“ The soul of lies in its villages” Village Visit

Group-5 1. Ritesh Patel (GL)

2. Diptarka Das (AGL)

3. Shaswat Yadav

4. Divyansh Shukla

5. Dipankar Mitra Locate the Village

Gangadevipalli Village & GP : Gangadevipalli Mandal : District : Rural State : Nearby Villages : Machapur, Mariapuram, Konai Makula Distance District Headquarter : 15 km Mandal Office : 3 km Bus Stop : 600 meters from P.O. Railway Station : 15 km Town/Local market : 3 km Petrol Pump : 2 km Time line Resource Map Demography

No. of Households : 297 Population : 1084 Male : 533 Female : 551

SC : 0 ST : 40 BC : 1032 OC : 12

No of births/year: 25 No of deaths/year: 15 Beginning….

Awarded Model Village Achievements Beginning….

Rural Training Centre with Mr. Kusam Raja Mouli Beginning….

At transect walk First Impression

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1. All weather CC road 3. 2. Avenue plantation 3. Solar street lights Percolation Pit Magic Soak Pit

Deep Tube well Bullock Cart Solar system

Double pit latrine 푹풆풕풂풊풍 푺풉풐풑 푪풐풏풄풓풆풕풆 푫풓풂풊풏 Others…

 79 farm ponds  Well functioning of PDS  One tractor  Dumpyard, graveyard, nursery at the end of the village  Well connected to nearby villages through pitch road  DTC present

Poverty

EGS is efficient PDS working Less Job well diversification

Rythu bandhu, 80% BPL Current MGNREGA, PDS, status MDMS, Asara pension Poverty: Key Challenges

Diverse jobs unavailable

Undeserving BPL card holders

Very few educated girls actually work

Farm labourers are attracted by MGNREGA Poverty: Way forward

Providing health Re-evaluation of Social & education BPL beneficiaries mobilization services Agriculture: Current Status

Irrigation: Major crops Rythu Rainfed – Maize, Bandhu Fertilizer Cotton, Scheme Drip Subsidy paddy, Working irrigation: chilly well 10% farmers Women 100% Soil Participation farmers health & No farmer having card - 10 suicide PMFBY Harvested maize Paddy

Cotton Chilly High reluctance Water level towards ZBNF low

No direct Chemical market Intensive linkage for Farming farm produce Agriculture: Way forward

• Restriction on MGNREGA / EGS during Harvesting Seasons

• Sensitization of ZBNF through example villages and scientific support system

• Setting up of SHGs to further market integration acting both as Buyer and Seller

• Construction of farm ponds, percolation pits & soak pits to recharge ground water Education 푺풄풉풐풐풍 푨풏품풂풏풘풂풅풊 Education: Key Challenges

Very few children avail the benefits of ICDS

Digital methods under-utilized

Low focus on vocational or skill training

Quality of education needs to be addressed Education: Way out

Interaction: teachers & Scrutiny of ICDS parents beneficiaries

Vocational Impetus to Digital training centres Education Current Status Village Dumpyard for 2 pit laterine system General General Cleanliness Health & Sanitation ODF andNGP solid waste existing

ASHA ASHA ANM Drinkingwater undertaken undertaken regularly Time Water TimeWater ATW) ( Drainage cleaning Villageschool infrastructure

adequate adequate system –

efficient

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- Any

Sanitation: Challenges

No segragation of BD and NBD waste

Water stagnation at places and uncovered drains– Mosquito Problem Sanitation: Way forward

Awareness Implementation Behavioral about BD and of 2 dustbin Change NBD wastes, system in every required their effects home At MPDO At PHC All Time Water (ATW) provides purified water at highly reasonable price PRI

Gram sabha – bi- 23 highly active monthly SHGs and 8 well functioning , commities recently renovated Dedicated Gram panchayat panchayat bhawan training – monthly All headed centre and by women regular Latest gram health camps sabha conducted organized at on 2nd oct Utilization of village Efficient loan for kirana panchayat shops , livestock Attended by 150 secretary , consumtion people (90 female and 60 male) GP building

Community Hall Meeting

At Gram Panchayat With SHGs

Panchayati Raj PRI

Digitisation Youth of Panchayat participation Keychallenges system still lacking Key challenges Key not

implemented

PRI: Way forward

Digitisation : Increased efficiency & Awareness among transparency youngsters about the Panchayati Raj FelicitatingAttending the GramGram Sabha Panchayat Alternate to single-use plastic Swachh Bharat Drawing Competition Tree Plantation Bathukamma festival The last click Dr. MCRHRD Institute of Telangana Gram Panchayat, Gangadevipalli Villagers of Gangadevipalli Govt. of Telangana MoSPI

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination so that we might one day come to live in them … Gandhi

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