Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai Supported

Sustainable Agriculture using NREGA

Volume III making& Sustainable - Progress Report August – October 2010

JANAKALYAN

A Team Committed for People’s Empowerment Shantinagar, R H Colony No.4

in District, -584128, , Karnataka State, Telephone: 08535-264488, 264140, email: [email protected]

AgricultureProfit Website: www.jankalyan.in Leveraging NREGA Funds to make

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Leveraging NREGA Funds to make Agriculture Profit-making & Sustainable in Raichur, the last ranked district of Karnataka

Quarterly Progress Report

Index

Chapter Particulars Page No. Chapter I Progress during the reporting period (August – October 2010) 1.1 Plan of action to complete at least Rs.100,00,000/- works in 4+1 issues 2 of Janakalyan under NREGA 1.2 Village wise list of works and their estimated cost with tentative time 7 line to complete these works before October 2010 1.2.1 Strategies adopted to execute NREGA works 7 1.2.2 Problems encountered in executing the planned works 8 1.3 Strengthening AIG & preparing them to execute the planned activities 9 1.4 Orientation to the newly elected PRI members 10 1.5 Orientation to government staffs at various levels 10 1.6 System of Rice Intensification 11 1.7 Integrated Farming System 12 1.8 High Income Crops (vegetable) cultivation 15 1.9 Introduction of collective purchase and marketing through farmers 15 Chapter II Learning from Field 2.1 Problem faced 16 2.1.1 Major problems faced in implementing activities in 3rd quarter 16 2.1.2 How have we resolved such problems 17 2.1.3 How the planned activities could have been implemented better? 17 2.2 Learning from field 17 2.3 Future strategies to implement the planned activities 18 2.4 Expected problems in future 18 2.5 Possible solution to resolve anticipated problems in future 19 2.6 Strategies to ensure people’s participation 19 2.7 Strategies to ensure PRI members participation 19 2.8 Strategies to ensure government staff involvement 20 Chapter III Quarterly Action Plan (November 2010 – January 2011) 3.1 Plan of action to complete Rs.2,02,50,000/- worth asset building works 21 in 4+1 issues of Janakalyan under NREGA 3.1.1 Strategies to complete these works 21 3.1.2 Problems anticipated in completing these works 22 3.2 Plan of action to strengthen the AIG and preparing them to execute 22 the planned activities 3.3 Plan of action to orient the newly elected PRI members 22 3.4 Plan of action to introduce collective purchase and marketing through 22 farmers An Appeal to the TRUST for extension of Project Period 22 Annex 1 Recommendation for approval of micro-plans by the EO, TP 23 Annex 2 List of Members of Labor Groups 24

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Part I Progress During the Quarter (August – October 2010)

While most of the planning and preparatory activities were completed in 1st and 2nd quarters of the project period, the 3rd quarter was completely dedicated for execution NREGA shelf of works and demonstration of farm based activities. The team had an apprehension that the agricultural operations and monsoon might come in their way in execution of these shelf of activities while never calculated the big hurdle that government might suspend implementation of all NREGA activities during the reporting period. Not even a single NREGA work has been taken up during the year (since April 2010 to till date) in the entire Raichur district citing several reasons by the implementing authorities.

This report is prepared at the end of the 3rd quarter of the project period to document the activities completed in the 3rd quarter i.e. August to October 2010. While in earlier reports (Volume I & II), we have tried to present all activities with detail analysis, this report restricts only to the reporting period activities. The activities completed in previous quarters have not been covered in this report to remain specific to the plan of action of 3rd quarter. Therefore, the sequence of the report is as that of the plan of action submitted to Sir Dorabji Tata Trust in the beginning of the 3rd quarter.

1.1 Plan of action to complete at least Rs.100,00,000/- works in 4+1 issues of Janakalyan under NREGA: The micro plans prepared by the Janakalyan team with the communities was reorganized as per the requirement of the government in the prescribed format and got the approval of the newly elected Gram Panchayat members and then placed before the government for approval. The Taluk (Intermediate) Panchayat has also recommended this shelf of works to District Panchayat (scanned letter is annexed) and the District Panchayat has withhold its approval citing a reason that the Annual Action Plan has already been approved by the Government; however, at the end of the year, if any of the activities form the approved lists is dropped, then these can be taken up. Further, he also suggested that many of these activities proposed in our microplans have also are common in the government approved list, which can be implemented immediately with Janakalyan cooperation. CEO told that payment for many of the works completed last year to mitigate flood affects were pending due to lack of funds and also incomplete NMR. All such works have been included in the current Annual Action Plan which have been approved and have been uploaded in MIS.

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Leveraging NREGA Funds to make Agriculture Profit-making & Sustainable in Raichur, the last ranked district of Karnataka

The major categories of works proposed in the micro plans have been summarized below while the detailed reports are hyperlinked to this document as microplans for Alabanur, and Madasirwar Gram Panchayat for your ready reference. The works are scattered to all the 4 sectors wherein productive agricultural assets could be created for all 3 Gram Panchayat. The total outlay is about Rs.146.80 lakhs, which was approved by all 3 Gram Panchayat and recommended by Taluk Panchayat to District Panchayat. Shelf of works planned in all 17 villages of 3 Gram Panchayat under Estimated Budget (in lakh Rs) Sl. NREGA order of priorities to execute asset-building activities in order Labor Material No. Total Cost to make agriculture profit-making Cost Cost Alabanur Gram Panchayat 1 Drought proofing (including afforestation and tree plantation) : Priority – 2 3.54 2.36 5.90 of NREGA 2 Provision of irrigation facility to land owned by households belonging to 5.40 3.60 9.00 the SC and ST or to land of beneficiaries of land reforms or of IAY of the Government of India program : Priority – 4 3 Flood control and protection works, including drainage in waterlogged 8.70 5.80 14.50 areas : Priority – 7 of NREGA 4 Rural connectivity to provide all-weather access : Priority - 8 6.48 4.32 10.80 Total of Alabanur 24.12 16.08 40.20 Badarli Gram Panchayat 1 Drought proofing (including afforestation and tree plantation) : Priority – 2 7.50 5.00 12.50 of NREGA 2 Provision of irrigation facility to land owned by households belonging to 7.80 5.20 13.00 the SC and ST or to land of beneficiaries of land reforms or of IAY of the Government of India program : Priority – 4 of NREGA 3 Flood control and protection works, including drainage in waterlogged 17.10 11.40 28.50 areas : Priority – 7 of NREGA 4 Rural connectivity to provide all-weather access : Priority – 8 of NREGA 9.60 6.40 16.00 Total of Badarli 42.00 28.00 70.00 Madasirwar Gram Panchayat 1 Drought proofing (including afforestation and tree plantation) : Priority – 2 2.85 1.90 4.75 of NREGA 2 Provision of irrigation facility to land owned by households belonging to 1.50 1.00 2.50 the SC and ST or to land of beneficiaries of land reforms or of IAY of the Government of India program : Priority - 4 of NREGA 3 Flood control and protection works, including drainage in waterlogged 13.05 8.70 21.75 areas : Priority - 7 of NREGA 4 Rural connectivity to provide all-weather access : Priority – 8 of NREGA 4.56 3.04 7.60 Total of Madasirwar 21.96 14.64 36.60 GRAND TOTAL 88.08 58.72 146.80

To achieve this target, we have done lots of works at various levels with context specific strategies which are dealt in the subsequent paragraphs-

Preparation at Community level: The execution plan at the community level was modified as per the contexts arouse from time to time as under- 1) AIG: Initially it was planned that the work would be executed in the leadership of the AIG and thus an AIG in each village was promoted with the farmers (who shall create productive assets in their farms), wage-earners who must get 100 days of work from the NREGA activities. The information about these AIGs has already been provided in previous volumes of our reports. Several rounds of capacity building interventions have been done for their empowerment in all respects of NREGA. The focus was on complementary approach.

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2) WEG: When we realized that the complementary approach might not yield expected results during the year, the team decided to form Wage Earners Group (WEG) involving 50 wage- earners from each village to create pressure groups for the government. About 9 such WEG has already been promoted in 9 out of 17 villages. All the members of these WEG have been made aware about various aspects like job rights, benefits available under NREGA, roles of various stakeholders under NREGA and the Act itself through meetings, awareness camps and trainings. Pamphlets regarding NREGA and the list of works already approved in all the 3 GPs in our project area along with budget details are also shared with these WEG members to provide clear knowledge, information and also to create demand for works. Some of these WEG has already submitted their job requests to respective GP.

