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Village Development Plan SIDHCHALER

under

Village Development Program

NABARD

Implementing Agency- ANKUR WELFARE ASSOCIATION, GAGRET (HP)

NATIONAL BANK FOR AGRICULTURE AND

RURAL DEVELOPMENT. R.O. SHIMLA. H.P.

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M-09816199120 ANKUR

WELFARE ASSOCIATION Radha Swami Satsang Road, Gagret

Ref. NABARD/VDP/3 Dated March 31, 2012 To

The D.D.M NABARD Takka road, Una( HP)

SUB- Village Development Plan for Sidhchaler Sir

With reference to your letter NB/DDM/Una/2206/VDP/2010-11,

dated 21/7/2010, where in approval was granted to the association of

this NGO as an implementing agency under Village Development

Program. Based on the different meeting held with yourself and your

officials in Solan we have conducted the PRA and prepared a detail plan

of activities in consultation with the villagers and Govt. department.

And the proposal is enclosed for approval.

Yours truly,

(Manisha Sharma) Program Coordinator

Encl. As above.

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C O N T E N T S

1 Introduction.

2 Objectives of the Village Development Plan

3. Village profile.

4. Ankur Welfare Association –The PIA

5 Core Issues

6 Infrastructure gaps

7 Status of banking services

8 Sector wise Village Plan for 3 years

9 Details of workshop/ program in 3 years

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1.0 Introduction

There is an urgent need to understand the development requirements of the

people in rural and backward areas and initiate the developmental process

through credit and other interventions. Majority of villages in the country still

face constraints such as access to education, health facilities, drinking water,

power, roads, credit, information and market. Against this background,

NABARD has conceptualized a program for holistic and integrated development

of selected villages in the country in an integrated manner with disguised

employment, unemployment and financial services as the focus and dovetailing

socio-economic, infrastructure and human aspects of development. With the

expertise and resources available with NABARD and its rapport with the various

departments of State Governments and Non Governmental agencies, it is

adequately equipped to implement this program as a pilot project named as

Village Development Program' (VDP).

NABARD has demonstrated several models of development with focus on

specific purposes/groups of people. The major initiative of NABARD in this

direction include : schemes for the development of various sectors of agriculture

and rural development, SHGs, KCC, District Rural Industrialization and Cluster

Development Programs, Watershed Development, TDF, RIDF, RTTF, RIF,

institutional development of RRBs and Cooperative etc. This new initiative with

focus on a specific area, i.e. a village, and adopting an integrated approach for

the implementation of various schemes of Govt. Depts., PRIs, banks, NABARD,

etc. is expected to have more visible and practical impact and provide tools to

achieve sustainable, innovative and self progressive development in rural

areas. Any developmental intervention needs ownership and involvement of the

people for successful implementation of any project.

Objective of VDP

Objective of the VDP is to develop three villages Sidh Chaler Panchayat in an

integrated manner. This would include economic development, infrastructure

development and socio economic development i.e., education, health, drinking

water supply, training and capacity building programmes aimed at skill

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development and employment generation, etc. This would naturally require the

involvement and participation of Gram Panchayat, State Government agencies,

banks, NGOs, other development agencies. The people participation and

ownership is the prerequisite for this scheme.

Major objectives of the program are as follows:

i) Integrated development of Sidh Chaler Panchayat villages to show case it as a model for sustainable development.

ii) To increase livelihood options through promotion of micro, small and medium enterprises, agriculture and allied activities, traditional and artisanal activities, water-shed development etc.

iii) To develop infrastructural facilities like roads, rain water harvesting structures, irrigation, with the support of RIDF and support from other govt. Agencies.

iv) To promote natural resource management through interventions in forestry, agriculture, allied activities, organic farming, watershed etc.

v) To develop integrated waste management system through promotion of biogas, vermin-compost etc.

vi) To enhance standards of education through awareness campaign and people participation and develop better education facilities.

vii) To promote watershed development programmes for conservation of soil and water.

viii) To promote micro finance by encouraging people to form SHGs or Artisan groups to provide micro finance services including micro insurance through linkage with local banks and LIC.

ix) To promote Farmers Clubs/ Joint Liability Groups.

x) To promote and support artisanal/Dairy clusters.

xi) To promote, cultural tourism and eco tourism.

xii) Capacity building of SHGs/NGOs/banks/farmers' club with NABARD

support.

xiii) To coordinate with state government and HPKVV as well as KVK to

provide extension services to farmers to take up more remunerative

crops (cash crops, vegetables, horticulture/Dairy/vermi

hatcheries/organic farming etc.

