LAB-to-LAND INITIATIVEAMR-APARD

AMR-APARD

PRESENTATION

100 LAP-TOPS DONATED BY INTEL CORPORATION

9-POINT ACTION TAKEN REPORT THIRD PARTY EVALUATION

REPORT ROAD AHEAD

BNVs presentation in the presence of Joint Secretary (Trng) ,MoRD,GoI,New Delhi on 05-01-2012 and 06-01-2012 in the presence of Hon’ble Minister for RD,MGNREGS,GoAP

DISTRIBUTION OF LAP-TOPS TO BNV VILLAGES BY HoN’BLE MINISTER TO RURAL DEVELOPMENT ,GoAP

Visit of Hon’ble Minister for Local Governance & Regional DevelopmentRoyal Kingdom of Norway on 11-01-2012

ACTION TAKEN ON 9-POINTS GIVEN BY SECRETARY,GoI,MoRD,New Delhi

ITEM NO : 01

SCALING UP THE INITIATIVE

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No

Region No.of Districts

No.of Mandals

No.of identified BNVs

1 Andhra 09 400 11783

2 Rayalaseema 04 227 8273

3 Telangana 09 409 11867

Total 22 1036 31923

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Category of training Number of participants

Total cost

(In lakhs)

Per head per day cost

1 Module and material preparation

------------- 15.00 ---------

2 Master trainers 129 4.82490 1870

3 ToT 2072 65.97340 1592

4 BNVs 30,000 543.02871 603

5 Miscellaneous like travel to National Colloquium, Workshops etc

--------------- 5.00

Total 32201 633.82701

ITEM NO : 02Direction to districts / blocks – use of administrative component for training volunteers

Requests have been already been made to the line department heads for using the administrative component of their budgets like BRGF,RGSY,MGNREGS,IWMP,SGSY etc to be used for training BNVs

D.O letters to all Collectors have already been sent on scaling up the initiative

Note file circulated to the Chief Secretary to Government of Andhra Pradesh to hold a meeting with all heads of the line departments to evlove a strategy to utilize administrative component of all on-going flagship programmes for training volunteers. Also for organization of one-day workshop for all District Collectors. 28th Jan,2012 is scheduled for Chief Secretary meeting.

Commissioner has held video conference on 28-12-2011 with District Level Officials and reviewed the performance of BNVs in their respective districts.

ITEM NO : 03 Organization of one-day State level orientation workshop for all District Collectors

ITEM NO : 04Identify and develop resource persons/institutions for imparting training to volunteers in new panchayats

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Region No.of Districts

MPDOs DTMs ETC

Faculty

CDs of DLRCs/CLRCs

Total

1 Andhra 09 18 17 09 09 53

2 Rayalaseema 04 08 07 04 04 23

3 Telangana 09 18 17 09 09 53

Total 22 44 41 22 22 129

Master Trainers

Trainers of Trainees

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Region Districts

ToTs (MPDOs/EO,PR&RD,NGOs)

1 Andhra 09 801

2 Rayalaseema

04 454

3 Telangana 09 818

Total 22 2073

PLAN OF ACTION DETAILING THE RESOURCE PERSONS, TOTS AND INSTITUTIONS HAD ALREADY BEEN SUBMITTED TO MORD TRAINING MATERIAL INCLUDING MANUASL ARE READY

ITEM NO : 05 Depute concerned District and block level officials to participate in bi-monthly Nation Colloquium on Lab-to-Land Initiative

APARD has always been encouraging deputing various functionaries to Colloquia from the beginning.

Faculty of ETCs and Select BNVs are also encouraged to participate as APARD considers it an opportunity to enable to keep abreast of development across the country and also as incentive.