3) Job Cards: In the month of August 2010, the government declared that all job cards registered till 31.3.2010 as null and void and as a consequence the bank accounts and all other related documents became useless. The reason cited by the government was that these job cards were made by GP members / staffs and therefore the families have never engaged themselves in NREGA works till 31.3.2010. Hence, estimate real demand for NREGA works, government invited community to register themselves for job cards; they deleted registrations of all job cards and bank account, etc. from MIS. Therefore, Janakalyan team had to spent maximum to provide hand holding support to the communities for registration of labors for job cards, open bank accounts, etc. because, without this basic ground work, labor groups can not demand for the jobs from GPs under NREGA. The interesting point to be noted here is that the job enrollment movement was supported by PRI members as well as GP officials because it complements their target achievement. Following is the data regarding new job card registration- Sl. No. of Registered SCs STs Others Villages Male Female No. HH Persons HH Persons HH Persons HH Persons 1 ALBANOOR 459 1173 78 195 58 146 323 832 622 551 2 BELGURKI 360 1164 106 346 109 360 145 458 562 602 3 GONNIGNOOR 119 297 4 10 14 39 101 248 167 130 4 KHANNARI 206 569 18 45 31 88 157 436 290 279 5 MALDINNI 49 118 2 4 12 29 35 85 61 57 Total: 1193 3321 208 600 224 662 761 2059 1702 1619 6 BADARLI 453 1809 34 140 220 860 199 809 915 894 7 GINIWAR 638 2287 71 249 33 101 534 1937 1131 1156 8 HARATNUR 728 2092 29 97 256 861 443 1134 1100 992 9 364 1756 124 508 69 360 171 888 869 887 10 TIMMAPUR 330 1416 52 219 85 387 193 810 689 727 11 VALA BALLARY 404 1840 34 166 76 320 294 1354 928 912 Total: 2917 11200 344 1379 739 2889 1834 6932 5632 5568 12 BUDIHAL 492 1494 75 215 25 67 392 1212 740 754 13 GOMARSI 373 1048 50 123 0 0 323 925 573 475 14 KAGGAL (D) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 MADA 408 1141 97 286 7 21 304 834 604 537 16 UDBAL (J) 151 416 36 107 0 0 115 309 213 203 Total: 1424 4099 258 731 32 88 1134 3280 2130 1969 GRAN TOTAL 5534 18620 810 2710 995 3639 3729 12271 9464 9156 4

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Preparation at Higher level: Parallel to the community level preparation, several efforts are made throughout the project period to convince the government officers at GP, TP and ZP levels that our intervention is to create productive assets for the Sl. Name of Gram Budget Approved farmers by leveraging funds from NREGA. The workshops at No. Panchayat (in Lakh) GP, TP and ZP levels yielded no results. The action plan 1 Alabanur 125.75 approved by the government for 3 GP of our operational area 2 Badarli 154.00 could be summarized as presented in the table. The priority- 3 Madsirwar 93.74 wise list of works approved by the government for these 3 GP Total 373.49 are presented in the table below-

Sl. Budget Approved for 2010-11 Work approved as per NREGA priorities No. Alabanur Badarli Madasirwar Total 1 Water conservation and water harvesting 12.00 0.00 22.80 34.80 2 Drought proofing (including afforestation and tree plantation) 25.15 11.00 19.44 55.59 3 Irrigation canals including micro and minor irrigation works 00.00 6.00 0.00 6.00 4 Provision of irrigation facility to SC/ST/IAY beneficiaries 10.50 0.00 0.00 10.50 5 Renovation of traditional water bodies including de-silting of tanks 19.80 17.00 0.00 36.80 6 Land development 01.20 11.00 13.60 25.80 7 Flood control & protection works including drainage in waterlogged areas 31.00 43.00 18.40 92.40 8 Rural connectivity to provide all-weather access 20.10 66.00 19.50 105.60 Grand Total 125.75 154.00 93.74 373.49

While all preparation for execution of these sets of activities was made at community level, none of the activities were implemented in any of the Gram Panchayat; not only in these 3 GP but also in any other GP of 164 GPs of Raichur district. The following table generated from the government website related to NREGA justifies our statement that not even a single work has been executed by the government in Raichur district during April-October 2010.

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Government of India Ministry of Rural Development Department of Rural Development The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act State: KARNATAKA District: RAICHUR Block: SINDHANUR Saturday, October 30, 2010

NO. OF WORKS Total Appr Water Conservation Renovation of Irrigation Facilities To Rajiv Gandhi Seva Total no of works Flood Control Rural Connectivity Drought Proofing Irrigation Canals Land development Other works oved Gram And Water Harvesting Traditional Water Bodies SC/ST/IAY/LR Kendra Sl. Work Panchayat Propose Approve Propose ApprovePropose ApprovePropose No Approve Propose Approve In Proposed In Approved Proposed In Approved Proposed In Approved Proposed In Approved Proposed In Approved In Approved Proposed In complete In complete In d not yet comple d not in comple comple comple comple comple d not yet comple comple In d not in d not yet complet d not in d not yet d not in d not yet d not in progres not yet progre not in not yet progre not in not yet progre not in not yet progre not in not yet progre not in progre not in not yet progres Total d progress d progress approve ted progres ted ted ted ted ted approve ted ted progress progres approve ed progres approve progressapproved progress s approved ss progress approved ss progress approved ss progress approved ss progress approved ss progress ss progress approved s d s d s d s d 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 1 ALABNUR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

2 BADARLI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

3 BALGANUR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 BAPPUR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 BHOOTALDINNI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 CHENNALLI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 DEVARAGUDI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 DHADESUGUR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 GONWAR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 GOUDAN BHAVI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 GUNDA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 GUNJALLI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 HOSALLI E.J. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 KOLABAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 MADASIRWAR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 MUKKUNDA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 PAGADADINNI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 R.H. CAMP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 RAGALPARVI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 RAMATNAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 ROUDAKUNDA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29 SOMLAPUR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 TIDIGOL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 UDABAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 UMALUTI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 VIRUPAPUR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1385

Summary of the Works taken up in Sindhanur taluk of Raichur district in Karnataka during April-October 2010 Water Conservation And Provision of Irrigation facility Renovation of Traditional Any Other Activity Rajiv Gandhi Seva Rural Connectivity Flood Control Drought Proofing Micro Irrigation Land development Total Water Harvesting to Land development Water Bodies Approved by MRD Kendra No of works No of works No of works No of works No of works No of works No of works No of works No of works No of works No of works Expenditure (amount) Expenditure (amount) Expenditure (amount) Expenditure (amount) Expenditure (amount) Expenditure (amount) Expenditure (amount) Expenditure (amount) Expenditure (amount) Expenditure (amount) Expenditure (amount)

m m Panchayat Ongoing/ Ongoing/ Ongoing/ Ongoing/ Ongoing/ Ongoing/ Ongoing/ Ongoing/ Ongoing/ Ongoing/ Ongoing/ completed completed completed completed completed completed completed completed completed completed completed

Gra Suspended Suspended Suspended Suspended Suspended Suspended Suspended Suspended Suspended Suspended Suspended 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 With all our efforts and coordination with the executing authorities at Gram Panchayat and Intermediate Panchayat, we failed to take up a single work so far under NREGA. The communities were on toes but we failed to meet their expectations too. The major reasons cited by the government officer are- 1) During the last (2009-10) year flood, lot of activities have been executed in all the Gram Panchayat of Raichur district which were not approved in last year Action Plan (beyond the approved budget by the Government of India); these activities have been officially approved during current year action plan and decided to make payment to the old GP Members during the current financial year while the newly elected GP members want to take up new works. Therefore, they are not taking up any work during the current but entering last year figures in the website. 2) The new GP members want to implement all the approved works as per the action plan while the old GP members, since they have invested in these works want their payment reimbursed by the officers. Both the groups are right as well as wrong because most of the works have not been implemented by the old members but are claiming for payment, thus the old members are at fault; similarly, some of the works have been implemented but was not paid and hence the new members are at fault. In this fight, the labor groups are the sufferers. 3) The conflict between old and new GP members is a problem difficult to resolve. One of the reasons is that most of the works which the old GP members are claiming for payment are either incomplete or not executed at all while there are some genuine cases also. The new GP members want to conduct a systematic scrutiny and then make payment to the genuine works. 4) Election code of conduct was cited as the reason till last quarter while now their statement has changed. 5) It is expected that only 10% of the approved works might actually be implemented during the year, that too by the newly elected GP members.

This problem exists not only in our project area but in all 164 GPs of Raichur districts. In fact the situation is too worst in few other GPs. Several rounds of public hearing and people protests at taluk and district level has been conducted by NGOs and people institutions.

1.2 Village wise list of works and their estimated cost with tentative time line to complete these works before October 2010: The following works were planned by Janakalyan team to be executed with NREGA fund in all these 17 villages in the beginning of the quarter- Sl. Activities Amount Labor-days No of No. Estimated required villages 1 Plantation activities to increase biomass / drought proofing 2365000 14190 17 2 Farm Pond excavation to provide assured irrigation facility 2950000 17700 16 3 Flood Control activities to the flood prone villages 380000 2280 2 4 Drainage in water-logged areas to reduce salinity/alkalinity 6220000 36470 17 Total 11915000 70640

However, it is very unfortunate to state that none of these works have been executed so far in these villages, though these works are really important for the communities.

