Anna Hazare - The rise of the modern Gandhi

By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 06 August 2011, 01:43 IST   |    53 Comments
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As a social worker, he has been very successful in uprooting alcoholism, introduced grain bank in a temple as a safety measure for farmers when they experience drought, famine or crop failure. Watershed development program was the most applauding thing he had done for his Ralegan Siddhi village. He united all the villagers for the construction of canals, small-scale check-dams, and percolation tanks to increase the ground water level as the village was located in the foothill. Developments like education, increasing milk production, and encouraging collective marriage for poor were also a part of his social program.