Eco India: What it takes for a drought-ridden community to band together for a sustainable future

Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow. Our top story this week looks at how 15 villages in drought-prone Marathawada have battled alcoholism, farmer suicides and a perennial water crisis under the Global Parli movement.
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CREDITS:
Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla
Director of Photography: Omkar Phatak
Video Editor: Sujit Lad
Script & Field Producer: Swati Ali
Associate Producers: Shibika Suresh, Dewang Trivedi
Executive Producer: Sannuta Raghu
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[@jaihind116]

Day started with good episode.. thanks

[@sm3227]

Mayank ji doing great job, quiting politics was good descision, he has became the change he wanted to see in the world!🙏👍👍

[@adrashsingh4109]

Thank you Scroll for covering such type of stories .It really motivates and inspire me to do some good work for my village. As we know that many people are migrating from villages , so it is a very good initiative to increase source of income for our farmers and their family .

[@maheshg8254]

I salute u sir great step for village development... global parli initiative... we dont expect such initiatives from govt.......love from ahmednagar

[@aloma1501]

Sir Gandhi you are an inspiration. The best technology and approach in the worst hit region of Maharashtra along with women empowerment. Huge Respect. Hope to see more villages joining in your initiative. May God bless you with good health and success in all your endeavours. 🙏

[@shrikantshete6940]

I belongs to Parli, Marathwada region and today feeling proud by watching my neighboring village's reforming act on @scroll.in ❤

[@shubhamkhandare2168]

@scroll.in love and respect for you from marathwada 😊

[@swatisharma9006]

So inspiring, hats off to the women and to the men to empower them 🙏

[@yashmaheshwari1727]

This makes me happy.

[@sagek7949]

Now this is journalism 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists]

Its so cool to see that they are also education people that politics, religion and borders are not needed at all.

[@gopals9928]

These videos help to salvage some hope and positivity in these times when we are exposed to just gloom and doom. Thanks.

[@sumitdandekar582]

A great initiative by Mayank Gandhi...
In my village the average Daily wage is around Rs. 150/Day... I'm pretty sure that additional business opportunities made available by Global Parli definitely adds more pennies in their purse.
Pani Foundation also played a huge part in water conservation and its utilisation.
Hats off to both the organisations for becoming a helping hand in the rural development.
Scroll, may you win awards in both categories:
1. Filmography &
2.. Narration

[@nikitasajwan6660]

This channel is doing great work.. It also inspires me to do something which seems to be impossible.. And it creates a feeling to care for nature for environment

[@yellowbird5411]

He said that for the village to progress, all differences between people needed to be put aside so they could work together. That one concept could revolutionize and restore the world. As long as we focus on differences, we will not be able to focus on what the COMMON goals should be. We in America are like the Tower of Babel.

[@swatisonawane1192]

Extremely good episode thank you for such good efforts

[@muktabhadola4233]

whatever you are doing...it's really fabulous...gives a vision to explore and contribution to the society.
thanks

[@StewiesShenanigans1]

I still miss the morning fix !!!!😶😶😶😶

[@rohannavalkar112]

Yeah I really want it back

[@ashutoshcheke7547]

me too

[@taianthony5265]

Scroll is very underrated channel which deserve more attention.

[@ivankinsman4829]

A great transformational story...

[@nagarajgouda3788]

Thanks to eco india

[@lockindersinghdevda5825]

Turning the Indian villages into an ideal & self- sufficient villages....✨

[@dimplebakshi5008]

I wait for Scroll video just like I used to wait for Vikram Betal when I was a child.

[@ranjith_s8032]

Same here 😅

[@MaheshKumar-wm7qx]

Indeed

[@whatsinthename8660]

It's funny but true..

[@ganeshnagre2609]

Scroll.in doing phenomenally well.. thank you so much for covering such invigorating stories across India. Our best wishes & utmost regards to Ur team... keep it up👍

[@sparkle1984]

Such inspiring villages ..we can have such examples...we need these as news on television and news paper rather than stupid politics

[@ChandraSekhar-uz6kf]

Only Maharashtrians take this kind of great initiations. People of Maharashtra are good in nature. Their sacrifice for the country unforgettable.

[@hiShivamhere]

Thank you Scroll, Your vedios are very motivating and inspiring. It needs to reach millions of Indians, to achieve that please make the vedios in Hindi as well.

[@Sampardhanani]

Lovely . Just lovely.

[@axel12zahnmesser52]

Great

[@shreyashtodkari908]

Nice video

[@Drawwithauto]

We would've appreciated it, if you would've covered the topic of how the farmers there are farming and given information on how much it has helped the women there. Anyways, great job.

[@latasolanki6217]

Plz make vedio on zero budget farming India

[@latasolanki6217]

Plz make vedio on zero budget farming by Padamshri subhash palekar

[@ujjwalsood3963]

Informative
Keep up the good work team scroll

[@swetsagar]

A lesson for other villages😊😊

[@mr_astrophile]

Sahi hai

[@aritramazumder261]

Great story and work from you guys.

[@manjunathkotli6904]

Great initiation..

[@sagarladhwani4287]

These videos are the best post of the week!

[@akshaybadgujar6407]

welcome back

[@sainiamarjeet]

by giving source of income to women empower the women leading to whole family prosper and the role of women in society/nation increasing/mproving.

[@sathishyadav9533]

When developing in agriculture lyk Israel India will be top on the world

[@rohannavalkar112]

@Scroll.in When will you begin your daily news series again???

[@EstanciaTimesDocumentary]

HUST A QUESTION? What is the government response to this? any solutions?

[@OpenChai]

DW German media, India ke hardworkers ki life dikha rahi hai, wahi aaj tak jaise channels Rahul Gandhi aur Modi aur China aur Pakistan pe focus karke bethe hai..Ya Kis Actor ne sucide kar liya kyon kar liya.. agar woh hi kisaan ne kiya hota to ghanta farak padta

[@newhouseoxford]

While the water harvesting measures are great, this video does not talk about the methods of farming being promoted. The Global Parli website does not mention this either. Are they really offering ecological solutions? It appears they are promoting monocultures that require chemicals and pesticides. Their website does not feature any women in their executive team either. Who is managing and informing the social justice aspects of agriculture?

[@vivalaleta]

If that is truly the case that is backass stupid. Regenerative farming is the way to heal the land and enrich the farmers even with little rain.

[@creativesmart9230]

Missing "Morning Fix" badly!!!

[@sushantmishra2.o109]

Bas thodi manvata AA jaye mansahar make them more suffering by the way they did well 🙏

[@piedpiper2535]

Morning fix plz

[@bbgg1690]

Long live global parli

[@Sanosapien]

Please restart morning fix

[@opensource_analyst]

I hope they start morning fix

[@kvsk002]

Morning fix??

[@whatsinthename8660]

To hear good things happening around I have to visit foreign channels.What an irony!!

[@anilgitte1155]

Great