Itwaru, a farmer and farm labourer from nearby Kohchur village,
is here to purchase Mahua flowers and grapes to make wine.
Back in Mahua Toli, the villagers said they had seen
no evidence of the government's schemes, either on the ground or on paper.
When they meet each other,
people at the haat often offer relatives and friends some Mahua wine, made from flowers collected from the forest.
Despite this, West Bengal remains a significant state for women's representation with 12 of its 42 MPs women--two from the BJP and 10 from the TMC,
including Mahua Moitra, a former investment banker who
returned from London in 2008 to join politics and once showed her middle finger to news anchor Arnab Goswami, then with Times Now.