A group of ten people or more, men and women from different occupational backgrounds, meets in a small village in Katni district every day. They discuss issues that the village is facing – issues of livelihood, resources, sanitation, gender and more. Kothi Village is not the only village to witness these daily village-council like meetings. Nineteen other villages, trained under the Jai Bharat Shikshan Sansthan, hold similar meetings every day and with the larger village community every fortnight.