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xiv) To increase flow of credit from banking sector so that incidents of

informal lending is reduced.

Ankur Welfare Association-The PIA

The development agency in such a scenario, and is an enabling rather than

a delivery agency. It neither directs, nor delivers, mainly facilitates. It may

demonstrate new ideas, promote new approaches, mobilize the community,

experiment jointly with the community, demystify concepts and technologies,

mediate to bring about collaboration within and outside the community, and

impart skills and foster conditions for reflection and learning.

It is working for the last 15 year, Ankur Welfare Association Gagret is

registered under the Societies Act-1860, vide registration no 15/94 at Una

(HP). It is mainly working in the field of Rural Development, Soil and

conservation, women empowerment and community health improvement in

specific through collaboration with Government and private agencies.

The main objective is to contribute to poverty alleviation programs through

communities’ participation. The key strategy is in this collaborative approach

is to mobilize community participation; building leadership and entrepreneurial

skills. Since the gravity of poverty alleviation tasks are enormous and

government was found not to be in a position to address it very effectively,

Ankur Welfare Association GAGRET with its limited resources preferred to

deal with it in following manners. : Directly working with community

.Collaboration with the Government. Collaboration with resource (like KVK)

and HEALTH institutions. Support to other local organizations.

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CHAPTER 2

PROFILE OF SIDH CHALER PANCHAYAT

Sidh Chaler Panchayat has three villages of which Sidh Chaler is the biggest

village. The other villages Mohal and Kharyali are small hamlet/ villages. The

Panchayat falls in Amb Block located about 50 km from District headquarters.

The village(s) has a large representation of minority Gujjar community who are

involved in livestock rearing and farming.

After identifying the village based on socio-economic indicators, for

integrated development of the village under Village Development Plan (The

village committee having representation from all section of society comprising of

11members, 7 males & 4 females) were selected by the villagers during the

village meet for implementation of the VDP.

The NGO along with the village committee members conducted a

detailed baseline survey of each family using the PRA technique and collected

general information in a pre-designed format regarding the socio-

economic condition of each family viz., population features, crops raised,

social and economic aspects as also to find out the existing situation,

problems/constraints faced by the villagers, Infrastructural facilities and gaps,

banking facilities. Health conditions/problems faced by them and their

aspirations. The base line survey was conducted with active involvement of all

villagers.

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LOCATION MAP OF SIDHCHALER PANCHYAT

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GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION DIFFERENT VILLAGES OF SIDHCHALER

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RESOURCE MAP OF PANCHYAT SIDHCHALER

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Social Map Sidhchaler

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Climate

- The climate is hot temperate and dry

- Monsoon period is from July to September

- The normal rainfall is 76 - mm.

- The maximum temperature during summer reaches upto 45oC and

during winter the temperature falls below -2 C.

As about 24% of the population comprise families below poverty line.

Unemployment is a major problem and there is a sizeable population of

educated young, both male and female in the village, majority of them is

interested only in government jobs. The village has a considerable population of

Scheduled Caste/Backward Caste families majority of them are poor.

Infrastructure facilities like roads, electricity, and drinking water are not well

developed.

Drinking Water, Health and Sanitation:

It has been noticed that ground water is not available at desired depth.

Therefore, water harvesting and water shed development programmes are to

be taken up on a war footing basis.

The village has no PHC or Ayurvedic Dispensary although there is one

Ayurvedic Dispensary in the nearby village under government sector which is

sufficient for taking care of only minor health problems. However, for treating

major ailments, the people have to reach 50 km head quarters for treatment.

