bunkar Sir has experienced was. His 15 years struggle and efforts for tribal people resulted that now more than 10 villages had been setup in the forests in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and now they are living in their ‘own land’.

There are still many problems, and has solutions too but the question here is- Are they aware of their RIGHTS??? Have they got a chance to see the REAL world or not?? Did anybody try to help them or did they ever come in front???

We have many laws and schemes for poor, needy people like- Indian Forest Act or NREGA Scheme or Right to Food, still majority are dying out of starvation in the country. They don’t have roof over them and still the rate of unemployment is high.

The scenario explains the current situation of the country. Now the question is- If people are not getting basic needs like- food, cloth and shelter then Democracy is just a word or it has a meaning with the intention to serve the people of the country??