Sardar Sarovar Project Affected Village: Mal
Resettlement site Vadchil/ Shobhanagar,
Maharashtra
This clip is about listing the indigenous varieties of medicinal herbs and plants in the submergence villages and forests of the Narmada valley drowned by the Sardar Sarovar Dam.
This listing is by Girdhar Guruji, a founding member of Narmada Jeevanshalas/ schools and an adivasi leader of the NBA. With his immense knowledge and skills, Girdhar Guruji at one point became one of the driving forces in overseeing the working of all Jeevanshalas. So respected is he as a teacher that now, people far and near know him as Girdhar Guruji (teacher).
Girdhar Guruji was keen that the children in the Narmada Jeevanshalas learn about the traditional medicinal herbs found in the Narmada Valley before their villages and forests submerged due to the Sardar Sarovar Dam.
It is important that there is a record of the indigenous herbs and medicinal plants as per the memory of the people and this knowledge remains, particularly because the government has failed to complete the studies of the medicinal plants, herbs and roots in the submergence zone of the Sardar Sarovar Dam.
Interview duration:
0:02:10
Language:
Pawari and Hindi, with subtitles in English
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