NGO VISIT- An eye opener

The Swayam Krishi Sangam (SKS) NGO field visit was an eye opener to the cruel world, and showed us the ground reality which exists in same parlance with our cities. I went to three villages MuduguntalTanda, Munigepalli, Narayanked to do a small project on the SKS NGO at Hyderabad. The head office situated at Hyderabad and its operating villages are situated in the Narayanked area in the Medak district.
It’s like third world villages which always depend upon the city and the urban folks for its development. If you will go on a journey three hours from the main Hyderabad city, you will find another underdeveloped, deprived world which exists there with no home, no electricity. You will find the ground level people, who barely have anything of their own. They are struggling with their destiny to maintain their basic requirements of life.
The villages, which I visited, were completely different. Most of the members are widow, daily labourers. Illiteracy, ignorance, conservative attitude, and lack of resources are creating a great havoc in their social life. When we were served food which was made for the orphan and underprivileged kids, we said food was good and much better than our hostel, they literally looked shocked and expressed they used to think that the city people eat good foods.
People are so poor that their weekly saving is only 10 /20 rupees, its quite unbelievable but society like this also exists. What I feel from my observation some NGOs are working for their own purpose. The field assistant with whom I went to the villages to visit some families, there I found the officials visit their members house to collect their money. Their claim is that they provide the people health education, sex education, and overall they help in the all round development. But my concern is do they follow all the instructions given by the field assistants. Are NGOs doing the real job to uplift the ultra poor people, Is this just a marketing gimmick to get money and run it like a business. There are so many social issues which are equally connected with the NGO thing. Like some women are not free enough to discuss all this things to another man instead of saying it to their husbands.
It’s very difficult to motivate the uneducated rural people to save money for future. In this case, they are doing a great job to motivate people to save and think for future.
The villages are poor, and there are no signs of government programmes could be seen like PMGSY, no water system also from the government. With the city of riches, malls, five star hotels, and all kind of luxuries.
Development, upliftment and various things like empowerment of the down trodden of the society is the basic aim of the NGO.
The villages were of no electricity, no drainage system, and no education. As poverty leads to poverty, it’s a vicious circle, So many NGOs are working, huge amount of grants, developmental policies, and various government schemes are there but the number of people who were below the poverty line are still the same, only a thin line improvement is seen. Whereas India is having the richest person in the world, and the highest billionaires in Asia, still we have the poorest of the poor (ultra-poor) people are also high, and the largest slum ‘Dharavi’ in the world.