Quarterly Progress Report (May-July 2010)
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Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai Supported Sustainable Agriculture & NREGA Volume II Progress Report making & Sustainable Sustainable & making - May – July 2010 District, Karnataka District, JANAKALYAN A Team Committed for People’s Empowerment inRaichur Shantinagar, R H Colony No.4, Sindhanur-584128 Raichur District, Karnataka State, India Tel: +91 8535-264488, 264140, email: [email protected] website: www.jankalyan.in Agriculture Profit Agriculture Leveraging NREGA Funds to make to NREGAFunds Leveraging Sir Dorabji Tata Trust JANAKALYAN Mumbai Leveraging NREGA Funds to make Agriculture Profit-making & Sustainable in Raichur District & NREGA at a Glance Raichur is the most backward (last ranked) district in Karnataka as per HDI and thus Government of India considered implementation of NREGA in the very first phase among the 200 districts brought under the umbrella of this ambitious scheme in India. Fortunately, Government of Karnataka assigned the responsibility of preparing 5-year Perspective Plans of all 34 Gram Panchayats (281 out of 830 villages) in Sindhanur taluk of Raichur district in this first phase to Janakalyan. The demographic details about the district is provided in the table below- Blocks Area Area No of Urban Female (Sq. Km) No. GPof teracy (Male) teracy Population Population households ST Population SC Population No. villagesof Li Literacy (Total) Male Population Total Population Rural Population Literacy (female) Deodurga 1508 112245 110212 222457 200463 21994 44349 74910 173 28 36709 51.73 27.20 39.56 Lingasugur 1948 162628 158414 321042 247478 73564 68412 51332 186 35 54074 66.28 36.27 51.39 Manvi 1791 166063 164656 330719 293106 37613 62239 77956 164 36 59904 54.79 30.71 42.78 Raichur 1541 220675 214705 435380 208976 226404 82649 52129 147 31 81205 66.28 45.45 56.05 Sindhanur 1598 180229 179935 360164 298902 61262 59630 46715 160 34 65763 65.46 37.81 51.56 Total 8386 841840 827922 1669762 1248925 420837 317279 303042 830 164 297655 62.02 36.84 49.54 % 50.42 49.58 74.80 33.70 19.00 18.15 Raichur district lies in the north-eastern part of the State and falls in ’North Dry Agro climatic Zone’. It is seventh largest district in the State and consists of 5 taluks. It is facing drought due to erratic rainfall for several years. It is predominantly agrarian with not many major / medium industrial units. The total geographical area is 6827 sq. km with 1.579% covered by forests. The district has 5 taluks with 830 inhabited villages; Population (2001 Census) is 16.70 lakh with 12.49 lakh in rural areas; average population density is 245 per sq. km. It is known for rice crop with a total area of 1.6 lakh ha under the crop. Jowar and Sunflower are other important crops. Raichur is last ranked district in the state mainly due to educational backwardness and health services and employment generation and industries as per the HDI. Quarterly Progress Report (May-July 2010) . 1 Sir Dorabji Tata Trust JANAKALYAN Mumbai Leveraging NREGA Funds to make Agriculture Profit-making & Sustainable in Raichur The following tables provide the details about the block-wise data on job cards, demand for employment, employment provided, number of person-days of employment generated along with the details on families completed 100 days of works, disabled beneficiaries, land reform/ IAY beneficiaries, etc. The table also gives the caste-wise bifurcation on job cards as well as employment generated during the fiscal year 2009-10. Employment generated during the financial year 2009-2010 (up to March 2010) 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 8 9 10 a b c d a b c d e th ) Cumulative No. of HH Cumulative Person-days generated issued job cards (Till the (Till the reporting month) reporting month) S.No Block No. Disabledof of land reform/IAY Cumulative No.of HH Cumulative No.of HH provided employment ompleted days 100 demanded employment (Till the reporting month) (Till the reporting month) beneficiary individuals Cumulative No.of HH c during the reporting mon SCs STs Others Total SCs STs Others Total Women (Till the reporting month No. HH of workingunder NREGA No. HH of which beneficiaryare 1 DEVADURGA 5249 11846 17913 35008 34086 33247 4650 302903 737435 1121172 2161510 987932 2828 330 167 2 LINGSUGUR 5071 4025 22718 31814 29922 29320 4072 240619 218936 1513003 1972558 747893 1262 22 69 3 MANVI 9889 11498 27610 48997 46984 45240 1999 558997 584813 1537867 2681677 1114715 1535 673 1228 4 RAICHUR 5854 6114 15299 27267 24364 23830 2223 263144 263718 714982 1241844 567975 1089 157 163 5 SINDHNUR 6223 5538 19038 30799 40587 40002 1457 438814 391811 1429817 2260442 822719 3959 1377 111 Total 32286 39021 102578 173885 175943 171639 14401 1804477 2196713 6316841 10318031 4241234 10673 2559 1738 19% 22% 59% 98% 17% 21% 61% 41% 6% Percentage It is clear from the table that about 19% SC and 22% ST households have received the job cards which is proportionate to the total SC (19%) and ST (18%) population