1.2.1 Strategies adopted to execute NREGA works: The major strategies adopted to complete the above activities in time were-  Taking the elected representative into confidence and implementing the shelf of works in their leadership.  A meeting of all the officers from all 3 tiers of PRI system in the chairmanship of the local MLA to give them an impetus is conducted in August 2010; it was expected that this would help us to get the support and cooperation of the elected representative as well as PRI members.  AIG was the central force to implement the shelf of activities planned under NREGA.  Complementary approach adopted to ensure the planned activities are implemented with their cooperation.  Already labor groups are made aware by organizing meeting, training & sharing materials.  The works approved for 2010-11 is already been shared among all labor groups and made aware about the works planned in NREGA during this year.  Labor groups are facilitated to register for job cards and applied for job allotment to GPs.  Lot of pressure is created through labor groups at taluka and District level by NGOs and labor unions and other people institutions.  Invited Principal Secretary twice to Raichur exclusively to resolve this conflict and give a shape to the shelf of works under NREGA.  Wage earners went on hunger strike keeping serious demands on NREGA project to District Administration. About a week time hunger strike continued during September and then only CEO and Principal Secretary assured to resolve all the problems and promised to start the NREGA works in all the GPs in the district with immediate effect.

1.2.2 Problems encountered in executing the planned works: The major problems encountered in executing these planned activities are –  Our anticipation in the beginning of the quarter about the policy level problem as a hurdle to complete the works in time was the most important cause for failure to initiate the works. The government took a decision to reject all old job cards and requested people for fresh registration for job cards with their family and individual photos of all who wants to work under NREGA. With this decision coming into force, we had no eligible labors as per the Act and thus had start from zero with facilitation of the labor groups for job card registration and bank account opening. This consumed our whole quarter for entire team with negligible results as the community has really lost faith in the scheme.  When we engaged ourselves in this ground work, the conflict between OLD & NEW GP members reached peak. The old group wants their payment for approved (executed in last financial year) works while the new group demands for execution of all works as per the approved plan. Finally, none of the works has been implemented in any of the GP.  The micro-plans prepared by Janakalyan team involving all sections of the community and old GP members was withhold at ZP level, the interest of AIG members and other people to whom we had trained started diminishing. The team failed to sustain the motivation level of these trained people despite several efforts.  The wage rate of project area in agriculture operations is very high compared to that of NREGA and thus getting labor during crop-season (July-February) is difficult; however, in off-season (March-June) the labors are available in plenty.

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1.3 Strengthening AIG and preparing them to execute the planned activities: To empower the AIG members on their rights and entitlements, several rounds of meeting and trainings are conducted during this quarter; in addition, the team has also conducted in-house as well as out door technical training for the participating farmers. The details are presented in the table below- Sl. Date of Name of the AIG Village Dates of Meeting for each AIG No. Training 1 Nandi Basava Krishi Samiti Alabanur 06-08-10 20-08-10 10-09-10 4-10-2010 2 Sri Devi Krishi Samiti Belagurki 07-08-10 21-08-10 11-09-10 4-10-2010 3 Sri Rama Krishi Samiti Kannari 09-08-10 22-08-10 12-09-10 4-10-2010 4 Sri Maruthi Krishi Samithi Maladinni Camp 10-08-10 23-08-10 13-09-10 4-10-2010 5 Sri Gajanana Krishi Samithi R.B. Camp 11-08-10 24-08-10 14-09-10 4-10-2010 6 Sri Nagalinga Krishi Samiti Budihal 06-08-10 20-08-10 10-09-10 5-10-2010 7 Netravathi Krishi Samithi Madasirwar 07-08-10 21-08-10 11-09-10 5-10-2010 8 Sri Basava Krishi Samiti Udbal EJ 09-08-10 22-08-10 12-09-10 5-10-2010 9 Sri Someshwara Krishi Samiti Gomarci 10-08-10 23-08-10 13-09-10 5-10-2010 10 Sangamanatha Krishi Samiti Haretanur 06-08-10 20-08-10 10-09-10 6-10-2010 11 Sri Maruthi Krishi Samithi Gonniganur 07-08-10 21-08-10 11-09-10 6-10-2010 12 Channa Basava Krishi Samiti Valabellary 09-08-10 22-08-10 12-09-10 6-10-2010 13 Tunga Bhadra Krishi Samiti Hedaginal 10-08-10 23-08-10 13-09-10 7-10-2010 14 Sri Ayyappa Krishi Samiti Badarli 11-08-10 24-08-10 14-09-10 7-10-2010 15 Sri Shakthi Krishi Samiti Timmapura 12-08-10 25-08-10 15-09-10 7-10-2010 16 Sri Durga Krishi Samiti R.H.No-5 13-08-10 26-08-10 16-09-10 6-10-2010 17 Hasiru Krishi Samiti Ginaivar 14-08-10 27-08-10 17-09-10 7-10-2010

In addition to the AIGs, the team has also promoted Wage Earners (labor) Groups (WEG) in 9 out of these 17 villages (meetings held but group yet to be formed in other villages); these labor groups would be used as a tool in the next quarter to fight against the government as the complementary approach did not yield any results so far. The details of these labor groups are furnished in the table below and the list of members (group wise) is furnished in annexure- Sl. Village # of Total Members Date of # of No. groups Male Female Total formation meetings 1 Alabanur 2 20 30 50 14-9-2010 2 2 Belagurki 1 23 27 50 20-9-2010 2 3 Kannari 16-9-2010 3 4 Maladinni Camp 1 17 15 35 23-10-2010 1 5 R.B. Camp 17-10-2010 1 6 Budihal 17-9-2010 2 7 Madasirwar 1 7 2 9 14-9-2010 2 8 Udbal EJ 1 0 26 26 23-9-2010 3 9 Gomarci 1 16 14 30 24-9-2010 2 10 Haretanur 1 25 25 50 19-9-2010 2 11 Gonniganur 1 29 21 50 15-10-2010 1 12 Valabellary 6-10-2010 1 13 Hedaginal 12-9-2010 4 14 Badarli 2 22 28 50 2-10-2010 2 15 Timmapura 4-10-2010 1 16 R.H.No-5 11-10-2010 1 17 Ginivar 27-9-2010 2

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Thus, we have an additional force in each of these villages as pressure group for the government; both AIG and WEG would put pressure on the executing authorities for initiating work execution and provide employment.

1.4 Orientation to the newly elected PRI members: It was planned to expose the Gram Panchayat members who really want to do some good works under NREGA to few Gram Panchayats where extraordinary works have been done by the GP members with cooperation of communities; but remained incomplete as the members were busy with some other works. Therefore, the same would be conducted in the beginning of the 4th quarter. However, several training has been conducted during the quarter in order to keep their tempo on. The details are furnished in the table below- Sl. Gram GP members of these villages Dates of No of No Panchayat Training participants 1. ALABANUR Alabanur, Belagurki, Kannari, Maladinni Camp, 27-8-2010 29 R.B. Camp 2 BADARLI Haretanur, Gonniganur, Valabellary, Hedaginal, 2-9-2010 16 Badarli, Timmapura, R.H.No-5, Ginaivar 3 MADASIRWAR Budihal, Madasirwar, Udbal EJ, Gomarci 5-9-2010 14

1.5 Orientation to government staffs at various levels: Government officials play an important role in making the program successful & therefore several rounds of training and orientation has been conducted to take the government officers into confidence. Several rounds of one-to-one interactions have also been done during the quarter. Sl. Dates of GP Level Venue No Training 1. Secretary & PDO Taluk Panchayat Sindhanur 4-10-2010 2. JE, AE, AEE, EO & CEO & other staff responsible Zilla Panchayat Raichur 4-10-2010 & for NREGA implementation 16-10-2010 One-to-One interactions Sl. Meeting Date of Janakalyan staff Outcomes No. with meeting 3 MLA Basavarajaiah & 7-9-2010 & Agreed to resolve the problems shortly and Discuss the matter Pranab Bala 23-9-2010 calling the taluka level staff & ensure works are started soon. 4 CEO Basavarajaiah & 3-9-2010 & Told about pressure coming from people and from their Pranab Bala 5-9-2010 Principal secretary, shown the staff allocation status & promised to start work urgent. 5 PD Basavaraj & Agreed to start work & shown the budget copy Ms.Manjushree 6 EO Basavarajaiah Agreed to visit our GPs shortly along with PDO and start works. Pranab & Resolve all problems. Ms.Manjushree

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1.6 System of Rice Intensification: Several rounds of discussion has been undertaken with the AIG members to convince about the importance of SRI and finally succeeded to take up the demonstration in 5 plots. The meetings details are furnished in the table below. Sl. Gram Village Date of No of Major issues discussed No Panchayat meeting participant 1. ALABANUR Alabanur 28-8-2010 9 Benefits of SRI methods Belagurki 28-8-2010 4 How it is cost effective Kannari 28-8-2010 3 What are crucial in this method Maladinni Camp 28-8-2010 3 Can be demonstrated & confirmed the effectiveness R.B. Camp 28-8-2010 3 More yield compared to traditional method of rice cultivation 2 BADARLI Haretanur 31-8-2010 3 Weed problem to be taken care off using weed removers Gonniganur 31-8-2010 3 Benefits of SRI methods Valabellary 31-8-2010 3 How it is cost effective Hedaginal 31-8-2010 3 What are crucial in this method Badarli 31-8-2010 3 Can be demonstrated & confirmed the effectiveness Timmapura 31-8-2010 3 More yield compared to traditional method of rice cultivation R.H. Colony No-531-8-2010 3 Weed problem to be taken care off using weed removers Ginivar 31-8-2010 3 Benefits of SRI methods 3 MADASIRWAR Budihal 4-9-2010 3 How it is cost effective Madasirwar 4-9-2010 3 What are crucial in this method Udbal EJ 4-9-2010 3 Can be demonstrated & confirmed the effectiveness Gomarsi 4-9-2010 3 More yield compared to traditional method of rice cultivation

