When the name
Melghat comes across somebody,one always used to think about
MALNUTRITION.When I was working with BOSCH CHASIS SYSTEM, Jalgaon,I came to know a
joke about the MELGHAT & it's malnnutrition.The joke goes like this- a town arranges a competition for healthiest cat, so a very much healthy cat wins the medal as the "healthiest cat".but while giving the award,somebody unavails the secret at the eleventh hour, that this is not a cat as all of us are convinced,but it is a "
UNDER NOURISHED TIGER of MELGHAT" But blogger wants to make it clear to the folks that there no such thing like unnourishment, malnutrition or"
MELGHATATIL KUPOSHAN"(malnutrition in Melghat) as projected by media or by
few selfish NGOs.government has provided lots of facilities to the Tribal people.they can have rice, wheat at just 2 or 3 rupees per kelogram.Government provides them loans for long period of time.even there are such laws that non-tribal person can not buy a land from these
KORKU tribal people.But a tribal person can buy land from non-tribal person.
The very basic reason behind the malnutrition is the
illiteracy of tribal people. These tribal people of melghat are
very superstitious.If somebody is not feeling well,then instead of consulting a physician , they used to go to the "
BHUMKA"(person having devine powers ,as per the faith of the KORKU tribes).Also another but the most important reason is the
TRADITION OF MARRIAGES TAKING PALACE IN TINAGES.
KORKU tribes are carrrying out such tradition. boys & girls used to get married at the tinages
less than 20 years. here their illiteracy plays an imporatant role for producing unhealthy babies. After giving birth to the baby, there should
considerable gap of time for having second pregnanacy.But these
KORKU TRIBES never follows this protocol.There is
no gap between two consecative pregnanacies.Since because of earlier pregnanacy, mother already needs lot of nutrients & duration of time to recover from weakness.the same required time duration is not given to her.so how much she can take care of her baby at the next pregnanacy?
how she can produce a healthy baby?so now question would arise in one's mind that
why the media,NGOs are creating much hype about malnutrition of MELGHAT?if you will see the geography of melghat, its a green area. I know very well about these NGOs. because I am from melghat itself.I know, there is a doctor who lives with his wife in distant village in hilly areas which is about 40 km away from
DHARNI, the
biggest town in MELGHAT.Once I was there with my uncle for a personal reasons. Ya, I agree , to live in that kind of village,located in the dense forests of
MELGHAT TIGER SANCTURY, is not a joke. even myself will never wish to live at such a place as my village is situated outside of forest.But that doctor always tries to keep the MELGHAT in limelight for malnutrition with some of his colleages.He is having his
NGO(Non Governmental organization).He receives lots of
funds from foreign countries like
BELGIUM,from government etc. Now he is having the land more than 200 acres located around
DHARNI. This is one case. there are so many NGOs which are named after using the KORKU language of Melghat. these NGOs want to get more & more money from any available sourse they can have.There are so much problems in Slums of mumbai like malnutrition, unhygine, I want these NGOs to there. why only in MELGHAT you want to take care of people? Instead of providing fundsto these NGOs, government should take measures like making tribal people literate, tell them about hygine etc.