ITEM NO : 06Upload profiles of BNVs on ruraldiksha.nic.in along with photographs

So far , profiles of 2040 BNVs were uploaded in Diksha website.Uploading 30000 more would be done as and when their foundation trainings are completed

ITEM NO : 07Build partnerships among line departments,PRIs and BNVs

A workable model of the process involved in forging convergence ofLine Departments, PRIs, ETCs, NGOs and BNVs with the community developed by AMR-APARD is found to be highly suitable for building partnerships

L-2-L Initiative process model

BNVGroup of families Issues

Ward member

Different Committees

Village coordination Committee

Gram Panchayat

Mandal Parishad

Zilla Parishad

ITEM NO : 08

BNVs may act as motivators,facilitators and vigilante to activate Gram Sabhas

BNVs as Motivators and Facilitators Plantation programmes Kitchen gardens Special classes were conducted for 10th

class students Open libraries started in villages Food security to the poorest Sale of liquor, Panparag and Gutkha

prohibited Shramadan works taken up on every 1st and

3rd Sundays in a month

A team of village elders is constituted

for creating awareness on the harmful consequences of intoxication

During cyclonic storms, damaged street lights were replaced by BNVs

Jungle clearance Clean and Green programmes

Taken over community hall which was under unauthorized occupation by a local leader for the last 23 years

Banned use of plastic items Closed liquor vending shops Organized health camps Enrolled school dropouts Distributed note books and slates to

school children Restored RTC bus services Established R.O-based water treatment

plants

Supplied garbage bins Cleared debris with the help of JCB

machines Children with congenital heart ailments

identified through health camps and cost-free surgeries facilitated under “Arogya Sree” programme

Avenue plantations Construction of Individual Sanitary Toilets Ensured Mid-day meal as per menu to

school children

Facilitated 100% family planning Cleaned Over Head Water Supply

tanks every 15 days Wall writings on social responsibilities Monitored local institutions like

Anganwadi centres, schools, Nutrition centres, Gopal mitra centres , Health sub-centres, etc

Formation of approach roads to local grave yards

Conducted quiz programmes among pregnant women to create awareness about mother and child health

Distributed Smokeless chulhas Facilitated distribution of pattas to

landless poor Promoted enrollment in government

schools discouraging admission in private schools

Facilitated bank loans to landless tenant farmers

Reading daily news papers for the non-literates in the village

Prohibited washing of clothes at public water bodies and drinking water taps

Established bio-gas plants with the help of NEDCAP

Facilitated loan waiver to weaversConducted physiotherapy classes to

weavers

Closed cesspools and prevented water logging

Campaigned against open defecationSome BNVs opened e-mail addresses

like : rvpdbns@gmail.comPrevented garbage dump in drains

Horticulture plantation Ensured no police /court cases in the

villages Identified child labor and enrolled them

into schools Facilitated financial assistance from

NGOs/ CBOs for completion of incomplete houses under IAY/INDIRAMMA housing

Identified eligible youth and referred them to Job Cell ,DRDA for Vocational training

Trained farmers on Organic farming with the help of local “Adarsh Rythulu” for preparation of vermi compost, bio-fertilizers and bio-pesticides

Suggested renaming BNVs as Nava Bharat Nirman Volunteers”

Engaging elderly through conversation and documenting their experiences

Promoted the concept of making family members literate by one’s own family

Engaged in HIV/AIDS care Campaigned with school children on water,

sanitation and ethics. Slogans like “KOTI RUPAYALU ICHINA VOTUNU AMMUKOMU” used

Ensured “Challa Yanadi”- a nomadic tribe to lead settled life

Conducted games, elocution and essay writing competitions to school children

Conducted trainings for skill up gradation in association with banks

Promoted community contributions to upgrade the existing institutional facilities

Started BNV reading rooms Programmed reunion of all those once

lived in the village and are now away under the banner “JANMASTHALA SAMYOJANAM”

Registration of birth and death Many and much more like this …..

1.MEE KOSAM MEMU = WE ARE FOR YOU

•Identified 23 poorest families in the village. Selected families of single woman,Widow, destitute families.On ration card, single headed family gets 4 kgs of rice per month which is not sufficient. Therefore, each person is given 6 kgs of rice per month. BNVs are supporting 23 poorest persons in the village.

2.PASUPU KUNKUMA (TURMERIC - Vermilion)

Any woman from the identified poor families when gets married , is presented new clothes and utensils .

3.NEERAJANAM (Revered cremation )Poor bereaved families are assisted to cremate their dead. Unclaimed dead bodies are cremated by BNVs by following all rituals.

