Where Is Charbahal....

(Charbahal is not-any-different village in Kalahandi, neither it has any noteworthy legend attached to it. Probably one thing it can boast of is the state highway which brings lots of traffic, to keep it's almost dead soul awake.And rest are same as in any part of Kalahandi)

Kalahandi, a western district of Orissa hits the news for a wrong reason, almost each year, drought. Apart from this natural calamity there are scores of other problems those engulf this small area of rather simple living people. Poverty, illiteracy, unemployment (both seasonal and permanent) only adds further life to the existing social evils like casteism, feudalism, animal sacrifice etc. Hunger-death, absence of medical facility, bad-roads, indifferent teachers, corrupt officials and self-centered politicians have been, as if the fate of kalahandi. Undivided Kalahandi along with Bolangir and Koraput attracts special packages from the central governments for development programs, but these aids never seem to have an impact on average life of a kalahandia. Having a share of 5 MLAs out of the 147 seats in Orissa legislative assembly, the Voice of kalahandi has been largely gone unheeded. With virtually no industrialization mostly the district has an agrarian populace, sharply divided between the rich-peasants and agricultural workers. Probably therefore the number of migrant laborers from this district is quite high. After 56 years of independence plight of kalahandi in the field of education is a showcase surely. With only one govt. college in the whole undivided district, scores of private institution are mushrooming with no library, no aid, no classrooms and with ill-trained faculties. Forget about enlightening the students, these can rarely fulfill the aspiration for a degree.

(this is an excerpt from an invitation written asking people to come together and form a group, so that a combined efffort may yield off)