Although sanitary latrines have been constructed and provided to

households under Total Sanitation program, there are families in the

village still without sanitary latrines. Waste management is a major problem

being faced by the village and dumping of garbage etc. are creating ecological

problems. There is an urgent need to promote house hold biogas plants and

make facility for handing of waste for the village.

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Agriculture and Allied Activities

In general, agriculture (agriculture labour) and allied activities are the two main

occupations of the people. The area under agriculture crops is enclosed.

Education

There is one Primary School schools in the villages. Moreover there are

3Anganwadi in the village. out of which one Anganwadi is in the Govt. Building

and remaining three are in Mahila Mandal or Sarai buildings.

However, tendency of dropping out among school children of SC/BC

families is of concern. Vocational training to be given more priority.

Power

The power connection has reached to all areas of the village.

Infrastructure

The villages are connected to main road by link lane but these entire lane are

kuccha and it is difficult to pass through during the night and rainy seasons.

However, the roads need to be maintained properly. The village has good

communication Network.

Banking

As there is no bank in the village. Majority of the population depend on

credit for their lively hood activities from informal resources or they have to

approach to block Head Quarter. As general awareness about the institutional

credit facilities are lacking among the people. Analysis of the trend in credit flow

indicates that priority sector contributes about 95 % of the total credit flow. Of

the total priority sector credit flow, about 5% is contributed by agriculture and

allied activities, 0% is contributed by SME sector.

Poverty Alleviation

As already stated elsewhere, 23% of the population comprises BPL families

which shows the magnitude of the problem. Proper planning, skill

development, leadership qualities etc. are required. Almost all women are

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unemployed. Entrepreneurship qualities are lacking among the educated youth.

There is a need to create awareness among the youth and due to the nearness

to district Head Quarter there is an immense scope in the field related to women

i.e. Tailoring, Embroidery, Patch work, Wood Craft, Handloom, Beauty

Parlour, Dairy Farming, Mushroom Cultivation, Organic Farming etc.

The living condition of majority of SC/BC population and their status in respect

of education, health conditions, employment, hygiene, Sanitation etc. are far

from satisfactory when compared to other communities. As the living conditions

are bad, there is a tendency among people, especially men, to get addicted to

liquor, pan etc. leading to tensions in families and also in the society.

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TABLE - 1

Village SIDHCHALER, KHARIYALI MOHAL, SUHIN

Panchayat SIDHCHALER

Bus Stop SIDHCHALER

Post Office SIDHCHALER

Police Station AMB

Block AMB

Tehsil AMB

District UNA

State HIMACHAL PARDESH

Railway Station UNA

Air Port GAGAL, KANGRA

Assembly Constituency 30 CHINTPURNI (SC)

Lok Sabha Constituency HAMIRPUR

Area 439 Hectare

Population (2001 Census) 978

Population (At Present 2009) 1277

Livestock (Total 1183) 193

Secondary School Not available

Sr. Secondary School Not available

Ayurvedic Dispensary Not available

Anganwari 3

ITI 3Not available

Bank KCCB, PNB, P&SB 6 KILOMETER AWAY.

KCC A/c 6

Village towards East & Sourth LOHARA LOHARA UPPER

Village towards North ALOH

Village towards South & West BHANJAL MUBARAKPUR

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TABLE-2: Village Development Committee (VDC)

Sn Name Post Contact No.

1 RUKAMDIN CHAIRMAN 9816468546

2 SIKANDER MEMBER 9882151145

3 SHER MUKHTIAR MEMBER 9816298520

4 RAMESH KUMAR MEMBER 9816253408

5 SHAKH MOHAMMED MEMBER 9216775836

6 ARVIND KUMAR MEMBER 9882172645

7 SHER MOHAMMED MEMBER 01976210624

8 HASINA BEGAM MEMBER 8894181810

9 REKHA DEVI MEMBER 9805647960

10 SHEELA DEVI MEMBER 9805452438

11 BEGAM BIBI MEMBER 01976-210154

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TABLE - 3: VILLAGE LAND RECORD

Land Hectare Acre Kanal

Total 439

Cultivable 86

Canal Irrigation 0

Other than Canal Irrigation 0

Residence/Common Land/Pond/Panchayat Land/Cremation ground etc.

