This green oasis is a drought-proof village in Rajasthan 

These people should be running the water management departments... They have the knowledge AND EXPERIENCE!

This man deserves a national award. He's more effective than 10 IAS officers put together.

This Pakistani salutes your efforts and I wish this would be implemented by governments at a federal level, all across the Indian subcontinent. If only there were more people like Laxman and Jagveer sahab, the world would be a much better place. P.S. I love this channel!

This man is more effective than most of our higher educated people, I seriously want to see him as our Rajasthan's future CM, hats off to u sir👍

My Dream is Every Village in India should be with Water, Food, House, Sanitation and Education Independent.

I wish someday Rajasthan govt invites u to develop all villages in rajasthan

These people are more educated than politicians

We don't need cities if we have such well managed villages..

Hats off to the Village community as well as the Down to Earth community for bringing this beautiful message to the world. Instantly brightened me up after a depressing day. Lots of love. I also pray that each one of us be this aware regarding our environment. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful.

Wonderful contribution for India, and an exemple for the world !

When I was growing up in a village in Kerala, most houses were of one to two acres of land. In each house, there was a pond. Then there were bigger ponds attached to temples where people went to take bath. The village then always had water. Now things are different. Houses are in small plots. Ponds are not there anywhere. Water problems have started despite the fact that Kerala has two monsoons. In June July and in November.

The gentleman who came up with this idea is brilliant. He works with nature instead of trying to bend nature to his will. Well done. Thank you for this video.

Dear Sir, Salute for you and your team and all villages persons. You have done greatest work. Keep it continue. Regards

India has so much potential, agriculture takes the top spot among them.

Hats off to these people they really love their village their ancestral land i feel proud of them my people love from Nepal 🇳🇵

Turned Desert into an green lush Village Plus Water conservation made them self depenedent Plus Forest, Flora and Fauna, a small weather forecast setup Plus No crapp What a wonderful video. Their dedication deserves applaud. All this without the Govt. 🙏 Salute to everyone 🙏

This man should be made water resources minister of India.

Brilliant! Bringing back old knowledge and applying new to adapt, survive, and prosper. This is quite a success story. More desolate, arid land could be brought back to life following these types of skills. It all started by one man figuring out why the local pond was failing and fixing it. A community working together with nature. Congratulations!

What an inspiring story. Lots of respect form kerala.

Dear Sir You had shown that for sustainable irrigation and protection from drought one need not spend thousands of crores of Rupees and build huge Dams. Experience and scientific studies have proven that Big dams are ecologically Disastrous. Salute to you.

Really great. He deserves to be honoured and made advisor for every village body of India. We need our resolve, only advice will not take us anywhere.

इसे कहते हैं काम करके दिखाना।भैया इतनी दूरदृष्टि और इतना बड़ा सामाजिक बदलाव केवल पूरे समाज के सहयोग से ही आ सकता है।सरकार कुछ नहीं कर पायेगी।करना होता तो अब तक 70 साल थे।कर दिया होता।अब हमें ही बीड़ा उठाना होगा।सलाम है मेरा इन लोगों को।

Wow, Kudos to this real Aquaman

Man can be the greatest gift to this planet, if we accept this as our destiny to do so.

This man Deserve Padmashree...knowledge as responsibility with action without pride. Need more people with such type of mindset.

ये बड़ा ही आश्वासक चित्र है! इन महानुभाव की जितनी स्तुती की जाये, कम है। इन से प्रेरणा लेकर अगर देश के अन्य सूखे भागों में ऐसी कुछ योजनाएँ कार्यान्वित की जायें तो देश की प्रगती के मार्ग में आने वाली विपदाओं पर यशस्वी रूप में विजय पाया जायेगा, और भारत फिर एक बार विश्व का सर्वाधिक समृद्ध राष्ट्र बनेगा...

वाह दिल खुश हो गया देखकर। इसी प्रकार से अगर हर गांव के लोग सजग हो जाए तो हमारे किसानों को शहरों में आकर मजदूरियां ना करनी पड़े।

These type of project should be given more funding from govt. To do work in large scale. Amazing work by the team.

