ANNUAL REPORT 2017- 2018 KHANPUR AZAD GRAM UNNAYAN SAMITY
Established In the Year 1987
An organization registered under : ❖ West Bengal Society Registration XXVI Act. Of 1961.No.– S/82171 , Dated – 20.12.1995 ❖ Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act of 1976 Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India. No. 147030034, Dated-22/09/2005 ❖ Section 12AA & 80G(s) (v) of Income Tax Act 1961- # 12A-No. CIT/jal/8E/07-08/38(H) # 80G-No. CIT/JAL/12A&80G/2011-12/164 ❖ Niti Aayog - WB/2009/0014203 ❖ Permanent Account No. being – AAATK9237B
Head office: Branches: Khanpur Village, PO- Goalpara, 1.Village&PO-Maguara,Malda,WB Dist- Malda, PIN- 732126 2.Chanchal Panchalipara,Malda,WB [Type text]Page 1
West Bengal, India Tel. No.- 03513-252058, Mobile – 9933641799 E.mail : [email protected]/[email protected] Web site : www.kagus.in
Organization Profile:
1. Name of the Organisation:
KHANPUR AZAD GRAM UNNAYAN SAMITY 6. Legal Status of the Organisation :-
a. The Organisation has been registered under :
2. Nature of the Organisation: Society under Society West Bengal Society Registration XXVI Act. Of 1961.
Registration Act.1961 No. being –S/82171 , Dated – 20.12.1995
3. Address of the Organisation b. Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act of 1976
a. Regd. Address :- Vill- Khanpur, PO- Goalpara Ministry of Home Affairs
P.S.- Chanchal, District- Malda, Pin - 732126 Govt. of India No. 147030034, Dated- 22/09/2005
Sub Division – Chanchal, State – West Bengal
c. Have its Permanent Account No. being –
b. City Address – Malda Town (under English bazaar AAATK9237B
Municipality)
c. Project Address – Any block of Malda District (as per d. Section 12AA & 80G(s) (v) of Income Tax Act 1961 –
need based implement of the project) # 12A-No. CIT/jal/8E/07-08/38(H)
# 80G-No. CIT/JAL/12A&80G/2011-12/164
4. Tel. No.- 03513-252058
Fax - Nil e. Niti Aayog - WB/2009/0014203 Mobile – 9933641799
E.mail : [email protected] f. Other Registration details :–
Web site : www.kagus.in
5. Contact Person-cum-chief functionary with address: 7. Acronym of Organisation :
Vill- Khanpur, Po- Goalpara, P.S.- Chanchal, District-
Malda, Pin - 732126, Email: [email protected]
KAGUS has been working with :
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Organizational Vision & Mission
The Khanpur Azad Gram Unnayan Samity (KAGUS) is a Non- Governmental Organization established in the year 1987. The Vision – Mission statement of the organization is as follows:
OUR VISION The vision of the organization is to empower women, child and adolescents, youths, deprived communities, especially minorities and backward classes and common people in rural & urban areas.
OUR MISSION To ensure that women, child and adolescents, youths, deprived communities, especially minorities and backward classes and common people in rural areas are empowered through inputs in education, health and hygiene, vocational training, games and sports and environmental sustainability with active participation of the rural people.
Speech of The Secretary This is glorious that we have successfully completed Twenty tw o years towards our mission. In this connection I , on behalf of the organization, convey greetings, good wishes and endless thanks to the active community leaders, grass root workers, beneficiaries and our bonafide office workers who coped with the stress of activities gladly and co-operated every time with the valued counsel. We also pay our thanks to the District Administration, Govt. of West Bengal, Ministry of WCD, Govt. of India, Ministry of Labour. Govt. of India, Ministry of Home affaire, Govt. of India, Ministry of Textile (Handicraft), Govt. of India, West Bengal Social Welfare Advisory Boards, Central Social Welfare Board, NABARD (MEDP,SHPI), Nehru Yuba Kendra, DM, DSWO, DIC, DTC, DMC of Malda district others district of West Bengal, BDOs with officers and PS boards, local MP, MLA, Dept. Sports Wing & Sports and youth Department, Dep. of Environment, Dep. Science & Technology (Govt. of WB), ASHA- Kolkata, DFID- Government of Britain through PRIA, “SWAWALAMBAN” under W.B.Women development undertaking, IL&FS Education & Technology Services Limited, Noida,UP.MOMA, Govt.of India. Sanitation- Malda Zilla Parisad and different district official with whom we are rendering our services and to different helping staff of respective departments.