0 15 0

TABLE-4: VILLAGE CROP – WISE DETAIL (KHARIF)

Table-3: Village Crop-wise Detail (Kharif) 2010

Crop Hectare

MAIZE 56

TABLE-5 : VILLAGE CROP - WISE DETAIL (RABI)

Crop Hectare

Wheat 86

VEGETABLES 3

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CHAPTER 3

METHODOLOGY OF PLANNING

Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)

After identifying the village for integrated development of the village

under VDP, a detailed survey was undertaken using the PRA techniques listed

in the table below to collect general Information regarding the village.

Materials

- It included items needed for drawing, illustration, mapping and marking

etc. - They are:

- Marker - Brown sheets

- Color powder - Chalk powder

- Gum - Seeds and paper

- Stapler - Pencils

- Thumb Pins - Coloured Chalks etc.

Tools

Following tools were used:

1. PRA Exercise

a. Focused Group Discussion (FGD).

b. Transect walk.

c. Individual and Group Interview.

d. Change and Trends.

e. Matrix Scoring.

f. Social Mapping.

g. Venn diagram.

h. Inflow and outflow analysis.

i. Livelihood Analysis.

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PREPARATORY VISIT

This was done to prepare the ground for PRA exercise. The members of

village committee were trained in PRA Techniques and given brief about the

concept of VDP then the team members visited each family and met the Village

Panchayat representatives, village elders and youths. They introduced

themselves, context of the visit and briefed about PRA process seeking their

concurrence and cooperation. Government officials, representative of

community based organizations were also contacted and invited for the PRA

exercise.

Tools used: Individual and Group Interview, FGD

PRA

The PRA was done and all the Village Committee representatives,

village elders, women, were briefed about the purpose of the visit and also PRA

exercise.

The following exercises were done:

- Social and Dream Mapping

- Resource Mapping.

- Seasonality Map..

- Mapping Access to Services.

- Resource inflow and out flow.

Social and Dream Mapping

Social Mapping

The Team was briefed about the purpose and process of the Mapping.

Preparatory to mapping the team made the Transect walk across the village, to

have common understanding about the village.

Concluding the Transect walk, the team after discussion drew a map of

the village using color powder, chalk, stones, etc. on the ground. The map

included village layout location of important infrastructures like schools, drinking

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water facilities, roads, Houses etc.

Dream Mapping

After completion of the social mapping, the team was briefed about the

dream mapping. They were asked to draw on the social map the desired future

situation, reflecting their aspiration or dream. This provided a very useful tool for

initiating discussion on prioritizing the developmental needs.

After the completion of the drawing, Nodal Agency initiated the

discussion among the villagers regarding the followings.

The aspired state and the way of realizing it.

Present situation – problems and causes.

Their own role in the realization of their dream.

Factors affecting realization of their dream.

Tools used: Transect walk, FGD, Mapping.

Resource - In Flow and Out Flow

The village committee was briefed about the purpose and process of

tracing the flows of resources. The committee discussed and plotted a diagram

on the ground showcasing what comes and goes out of the village.

Tools used: FGD, Mapping.

It is reproduced as under:

Seeds Mustard

Livestock Cotton, Wheat

Clothes Vegetables

Fertilizers Bajra & Barley

Cement, Steel, Stone Pulses, Chilli

Vehicles, Tractor Aonla, Ber, Kinnu

Electronic items Milk, Ghee

Agricultural Instruments

Guar, Sugarcane

Paddy

Sidh Chaler

Panchayat

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Seasonality Map

The team was briefed about the process of ranking the different factors,

in a year. This exercise made to know the time of occurrence of events affecting

the livelihoods of the people and plotted across the season.

