sentences:  In 1996, it participated in the Doon Valley Watershed Management project to gauge the effectiveness of participatory approaches in sustainable management.Step farming and cattle herding provided a little but somehow allowed the villagers to sustain themselves.Poverty was high in the area, traditional and western education were realized to be the only way out of such conditions and special importance was placed on it, this enabled the farmers to also serve in and around the village as teachers, temple priests and Ayurvedic doctors.