Amle trek and field trip

This year's introductory trek for the new MTech batch of CTARA was to Amle, a remote tribal hamlet in Mokhada block of Palghar district which has no electricity or telephonic connectivity. Since this field visit tends to be an informal one families are welcomed and Saurabh and kids joined us. The trek was a simple one made special by the monsoon streams and the beautiful green all around. The kids got a taste of some rural technology as well: treadle pump, solar micro grid, the smokeless chulha, bee-rearing and the old-fashioned aata chakki which we all could barely budge but the 90 year old matari used effortlessly!