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Though, some of the farmers had taken up SRI as trial during the kharif season, our plan was to bring in more number of farmers during rabi season and we succeeded to take up the SRI cultivation in the following plots-

Sl. Name of the Area Date of Village Date of transplantation Present status No farmers planted nursery 1. Ramachandra Hediginal 0-20 28-10-2010 Will be done during 2nd week of Nov 2010 Nursery raised 2 Naganagouda Valabellary 0-20 30-10-2010 Will be done during 2nd week of Nov 2010 Nursery raised 3 Earanna Giniwar 0-20 1-10-2010 Will be done during 2nd week of Nov 2010 Nursery raised 4 Amaregouda Badarli 0-20 29-10-2010 Will be done during 2nd week of Nov 2010 Nursery raised 5 Rajashekhar K Haretanur 1-00 31-10-2010 Will be done during 2nd week of Nov 2010 Nursery raised 6 Devendrappa Thimmapur 0-20 31-10-2010 Will be done during 2nd week of Nov 2010 Nursery raised 7 Girija Veeresh Udbal 0-20 30-10-2010 Will be done during 2nd week of Nov 2010 Nursery raised 8 Basavanagouda Gomarsi 0-20 31-10-2010 Will be done during 2nd week of Nov 2010 Nursery raised 9 Mali Earanagouda Gomarsi 0-20 28-10-2010 Will be done during 2nd week of Nov 2010 Nursery raised 10 Muradabasappa Budiwal 0-20 29-10-2010 Will be done during 2nd week of Nov 2010 Nursery raised 11 G. Hanmanthappa MadaSirwar 0-20 28-10-2010 Will be done during 2nd week of Nov 2010 Nursery raised 12 Chidanandappa Alabanur 0-20 27-10-2010 Will be done during 2nd week of Nov 2010 Nursery raised 13 Srikantha Gouda Belagurki 0-20 27-10-2010 Will be done during 2nd week of Nov 2010 Nursery raised

1.7 Integrated Farming System: Some of the AIG members have taken up IIFS activities in their farms i.e. diversified cropping system during the kharif season. But, all the components of the IIFS were not possible during the current year as the farmers do not have the farm ponds. However, all the efforts would be initiated to make these farms as model IIFS plot. Regular field visits by the staffs as well as providing all necessary technical supports from time to time to the farmers would be the major activities during the quarter.

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The farmers who have taken up IIFS activities in their farms during the year are furnished in the table below-

Sl. Name of the Area Date of Village Crops sown (all components) Present status No farmers sown sowing 1. Venkatesh Hediginal 2-00 4-10-2010 Sorghum, Bengal gram 20 days crop 2 Allabhaksha Hediginal 2-00 11-10-2010 Sorgham, Bengalgram Quarter feet hight crop 3 Mallikarjuna Valabellary 3-00 15-10-2010 Bengalgram,Sorgham Just got germination 4 Mudakappa Giniwar 3-00 20-10-2010 Bengalgram,Sorgham 10 days crop 5 Channabasava Badarli 2-00 19-10-2010 Bengalgram, Sorgram Early stage 6 Chidanandappa Haretanur 2-00 23-10-2010 Bengalgram, Sorgham One week crop 7 Basappa Goniganur 1-00 19-10-2010 Sorgham, Bengalgram 10 days crop 8 Yamanapp Goniganur 1-00 19-10-2010 Sorgham, Bengalgram 10 days crop 9 Adeppa Thimmapur 2-00 22-10-2010 Sorgham, Bengalgram One Week crop 10 Pralladh RH Colony No.5 2-00 20-10-2010 Bengalgram, Sorgham One Week crop 11 Girija Udbal 1-00 23-10-2010 Bengalgram, Sorgham One Week crop 12 Veeresh Udbal 1-00 23-10-2010 Bengalgram, Sorgham One Week crop 13 Basavanagouda Gomarci 2-00 20-10-2010 Bengalgram, Sorgham One Week crop 14 Mali Earanagouda Gomarci 2-00 20-10-2010 Bengalgram, Sorgham One Week crop 15 Murada Basappa Budiwal 2-00 23-10-2010 Bengalgram, Sorgham One Week crop 16 G Hanmanthappa Mad-Sirwar 2-00 19-10-2010 Bengalgram, Sorgham One Week crop

Further, the farmers were taken to University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur wherein 54 farmers and all project staffs participated in a day-long exposure cum training on IFS at KVK, Raichur on 24-9-2010 to gain knowledge about the activities to be adopted with the irrigation tanks. This training mainly focused on IIFS, horticulture crops, animal husbandry, agriculture extension practices for rabi crops, fish cultivation, etc. Dr. A.R. Kurubar, Horticulture Specialist and Dr. B.K. Desai, Specialist for IFS and Mr. Mohanchandra Chawhan and 3 professors from KVK and UAS, Racihur were involved during this training program.

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1.8 High Income Crops (vegetable) cultivation: Farmers have taken up vegetable cultivation in their farms during the kharif season to earn more income per capita land. Regular field visits by the staffs as well as providing all necessary technical supports from time to time to the farmers are the major activities during the quarter. The details of these farmers are furnished below-

Sl. Name of the Area Date of Total Total Village Crops sown No farmers sown sowing Harvest income 1. Allabhaksha Hediginal 0-20 23-07-2010Bendi, Chouli, Ere, Brinjal, 2 quintal 9000 2 Devendrappa Valabellary 0-20 2-8-2010 Tamoto, Brinjal, Bendi, palak, Menthe 2.5 quintal 13000 3 Komareppa Giniwar 0-20 31-7-2010 Tamoto, Brinjal, Bendi, palak, Menthe 2.5 quintal 11000 4 Sangappa Haretanur 0-20 4-8-2010 Tamoto, Brinjal, Bendi, palak, Menthe, 2.4 quintal 11000 5 Huchappa Badarli 0-20 4-8-2010 Tamoto, Brinjal, Bendi, palak, Menthe, 2.4 quintal 14000 6 Rudragouda Goniganur 1-00 27-7-2010 Tamoto, Brinjal, Bendi, palak, Menthe, Batani, Onion 14 quintal 22000 7 Satyapriya M RH NO.5 0-20 10-7-2010 Tamoto, Brinjal, Bendi, palak, Menthe, Batani, Onion 3.00 quintal 14000 7 other items

1.9 Introduction of collective purchase and marketing through farmers: The concept of Collective Purchase and Marketing through AIG is introduced among the farmers and one of the AIG has already started practicing by procuring all the inputs through collective purchasing process. The inputs purchased by the Sri Basaveshwara AIG, Haretanur from KVK Raichur for about 100 farmers and distributed in small quantity to these farmers are – 1) Ticoderma 2) Rhysobium 3) Azatobacter 4) Azospirlam 5) PSB culture 6) Bengal gram & Sorgham seeds

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Part II Learning from Field (August – October 2010)

Social projects are implemented to learn from the experiences and a project of this nature has a broader goal for learning for wider application. NREGA has attracted the attention of global planners and more so if productive assets creation is possible leveraging funds from this very important & large scale project. At the end of the 3rd quarter, Janakalyan team has learnt many things, some of which are recorded below in the following sequence-

2.1 Problems faced: Learning comes if problems are encountered while implementing activities in field; therefore, problems are recorded first followed by learning.

2.1.1 Major problems faced in implementing activities in 3rd quarter: There are several problems encountered by the team while implementing the planned activities in project villages. Some of these problems are-  Our anticipation in the beginning of the quarter about the policy level problem as a hurdle to complete the works in time was the most important cause for failure to initiate the works. The government took a decision to reject all old job cards and requested people for fresh registration for job cards with their family and individual photos of all who wants to work under NREGA. With this decision coming into force, we had no eligible labors as per the Act and thus had start from zero with facilitation of the labor groups for job card registration and bank account opening. This consumed our whole quarter for entire team with negligible results as the community has really lost faith in the scheme.  When we engaged ourselves in this ground work, the conflict between OLD & NEW GP members reached peak. The old group wants their payment for approved (executed in last financial year) works while the new group demands for execution of all works as per the approved plan. Finally, none of the works has been implemented in any of the GP.  The micro-plans prepared by Janakalyan team involving all sections of the community and old GP members was withhold at ZP level, the interest of AIG members and other people to whom we had trained started diminishing. The team failed to sustain the motivation level of these trained people despite several efforts.  Lack of personnel at the GP level is another big hurdle; there is only single post i.e. Panchayath Development officer (PDO) to look after about 15-20 schemes of GP along with NREGA. Further each PDO is made responsible for 2-3 GP. Even taking care of 1 GP by 1 PDO itself is a heavy to bring outputs. In our project GPs too, full time PDO was not till date but after several protests, the government has appointed only 2 PDO in 3 GPs.  The wage rate of project area in agriculture operations is very high compared to that of NREGA and thus getting labor during crop-season (July-February) is difficult; however, in off-season (March-June) the labors are available in plenty.  During the last (2009-10) year flood, lot of activities have been executed in all the Gram Panchayat of Raichur district which were not approved in last year Action Plan (beyond the approved budget by the Government of India); these activities have been officially approved during current year action plan and decided to make payment to the old GP Members during the current financial year while the newly elected GP members want to take up new works. Therefore, they are not taking up any work during the current but entering last year figures in the website.  The new GP members want to implement all the approved works as per the action plan while the old GP members, since they have invested in these works want their payment reimbursed by the officers. Both the groups are right as well as wrong because most of the works have not been implemented by the old members but are claiming for payment, thus the old members are at fault; similarly, some of the works have been implemented but was not paid and hence the new members are at fault. In this fight, the labor groups are the sufferers. 16

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 The conflict between old and new GP members is a problem difficult to resolve. One of the reasons is that most of the works which the old GP members are claiming for payment are either incomplete or not executed at all while there are some genuine cases also. The new GP members want to conduct a systematic scrutiny and then make payment for genuine works.  Election code of conduct was cited as the reason till last quarter while now their statement has changed.