in the district. However, participation in works has slightly reduced to 17% for SC and 21% for ST and that for women is 41% as compared to men. The important aspect to be noted that only 6% families have completed 100 days of works during the reporting period. Similarly, the table below provides the information block-wise data on number of households demanded for job cards and the number of job cards issued; similarly, demand for employment vis- à-vis employment offered and provided to the families. One can also find the person-days of employment generated during the fiscal year 2009-10 and up to 30th June 2010 along with number of persons actually worked under NREGA. Employment Generated during the Year 2009-2010 up to the Month of June 2010 State : KARNATAKA District : RAICHUR No. of Employment Employment No. of Employment Provided No. of Registered Job demanded offered Families On filled Blocks Card Complete going House House House House Person- Muster Persons Issued Persons Persons Persons d 100 works Hold Hold Hold Hold days Roll days DEVADURGA 37051 151869 35008 34086 140474 34086 140474 33247 136591 2161510 5328 2828 3136 LINGSUGUR 33096 122477 31814 29922 116217 29911 116177 29320 113357 1972558 3469 1262 2220 MANVI 50170 207489 48997 46984 213366 46984 213366 45240 204383 2681677 6707 1535 5244 RAICHUR 27869 101494 27267 24364 86835 24364 86835 23830 84801 1241844 2845 1089 1619 SINDHNUR 32568 107909 30799 40587 136077 40587 136077 40002 133491 2260442 5131 3959 2973 Grand Total 180754 691238 173885 175943 692969 175932 692929 171639 672623 10318031 23480 10673 15192 Quarterly Progress Report (May-July 2010) . 2 Sir Dorabji Tata Trust JANAKALYAN Mumbai Leveraging NREGA Funds to make Agriculture Profit-making & Sustainable in Raichur Part I Quarterly Progress Report (May – July 2010) Journey of Janakalyan through National Rural Employment Guarantee Act National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 has been considered across the globe as one of the best plan ever made by Indian planners; one can see the physical as well as financial progress on the government website exclusively meant for it. But the reality is something else remained as open-secret that nobody is ready to talk about. There are many questions that arise in one’s mind- Are the objectives set by it achieving? Are the benefits reaching to the real target groups? What are the practical problems in making it fruitful? What are the feelings of implementing authorities? What the newly elected Gram Panchayat members are expecting from NREGA? What the communities feel about this beautifully designed project? How the officers are making undue advantages from the project? And several other questions are bothering everybody but remained unanswered. Efforts have been put to find answers to some of these questions while implementing the SDTT supported “Leveraging NREGA funds to create productive assets for the farming communities” project in 3 GP of Sindhanur taluk of Raichur district. This report is prepared at the end of the 2nd quarter of the project period and documented the progress achieved during May-July 2010. Achievement during 1st Quarter: With the support of SDTT, Janakalyan initiated an intervention in 3 GP of Sindhanur taluk to leverage NREGA funds for creation of productive assets to secure livelihoods of farming communities in February 2010. Objectives of this innovative intervention is to- a. To empower community skills to articulate their needs (issues), demand for deserved rights under NREGA, prepare plan (using micro-planning tool) and lead its implementation to help themselves b. To support community action to make effective use of NREGA funds for creation of irrigation and soil health improvement assets through community capacity building initiatives c. To make agriculture profit-oriented to make the lives and livelihoods of communities Sustainable The major activities completed between February and April 2010 are listed below- Team building and capacity enhancement of project team Selection of operational villages to take up productive asset creation activities with NREGA funds; detailed analysis of these villages was done to understand demographic situation, agricultural scenario, status of NREGA activities implementation, potential for taking asset building activities, etc. Conducted rounds of gram sabha in these villages and documented the process adopted, major issues raised by villagers, important questions raised, major problems encountered in conducting gram sabha and expectations of communities from Janakalyan. Promoted AIG in all 17 villages and documented the process adopted, problems faced in promoting AIGs, and feeling of communities about AIGs. Situation Analysis of all these 17 villages were done very systematically and realized the problems in growing crops and the efforts put to understand whether and how NREGA could address these issues. Microplanning was carried out in 10 out of 17 villages using PRA tools and identified the potential asset-creating activities in these villages.