Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was coming to visit, villagers said.
As well as travelling around on a boat, you visit villagers' homes, meet prawn farmers and fishermen and eat meals brought on board by local women.
These teams visit villagers regularly, stressing the importance of good nutrition and of a balanced diet for women – in particular, women who are pregnant, lactating or of child-bearing age.
(Male NGO worker, age 26) We should visit the villagers, treat villagers, and do education.
Last weekend, he took a whirlwind tour of the region, visiting ordinary villagers and even taking over driving duties from his chauffeur.
We were helping the people who were visiting the villagers, so I was known in the area.
In four delta villages visited Saturday, villagers gave the same answer: The government had voted for them; they did not even get to see the ballots.
I disliked those visits — villagers watching us with awed eyes, young men asking for free phone cards, even free phones — because it all made me feel helplessly powerful.
In the first story, "The Legend of the Official Visit," villagers frantically sweep the streets in anticipation of a drive-through by a government motorcade.
In recent years people from the village have made seasonal migrations to Laolalang, a satellite village (some villagers visit seasonally, and some villagers live there permanently) the people of Laingpatehi established approximately 550 km away in Toli Toli, Central Sulawesi Province (Fig. 2) where they farm cloves and nutmeg.