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KAGUS HISTORY
Beginning with a KAGUS is a well-recognized Non small group of Governmental Organization (NGO) in committed people, Malda, West Bengal and has various KHANPUR AZAD donations related permissions. Donors are GRAM UNNAYAN entitled to Income tax rebate under 12A, SAMITY was formed 80G. For Foreign donors our Organisation in the year 1987 attempting to transform its has an FCRA account. KAGUS aims at Rural beliefs into reality. It is an organization Welfare Reforms for the Indian every based in the District Malda of West Bengal. Woman and Girl Child, Social welfare and It got formally registered in 1995.We started Health Welfare. It is an Indian NGO for our activities with one non-formal Social Services, Indian Child Welfare education and vocational training center for Services, and Welfare for the Rural Woman, women in the village Khanpur during last seventeen years our activities have been Rural Education and Self Employment. broadened in the fields of female literacy, formal education for children, nonformal education, rural employment, income generating skills, SHG formation, community health and awareness programmes on various social issues. The activities reach out to poor and marginalized women, adolescents and disadvantaged and marginalized children from rural areas of Malda district. KAGUS journey owes much to the unflagging support of a large number of friends, supporters and well-wishers of Chanchal II Block, Malda district.
Malda is a district covering area of 3733 sq Km with Bihar and Uttar Dinajpur at North , Murshidabad at South , Bangladesh at east , and Jharkhand and Bihar at West. It shares 165.5 km international border with Bangladesh. Having a central location it is an important junction and entry point to Siliguri from South Bengal. The river Ganga makes its first entry in West Bengal near Manikchak of Malda. As it is a low lying basin, it is prone to flood. The gateway of North Bengal, Malda, once the capital of Gour-Banga with its 3456 sq kms lay of the land classified into Tal, Diara, and Barind awaits the advent of tourists and people of archeological interest with its wealth to be enjoyed and its huge potential to be explored. This portion of the Earth is washed by the waves of the rivers Ganges, Mahananda, Fulahar, Kalindri and had been the witness of different empires raised, flourished and cast down near oblivion by a successor kingdom built up on the relics of its predecessor. Panini mentioned a city named Gourpura, which by strong
[Type text]Page 4 reason may be identified as the city of OBJECTIVES ● To collaborate and converge with the different service providers and with extension agencies, Panchayet Raj Institutions, Voluntary agencies, Industrial and Business houses, Central & State Govt. and International development activities. ● Identify the priority areas of vulnerable target community minorities, SC, ST, backward classes, Dalits and other underprivileged for immediate interventions. ● Awareness, training and capacity building activities, ● Livelihood development activities related to socio-economic development, ● To pursue the educational activities related to child, adult-both formal systems, ● To establish Quality Standards of Childcare units-institution, homes, orphanages for the vulnerable children. ● To strengthen community oriented non-institutional services like adoption, foster care, day care, night shelter, crèche, sponsorship, family counseling, and other community centers. ● To pursue the community health related activities, sanitation, prevention and care units for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and malaria and life cycle approach of RCH (Reproductive &Child Health) services. ● Activities to promote cultural status uplifting the indigenous cultural status and local folks, ● To establish programme for relinquished children, establish home and rehabilitation units. ● To work for the prevention of cruelty to animals by establishing the animal care unit, ambulance for animals and necessary centers for the same. ● To establish different programmes and helpline services for women and children in difficult circumstances and work for the rehabilitation of child labours by opening special school. ● To establish drug de-addiction centers, ● To open charitable dispensaries, maternity home, Children’s clinics, Orphanage, family planning centers. ● To encourage and impart education of science and technology, in cultivation. To establish center of art, culture and technical education for the welfare of the distressed people. ● PLAN OF ACTIONS Identify the priority areas of vulnerable target community especially minorities, backward