2.1.2 How have we resolved such problems? Most of the problems which the team is experiencing in implementing the shelf of works are beyond our control; the decision of government to reject all job cards and election of new GP members have created the most difficult challenge before the team which we have never expected and prepared for. Some of the strategies that we have adopted to handle these complex issues in collaboration with other actors in the district are – 1) Of late, started promoting labor groups in each of our operation villages and decided to link these groups with labor union in the district. 2) Participated 3 rounds of protests exclusively to change the situation of NREGA programs at district level in association with other institutions/associations operative in the district to create pressure on the government. 3) Initiated an action to involve all NGOs and other networks around the issue and conducted a district level hunger strike and AHORATRI DHARANA on 15.8.2010 day at Ambedkar circle, Raichur. 4) Compelled the Principally Secretary, Department of RDPR, Government of Karnataka to intervene at district level to initiate the execution of shelf of works with immediate effect. 5) AIG and WEG members met twice in the last 5 months to discuss about permanent PDO to be posted to Madsirwar and Badarli Panchayat. MLA discussed with EO, taluka panchayat and arranged PDOs for both the GP during last month. 6) In all the 3 GPs already Gram Sabha conducted to start works under NREGA between 25th and 31st of this October. 7) Already one road improvement work has commenced in R H colony No. 5 of Basarli Panchayat. 8) We facilitated about 300 families already for registration of job cards and to obtain job cards and to open SB accounts as during the reporting period.

2.1.3 How the planned activities could have been implemented better? While most of the issues related to NREGA are complex in nature and beyond the control of small scale intervention and thus demands large scale intervention. However, project commencement and duration is also a hurdle in our way which could be resolved by extending it for few more months. But, to make this program a successful event in future, it shall be taken up at least for 2 years period as described in the learning section of this report.

2.2 Learning from field: This being a pilot project to leverage funds from NREGA for creating productive assets in tail end of irrigation project, Janakalyan plans to implement this kind of agricultural interventions in phases in future.  We have learnt from our experience that a program of this nature shall be initiated in July- August for a minimum of 2 years period. I. Preplanning Phase (July-October): All the preplanning activities (AIG promotion, farmer selection, microplanning, etc.) shall be completed before October and actual implementation (excavation of irrigation tanks) shall commence immediately after harvesting of the crops. Because, the land become free from crops during this period and also government accepts the shelf of works in December. This period could

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effectively be used in building relationship with various line departments for possible collaboration to leverage funds from developmental projects. II. Planning phase (November-December): In consultation with GP, executing authorities and labor groups the work execution plan shall be prepared during November- December. III. Execution Phase (January-June): Execution of shelf of works including irrigation tanks should be done between January-June. This is the very right time to complete all farm pond excavation, bund strengthening, drainage in water-logged areas and other similar works. IV. Demonstration Phase (July-March): Immediately after execution and with the commencement of monsoon in July, we can introduce crop & water related experiments in the field to demonstrate the benefits of IIFS package of Janakalyan. Field days, Result sharing program, internal exposures for neighboring farmers, etc shall also be conducted during this period to bring more farmers under the umbrella. V. Post Implementation Phase (April-June): This is the period when planning shall be done for next phase of activities based on the performance in previous project period. This is how we have planned to use the learning form the project to incorporate in next project phase.  Complementary approach is the best approach and would be successful in a way we are proceeding ahead in due course of time.

2.3 Future strategies to implement the planned activities: The major strategies in future to complete the planned tasks, though we may not achieve the target of Rs.2 crores but would still strive hard to get nearer the goal, would remain- 1) Take the PRI members for an exposure to a place where the elected representative has done an excellent work under NREGA. 2) Extend the project period for few more months as all the required ground works have now been completed and the labors would also be available to create pressure on the government during the off-season. 3) Empower the labor groups (WEG) and submit demand for works to respective GP as per approved shelf of works. 4) Pursue with government for approval of micro-plans prepared by the community for next financial year (2011-12) as this is the right time for submission to the government for approval. 5) We ensure the members from all WEG and AIGs attend the monthly KDP meetings convened by EO at taluka level to share their concerns. 6) We would invite the Taluka level NREGA nodal officers to the respective GPs to resolve the conflicts arise from time to time and to give immediate solutions in the field itself at GP level, if necessary at respective village level too. 7) We continue to organize labor community and form WEGs and educate them and help them for registration for job cards, bank account opening and to submit job demand application to GP. 8) Help GP to conduct WEG members meeting every month to discuss about works on going, works completed and works yet to be taken up and to develop action plans involving all WEG members for successful implementation of works by maintaining coordination among all levels. 9) This kind of regular monthly meeting will certainly help to ensure works execution in time, proper monitoring and documentation so that payments also will be credited to their account in time.

2.4 Expected problems in future: The same set of problems which have been experiencing the team in last quarter will pose challenges during this quarter also.  The major among these would be the conflict between the old and new GP members, which might demand a compromise in the presence of state level authorities to balance it.

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 Shortage of labor might be another issue as there is a chance that many works start simultaneously in all the GPs to complete government targets before closure of the financial year; thus use of machines might be more than expected.  Our labor groups might not get more opportunities to work as they won’t be able to participate in parallel works.  The activities like plantation may not be possible due to lack of moisture in the soil.  Transfer of PDOs may be a great hurdle to achieve progress in time; because PDO made responsible Madsirwar and Alabanur would retire shortly and hence he does not want to take any risk but postpone all activities to the extent possible. He feels that if he initiates any work under NREGA, he will certainly caught in problem.

2.5 Possible solution to resolve anticipated problems in future: The possible solution to resolve above problems could be-  The most important problem i.e. conflict between old and new GP members will have to be resolved soon by the government as we have already planned series of actions to create pressure through the labor groups / unions which would compel the government to take a call.  More and more registration for job cards is under progress to meet the labor demand during the off-season so that machine usage could be reduced to the extent possible.  Activities like plantation can be taken replaced by other asset-creating works and taken up immediately to benefit the farming communities.  The WEG / AIG members shall demand for recruiting permanent and able PDO for all these 3 GPs of our project area.

2.6 Strategies to ensure people’s participation: It would be challenging for the team to retain the same level of participation as that of the beginning due to several factors; the major being- 1) Communities had no faith on the NREGA activities but agreed to participate believing in past records of Janakalyan only. 2) The Janakalyan team has failed to take up any works which were planned with the communities since commencement of the program, whatever may be the reasons (cited above). 3) The antisocial elements in the villages always play hard to keep these groups away from good works by any means.

However, efforts shall be put by the team to regain community confidence adopting following strategies- 1) Immediately start few activities in each of the operating villages which would bring the confidence among the communities. 2) Bring more and more families under the umbrella of labor groups / AIG

2.7 Strategies to ensure PRI members participation: Though, the political system has got polluted to its highest level and the team has put all its efforts to ensure the participation of PRI members through various interventions, the 4th quarter would also adopt some innovative strategies to ensure their participation. 1) Take all the newly elected PRI members to a GP where extraordinary works have been done by elected representative to motivate our PRI members. 2) Help the PRI members in engaging labors for the shelf of works they want to execute in their constitutions thereby providing jobs to our labor groups and implementing asset creating activities for the farmers.

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3) Provide all possible support in documentation and other execution related activities through our GPOs. 4) Honoring these PRI members in functions organized in the villages and giving all credits before the communities that whatever good works are happening in their villages are because of these PRI members.

2.8 Strategies to ensure government staff involvement: The government staffs will cooperate only when they feel that our interventions are complementing in achieving their targets and therefore the following strategies would be adopted during this quarter- 1) Providing all assistance to the GP and TP level staffs in completing the approved activities in time through our AIG/WEG. 2) Assisting the government staffs to complete documentation of the activities through our GPOs. 3) Honoring the government staffs in public meetings organized in the villages and giving all credits before the communities that whatever good works are happening in their villages are because of these officers who are committed for the development of the communities.

The major problems encountered and the lessons learnt are recorded in this chapter of the report and planned to use the above strategies in completing the planned activities in future.

