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Village Development Action Plan – Rhenock Tarpin GPU Mission: Poverty Free Sikkim Village Development Action Plan A plan for realizing the Mission of a Poverty Free Sikkim Rhenock-Tarpin GPU, Rhenock Block, East District RURAL MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT OF SIKKIM Rural Management and Development Department, Government of Sikkim 1 Village Development Action Plan – Rhenock Tarpin GPU Contents of VDAP Chapter 1. General and basic information Tool 1 Transect walk Tool 2 Brief village history Tool 3 Seasonal calendar Tool 4 Secondary information from village profile, census, database etc Pages 4-10 Chapter 2. Land use planning and land allocation Tool 5 Resource map Pages 11-13 Chapter 3. Farm production systems Tool 6 Khet (maize-paddy) Tool 7 Sukha bari (maize, ginger, pulses etc) Tool 8 Suntola bagan (orange, etc) Tool 9 Alainchi bari (cardamom, trees) Tool 10 Bans ghari and jungle (bamboo, trees) Tool 11 Kothe bari (Kitchen garden) Tool 12 Modern farming techniques (Floriculture, Greenhouse, etc…) Pages 14-27 Chapter 4. Livestock Tool 13 Assessment of Livestock Pages 28-29 Chapter 5. Forestry Tool 14 Assessment of forestry Tool 15 Assessment of Forest based products … Pages 30-33 Chapter 6. Economy, marketing and input supply Tool 16 Assessment of market, trading and input supply system Tool 17 Assessment of access to credit Pages 34-38 Chapter 7. Participatory wealth assessment Tool 18 Wealth ranking Pages 39-50 Chapter 8. Organizational development Tool 19 VENN diagram Tool 20 Assessment of SHGs Pages 51-54 Chapter 9. Housing and basic amenities Tool 21 Assessment of housing Tool 22 Assessment of drinking water sources and water supply Tool 23 Assessment of sanitation and waste management Pages 55-62 Rural Management and Development Department, Government of Sikkim 2 Village Development Action Plan – Rhenock Tarpin GPU Chapter 10. Education and health Tool 24 Assessment of education Tool 25 Assessment of health care Pages 63-66 Chapter 11. Infrastructure Tool 26 Assessment of connectivity and transportation Tool 27 Assessment of irrigation and flood control system Pages 67-75 Chapter 12. Other issues Tool 28 Assessment of women issues Tool 29 Assessment of climate change Pages 76-80 Appendix 1. Ward wise maps with details of housing, wealth category, identification status (house nos need to match with house listing) 2. House Listing sheet for the whole GPU References Design of these VDAP operational guidelines has been adapted by the MGNREGA Cell of RM&DD from the learnings of the Indo-Swiss Project Sikkim and the Swiss expertise and experience (Helvetas-Vietnam) in other countries in South Asia. Most of the artwork is drawn by Asha Kaji Thaku, ICIMOD. Rural Management and Development Department, Government of Sikkim 3 Village Development Action Plan – Rhenock Tarpin GPU Chapter 1: General and basic information Tool 1: TRANSECT WALK Number of participants: 09 male: 5 female: 4 Description: The transect walk is a tool to discuss information related to land use of the village. Transects are done with structured walks through typical village landscape. Such walks can cover part of the village or the entire village, taking an hour or up to some hours. Transects consist of two elements: the walk and a diagram that records the information of the walks. Objectives: Identify typical land use types and their characteristics. With whom: Mixed group of farmers (female and male) Step 1: Assess current situation Parameter Lower belt Middle belt Upper belt Red Soil Red & Black Soil Black Soil Soil 3238ft Elevation (feet) 2286ft 3725ft 1 acre Average land holding (acre) 1 acre 1acre Livestock & Livestock & Livestock & Farming system agriculture agriculture agriculture Paddy, Maize, Paddy, Maize Paddy, Maize, Main crops Millet Cardamom Chicken 4, pig 0.1, Cow 1, Chicken 2, Cow 1, Chicken Average livestock holding goat 0.5 pig 1, goat 2 2, goat 2, pig 2 Fallow land (land left 10 acres (approx) 30 acres (approx) Nil uncultivated) NA Others … NA NA Poultry, paddy & Maize, paddy & Best practices, Potentials Paddy plantation maize cultivation cardamom cultivation Scarcity of water, labour shortage due to MGNREGA works Main problems / constraints and encroachment of wild animals. Rural Management and Development Department, Government of Sikkim 4 Village Development Action Plan – Rhenock Tarpin GPU Step 2: Figure out best practices, success stories, important problems and their causes Best practices, Landuse Type Main problems Causes Success stories Homnath Sharma buys tea leaves from West Bengal and sells at Rhenock Lack of bazaar after packing. advertisement, Now he started Tea plantation Marketing, labour, due to pvt. plantation at U- Companies and Tarpin, L-Tarpin and MGNREGA Reshi through