classes, Dalit and other underprivileged for immediate intervention. ● Evolve orientation and training modules for sensitization, awareness generations, and capacity building of various target community and service providers who have impact over the vulnerable target groups. ● Prepare and maintain data base and conduct situational analysis on the magnitude of problem and available existence services. ● Undertake rural development activities through SHGs in close collaboration with Panchyet involving different other stake holders with a measure of sustenance towards alleviation of poverty ● Develop a resource bank on the target areas as per the prioritized needs towards making convergences of the existing service providers-specially to create linkage and networks amongst govt. [Type text]Page 5 departments, policy makers, Panchyets, Educational Institution, others NGOs, SHGs and communality best organization. ● To work in close collaboration with local self governments- Panchyets, Panchyet Samity ,Municipalities, Zilla Parisad, local District and Block administration, other Govt. departments, autonomous bodies, NGOs towards targeted intervention as per the indentified need for the target groups. ● Evolve quality standards of child care, modality for its measurement and a monitoring mechanism to ensure its implementation. ● Ensure quality of all services, develop modalities for measurement and assessment of activities and accomplishments to update the monitoring mechanism. ● Intervenes, implement, facilitate and support all other intervention that will promote the objectives of organizations to achieve its mission. ● Vulnerable Groups: ● Poor disadvantage and deprived people ● Poor underprivileged, Minority, Backward classes Dalits and SC/ST, Community. ● Deprived children engaged in substance abuse, physically mentally and sexually abuse victim of climatic,(man made and natural),orphan abandoned and destitute, working children, street children and children living in stigmatized situation. ● Children in conflict with law ● Children with other members of families at risk migrant labour ,Refugees chronically and terminally ill, prisoners and single parents. ● Population sub - groups who are vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis. ● Eligible couples and adolescents ● Poor and Marginal farmers Thrust Areas ● Development of rural people through formation of rural infrastructures and other resource development. ● Protection and redemption Child Rights specially for the children in need of care and protection, rehabilitation and social integration of children, setting standard of institution care and protection of children. ● Promotion of livelihood, service providing in community health, improvement of educational and cultural aspects of vulnerable community towards optimizing social changes. ● Care and protection of the environmental issues, prevention of cruelty to Animals and Plants ● Interventions with the vulnerable community to prevent HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and other communicable and non-communicable diseases. TARGET COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL ISSUES OF EXCLUSION THEY FACE The target communities women, child and adolescents, youths, deprived communities like Muslim Minority, SC and ST of the above mentioned blocks are faced many problems due to lack of awareness on their education, health & hygiene, income generation. In this area thus have resulted in total ignorance of the rights and entitlements and has resulted in discrimination and exploitation of the target Communities. ● Socially and economically deprived from their rights and entitlements due to belonging to excluded community (Almost 80% - 90% target community belong to Muslim Minority, SC & ST); ● Food and income insecurity due to drought prone area, low soil fertility, insufficient irrigation facilities, under productivity, ignorance about scientific farming practices, support from service providers; [Type text]Page 6 ● Bonded labour or forced migration (45%/50% Migrate labours) giving rise to social issues like trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of women and adolescents, HIV Aids, etc. ● Low Literacy rate due to poverty, ignorance, poor infrastructure, and services ● High rate (90%) of child marriage due to poverty, social taboos and illiteracy; ● Low health status of women, child and adolescents due to lack of awareness, poor infrastructures and delivery services as well as social and religious taboos. ● Malnutrition among children and women due to lack of sufficient ICDS centres, its proper services and lack of awareness. (Immunization coverage 52% – 65%), ● Poor and non-existent Sanitation facilities