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Somehow, Ramdas Korwa of Rachketha village was not overjoyed to learn that he was worth RS 17.44 lakh to the government. Late in 1993, the authorities decided to lay a three km road leading to Rachketha village in the name of tribal development by allocating rs 17.44 lakh towards the project. 
Tribals constitute a 55 per cent majority in Surguja, one of India’s poorest districts. And the Pahadi or Hill Korwas. who have been listed as a primitive tribe by the government, fall in the bottom 5 per cent. Special efforts are underway for their development which often involves large sums of money. Just one centrally funded scheme, the Pahadi Korwa project. is worth RS 42 crores over a five-year period. There are around 15.000 Pahadi Krowas. the largest number of these in Surguja. However. for political reasons. the main base of the project is in Raigad district. There was just one small problem about building the Pahadi Korwa Marg in Rachketha-the village is almost completely devoid of Pahadi Korwas. Ramdas’s family is the only real 23 exception. 
’It doesn’t matter if these don’t benefit the Pahadi Krowas in the least and are completely useless. Out here. even if you put up a swimming pool and a bungalow. you do it in the name of tribal development.’ says an NGO activist. ”Nobody bothered to check whether there were really any Pahadi Korwas living in Rachketha village’ and ’there was already a kutcha road here.’ says Ramavatar Korwa, son of Ramdas. ’They just added lal mitti (red carth) to it. Even today. after spending rs 17.44 lakh, it is not a pucca road.
’ Ramdas’s own demands are touchingly simple. ’All I want is a little water.’ he says. ’How can we have agriculture without water?’ When repeatedly pressed. he adds: ’Instead of spending rs 17.44 lakh on that road. if they had spent a few thousand on improving that damaged well on my land. wouldn’t that have been better? Some improvement in the land is also necessary. but let them start by giving us a little water.’ Ramdas’s problems were ignored. The government’s problem was ’fulfilling a target.’ ’If the money were simply put into bank fixed deposits. none of these Pahadi Korwa families would ever have to work again. The interest alone would make them very well off by Surguja’s standards.’ says an official mockingly. 
Nobody thought of asking Ramdas what he really needed. what his problems were or involving him in their solution. Instead. in his name. they built a road he does not use. at a cost of rs 17.44 lakh. ’Please do something about my water problem, sir.’ says Ramdas Korwa as we set off across the plain, journeying two kilometres to reach his road nowhere.