SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2007 Edition

 

 

 

GGnanamani, 52, is a model grassroots leader who has dedicated his life to serving village communities in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. After finishing school he formed a youth group in his village, Padavedu, to carry out programmes for cleanliness, remarriage of widows and eradiation of illicit distillation of arrack.

When he became a panchayat ward member from 1973 to 1983 he built 100 individual toilets, 20 bore-wells for potable drinking water and he bought for villagers 100 cross-bred milch animals with government subsidy. As secretary of Padavedu farmers’ welfare association from 1996, he introduced villages to the latest agricultural technologies. Now as the president of the Padavedu micro watershed development programme which is supported by the Ford Foundation, he has constructed several check dams and percolation ponds.

He has also promoted dry land horticulture and been involved in the cleaning of water channels and so on. With the watershed revolving fund of Rs 22 lakhs, he motivated 205 beneficiaries to buy high-yielding cross-bred cattle. Their average net income went up by Rs 1,200 to Rs 2,000. About 649 families were helped through 18 income generation programmes to earn an additional average income between Rs1,500 to Rs 2,100 per month. G. Gnanamani is associated with the Srinivasan Services Trust in its programmes on adult education, clean villages, health awareness and literacy.

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