The village is governed by the Gram Panchayat that manages essential services, such as a steady 24-hour electricity supply from neighboring village Waghave, and a filtered water system sourced from the Kasari River. While the Panchayat conducts regular cleaning awareness sessions, waste management is largely handled at the household level through backyard pits and community disposal points near the riverbank and school. This infrastructure is connected by a network of drainage gutters along the roadside that direct stormwater down towards the river.

 

Health needs are met through personalized care, with medical workers from the local Upkendra visiting each household twice a week. While they lean on government initiatives and Gharkul Yojanas like the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) - to provide a permanent house with basic amenities to all, the Ramai Yojana - to provide permanent homes to families belonging to the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Neo-Buddhist communities and 15 Vikt Ayog - a direct funding mechanism from central government to gram panchayat as they are constantly upgrading their houses incrementally to meet new requirements of growing families.

 

The house type that one sees in this region consists of a layered space made of two or three horizontally organized spaces. This house type negotiates with the topography to create a built form with rooms stepping up or down to match the mountain slope. The vertical nature of these houses isn’t just about the slope, it’s a survival strategy against the environment. Most houses feature an upper floor or attic. During the monsoon, when the lower parts of the village face flood or landslide risks, families shift their livestock and grains to these higher levels or to the local school for protection. In many traditional layouts, the lowest level or a specific side wing is dedicated to cattle rearing, kept separate from the elevated living rooms.

 

People here come from various backgrounds, including castes like Sutar, Mang, Patil, and Brahmin communities, most of whom sustain themselves through traditional farming and cattle rearing. However, the younger generations are also pursuing their careers in diverse fields such as journalism, photography, agricultural consultancy, army, etc.

 

In the future the community is determined to expand the local school and secure reliable transport so their children can pursue higher education in distant villages without hardship. They aim to create a safe space - a playground for the children to play freely without the constant worry of the mountain’s steep and dangerous edges. The school ground is used by older children in the evenings after school hours. The youth has created a jogging track and an open ground for the training at the top of the mountain. Furthermore, they seek to reclaim the mountain at night by installing streetlights along the slopes and improving the winding roads to the summit to make it accessible even after the sun goes down as well as improve the storm water drainage to mitigate flooding risks.