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An Indian village…where… people do not migrate to earn bread…teachers do not bunk the classes…ration shop keepers are honest…..roads are neat and clean….people live with harmony. Villagers are not dependent on government for development. In other words, Gandhi's dreams are coming true in this village. Hiware Bazar of Ahmed Nagar, Maharashtra is the same village. But the present picture was not so beautiful before 1989. Hibre Bazar had been suffering from the same problem faced by rest of the villages of India. Most of the Villagers were under poverty line. But, today per capita income of Hiware Bazar is more than 28 thousand rupees. Each and every work has been done in this village only after discussing and taking decision in GRAM SABHA in last 20 years. There is no role for politicians and officers in development work. Today people of this village- Do not cultivate sugarcane and banana-Do not use Tue well for irrigation Do not tame goats Construct a Mosque for a single Muslim Family of the village. Say, no governments in Delhi or Mumbai, but we ourselves are government in our village. This film tells the story of 20 years long journey of Hiware Bazar and proves that how a village under development can grow with some serious efforts on its own. All that need is to understand that roads of development would not come through Parliament or Legislatures but Gram Sabhas.

A film based on the experiences of Mohalla Sabha's Meetings in delhi.(Mohalla Sabha-"Each municipal ward should be divided into small mohallas of population of roughly 3000 each. The assembly of all voters in a mohalla will be called mohalla sabha. One representative of each mohalla sabha will be elected through elections conducted by state election commission. All mohalla sabha representatives in a ward will constitute ward committee. The ward councillor will be chairperson of that ward committee. Mohalla sabha will manage affairs of a mohalla and ward committee, in consultation with all mohalla sabha in that ward, will manage ward affairs.")

This documentary is a collection of instances wherein poor villages who have been deprived of their right since ages, gain a sense of empowerment after using Right to information Act. Those villages who were paid no heed to by officials used Right to Information to expose corruption and forced officers to work for poor.