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Part III Quarterly Action Plan (November 2010 – January 2011)

Almost all the proposed activities of our proposal have been completed in these 3 quarters except execution of asset creating activities leveraging funds from NREGA, which is the most important indicator for success of the project. It was planned that about Rs.2,02,50,000/- would be leveraged from NREGA in 3 Gram Panchayat for creating productive assets for the farming communities. Accordingly, all the necessary preparatory activities were completed by the team but the government did not take any of the work execution in the entire district during these 3 quarters. The 4th quarter of our project we are earmarking only for these shelf of works; all possible efforts would be put to reach the target using complementary as well as right-based approaches.

The present team constitutes following members from various disciplines as furnished in the table below- Sl. Name of the Responsibility Qualification Years with NGO sector No. team Member 1 Project Officer Prasen Raptan B.Tech.(Ag.Engg.), PGDMN 13 years with Janakalyan 2 Training Organizer Basavarajaiah B.Com. 21 years in NGO sector 3 Agriculture Specialist Sudhanya S -- 5 years with Janakalyan 4 GPO – Alabanur Anjanappa S MSW 1 year in NGO sector 5 GPO – Badarli Amaresh K MSW 1 year in NGO sector 6 GPO - Madasirwar Ramesh Kudligi MSW 1 year in NGO sector 7 Accounts Officer Manojit Biswas B.Com. 3 years with Janakalyan 8 Documentation Officer Hulagappa B PUC, DCA 3 years with Janakalyan

3.1 Plan of action to complete Rs.2,02,50,000/- worth asset building works in 4+1 issues of Janakalyan under NREGA: The key activities in this project is leveraging NREGA funds to create productive assets for the tail end farmers in order improve productivity of their land; towards this end, the following works have been included in the micro-plans prepared by the communities for their respective villages, to be executed in the 4th quarter of the project period. Sl. Shelf of works proposed Work approved as per NREGA priorities No. Alabanur Badarli Madasirwar Total 1 Water conservation and water harvesting. 12.00 0.00 22.80 34.80 2 Drought proofing (including afforestation and tree plantation). 25.15 11.00 19.44 55.59 3 Irrigation canals including micro and minor irrigation works. 00.00 6.00 0.00 6.00 4 Provision of irrigation facility to SC/ST/IAY beneficiaries 10.50 0.00 0.00 10.50 5 Renovation of traditional water bodies including de-silting of tanks. 19.80 17.00 0.00 36.80 6 Land development 01.20 11.00 13.60 25.80 7 Flood control & protection works including drainage in waterlogged areas. 31.00 43.00 18.40 92.40 8 Rural connectivity to provide all-weather access. 20.10 66.00 19.50 105.60 Grand Total 125.75 154.00 93.74 373.49

3.1.1 Strategies to complete these works: The following strategies would be adopted during the quarter to accomplish the set target within the project period-  Taking the elected representative into confidence and implementing the shelf of works in their leadership. Organizing an exposure for the PRI members to a GP where good works have been done by the GP members.  A meeting of all the officers from all 3 tiers of PRI system in the chairmanship of the local MLA to give them an impetus would be conducted in November 2010.

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 AIG would be the central force to implement the shelf of activities planned under NREGA.  Complementary approach would be adopted to ensure the planned activities are implemented with their cooperation.  The right-based approach would be the last weapon to fight against government in order to ensure the entitlements are provided to the stakeholders.

3.1.2 Problems anticipated in completing these works: The following problems are anticipated which may come in our way of completing the tasks in time; however, appropriate actions at right time would be initiated in order to complete the tasks planned for the quarter.  Policy level decision by the government in relation to NREGA might become the major constraint in executing the works.  Approval of the shelf of works (prepared using micro-plan tool) by government would be a constraint (as the action plan for 2010-11 is already approved by government). This would become the major constraint in achieving our target of leveraging funds from NREGA for asset creating activities.  Delay in completing asset building activities would bear an impact on the demonstration activities, as these are directly related with the proposed assets such as drainage in waterlogged areas & excavation of farm ponds.  The newly elected GP members might also become a constraint in the way of taking up asset creating activities under NREGA, if they are not self-driven.  Seasonal agricultural operations might come in the way of implementing the NREGA activities; shortage of labor in time would be a constraint.

3.2 Plan of action to strengthen the AIG and preparing them to execute the planned activities: About 17 AIGs have already been promoted in 17 project villages and several rounds of training has been conducted for their capacity building; in addition, 17 Wage Earners Groups (WEG) would be promoted 17 villages involving more than 500 women and 500 men, who have been trained and would also be trained about their rights and entitlements under NREGA.

During the beginning of this quarter, an exposure for selected leaders of these AIG & WEG would be conducted to enhance their leadership qualities to demand for their rights and entitlements. Similarly, day long training on leadership qualities could also been organized based on the needs & context.

3.3 Plan of action to orient the newly elected PRI members: Several attempts have been initiated since the election of the new set of GP members and another attempt in the last quarter would be taking them to a GP where extraordinary works have been done by the elected representative under NREGA. This exposure would be for the selected and potential GP members who have inclination towards selfless works for the society.

3.4 Plan of action to introduce collective purchase and marketing through farmers: While the taste of collective purchasing has already been tested by the farmers, the collective marketing of their produces shall have to be introduced during this quarter. This should have been better introduced after demonstration of all components of the IIFS but due to delay in excavation of farm ponds, we have failed to do so. However, efforts would be initiated during the 4th quarter at least with their own farm produces, whatever they have grown in their farms.

An Appeal to the TRUST

It is felt that we have lost ¾ of the project period but could not achieve the most important indicator of success i.e. leveraging NREGA funds for creating productive assets for the farming communities of tail end of TBP, may be for whatever reasons, within or beyond our control. At this juncture, therefore we sincerely request your kind-self and good-office to extend the project period by 2 months i.e. up to March 2010 without any additional grant. It is the responsibility of Janakalyan to manage all expenditures within the approved budget and achieve the set target at its own cost. Hope the Trust would be kind enough to consider our request and extend this additional time period to achieve our target of completing all planned activities. 22

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Leveraging NREGA Funds to make Agriculture Profit-making & Sustainable in Raichur, the last ranked district of Karnataka

Annex 1 Recommendation for approval of micro-plans by the Executive Officer, Taluk Panchayat

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Annex 2 List of Wage Earners Group Members

Sl. Name of the Father / Husband Age Sex Caste No. Member 1. Alabanur 1 Nagamma W/O Malleshappa 45 F Lingayath 2 Channama D/O Malleshappa 22 F Lingayath 3 Sharadamma W/o Amareshappa 36 F Lingayath 4 Basamma W/O mukappa 34 F Lingayath 5 Mukappa S/o Linganna 45 M Lingayath 6 Parvathamma W/o Basavarajappa 40 F Lingayath 7 Neelamma W/O hanumanagouda 36 F Lingayath 8 G.Venkatesh S/o mukappa 20 M Lingayath 9 Parvathamma W/O Kalyanappa 43 F Lingayath 10 Channamma D/O Kalyanappa 21 F Lingayath 11 Basavaraj S/O Kalyanappa 24 M Lingayath 12 C.Mallamma W/O Basavaraj 19 F Lingayath 13 Amrutha D/O Basavaraj 18 F Lingayath 14 Earamma W/O Basappa 33 F Lingayath 15 Aanandamma W/O Rangapur Venkatesh 45 F Lingayath 16 Venkatesh S/O Sanna Amaragundappa 32 M Lingayath 17 Pampapathi S/O Rangapur Bheemanna 35 M lingayath 18 Nirmala W/O Pampapathi 26 F Lingayath 19 Ratnamma W/O Basappa 30 F Hadapad 20 Ambamma W/O Ramesh 45 F Hadapad 21 Ramesh S/O Mudakappa 54 M Hadapad 22 Aalambi W/O Husen sab 36 F Muslim 23 Huligemma W/O Mudiyappa 40 F Madiwalar 24 Mudiyappa S/O Rajappa 45 M Madiwalar 25 Mallamma W/O Ambayya 38 F Madiwalar 26 Ambayya W/O Rajappa 44 M Madiwalar 27 Yallamma W/o Basappa 34 F Nayak (ST) 28 Yankappa S/O Basappa 25 M Nayaak(ST) 29 Basappa S/O Dyavappa 50 M Nayak(ST) 30 Yamanamma W/O Basappa 45 F Nayaka(ST) 31 Renukamma W/O Amaresh 34 F Nayaka(ST) 32 Amaresh S/O Basappa 40 M Nayaka (ST) 33 Gangamma W/O Adeppa 35 F ST 34 Lakshmi W/O Yamanappa 42 F ST 35 Virupamma W/O Siddayya 40 F Lingayath 36 Yamanamma W/O Mudiyappa 39 F SC 37 Sharanamma W/O Basappa 30 F SC 38 Ambamma W/O Ramesh 45 F Hadapad 39 Venkatesh S/O Sanna Amaragundappa 32 M Lingayath 40 Pampapathi S/O Rangapur Bheemanna 35 M lingayath 41 Nirmala W/O Pampapathi 26 F Lingayath 42 Ratnamma W/O Basappa 30 F Hadapad 43 Ambamma W/O Ramesh 45 F Hadapad 44 Ramesh S/O Mudakappa 54 M Hadapad

