/ Rural India

Being a farmer and a photographer i have observed the life style of villagers very closely, the village life in India and specially in Uttar Pradesh is very tough, their morning starts from 3:30 am without any bed tea and ends at 7 to 8 pm the whole day spend in continuous hard work, it is not only the male works in the fields but their children and ladies also work very hard for their living. The life in village is not as fast as in cities. Most Indian village have one primary school. Student to go to the nearest high school or college for their higher education. Student and villagers either walk or move on bicycle for their daily work. Most of the villages in India have muddy and cobbled streets.       

Most of the children do not go to school, as they help their parents in fields, because they cant afford labor so the whole family woks in their small field, the work is distributed among the family members, as you can see in the above image a small girl and her brother is collecting the hay from the fields to clear it for next crop. These villagers do not have lust of money, they have learn to survive and manage their financial needs from their limited sources. They do more physical labor in their fields to stay active while people in cities can not have enough time even for morning walk due to their fast and hectic life. Even doctors suggest many patients to spend some time in countryside to heal themselves. Neighbors in villages are like family they help each other in hours of need.           

Women of Indian villages have to work very hard since from the early morning, they prepare food looks after the old parents and takes the food to serve the farmer in their working spot. They take care of their cattle and do other household works till afternoon, and from afternoon they again get ready to prepare the lunch for the whole family. As they get no time for themselves and for their recreation also. Their normal food consist of the chapattis and simple pickles, milk and running products are sold in the local market or in the cities because this comes sunder cash crop. The rural population has pure non-polluted air. They have neat and clean water and fresh bath changes the life into new bright mood. Village food is always full of purity and nourishment. These factors contribute a longer share in maintenance good health. 

Most of the villagers do not own land still they are farmers ploughing lands of others. Some works as landless labor. Most of the villagers have their old plough. A few have tractors and other modern implements, but their number is negligible. These villagers have to depend upon prosperous landlords, moneylenders petty businessman and all of them exploits these poor men. Many of the villagers have 2 or 3 very small land in different part of the village, in that condition they have to take their diesel pump set to different fields for irrigation. It is very hectic and time consuming, as you can see in above image these peoples are carrying their diesel pump set to irrigate the second farm.     

The life of children in villages is tension free. they do not have sens of education and competition like urban kids have, after completing the household work these kids go out to play and enjoy their life fully until they feel hunger. The education system in villages is also not strictly followed by their parents as we can see in cities, parents of these children either do not have enough money to pay the school fees or their parents do not want to send them to school because they do not afford the expense of school dress, books, and other study material. So these children are engaged in doing household works, playing, and working in their fields. Indian Government has started the free education including with all necessary things like dress, books, midday meal etc totally free of cost. But the result is not very good only 20 to 30 percent children to to school and are serious about their studies.     

In my village most of the children have their favorite time pass and that is fishing, in early morning and in the evening you can see many children sitting on the river bank catching fish. When i ask many of these children that why they do not go to school, they simply answer me that their parents do not want to send them to school. And when i ask them what do you do whole day, they told me that after fishing they take bath in the river, take their cattle for bath, they take their cattle for grazing, collecting wood to burn in hearth etc etc.   

So the purpose of this information is to show the real condition of villagers, what they are dealing with and what they deserve. Government has many schemes for villagers but most of them are not implemented till now. Indian Government has to take some firm steps for implementation of these schemes so that these schemes can reach to each and every person who is liable for it.