A great effort . His ideas and methods of rain water harvesting system is superb . We have to learn how we can change .

In the midst of all the bad news all around the world, it's breathtaking to see what these people have accomplished, and that they are doing it as a village. People need to realize it takes everyone in the village to make it successful, not one rich person who employees half the village....... This practice needs to be shown to African villages, this could save so many lives there.

धन्य हैं ऐसे गांव के महापुरुष...सच्चे देशभक्त हैं ये लोग। जय हो

Beautiful super Love from Pakistan

Well done Laxman Singh ji and his team. You are our environment soldier

Preparing for civil services I will implement this technique in my posted district after becoming IAS officer

Aise bando Ko milna chaiye noble prize ,great work sir salute you!!

At first, I thought that this video had to be click-bait; but Lapodia's people impressed me super-mightily. The whole world can & must learn from their smartness & innovation. Further; the newly created biodiversity helps naturally in the reduction of pasture-/ agricultural pests. Superbly smart. I - & hopefully many other people - will propagate Lapodia's innovation & smartness in water- & pasture-management.

It's a misconception that Rajasthan as a whole is desert and arid. Majority of it is but a large part is green and has Rivers and lakes. But the idea of a drought free/proof village sounds good

People here are commenting that deserts should be converted into these green Areas. People don't know that deserts are also very important. The monsoon of India is dependent on Our Thar Desert. So It's a very bad idea to eliminate desert. Although we should do efforts to stop desertification. We should plants more trees around the desert not in the desert. Although I love the efforts of rain water harvesting. Good work 🙏🙏🙏🙏

बहुत अच्छा सभी के लिए तालियाँ।। बहुत बढ़िया सोच और research से आपने उम्मीदें जगाई ।। बधाइयाँ लक्ष्मण भाई , जगवीर भाई और बाक़ी सभी

Man! This is incredible! Hat's off to the team.

Only progressive mind people can do this kind of great job...They are inspiration to all of us.

Being a Science and English lecturer all my life and having served in rural Punjab,, it is a great experience for others to follow otherwise we are all doomed to extinction. I felt so much pleasure in watching happy villagers and livestock. At the same time felt immensely painful when I see wanton destruction of water bodies and rivers and ground water in Punjab.

शानदार। मन प्रसन्न हो गया देखकर। काश ओर गाँवो के लोग ओर सरकार भी इसी प्रकार से सब गांवो में ऐसा कर पाए तो सबको तरक्की ओर खुशी मिले।

Dear Mr. Laxman Singh Ji, We Salute for you and your team. You are deserving for national award. I wish will visit your village soon for learn rain water harvesting and other things. Because I also working on Sustainable Community Living in Rajasthan and other states.

Thank You down to earth . These are real Padma winners. Salute

My sincere pranams to the real heroes of this nation. You guyz are wonderful....keep continuing the good work.

Wah wah... Laxman ji ki soch aur mehnat ko pranam

Village is second form of heaven

Laxmansingh is great man.

Hats off to you Sir!! And Well done all villagers of Lapodia..

Very very nice useful, government must support these types of work

This village is a example that if we are all willing we can change this world

*जुग जुग जीओं अण राजस्थान री धरती रा लाल*

Who else noticed the beautiful background music ? I was using as a ringtone this music , I got surprised checked my phone 2 times🤣🤣

That was one the most satisfying videos I've seen. Masters at work.

After ceding water from the Conchos R.into the Rio Grande, with which forms the border with the USA, farmers have experienced a decrease in the water available to them, if we here in Mexico contacted this Honorable Man, we would significantly green the Northern part of our country! Thumbs up, liked and greetings and respect to Laxman Singh Ji.

Look at the ancient monuments temples palaces etc they have water harvesting systems that can be recreated now and put to use without electricity but these villagers are doing great job too

Let us go in a joint mission to unite all these Noble persons to work for India.

what an vision! what a visionary! hats off to his efforts.

Dream village, congratulations for your hard efforts, dedication and environmental knowledge particularly Dev-Van.