SEASONALITY MAP OF SIDH CHALER

Month Rain-fall

Crops Employ-ment

Migration Income Water Availability

January 3 Wheat 3 8 4 7

February 4 Vegetables 3 3 6 8

March 3 Moong / Mustard

7 1 9 6

April 3 Desi Cotton 9 1 9 6

May 3 Cotton/Bajra 8 2 7 4

June 6 Bajra / Paddy 6 6 6 4

July 7 Paddy / Moong 7 5 7 5

August 7 Sugarcane / Paddy

7 4 7 5

September

5 Bajara / Guar/ Mustard/

Vegetable

M(3) F(8) 3 7 7

October 5 Gram / Mustard

M(4) F(9) 3 8 7

November 6 Cotton/ Wheat / Paddy

M(2) F(9) 1 9 8

December 5 Fodder 4 2 4 8

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Least Frequent Most Frequent

The frequency of markings for each component indicates its intensity corresponding to the month.

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Access to Services – A Schematic Diagram of Village SIDH CHALER

1

0

1

0

8

6

9

7

1

0

8

4

6

SIDH

CHALER

Agriculture/

Horticulture/Forest

Market

Banks

Animal Hospital (--

--)

------

Court/

Health Service

Higher

Education

Fertilizer/Irrigation/

Seed/Pesticides UNA

10+2

PACS

Society

4 Km.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Least Frequent Most Frequent

The frequency of markings for each component indicates its intensity.

2

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5%

10%

9%

30%

20%

15%

11%

Govt Service

Pvt. Service

Own Business

Agriculture

Seasoned Labour/Agriculture

Un Employed

Disguised Employment

Livelihood Source Analysis of Villages- SIDH CHALER

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Daily Routine Diagram of Male & Female

Work at Income Self Income Generation Self Home Generation From Field/Labour From Field/ Work at Home Labour Work at Home

Income Generation

From Field/Labour Self Self Income Generation

from Field/Labour Self

MALE

FEMALE

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SEASONAL HEALTH CALENDAR VILL. SIDH CHALER

Month Seasonal Fever

Cold/ Coug

h

Headache

Migraine

Vomiting Diarrhoe

a

Jaundice Stomachache Fatigue

January 6 8 8 1 2 4

February 6 7 6 1 2 3

March 4 6 4 2 3 5

April 4 3 6 4 7 7

May 5 2 8 6 8 8

June 4 2 8 8 9 9

July 4 2 5 9 9 9

August 8 3 5 5 6 8

September 8 5 2 5 5 8

October 8 5 1 3 3 7

November 5 8 6 2 1 6

December 4 9 7 1 2 4

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Least Frequent Most Frequent

The frequency of markings for each component indicates its intensity corresponding to the month.

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HISTORICAL TRANSECT OF THE VILLAGES- SIDH CHALER

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Barl

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Padd

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Vegeta

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Tract

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Fruit

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1960 4 8 3 9 2 0 1 1 3 1

1970 6 7 4 9 3 0 1 2 4 2

1980 7 7 3 7 6 1 1 3 5 3

1990 8 8 6 5 7 2 3 4 4 2

2000 7 9 8 2 9 5 4 5 6 4

2009 6 8 8 0 8 7 6 7 7 5

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Least Frequent Most Frequent

The frequency of markings for each component indicates its intensity corresponding to the month.

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Identification of needs of the villages as obtained from the PRA exercise

Sectors Constraints/needs of villagers identified

Electrification 100% families of village are electrified. There is a problem of low voltage in the distant village.

Health and Sanitation Sanitation is the major problem as over 30% families are without septic tanks, among 5 wards 2 are worst hits.

Link road & Transportation

Link road are the urgent needs of the people. The link road needs repair and carpeting. These roads are not all season road and emergency solar lights are needed at strategic points.

Drinking Water Drinking water is available for all the population, but availability is not certain. The villagers use natural resources and these sources are needed to be well maintained and clarification is needed as and when required.

Agriculture and Allied Activities

There is scope for promotion of vegetable cultivation, medicinal plants, goat rearing, rabbit rearing, cattle rearing, vermin-compost, biogas Tailoring, Embroidery, Patch work, Wood Craft, Handloom, Beauty Parlour, Dairy Farming, Mushroom Cultivation, Organic Farming etc. However, support from various agencies is not forthcoming including bank finance. There is also lack of awareness among people and lacks of entrepreneurship among people are also a concern.

Irrigation Agriculture is not developed to the desired level mainly due to lack of irrigation facilities. There is need to provide irrigation facilities to farmers in the area to facilitate agricultural development.

