encouraged other villages to follow it in his first term as gujarat cm even today a 20kg fodder bag sells for rs 22 here compared with rs 80100 elsewhere says rajesh patel a dharmaj resident the village has turned 110 acres of wasteland into pasture and earns rs 50 lakh every year from it dharmaj uses its treated wastewater to irrigate the wastelandturned pasture it has also built a recreational park with an artificial lake punsari lives up to model billinglocated 100km from ahmedabad punsari in sabarkantha district won gujarats first adarsh gram model village award and has done much to deserve it you will find anganwadi centres with advanced infrastructure airconditioned schools biometric attendance machines for panchayat members biogas plants cctv cameras etcsince groundwater in punsari has a tds of 2000 mgl the village has set up a reverse osmosis ro plant that sells 20 litres of desalinated water for rs 4 to its residents and to the other villages for rs 20 it earns rs 15 lakh per annum from the plant the waste ro water is stored and used to wash vehicles the village of 5000 has a drainage system and a supersucker machine to eliminate manual cleaning of drains the drainage and drinking water lines are gpsmapped himanshu patel who is credited with transforming punsari after taking over as sarpanch in 2006 says their development is based on a peoplepanchayatpublicprivate partnershipno hunger in jethipuranational family health survey data shows nearly 40 of gujarats children are underweight for their age but in sabarkantha districts jethipura village no child is malnourished anganwadi workers ensure that expectant mothers get nutritious food a milletbased diet green vegetables sukhdi and milk if a child is born underweight special attention is paid to the mothers nutrition jethipura has 100 metered water supply something that ahmedabad is yet to achieve water is available 24x7 and the residents pay rs 15 for every 1000 litres the village also boasts a modern drainage system and electricity supply in 2021 jethipura was among the 10 villages that won gujarat the national award for clean and green schoolsafva putting dollarsto work four out of five households in this surat village have at least one member in the us and the nris have funded change over the past few decades you will not find dangling electricity cables or overflowing sewage in afva speakers along the streets play soothing devotional music all day the streets themselves are surfaced with paver block and drains run underground we have underground electricity cables water pipelines telephone lines and internet cables the projects were planned and executed in order to make it the perfect development model says dipak patel sardar who is settled in the us the village of 2500 residents has a water purification and distribution plant a public hall with space for 1000 its even built a ring road around the village says lallu patel former sarpanch with inputs from yagnesh mehta prashant rupera