Showing posts with label community health and development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label community health and development. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

CH Picnic

We usually have once a fortnight meetings of the Community Health and Development department. 

Since about a month, the staff had been suggesting that we meet in one of the villages. With a river flowing along the fringes of our block, it was not difficult to get a scenic place to meet. 

It rained quite a bit . . . still, we had a good time of fellowship and discussions . . . 

Few snaps of the place . . . 

The first group . . . trying to start the fire in the middle of the rain . . . 

The second team . . . again caught in the rain . . .

Buffaloes gave us company

Trying to make rotis . . . 


The scenic Auranga river . . . 

This is just below the Palamu fort. Unfortunately, the snaps show very clearly littering done by picnickers. 

Similar to this site, there are many other sites which have quite a lot of potential to develop into tourist spots. 

Unfortunately, very little is done towards this . . . nor does anybody think much about it . . . 

Monday, November 18, 2013

Fields of Joy

These are snaps of the agricultural work that we had been doing as part of the project on Community Based Adaptation towards Climate Change.

Fields of finger millet and System of Rice Intensification (SRI) methods for Rice cultivation . . . 

Finger millet

Finger millet . . . lots of stalks

Good yield with SRI

SRI, another view

Ripe stalks of Finger Millet
Lac cultivation . . . Reintroducing lac in our communities. Our next venture.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Reminiscences . . .


A continuation of my recollections of our days in the Community Health and Development department of the Christian Medical College, Vellore . . . 

First, the 'konna' flower (Cassia fistula). It's a visual treat during April every year ..  .. ..







Couple sites where stone benches are put which have been the hot spots for some great discussions . . .