Raipur January 22, 2022: Chhattisgarh’s tableau, depicting the ‘Godhan Nyay Yojana’, is ready to mesmerize the audience at Rajpath during the Republic Day celebrations. The tableau was today showcased to the national media by Defence Ministry during a press preview at R R Camp.
Tribal dancers, who will be accompanying the tableau, also performed ‘Kaksaar’ dance in front of the media.
The tableau portrays the various ways in which this scheme addresses the multiple global concerns at once by synergizing traditional knowledge and scientific approach to the use of rural resources.
The obverse of the tableau depicts rural women collecting cow dung and taking them to the collection centers in Gauthans for sale. These women are in traditional tribal costumes. They are wearing hand made clothes and jewellery. One of these women is shown preparing products from cow dung and taking them to the market to sell. The flower pots decorated around them symbolize the cultivation of vegetables and floriculture in gauthans. Downstairs there is a decoration of diyas made of cow dung. These diyas symbolize the self-dependence and self-confidence of women in rural areas.
Rear side of the tableau depicts the development of gauthans into Rural Industrial Parks. Women are developing their own enterprises by using new technologies and machines. They are running small industries in the villages. The middle section shows how the goals of environmental protection, organic farming, nutrition, employment and income improvement can be achieved by placing cow at the center of the rural economy. Lastly, the view of rural woman painting symbolizes the development of traditional crafts and arts in the state. The tableau depicts evolving water management systems, increasing productivity and a happy farmer in a mural style. In this sequence, women of self-help groups are shown preparing various products and vermi compost from cow dung.
