Meeting with the Chowk Fisherfolk Society members. on 30/6/16 at Sahayog Samaj Kendra Chowk

Meeting with the Chowk Fisherfolk Society members.

On 30th of June 2016 at 10 am Sahayog Samaz Kendra Chowk  organized a  meeting with Chowk Fisherfolk Society members. This meeting was animated by  Mr. Dayanand and  Sr. Chaya.

They had a discussion on various problems and difficulties faced by fisher folk during fishing. All the members actively participated and were very open when voicing their problems.

Lots of problems are faced by them when fishing such as   personet, trawlers companies who catch the fish by using the underwater cameras, difficulties in sorting fish by women, fishes get killed by ONGC survey, money is not received when fish is sold on credit, cheating by the people etc.

After patiently listening to them Dayanand explained to them that there was a need to come together and take action. Mr. Dayanand informed them that training's could be held on boat engine repairing, use of G.P.S. and wireless, hygiene, preserving the fish and other problems faced by them.It was also decided to form a linkage with IIT for solving some of their problems.

The fisher folk benefited a lot by attending this meeting.