India, March 8 -- Development means struggle of Mendha's residents for self-rule & sovereignty over their forests & land seems to be finally coming to an end

The Maharashtra government recently notified Mendha, a village deep inside the forests of the state's Gadchiroli district, as a separate Gram Panchayat under The Maharashtra Gramdan Act, 1964.

The development means the struggle of Mendha's residents for self-rule and sovereignty over their forests and land seems to be finally coming to an end.

Mendha's battle to implement Gramdan began over a decade ago in 2013. Gramdan is a historic Act born of Vinoba Bhave's landmark 1950s Bhoodan Gramdan Movement, which has now been long forgotten in most of the areas it took place in.

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