due to no concerted effort by the Panchayat (80% defecate in open air); OUR KEY ACTIVITIES TO CHANGE THESE ISSUES OF EXCLUSION The focuses of the organization are to educate the target communities on their rights and entitlement related to education, health, sanitation, nutrition etc. The activities taken up as follows: ● Mobilizing and building capacities of members of socially excluded groups in raising issues of discrimination, planning and monitoring of schools and health services at village, GP and Block level; ● Mobilizing and building capacity of Village Groups and SHGs to engage with government structures at the local, GP and block level on issues of education, health, nutrition, water and sanitation; ● Advocacy with the state for developing and promoting community relevant curriculum and pedagogy; ● Networking and policy lobbying for influencing the provisions in the Right to Education, Health, Food Act; ● Developing innovative models for promoting girl child education, early childhood care & education, interventions for children belonging to Muslim, SC, ST, taking leverage of SSA and RMSA provisions ● Identifying and advocating for non discriminatory access to nutrition and health services for socially excluded communities and women and girls; ● Monitoring the formation and functioning of Rogi Kalyan Samitis and Village Health & Sanitation Committees (VHSC) and ensuring proper representation and participation of socially excluded groups in these institutions ● Mobilization and building awareness among women, adolescent girls on health service provisions ensured under various government programmes ● Mobilization and building awareness among men, PRIs, community institutions and family members on women’s reproductive health and rights; ● Advocacy with the state for effective and wide spread implementation of School Sanitation and Health Education programme of the government; ● Active engagement with the media and state for highlighting discriminatory practices against socially excluded communities and denying them dignified livelihood options. ● Advocacy to implement all six services of ICDS and 100% access to water and sanitation facilities by the socially excluded groups; ● Social Equity Audit/ participatory evaluation for monitoring discriminatory practices in AWC against women and children of socially excluded communities; ● Production of IEC materials and newsletters of different schemes/programmes and best practices. [Type text]Page 7 Our Projects/Schemes S/L NAME OF THE PROJECT Project Area FUNDING AGENCY No 1 Azad Academy ( Pre-Primary & Primary Khanpur & Jadupur own Fund School) 2 Kagus Health Home (Charitable Dispensary) Khanpur own Fund 3 Gramin Hat(Bazaar) Khanpur own Fund 4 Tailoring Training Malda Distric West Bengal Swarojger Corporation Ltd., Govt.of WB 5 Creche Centre under RGNCS Chanchal II Block CSWB, Govt. of India 5 Ambedkar Hastsilp Vikash Yajona, (AHVY) Chanchal II Block Ministry of Textile, Govt. of India 7 Ambulance Service Malatipur RH MP LAD Uttar Malda 8 Farmers Club, SHPI (SHGs) & JLGs Formation Malda District NABARD & Mobilization 9 Malty Gym (Gymnasium Hall) & Volley Ball Khanpur Govt.of West Bengal Indoor 10 Rogi Sahayata Kendra Chanchal SD Hospital, Malda District Health & Family (A may I help you centre- to RSBY & Swastha Malatipur RH, Welfare Samity Sathi member service.) Masaldaha Bazar RH,Araidanga BPHC 11 RNTCP (Laboratory Technician) Samsi RH, Bhutni PHC, Malda District Health & Family Kushida PHC Welfare Samity 12 CAM DTP Centre ( NCPUL/DOEACC) Office Premises M/O- HRD Govt. of India 13 PC & PNDT (Pre-Conception & Pre-Natal Burdwan District Burdwan District Health & Family Diagnostic Techniques Act.1994) Welfare Samity 14 Swachh Bharat Abhiyan ( Household Chanchal II Block Malda Zilla Parisad Sanitation Make) 15 Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission of 8 District of West Il&FS Edu HIV-AIDS (PPTCT) Bengal “Nai Roshni” Ministry of Minority Affairs Government 16 of India. 17 Sinking of tube Well 18 CAM DTP Centre ( NCPUL/DOEACC) M/O- HRD Govt. of India 19 Mentor Club & PRI Nehru Yuba Kendra 20 Workshop Vermi Compost Science & Technology, Govt. of West Bengal 21 Readymade Garment Making Women & Child Development Govt. W.B 22 Consumer Awareness Deptt. Of Consumer Affairs, Govt. of WB 23 Infrastructure Development Deptt. of Sports, Govt. of WB 24 Sports Programmes Deptt. of Sports, Govt. of WB. [Type text]Page 8 AZAD ACADEMY since 2005 dropouts either force to labour ● On of them at Khanpur work in hazardous job, or force “AZAD ACADEMY” (KG-I to to married at very immature class-VIII) the intuition 367 age. students are reading without cost. There are 18 nos. teachers ● Organization at its