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PopatraoBagujiPawar (born 1960) is the farmer sarpanch of Hiware Bazar, a gram panchayat in Ahmednagar district of MaharashtraIndia.
He is the Executive Director of Maharashtra state government's Model Village programme.He is credited to have transformed it from an impoverished village into a model of development that the government of Maharashtra wishes to implement across the state.
Pawar led Hiware Bazar's transformation from a drought- prone village to a green and prosperous model village, thus successfully reproducing Anna Hazare'sRalegaon Siddhi model of village development. He featured in an India Todaycover story as the person who demonstrated how rural water resources could be reviewed.
The Hiwarebazare gram panchayat, with Pawar as its sarpanch, won the first National Award for community led water conservation in 2007.
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