Livelihoods September 2014 Invest in Community for Community!- 5 One Billion People, Or 15 Percent of the World’S Population, Experience Some Form of Disability
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livelihoods today and tomorrow September 2014 SCs/STs/NTs livelihoods September 2014 Invest in Community for Community!- 5 One billion people, or 15 percent of the world’s population, experience some form of disability. One-fifth of the estimated global total, or between Happy Ganesh! 110 million and 190 million Happy Batukamma, Navartri, Dusserah! people, encounter significant disabilities. Persons with Happy Teachers’ Day! disabilities on average as a group Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Nomadic Tribes, a close to a are more likely to experience third of the population in the country are considered the original adverse socioeconomic outcomes inhabitants of our land. Yet most of them are considered poor by any than persons without disabilities. socio-economic reckoning. 70-75% of the total poor in India are SCs/ STs/NTs. Targeted schemes and targeting within any scheme is therefore necessary. Poverty reduction in the country would remain a rhetoric unless we begin the effort with these communities first. In this context, ‘livelihoods’ has explored ‘SCs/STs/NTs’. Do not miss reading Leo Tolstoy’s classic – War and Peace. ‘Legend’ introduces ‘LC Jain’ and ‘Rama Reddy’. ‘How to’ supplement discusses ‘How to Nurture Community Leaders?’ Usual e-links introduce a video (Fish and Shrimp Culture), book (Governance of Commons), LEAP (Durgiperi Village), and value-chain/subsector (Soap Nuts/Coffee). Daily notes for the month are presented as part of the e-livelihoods learning course. This month, it is capsule 9: Institutions. With the faith and hope that you find the issue a useful read, we remain. Attitude plays vital role in development sector rather than skills and the ‘livelihoods’ team knowledge. Latest ‘livelihoods’ Supplements e-course 2 September 2014 livelihoods Inside ... ‘livelihoods’ team Editor-in-Chief G Muralidhar Focus : SCs/STs/NTs 11 Working Editors B Ramya T Venkateshwarlu Edit Associates V. Aravind Kumar K Krishna Chaithanya Every Month….. S Laxman K Ramesh News & Response 4 M Siddhardha On Ground 9 Kshetram walked/ walking with us Sukshetram T Aparna Gayathri Mansi Koushik K Bharathi V Muralidhar Perspectives Invest in Community for Community! 5 G Bhargava D Narasimha Reddy Bhima Shankar Naval Shaini Common Persons and Vulnerable Persons Interviews 6 Chandranshu Gupta T Nirmala Interviews Dharmendhar LB Prakash Glen Shewcheck M Raja Srinivas Enterprises Individual, Collective, Social and Public 8 P Kishore S Rekha Krishna Murari B Sai Srinivas Development In Action M Lavanya K Sridevi B Madhusudhan G Swathi New Livelihoods & Leader, P Madhusudhan M Vijaybhasker Community Worker G Madhu Vamsi K Visweswar Rao P Mahesh Story, Books & Resources 22 ‘Yoga’kshemam 23 For Private Circulation only LEAP Durgiperi village With Support From VCA Soap Nuts Akshara Livelihoods (ALPL) Sub-sector Coffee e-links E-book Governance of Commons For enquiries contact: V-book Fish & Shrimp Culture AKSHARA Network for Development Support Services, HIG II B-25 F-6, APHB Colony, Baghlingampally, Hyderabad - 500044 e– course Capsule: 9 Institutions Mobile: 09951819345 www.aksharakriti.org Supplement; How to do How to Nurture Community Leaders www.livelihoods.net.in [email protected] Supplement: Legends L C Jain and M Rama Reddy livelihoods September 2014 3 Response Received ‘livelihoods’ August 2014. Thank you for sending. It is informative particularly focus article and Yogakshemam Can public private partnership articles are fine. Venkata Ramana Badam model attract aspired results? Hyderabad. News Funds Sanctioned For New Houses Modi launches 'My Clean India' at Idh Colony-Telangana : Hyderabad: campaign: New Delhi: Prime Minister The State government on Tuesday Narendra Modi launched the Swachh issued orders sanctioning Rs.36.54 Bharat, or Clean India, Mission on the crores for construction of 386 new birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. houses at IDH Colony and in the slum The Mission will aim to make India ‘clean’ areas of Ammuguda, Parthiwada, by October 2, 2019, Mahatma Gandhi’s Bhagat Singh Nagar and Subash 150th birth anniversary, Mr. Modi said. Chandra Bose Nagar, The orders came This goal will include the elimination of in the wake of a block at IDH Colony open defecation, which he called a “blot collapsing in the wee hours of August on society”,. 