Site Visit Report of Surul Centre for Services in Rural Area (CSRA)
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Site Visit Report of Surul Centre for Services in Rural Area (CSRA) Project: Asha for Education 1. Organization background and information a. The motivation of the organization and why are they working in that particular area. The CSRA is a grassroots organisation and working in the principle of to help the people to help themselves, therefore it always working in the gap area where actually intervention is necessary not only quantitative but also significant qualitative achievements. CSRA also see education for the children not only a development right but also a child can get education in their own environment, language, most of all he/she can develop his / her value system and socialization from own community. The CSRA intends to ensure quality education for all children in a manner that all children should able to read, write and grow themselves with enjoying their childhood. VISION of CSRA is "of marginalised rural people who are self governed with ever widening thought and action that move forward". MISSION of CSRA is primarily dedicated to the integrated rural development activities among the downtrodden and underprivileged rural peoples to restore their livelihood condition in a sustainable manner. Demographic data of illumbazar block: District : Birbhum Block Illambazar Source : Census of India 2001 Household size 5.0 Number of Households 29,015 Proportion of Urban population (%) 0.0 Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males) 943 Sex Ratio (0-6 Years) 981 Sex Ratio (SC) 944 Sex Ratio (ST) 970 Male Female Total Population - Total 74,728 70,454 145,182 Population - Rural 74,728 70,454 145,182 Population - Urban 0 0 0 Population (0-6) 12,491 12,252 24,743 SC Population 17,918 16,908 34,826 Proportion of SC population (%) 24.0 24.0 24.0 ST Population 6,451 6,256 12,707 Proportion of ST population (%) 8.6 8.9 8.8 Number of literates 45,012 30,835 75,847 Literacy Rate (%) 72.3 53.0 63.0 Number of illiterates 29,716 39,619 69,335 Illiteracy Rate (%) 47.7 68.1 57.6 Total workers 40,049 12,980 53,029 Work Participation Rate (%) 53.6 18.4 36.5 Main workers 32,384 5,091 37,475 Proportion of Main Workers (%) 43.3 7.2 25.8 Marginal workers 7,665 7,889 15,554 Proportion of Marginal Workers (%) 10.3 11.2 10.7 Non workers 34,679 57,474 92,153 Proportion of Non Workers (%) 46.4 81.6 63.5 Cultivators 12,968 1,442 14,410 Proportion of cultivators 32.4 11.1 27.2 Agricultural labourers 15,701 7,722 23,423 Proportion of agricultural labourers 39.2 59.5 44.2 Workers in household 1,094 1,946 3,040 Proportion of workers in household 2.7 15.0 5.7 industries to total workers (%) Other workers 10,286 1,870 12,156 Percentage of Other 25.7 14.4 22.9 b. Organizations can be classified in two categories - those that are working in areas that have funds available and those that acquire funds for the areas they want to work on. Which area does this organization belong to? The CSRA intervention belongs to the second category. Initially it needs fund to start education initiative and than it will show the model intervention to the Government and Local Self Government for replication and generate fund for sustainability for the initiative through linkage with Alternative innovative education scheme . c. The background and commitment of people involved in the organization? Have they given sufficient thought to their work before preparing the proposal? Will they continue to work on the issue even after Asha’s support for the project is over? CSRA have 10 Nos. volunteer EC members who have a shared vision regarding the project among whom 4 members are actively involved in the process. Development professionals of CSRA always try to make collaboration with Government and Local self Governments to ensure future sustainability and continuity of the intervention even after withdrawn of fund. 2. Infrastructure and other facilities a. Describe Infrastructure/Facilities The CSRA has two offices one registered and another for field operation. The registered office is donated (Leased up to 2025 on stamp duty paper) by the parents of Mr. Bratin Biswas, Secretary of the Organisation and the field office is operating on monthly rent. b. What is the type of construction? (Permanent, temporary construction) Both office constructions are permanent. c. What is recent condition of construction? Good d. Comment on space utilization of construction. Registered office is operated for administrative purposes and field office is operated for