Non-Farm Activities There is lot of scope promotion of bee keeping, forest base industry, and animal husbandry..

Banking Major problems identified are lack of awareness among the people about institutional finance. Majority of people are still depending on local money lenders.

Ponds and other natural resources.

- Great need for one common pond for drinking water for animal. As animal pond and disposal water pond are one and the same and that’s why animals get ill by drinking the polluted water.

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It is desirable to have a bench marking strategy to measure the impact of the program over a period of three years. The expected position at the end of each year for the three years is as follows:

Bench Marking

Parameters Present Position as on 28.02.10

PERIOD AGENCYIES

2011 2012 2013

Health and Sanitation

65% 75% 85% 100% TSC / Nodal Agency

Link road & Transportation

No link road. Link road, foot bridge

Tarring of kutcha road.

Metling of road. PWD / BDO

Drinking Water Need major repair. Repair

Augmentation New Scheme

bore well Supply from new scheme

IPH

Irrigation 0% Watershed

treatment 20% Watershed treatment 40%

Lifting of water from khariyala

check dam.

IPH

Banking 65% 75% 85% 100% NABARD and

Nodal Agency

Ponds and other natural resources.

Need repair and maintenance.

Desilting of all sources.

Chlorine treatment.

Repai Boundries BDO / DRDA

and Nodal

Agency

Organic Farming 0%- 10% 205 30% DH

Veterinary Hospital Not available Opening of Veterinary Hospital

Made functional Functional as full fledge hospital

DAH Una

Education Up to primary level Assuring no school drop out

Middle School up gradation.

Assuring middle

education to all children

Education Department

Poverty elevation 53 Families. Reduce to 45 Families.

Reducing 40 Families

Reducing to 35 families

NABARD /DRDA

SHG 3 10 SHG formation

Bank linkage Linked to income

generation activities.

Nabard / Nodal

Agency

Farmers Club Nil 4 Technical inputs Lead to economic activities.

NABARD / ATMA / AH /DH/KVK

Fodders Natural Grass Fodders plant cultivation

5% of the waste land

10% OF THE WAST LAND

NODAL AGENCY /

DH.

Horticulture related activities.

0% 5 Farmers for horticulture

farming.

10 Farmers for horticulture farming.

15 Farmers for horticulture farming.

Horticulture Department / NABARD /

Nodal Agency

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IV Budget details under VDP

S.No. Promotional Budget Proposed in the VDP R e c o m m e n d e d

YEAR

1 Village Level Meets 4000 4000 4000

2 Sensitization Workshops 5000 5000 5000

3 Awareness Meets Pre harvest, Post harvest, micro/macro nutrients, fodder, organic farming, EGP, health, sanitation, legal rights, environments etc.

6000 6000 6000

4 Conduct of PRA 6000

5 Exposure visits 10000 10000 10000

6 Activity specific

interventions 5000 5000 5000

7 Meetings with Deptts.,

KVKs, VDC etc. (This may be met from S.No.4 above)

2000 2000 2000

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Village Coordinator 12000 12000 12000

9 Support to VDC 5000 5000 5000

10 Training of Trainers 3500 3500 3500

11 Contingencies 10% of above 5850 5850 5850

12 Incentive to Nodal Agency 10,000 10,000 10,000

13 Grant total 75000 69000 695000

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Activity Matrix for 12 Months.

Month Activity

Oct.2010 PRA

Nov.2010 Awareness Camps on Agriculture.

Village level meets.

Dec.2010 Meeting of the VDC with agriculture Deptt.

Exposure visit to farmers

Jan.2011 Training of the trainers. Sensitization workshop with line Department.

Feb.2011 Village level meets.

Meeting of the VDC with DRDA.

March.2011 Awareness Camps on Animal husbandry.

April,2011 Activity specific intervention.

May,2011 Village level meets.

Jume,2011 Meeting of the VDC with agriculture Deptt.

July,2011 Awareness Camps on Agriculture.

Aug,2011 Meeting of the VDC with Horticulture Deptt.

Sept.2011 Village level meets.

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