A Brief History about India

The natural corollary of ever increasing gap between aggregate Demand (Needs) and Supply (Production of household) is vicious circle of poverty. As a result of all this the region today is in the grip of acute poverty. Majority of population of the district lives below the poverty line and is miles away from the quality life. Traditional lifestyle coupled with culture of silence has added to the sorrow of the people. As the level of awareness is very low, the benefits of public welfare schemes and governmental policies are not able to trickle down the benefits to the low strata in the district. This is about history of poverty in this district. In the name of poverty and poor people few middlemen and contractors have become the actual source of siphoning off the governmental funds and benefits.

Thus in a nut shell we can conclude that, in the name of development, the forest economy of the district received a serious jolt. The government hasn't come up with any other alternative plan for sustainable livelihood for the people of the district. Thus the population which was dependent on the forest had to pay a very heavy price for this model of development and industrialization  Nothing specific is done by public functionaries and government till date to redress the grievances’ of the affected people. The inroads of market forces due to globalization and liberalization have further distorted the cultural fabric of the district and the cultural identity of the tribal and other ethnic groups is under crisis. The homogeneous culture dissipated by the globalization and liberalization which rides on the wings of mass media have eclipsed the century old local culture. The historyabout India is same as in this case.  Thus the globalization and liberalization have attacked the life of the people on various fronts and have caused irreversible damages.

There was a paradigm shift in the economic pattern of the district in the last two decades as. With the onslaught of globalization and proliferation of market forces, this change in economic pattern is accelerated to a great extent. This paradigm shift came into being when Government gave the forests on lease to contractors and big corporate houses to extract timber and other non timber forest products. For example Paptu group was given the lease of cutting bamboo trees. These contractors and corporate houses in nexus with local administration and using money and muscle power over exploited the natural resources the forests. There was large scale deforestation which is not new in the history of India that too in the name of industrialization and development.