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