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Sir Dorabji Tata Trust JANAKALYAN Mumbai

Leveraging NREGA Funds to make Agriculture Profit-making & Sustainable in Raichur, the last ranked district of Karnataka

Sl. Name of the Father / Husband Age Sex Caste No. Member 45 Aalambi W/O Husen sab 36 F Muslim 46 Parvathamma W/o Basavarajappa 40 F Lingayath 47 Neelamma W/O hanumanagouda 36 F Lingayath 48 G.Venkatesh S/o mukappa 20 M Lingayath 49 Parvathamma W/O Kalyanappa 43 F Lingayath 50 Mudiyappa S/O Rajappa 45 M Madiwalar 2. Badarli 1 Ayyappa S/O yallappa 32 M SC 2 Basamma W/O Ayyappa 28 F SC 3 Veeresh S/O Duragappa 28 M SC 4 Pakeeramma W/O Veeresh 25 F SC 5 Gurappa S/o Ayyappa 38 M ST 6 Ambamma W/o Gurappa 32 F ST 7 Basavaraj S/o Yallappa 26 M ST 8 Renukamma W/O Basavaraj 21 F ST 9 Husenappa S/O Mudakappa 27 M ST 10 Parvathamma W/O Husenappa 24 F ST 11 Gireppa S/O Batta Ayyappa 32 M ST 12 Hanumanthamma W/O Gireppa 30 F ST 13 Thippamma W/O krishnappa 40 F ST 14 Basamma W/O Thirupathi 38 F ST 15 Huligeppa S/O Bheemappa 30 M SC 16 Shanthamma W/O Huligeppa 25 F SC 17 Mahadevamma W/O Lokappa 35 F SC 18 Nagamma D/O Lokappa 18 F SC 19 Devendrapa S/o Huligemma 28 M SC 20 Lakshmi W/o Devendrappa 22 F SC 21 Yallapa S/o Thippanna 38 M SC 22 Earamma W/O Yallappa 35 F SC 23 Ramanna S/O Yallamma 50 M SC 24 Sharanamma W/O Ramanna 40 F SC 25 Basavaraj S/O Channappa 25 M SC 26 Neelamma W/O Basavaraj 20 F SC 27 Ayyappa S/O Bheemappa 38 M SC 28 Basamma W/O Ayyappa 32 F SC 29 Ayyappa S/O Muddappa 35 M SC 30 Sharanamma D/O Ayyappa 18 F SC 31 Earappa S/O Sabanna 35 M SC 32 Gangamma W/O Earappa 45 F SC 33 Sanna Sabanna S/o Duragappa 40 M SC 34 Sangamma W/o Sanna Sabanna 35 F SC 35 Ayyappa S/O Dodda Sabanna 26 M SC 36 Devamma W/O Ayyappa 21 F SC 37 Hulagappa S/O Thimmanna 35 M SC

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Sl. Name of the Father / Husband Age Sex Caste No. Member 38 Channamma W/O huligeppa 30 F SC 39 Ningappa S/O Chagappa 30 M SC 40 Pamamma W/O ningappa 27 F SC 41 Yamunappa S/O Basappa 40 M SC 42 Mashamma W/O Yamunappa 38 F SC 43 Yallamma W/O Basanna 22 F SC 44 Basanna S/O Chagappa 26 M SC 45 Husenappa S/O Shivappa 26 M SC 46 Virupamma W/O Husenappa 21 F SC 47 Basavaraj S/O Shivappa 22 M SC 48 Umadevi W/O Basavaraj 20 F SC 49 Huchappa S/O Husenappa 24 M SC 50 Shivamma W/O huchappa 22 F SC 3. Goniganur 1 Ayyappa S/O Basappa(Uchegida) 30 M ST 2 Ambamma W/O Ayyappa Uchigida 27 F ST 3 Jalihal Ayyappa S/O kanakappa 38 M ST 4 Mukamma W/O Ayyappa 32 F ST 5 Ayyappa Muk S/O Earappa 39 M ST 6 Parvathamma W/o Ayyappa Muk 32 F ST 7 Husenappa S/O Nagappa 28 M ST 8 Parvathamma W/O husenappa 26 F ST 9 San Mallayya S/O Nagtappa 30 M ST 10 Ningamma W/o mallayya 28 F ST 11 Kanakappa S/O Mallayya 35 M ST 12 Hanmanthamma W/O Kanakappa 30 F ST 13 Hanmantha S/O Ayyappa 40 M ST 14 Channabasamma W/O hanumantha 35 F ST 15 San Devanna S/O Shankarapa 40 M Madiwalaru 16 Papamma W/o Devanna 32 F Madiwalaru 17 Huligeppa S/O Dhyavanna 21 M Madiwalaru 18 Huligeppa S/o Dyavanna 22 M Madiwalaru 19 Dyavanna S/O Ayyappa 45 M ST 20 Yallamma D/O Dyavappa 24 F ST 21 Ayyappa S/O Bheemraya 26 M ST 22 Kanakappa S/o Bhimraya 45 M ST 23 Gangamma W/o Ayyappa 34 F ST 24 Lakshmi W/O Kanakappa 41 F ST 25 Pampanna S/O Earappa 35 M ST 26 Lakshmi W/O Pampanna 35 F ST 27 Pompanna S/O Thimmayya 44 M ST 28 Huligemma W/o pompanna 40 F ST 29 Kariyappa S/O Yamanappa 35 M ST 30 Ambamma W/O kariyappa 30 F ST 31 Huligeyya S/O kariyappa 48 M ST 32 Nagamma S/O kariyappa 20 F ST 33 Hanumayya Ayyappa 39 M ST 34 Narasamma W/O hanumantha 40 F ST

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Leveraging NREGA Funds to make Agriculture Profit-making & Sustainable in Raichur, the last ranked district of Karnataka

Sl. Name of the Father / Husband Age Sex Caste No. Member 35 Basappa S/O Yamanappa 46 M ST 36 Gangamma W/O Basappa 40 F ST 37 Huligeyya S/o Dyavappa 40 M ST 38 Hampamma W/O Devappa 30 F ST 39 Amaresh S/O Ramanna 40 M ST 40 Narasamma W/O Amaresh 30 M ST 41 Pakeerappa S/o Ramanna 45 M ST 42 Nagamma W/O Pakeerappa 40 F ST 43 Hanumantha S/O Thimmayya 45 M ST 44 Gangamma W/O hanumanth 40 F ST 45 Nagapa S/o Gireppa 30 M ST 46 Pamayya S/o nagappa 45 M ST 47 Malappa S/O Hanumanth 39 M ST 48 Devamma W/O Malappa 35 F ST 49 Ramesh S/O Malappa 26 M ST 50 Ambanna S/O Hanumantha 27 M ST 4. Haretanur 1 Ramanna S/O Husenappa 28 M ST 2 Channamma W/o Ramanna 25 F ST 3 Amaresh Salgunda S/o Thippanna nayak 35 M ST 4 Rangamma W/O Amaresh Salgunda 32 F ST 5 Geethamma W/o Shippa 55 F ST 6 Swamy S/o Shivappa 28 M ST 7 Earamma W/o Swamy 25 F ST 8 Ramanna S/O Shivappa 25 M ST 9 Linganna S/o Yankoba Giniwar 60 M ST 10 Basamma W/o linganna 50 F ST 11 Basavaraj S/O Ayyappa Giniwar 40 M ST 12 Kanakamma W/O Basavaraj 35 F ST 13 Ramanna S/o Ayyappa Salgundi 40 M ST 14 Ambamma W/o Ramanna 35 F ST 15 Mukappa S/o San Ayyappa 42 M ST 16 Huligemma W/O Lachamayya 40 F ST 17 Husenappa S/o hanumanth 35 M ST 18 Gangamma W/o husenappa 30 F ST 19 San Ayyappa S/o Sagarappa 38 M ST 20 Mahadevamma W/O San Ayyappa 35 F ST 21 San Ayyappa S/o Earappa Devaramane 28 M ST 22 Duragamma W/O San Ayyappa 25 F ST 23 Dod Ayyappa S/O Earappa 30 M ST 24 Lingamma W/o Dod Ayyappa 28 F ST 25 Husenappa S/o Rangayya nalgamdinni 40 M ST 26 Dyavamma W/O husenappa 35 F ST 27 Parshuram S/O Husenappa 18 M ST