meetings, capacity building sessions, etc. e. What is geographical location of area? And in this area this type of construction makes sense or not? The geographical location is totally forest area and where the CSRA has its field office in Banavilla village which is rented from a local businessman to use purposefully for development of the forest fringed tribal and non tribal villages. f. Get information about actual cost for such constructions from other sources. Not applicable g. How much of the infrastructure and other resources, like vehicles, are being used by the organization and how much of it lies underutilized? The organizational resources are utilized as much possible. We are a very small CSO and we are not having that many resources to lie under-utilized. 3. Finance a. What is total amount of funds needed per year? As per situational observation, need and discussion with key personnel of CSRA, it has been found that one of CSRA’s funding partner i.e. Child Rights And You (CRY) has withdrawn its fund due to limited fund capacity. As CSRA informed that they have already submitted proposal and budget to ASHA SV on prior commitment of CRY to provide stipend to 16 volunteers and stipend of 04 more volunteers has already been requested from ASHA SV, altogether 20 volunteers are needed to run 10 library accelerated education centres in 10 forest fringed villages. Now, in that situation the budgetary requirement of CSRA is slightly increased for two years project. Whereas, CSRA will generate the stipend of 5 volunteers and remaining 15 volunteers will get the stipend from ASHA SV support. The stipend amount was proposed INR1000/- per volunteer, which has been reduced to INR 500 for each volunteer per month. It has been also found that the amount of basic furniture and stationeries requirement for each library has also been increased due to the high price of book stags and other materials. The revised budget has been planned according the local need and discussion with the key personnel of the organisation as given below: (the older budget sent for ASHA contribution was Rs. 3,60,000.00 and present need from ASHA is Rs. 4,79,000.00= 119000.00 extra need ) Recurring Expenditure Sl Description Amount CSRA & Asha for no (INR) Local Education A. Program Support Staff: A.1 Hono. to Project Coordinator (Part Time) @ Rs. 4000 96,000.00 0 96,000.00 p.m. x 24 A.2 Stipend to Village Youth Volunteers @ Rs. 500 p.m. x 2,40,000 .00 60,000 1,80,000.00 20 x 24 Sub Total: 3,36 ,000.00 60,000 2,76,000.00 B. Programme Cost: B.1. Community Mobilization Meetings - @Rs.200/- x 30 6,000.00 1,000.00 5,000.00 meetings B.2 Training programme to Village Youth Volunteers - 12,000.00 2, 000.00 10, 000.00 @Rs.3000/- x 4nos. (20 Participants for 3 days) B.3 Capacity Building on L2R module to School Teachers 15,000.00 3, 000.00 12, 000.00 and VEC Members - @Rs. 5000/- x 3 nos. (30 participants for 3 days) Break Up: Fooding Cost: 1500, Resource Person:800, Training Materials: 1500, LCD Projector: 1200. B.4 Village level meetings on progress monitoring of 2,000.00 1, 000.00 1, 000.00 primary education with different stakeholders - @Rs. 200/- x 10 meetings B.5 Formation of Mother Teacher Associations (MTA) - 6,000.00 1,000.00 5, 000.00 @Rs.200/- x 30 meetings B.6 Children’s and Stakeholders level Convention on 30,000.00 5,000.00 25,000.00 ‘Sarva Siksha Abhiyan’ - @Rs.10, 000/- x 3 nos. Break Up: Pandal: 5000, Mike: 500, Documentation: 1000, Tiffin: 2500, Misc. 1000 Sub Total: 71,000.00 13,000.00 58,000.00 Non-Recurring Expenditure - Sl Description Amount CSRA & Asha for no (INR) Local Education A. Library Costs: A.1 Library Room – 10 nos. (15’ x 15’ size) 0 Local 0 A.2 Cost of Library Books - @Rs. 30 per book x 400 1,20,000.00 10,000.00 1,10,000.00 books x 10 libraries A.3 Library Materials (Furniture and Stationeries) 40,000.00 5, 000.00 35, 000.00 @Rs.4,000/- x 10 libraries Sub Total: 1,60 ,000.00 15 ,000.00 1,45,000.00 GRAND TOTAL: Amount (INR) CSRA & Local Asha for Education Recurring Expenditure - A Program Support Staff: 3,36,000.00 60,000.00 2,76,000.00 B Programme Cost: 71,000.00 13,000.00 58,000.00 Non-Recurring Expenditure - A Library Cost: 1,60,000.00 15,000.00 1,45,000.00 TOTAL (INR): 5,67,000.00 88,000.00 4,79,000.00 TOTAL ($) [Rs.48/- = $1] 11,812 1,833 9,979 As on dated 15.12.08 (INR) Four Lakhs Seventy Nine Thousand Only for Two (2) years Project ($) Nine Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy Nine Only for Two (2) years Project So, CSRA’s first year grant requirement is INR 3, 20,500/- (INR Three Lakhs Twenty Thousand Five Hundred only), i.e.