MGNREGA and has employed at least 5 people. Mr. Devendra Pradhan started his poultry 5 years ago. He purchases the chicks from Siliguri. He raises around 10,000 broilers in his No help from the poultry farm at Reshi Purchasing chicks Poultry department for ward. He supplies the and feed. feed. chickens to Army camp at Changay. He purchases the feed from Rangpo and has employed 5-10 persons from the GPU. Rural Management and Development Department, Government of Sikkim 5 Village Development Action Plan – Rhenock Tarpin GPU Step 3: Find out solutions for the problems Solutions Proper irrigation facilities should be provided in order to improve agricultural sector. Forest department to take necessary steps regarding the encroachment of wild animals. Seeds to be distributed in time. The Govt. should organize programs on poultry farming and provide chicks and feed to the beneficiaries in time and should encourage Co-operative societies to buy the chickens from the villages. Step 4: Identify relevant activities to tackle the problems or to expand the success stories (Attention: it is important to rank the priority of the activities) Contribution Priority Activity Unit Quantity Location Village External 1 to 5 Fund and proper MGNREGA works to be Labor& guidance done during the month of Yearly Once GPU 2 Land from February to April concerned Dept Land Fund and Source development Ha. 7 All ward and Proper 1 through Dhara vikas Labor guidance Rural Management and Development Department, Government of Sikkim 6 Village Development Action Plan – Rhenock Tarpin GPU Tool 2: BRIEF VILLAGE HISTORY Number of participants: 09 male: 5 female: 4 Description: This tool helps the villagers to remind all important events which happened in the village in the past. It also helps villagers of the community to be aware of their effort passing each period of their recent history. Draw a line on A0 paper. One end of the line will be ‘now’. Explain to the households that this is the History Line Ask the households to recall key events (positive and negative) throughout history (from the earliest to now) and the year they occurred. Objectives: Find out general information and important events in the recent village history. Identify important events that brought about some economic, social, cultural etc change in the village. Change in agricultural trend due to these events. Time Major events According to the Lepchas, Tarpin meant a place where horses Meaning of the village drank water. name In Bhutia, Rhenock is known as Black hill. Village origin NA 1934- Budunay landslide had occurred around 6 families 1930 – 1954 affected. 1968 – Major landslide at Rhenock 1954 – 1974 1969- Drought occurred effecting the whole area 1974 – 1994 1985- Cholera had affected the area 2004 – Fire destroyed almost 8 houses at Rhenock bazaar 1994 – 2010 2009- Forest bungalow caught fire and was destroyed. i. Horticulture on mass scale. ii. Skill development in different fields. Future trends and iii. Poverty free GPU general ideas for long iv. Fully literate GPU term developmental plan v. Model GPU vi. Encouragement on poultry and dairy farming. Rural Management and Development Department, Government of Sikkim 7 Village Development Action Plan – Rhenock Tarpin GPU Tool 3: SEASONAL CALENDAR Number of participants: 09 male: 5 female: 4 Description: A seasonal calendar is a participatory tool to explore seasonal changes (e.g. gender- specific workload, diseases, income, expenditure etc.). Objectives: Learn about changes in livelihoods over the year and to show the seasonality of agricultural and non agricultural workload, food availability, human diseases, gender- specific income and expenditure, water, forage, credit. Methods: The VDAP team discuss and fill in the form with the values (quantity, intensity, ) for each topic (see sample) With whom: Mixed group for women and men Step 1: Assess current situation Intensity: * = Low; *** = Medium; ***** =High Ma D M Apr Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Jan Feb Month y ec ar Ashoj Baisa Chait Bhad Jesth Karti g Asad Pous Shra Man Falg Mag wan shir un kh ra ra h h h a k Livelihood parameter ** Intensity of ** ** ** * * * * * ** *** * * agriculture activities *** *** *** * ** Agriculture work ** ** ** * * * * * ** * * * load for women *** *** *** * ** Agriculture work ** ** ** * * * * * ** *** * * load for men *** *** *** * ** Non-agriculture work ** ** * * * * * * * ** * * load for women *** *** * ** Non-agriculture work ** ** * * * * * * * ** * * load for men *** *** * ** ** Food scarcity * * * * * * * * * * ** *** * ** * * * * * * *** *** * * * Income for women * ** Income for men * * * * * * *** *** * * * * Expenditure for * * *** *** * * *** *** ** * *** * Rural Management and Development Department, Government of Sikkim 8 Village Development