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Sl. Name of the Father / Husband Age Sex Caste No. Member 28 Ayyamma W/o Chinchar Ramanna 50 F ST 29 Kanakappa S/o Chinchar Ramanna 22 M ST 30 Huligeyya S/O Chincharki Ramanna 22 M ST 31 Husenappa S/O Ramanna 28 M ST 32 Basamma W/o husenappa 25 F ST 33 Ayyappa S/o Devendrappa 30 M ST 34 Lakshmi W/o Ayyappa 25 F ST 35 Gangappa S/o Devendrappa 28 M ST 36 Parvathamma W/o Gangappa 24 F ST 37 Huligeyya S/o Devendrappa 25 M ST 38 Ayyamma W/o huligeyya 20 F ST 39 Amaresh S/O Devendrappa 19 M ST 40 Sabanna S/o Ragayya 40 M ST 41 Ayyamma W/o Sabanna 35 F ST 42 Basayya S/o Rangayya 40 M ST 43 Mukamma W/O Basayya 36 F ST 44 Huligeyya S/O Ayyappa Nalgamdinni 30 M ST 45 Gangamma W/o Huligeyya 25 F ST 46 Dod Kriyppa S/o Ayyappa nalgamdinni 45 M ST 47 Duragamma W/o Dod kariyappa 35 F ST 48 Duragayya S/o Ayyappa nalgamdinni 42 M ST 49 Hobalemma W/o Duragayya 38 F ST 50 Parasappa S/o Ayyappa 45 M ST 5. Maladinni Camp 1 Narayanappa S/o Ramanna 48 M ST 2 Duragamma W/o narayanappa 40 F ST 3 Shivaraj S/O Narayanappa 24 M ST 4 Kariyappa S/O narayyappa 22 M ST 5 Mahesh S/o Narayanappa 20 M ST 6 Beesamma W/o San Rangappa 48 F Uppar 7 Mariyappa S/O San Rangappa 30 M Uppar 8 Sharanappa S/o San Rangappa 26 M Uppar 9 K.Sharanappa S/o Govindappa 35 M Uppar 10 Duragamma W/O K.Sharanappa 30 F Uppar 11 Dyavamma W/o Amarappa 45 F ST 12 Adeppa S/o Amarappa 30 M ST 13 Earamma D/O Adeppa 25 F ST 14 Basavaraj S/O Adeppa 20 M ST 15 Amaramma D/o Adeppa 18 F ST 16 Rajasab S/o Hydersab 26 M Muslim 17 Husenamma W/O Rajasab 24 F Muslim 18 Husenamma W/O hydersab 45 F Muslim 19 Rajamma D/o Hydersab 20 F Muslim 20 Hasensab S/O Husensab 48 M Muslim 21 Gudamma W/o hasensab 45 F Muslim 22 Husenamma D/o hasensab 24 F Muslim 23 Bashasab S/O hasensab 20 M Muslim 24 Durugappa S/o Shivappa 35 M Nayak

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Leveraging NREGA Funds to make Agriculture Profit-making & Sustainable in Raichur, the last ranked district of Karnataka

Sl. Name of the Father / Husband Age Sex Caste No. Member 25 Bandenavaz S/O Hasensab 30 M Muslim 26 Husenbi W/O Bande Navaz 26 F Muslim 27 Dyamamma W/O Shivappa 40 F ST 28 Basamma W/o Duragappa 30 F ST 29 Basavaraja S/O Shivappa 26 M ST 30 Jalalamma D/o Basavaraj 24 F ST 31 Husenappa S/o EArappa 40 M SC 32 Gouramma W/o Husenappa 35 F SC 6. Belagurki 1 Pampathi S/o lachamanna 28 M SC 2 Shyamamma W/o pampapathi 26 F SC 3 Hanumantha S/o Lachamanna 34 M SC 4 Earamma W/o hanumantha 30 F SC 5 Gangadhara Lachamanna 26 M SC 6 Maremma W/o Gangadhar 24 F SC 7 Hanumantha S/o Hire Yankoba 35 M SC 8 Mankalemma W/o Hanumantha 30 F SC 9 Yankamma W/o Hire Venkoba 45 F SC 10 Hire yankoba S/o kaggalappa 50 M SC 11 Mudiyappa S/O Thimmanna 38 M SC 12 Lakshmi W/o Mudiyappa 35 F SC 13 Lakshmipathi S/O nagappa 40 M SC 14 Mahadevi W/O lakshmipathi 35 F SC 15 Husenappa S/O nagappa 38 M SC 16 Parevathamma W/O husenappa 29 F SC 17 Amaresha S/o husenappa 19 M SC 18 Basavaraja S/o San yankoba 36 M SC 19 Gangamma W/O Basavaraj 30 F SC 20 Hanumanthi W/o yankoba 48 F SC 21 Bheemanna S/o Yamunappa 50 M SC 22 Guramma W/o Bheemanna 48 F SC 23 Anjanayya S/o Bheemayya 28 M SC 24 Devamma W/o Anjanayya 24 F SC 25 Husenamma W/o Yamunappa 35 F SC 26 Fakeerappa S/o yankappa Dani 35 M ST 27 Krishnamma W/o Fakeerappa 35 F ST 28 Yankappa S/o Balappa 48 M ST 29 Basamma Yankappa 40 F ST 30 Nagappa Yankappa 35 M ST 31 Muthamma Nagappa 30 F ST 32 Bheemamma Ayyappa 45 F Kurubaru 33 Mudiyamma Ayyappa 18 F Kurubaru 34 Ayyamma W/O Basappa 50 F Kurubaru 35 Hanumantha S/o Ningappa 40 M Kurubaru

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Sl. Name of the Father / Husband Age Sex Caste No. Member 36 Rudramma D/o hanumantha 35 F Kurubaru 37 Sharanabasamma Hanumantha 20 F KURUBARU 38 Mahadevi D/o hanumantha 18 F Kurubaru 39 Kariyappa S/O Basappa 48 M Kurubaru 40 Mallamma W/O Kariyappa 39 F Kurubaru 41 Beerappa S/o Kariyappa 20 M Kurubaru 42 Hampamma D/o kariyappa 19 F Kurubaru 43 Amaresh S/o kariyappa 36 M Kururbaru 44 Shivamma W/o Amaresha 28 F Kurubaru 45 Basavaraj S/o kariyappa 29 M Kurubaru 46 Ambamma W/o Basavaraj 26 F Kurubaru 47 Nagappa S/o Kariyappa 25 M Kurubaru 48 Lakshmi W/o nagappa 24 F Kurubaru 49 Yankappa S/o kariyappa 28 M Kurubaru 50 Earamma W/o Yankappa 26 F Kurubaru 7. Udbal 1 Girija W/o Veeresh 35 F OBC 2 Mallamma Hire Ningappa 32 F OBC 3 Ramadevi Veeresh 25 F OBC 4 Yamunamma Veeresh 20 F OBC 5 Dyamanna Virupanna 30 F SC 6 Gangamma Shekharappa 25 F OBC 7 Dyavamma W/O Ambanna 34 F SC 8 Lakshmi Wo mudakappa 32 F OBC 9 Ratnamma W/o Dyavappa 25 F OBC 10 Parvathamma W/o Chandrayya Swamy 28 F OBC 11 Sharanamma W/o Ghamanna 34 F OBC 12 Mallamma W/o Nagappa 39 F OBC 13 Shankramma W/o kariyappa 44 F SC 14 Lakshmi W/o yankappa 26 F SC 15 Ningamma W/o Virupanna 19 F OBC 16 Earamma W/O Hanumantha 22 F OBC 17 Gundamma W/o Basanna 43 F OBC 18 Fakiramma W/o nagesh 37 F OBC 19 Dodda Basamma W/o Gundappa 34 F OBC 20 Kamalamma W/o yamanappa 56 F OBC 21 Earamma W/o Shekhappa 45 F SC 22 Gangamma W/o Basavaraj 54 F OBC 23 Kariyamma W/o hanumantha 34 F OBC 24 Earamma W/o Renukappa 29 F OBC 25 Mukudamma W/O Veerappa 43 F OBC 26 Malamma W/O yamanappa 33 F OBC 8. Madasirwar 1 Kalasappa S/o Thippanna 45 M OBC 2 Husensab S/o Rajasab 44 M OBC 3 San hanumantha S/o Siddappa 39 M OBC 4 Kariyappa S/O San Virupanna 32 M OBC 5 Virupanna S/o Siddappa 29 M OBC

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Leveraging NREGA Funds to make Agriculture Profit-making & Sustainable in Raichur, the last ranked district of Karnataka

Sl. Name of the Father / Husband Age Sex Caste No. Member 6 Narasimharaj S/O hanumantha 44 M OBC 7 Nagaraj S/o Changaleppa 25 M OBC 8 Mallamma W/O kariyappa 34 F OBC 9 Sharanamma W/o Shivappa 40 F OBC 9. Gomarsi 1 Basavaraj 34 M 2 Basavaraj 27 M OBC 3 Veerabhadrappa 45 M OBC 4 Devamma 45 F OBC 5 Akbarsab 42 M OBC 6 Mallesh 31 M OBC 7 Mudakappa 24 M OBC 8 Dharmanna 23 F SC 9 Yamunappa 19 M OBC 10 Yankappa 22 M OBC 11 Venkatesh 26 M OBC 12 Maskilsab 31 M OBC 13 Tajuddin 42 M OBC 14 Yankoba 47 M OBC 15 Veeresha 25 M SC 16 Hampayya 26 M OBC 17 Siddappa 29 M OBC 18 San kariyappa 30 M OBC 19 Nirupadeppa 33 M OBC 20 Shivappa 22 M OBC 21 Kariyappa 33 M OBC 22 Mudakappa 40 M OBC 23 Dharmanagouda 18 M OBC 24 Mutturaj 24 M OBC 25 Mahadevappa 29 M OBC 26 Kariyappa 35 M SC 27 Hanumanthappa 39 M OBC 28 Khajasab 41 M OBC 29 Jagiramma 28 F OBC 30 nagaraj 24 M OBC

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