MISSION
ARRANGES EARLY MORNING BOAT SERVICE; DISTRESSED FARMERS RELIEVED
In a city, subway
takes us to the destination within minutes. But at a remote village Bijaynagar
of Gosaba islands, boats are the only means of transportation, and hardships
are a plenty.
Boats to the
market are managed by boat drivers’ union. In a meeting with the Mission and
consequently with Baba, the farmers addressed a serious problem; years back
boat services to the market at 5 in the morning were available, but now when the
farmers reach the market with vegetables, the market is all over.
Swamiji discussed
the matter with his team of dedicated workers of the Mission and decided that a
written appeal to renew the 5 am boat service should be made by his Mission to the
Union, with 500 support signatures of the villagers, a copy of which would be
submitted to the Government to make the union feel the importance of the issue.
Workers of the Mission are now collecting the signatures,
which is a difficult process , as the families are scattered over a large area
where some pathways are broken and mostly do not exist at all. It is a mass
movement Swamiji has arranged, which will motivate people to get united for wellbeing
of all.
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| Farmers on boat |
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| The boat carrying farmers' organic vegetables to market on time. |