This method has been adapted in Udaipur area for over500 years. Back to traditional and effective methods

Very intelligent strategy. World need knowledge systems like this self stained 💕

Traditional systems that had been neglected and forgotten over time, one dedicated young man to revive them. Brilliant. The importance of and shortage of water doesn't appear to be new to the region, time and circumstances seems to have resulted in the importance of maintaining the systems.

There slope of land is very gentle. For this gentle slope the chouka planning is just awesome and very effective. I salute for this initiative and planning. 🙏

Jabarbast kaam kiya laxman ji ne,gaav khushal kr diya aap ne,Aap ko pranam ji...

Nice work. Help the whole India to overcome it's water scarcity

This is a lesson for all of us. Nature has given us everything we need. All we have to do is, respect it & use it with diligence.

This entire process of self-sufficiency and sustainable development is really awesome! The uncle deserves international recognition for his exemplary efforts.

Wow great job sir. Laxmanji you are a role model. Thank you for inspiring bit only your village but also other 59 villages to adopt Rain water harvesting. God bless you and your entire team. Lots of love from Mumbai. 🙏

Very forward thinking,simple but effective ideas.Great for local communities. The world needs more of us ,Us,to implement such ideas.

This is awesome, great stuff. I've always wondered why rain harvesting isn't more common. Here they cut the water off for hours sometimes during the summertime, but yet we have HUGE rainfall in the rainy season. I'll we'd need is a reservoir to harvest water from regular rainwater.

These guys are true heroes . They deserve the highest awards. The government should make them an example and ensure every village goes through this example,

Great Inspiration!! If want to do something good for the society stand up and even if u are alone don't worry there are always good people who will join you. Jai Hind.

Beautiful. Punjab should learn from it

I see one positive story about India after a long time. Good job by these organisations.

Who needs a government when we people can do our own work with our own knowledge

Very interesting! There is a similar project in Arizona in the US, where rather than a chauka on the surface, what is done is that a plastic or rubber tub is buried in the ground, usually filled with rocks to make more space for water than would be in soil. So it is like having underground ponds to do this 'chauka' system of collecting rainwater, but because it is under the ground it can be made to take only a very small amount of space, or even it is possible to have pathways over it, so long as it does not block the rainwater collection, and even, because of the gutter along the roads in america, many of these have been built to collect water from special gutters and keep it in the environment.

Heartfelt congratulations for this yeomen service to the community and service of the nation! Government and all of us should learn from them.

Hats off to you ! Laxman Singh Ji 🙏🙏

Mere har kisaan waale bhai ko mera salaam. Allah aap ko aur barkat de, ameen. Jai hind.

Spellbound! Thanks for the video, I am really proud and humbled to see the self-sufficiency and resistance of the GVNML and its affiliated villages!

Amazing work done at the grassroots level without incompetent bureaucrats messing things up.

Aise news ...kitnaa positivity spread krti hai . Love rajasthan ❤️

Wow such greenery! I would love to stay here forever.

The village looks so peaceful

Now they should encourage other villages to replicate this model.

There were some very dry parts of Rajasthan in 2012 as I traveled through - lots of soil erosion. This is much needed and I am sad I didn't get to see this.

You wonderful people are effectively changing you land, your country and plants and wild life around you. What a wonderful story

Truly an inspirational story

Excellent! Keep it up! This is inspiring! This is the way to live self-sufficiently and fix problems. Impressive! Once again all the best! Jai Hind!

I like that he stressed these systems takes time and planting of the trees are key! This isn’t an over night solution but it is the best solution to droughts! Way to go India 🇮🇳

Government ko ase logo ko full sport dena chaiye

Ancient wisdom, healthy minds and bodies.

Speechless.. truly recommendable work

hero.. leader.. His vision and efforts inspired people around him and they made the difference..thank you sir. 🙏

Well done... From Jaipur. Hope Jaipur people will also follow this. #Jaipur

This is why politicians don't want us to unite but keep us divided on religious, caste & class lines. When the common man unites, they can do the impossible and make #India a paradise on earth.

I am from Kolkata, West Bengal, a place where water is excess and often wasted. I salute your effort.

A big salute to Lakshman Singh and his team

Thank You LAXMAN SINGH ( I Salute You)....