5.VELUGU (Light )

7-month pregnancy of women in poor families celebrated at Ramachandrapuram for 10 women on 12-01-2012

4.SUBAMASTHU(Let it prosper)

BNVs maintain regulation of street lights including Replacement of fused bulbs in coordination with the Gram Panchayats

6.CHEYUTA (Hand-holding support)

BNVs identify families and facilitate sanction of > Aadhar cardsRation cards IAY /INDIRAMMA Houses Pensions House site, etc., and resolve land and water related disputes

7. AKSHARA MALA (Supporting students slow at learning)

For 1st to 10th standard students BNVs identify such slow learners with the help of school teachers

Conduct special classes for them from 6p.m to 8 p.m every day Opened reading rooms Manage wall news papers on day-to-day basis

8. ARCHANA

Reviving local festivalsand performing arts

9. ARADHANA

Piligrimage to 50 aged, poor and diversely challenged persons was organized on 23-12-2012

10.SPURTHI (INSPIRATION)

BNVs are visiting neighboring villages to spread the concept of the lab-to-land.Issues relating to health, education, sanitation drinking water, etc., are discussed Mainly happening in tribal habitations

THIRD PARTY EVALUATION Sundarayya Vignan Kendram,Hyderabad KPMG,Gurgaon

FINDINGS OF SVK,HYDERABAD

1.Arranged cremation of two unclaimed dead bodies

2.Arranged rickshaws for collection and transportation of waste generated to the dumping yard

3. Motivated liquor vendors to close 10 shops4. Motivated farmers to give up crop holiday,

an agitation against government

Mobilized around 300 women and purchased vanitha cards @ Rs 200 per card from APSRTC and obtained signatures of around 500 persons and got bus services

BNVs motivated the family members of a dalit woman just before she passed away to donate her eyes to EYE BANK

BNVs have formed into 3 teams and cleared scrub jungle in the premises of veterinary hospital, community hall, primary school, high school, office of a cooperative society

With the help of lions club , health camp was conducted by Mediciti Corporate Hospital for 480 people.

Identified 20 persons ailing from heart ailments. Among 20, 4 are school children.All the 20 were treated in the MEDICITI CORPORATE HOSPITAL under “Arogya Sree” scheme

Obtained plant species of teak, neem and amla from Forest Department and supplied @ 3 plants of teak,neem and amla per household for all households

Enrolled 1 school drop out into the primary and 2 drop outs into high school

BNVs have associated with SHGs and constituted into street sanitation committees. Every Sunday and Thursday they carry out street sanitation activity.

Campaigns are conducted for adult literacy

This is an excellent initiative in which trained BNVs are sparing their leisure time in taking up voluntary activities and also facilitating better implementation of welfare and development activities

KPMG

KPMG has taken up Social Return On Investment (SROI) analysis of Volunteerism of BNVs.

Report is yet to be furnished to APARD by KPMG

ROAD AHEAD Proposals for establishing Project Monitoring

Unit (PMU) at AMR-APARD sent to MoRD /NIRD

Proposed PMU will have two ex- sarpanch-turned-BNVs

There will be four Officers (one of whom will be a Statistician

Two vehicles are provided for mobility The documentation unit of APARD will be merged

with PMU PMU will directly report to the Commissioner,

AMR-APARD through CNRM

As there are no elected representatives of PRIs in AP currently, L-2-L concept is incorporated in the training schedule of all categories of training of Special Officers of PRIs.First phase of training to all of them is completed. The same will also continue in the next phase also with reference to sectoral flagship programmes and planning

Special Officers of Mandals /Gram Panchayats would be requested to monitor and review BNVs activities during visits to their mandals /GPs

District Collectors would review the progress of training to the newly enrolled BNVs

Sensitize Chief Planning Officers of Districts to the concept of L-2-L

Trainings to all the newly enrolled BNVs to be completed before 31-03-2012.

Bala BNVs model to be upscaled in all BNV GPs

After foundation course , phase –ii training is being given to BNVs at ETCs.This activity would continue

BNVs to be prepared as Chief Facilitators of village level development plan

SUSTAINABILITY OF L-2-L Bi-monthly video conferences Post cards Sthanika Palana Friday visits Exposure visits Face book of AMR-APARD WEBSITE Participation of BNVs in the National

Level Colloquia Visits to L-2-L villages by APARD team