800 Million People Still Malnourished, 30 after which Chief Minister K. U.N. Says: United Nations; More than Artisans’ villages to be next stop for Chandrasekhar Rao inspected the 800 million people worldwide do not get tourists: New Delhi: October 2, 2014: houses and the four slums which were enough to eat, even as the world in a dilapidated condition. He had then Villages that are home to weavers, artisans and craftsman may soon be produces more than twice as much food announced that in five months, the as it needs, according to new government would convert those areas added to the itinerary of tourists. Textiles Secretary S.K. Panda has written to all figures released by the United Nations. into model housing colonies by Hunger has declined slowly over the last reconstructing them at its own expense. Chief Secretaries to name four or five villages for this scheme to be developed decade: 11.3 percent of the world’s CM to Launch Janmabhoomi on lines of the Sansad Adarsh Gram population was clinically undernourished programme in Vijayawada-AP: The Yojana that Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2012-14 period, down from 18.7 ‘Janmabhoomi-Maa Vooru’ programme announced on Independence Day. percent in the 1990-92 period. Hunger will take off on October 2 with Chief keeps its hold on a handful of countries. Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu himself Mars mission starts, Mangalyaan Chad, Central African Republic and reaching out to the masses to know launched successfully: Sriharikota: A Ethiopia have some of the highest rates their problems and take necessary day after the last of diwali rockets was of undernourished people. A relatively remedial action. A battery of IAS fired in this part of the country, "the big large percentage of the population officers will personally supervise the one" blasted off from the first launch pad remains hungry across South Asia. And programme which is aimed at improving in Sriharikota, firing the ambition of a in Iraq, the share of hungry people has the living conditions of people by nation, and the imagination of many soared: Nearly one in four Iraqis are basically tackling poverty and other others. After 45 minutes, the first phase of undernourished, according to the report, micro and macro issues faced by the India's first Mars mission was pronounced up from 7.9 percent of the population in State post-bifurcation . a success. the 1990-92 period . 4 September 2014 livelihoods Invest in Community for Community! Happy Teachers’ Day! established Happy Ganesh! ♦ Ministers have been asked to adopt austerity measures Happy Navaratri, Batukamma, Vijayadasami! ♦ Code of Conduct has been issued to Ministers and Officers Congrats to India, ISRO and Indian Scientists for successful Mars Mission in the first attempt itself with Rs.7 a kilometer. ♦ However, the Government is yet to appoint full-time Ministers for some key Ministries It appears, even of for a short while, conviction of Corrupt at high places [read like Jayalalita] is possible. ♦ Bureaucratic reshuffle has not been taken up The bifurcated states, AP and Telangana, have started to ♦ Governors of some states have been eased out live independent of each other. Post-bifurcation processes ♦ Swachch Bharat Abhiyan has been launched to make are acquiring momentum. India clean by 2019 Modi completes 100 days in ‘minimum government’ and ♦ Make in India campaign has been launched. FDI is ‘maximum governance’. By-elections have mixed results being actively invited without any real dent in the pattern of general elections. The real test would be in the upcoming State Elections in ♦ Public-Private Partnerships is the key mantra in the Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand. government ♦ Achche Din are still to come. But no one was expecting ♦ Efforts on Curriculum Revision are ‘on’ them so quickly. Prices are still high ♦ Modi proved himself a great orator. He Perspectives ♦ Efforts on revisiting MGNREGS are ‘on’ is proving himself a strong, decisive and proactive G Muralidhar 100 days is too early to make up our minds ♦ Planning Commission has been on the new government. Plus it has the ‘closed’ and a think tank and/or a Development advantage of having a decisive mandate in Commission is likely to replace this with revised the Lok Sabha. The leadership is also now consolidated. structure Yet, this Government needs to articulate how it wants to ♦ A panel for locating Black Money has been set up work for the reduction poverty and well-being of the ♦ Groups of Ministers and Empowered Groups of marginalized. It needs to establish that it pursues the Ministers have been reduced and PMO has emerged betterment of lives and livelihoods of the poor, about 50- as the numero uno decision making centre 80% by various reckonings. It needs to establish quickly a long-term planning mechanism in the country in general and ♦ Judicial Commission with PM and Chief Justice of India for the poor in particular. has replaced the Collegium for making appointments to higher judiciary The Government needs to initiate People’s Budget and ♦ Universal Financial Inclusion Scheme, Pradhan Mantri Bottom-up Budget Processes. The Federal Philosophy that Jan Dhan Yojana, has been launched and 4.5 Crore is articulated should not be limited to states but it has to go accounts opened to districts, blocks, and panchayats at the earliest. It is important that we have governable small states, districts, ♦ Decided – to create a National Food Grid blocks and panchayats. Carving out administrative units at various levels should be initiated. It is required to have the ♦ Consolidated Fund transfers to states would be the key authentic citizen/household database with initial data and way to fund states that would be the basis for all calculations.