Margao: For members of the Makadmare tribe in Nirankal, Ponda, 2021 will not be forgotten anytime in a hurry.
Sixty years after liberation, for the first time, life in the completion will not stop after sunset for a 20-strange tribal family, which is also called Wanarma.
When the light literally entered their lives recently, his head, Gopal Powar, was overwhelmed.
“Our children will eventually be able to study at night and pass their exams.
We can now cook food at night or early morning, before leaving for work.” It’s a good-contagious design, when solar-powered tubers bring joy to long life And young.
In June last year, TOI has published an article that highlighted the lack of facilities for this tribe, and how darkness enveloped the solution with the sunset.
The Goa Human Rights Commission (GHRC) then took Suo Motu’s awareness of the report, which was headlined ‘for the Tribe of Makadmare, the roof and electricity remained a distant dream’.
The panel called on a report from the director of Tribal Welfare and the Chair of the Electrical Engineer (CEE).
Both these officials, in their reply, expressed their inability to provide electricity.
While then the Director of Welfare Tribe Sandhya Kamat said the problem was not related to his department as a Macadmare not a tribe that was notified, then Cee Raghuvir Keni said that the hut was made of flammable material, and that releasing an electrical connection would be “dangerous for life and property”.
However, this year, the GOA Energy Development Agency (GEDA) installed the PhotoVoltaic Solar Lighting System (PV) under the remote village electrification program launched on Goa State Day, on May 30.
The Makadmare settlement in Nirankal is among 100- strange houses throughout the country identified by the distance for the installation of solar lighting systems.
The project, which aims to reach 100% electrification in the state, designed with the aim of providing power through renewable energy to areas where grid connectivity is not feasible.
But while the tribe now has an electrical connection, settlement is still struggling with natural oddities.
During the rainy season – the increasingly unpredictable lately – their roofs often explode, make life miserable to residents, especially senior citizens and children.
Toi also showed that in the absence of toilet facilities, the tribes were forced to answer natural calls in the open, invite local residents’ wrath.
However, since then, bio-toilets have been provided by the state government, and will be installed soon.
Meanwhile, Agro-researcher Sachin Tendulkar, who has cooperated with the tribe for their uplift, said, “This is another step in mainstreaming the Makadmare tribe to Goanabhar Goa”.