minimum are teach them as a model ● capacity established to schools school. Chandrapara Gram Panchayet in these two villages to protect ● The other at Jadupur “AZAD is consist of 19 villages. It is in dropouts. The outreach works ACADEMY” (KG-I to class-IV) Chanchal II block of Malda involve – the intuition 251 students are district of West Bengal. ● i) Campaigning anti-child reading without cost. There Khanpur village has total of trafficking movement. are 10 nos. teachers are teach 927 inhabitant families. There ● ii) Campaigning to prevent them as a model school. are a total of 957 vulnerable child marriage. children in terms of education ● iii) Campaigning to prevent ● On the other side Jadupur a child labour protecting remote village of same block involvement of children in has inhabitant of 317 families hazardous job. with 485 vulnerable children in ● Thereby the institutional set terms of education. In these up of established on 2005 two two villages, organization nos. schools which name is conducted a bench mark “AZAD ACADEMY” to survey where in it is revealed prevent dropout is an essential fact that the rate of dropout is work. very high. Most of the ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. services and there are more than 35 people are KAGUS HEALTH HOME take services for their health. Other side KAGUS (A Charitable Dispensary Since 1987) has continued the mobile clinic health checkup among the block weekly. Along with that for best referral services there is ambulance service. The ambulance was donated by the honorable M.P. (L.S.), Mrs. Mousam Noor from her benevolent The fund. The clinic is run with the support from organization has special emphasis on immediate benevolent individual donors. An average six hours health services at primary level. Although the per day clinic is open for mothers and children organization is not in support of establishing regularly where every month averages of six parallel health services, immediate need for hundred patients are being treated. intervention in the target area was essential. In view to that we have established a clinic at Khanpur village with an access to primary health services on every morning and afternoon especially for mothers, children and eligible couple. In that care and support team the secretary directly as doctor (Homeopathy) and three outreach workers to look after the anti-natal, post-natal, neo-natal [Type text]Page 9 …………………….…………………………………………………………………………………………… RAJIV GANDHI NATIONAL CRECHE SCHEME FOR THE CHILDREN OF WORKING MOTHERS Supported by CSWB, Govt. of India in failure to meet the needs of both in the organized and working mothers in terms of extent, unorganised sectors. content and quality of services. Kagus has been 4nos Chrche centre Crèche and Daycare Services are not in Chanchal-II Block of Malda District only required by working mothers but since 2006-07. Every centre has two also women belonging to poor nos. Crèche mothers and 25 nos. of families, who require support and 1-5 year aged children. The Crèche relief from childcare as they struggle Programme is a day-care programme to cope with burden of activities, provided some nutritional food for within and outside the home. children of working or sick mothers With increased opportunities for Effective day care for young children from poor families who can go to employment for women and the need is essential and a cost effective work knowing that their children are to supplement household income investment as it provides support to safe and well cared for. The crèches more and more women are entering both the mothers and young children. run from 9.00 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. the job market. With the breaking up It is also a protection measure as it of joint family system and the addresses issues such as child labour, increased phenomenon of nuclear school drop outs, child prostitution, families, working women need outreach for medical and health support in terms of quality, programme female literacy etc., substitute, care for their young Hence, there is an urgent need for children while they are at work. There improved quality and reach of child has, however, been very slow growth day care services for working women of Crèche/ Daycare facilities, resulting among all socio-economic groups in Details of Creche Centre: Creche Creche Block Benefic Creche Mother & Worker Location/Area Unit iary KHANPUR Chanchal II 25 Salma Sultana Khanpur Village, PO-Goalpar, Malda I Sameda Khatun JADUPUR Chanchal II 25 Joyashree Singha Jadupur Village, PO-Galimpur, Malda II Runa Parvin KANDARAN Chanchal II 25 Sakila Banu Kandaran Village & Post, Malda III Aroti Lohar KISTOGANJ Chanchal II 25 Farida Khatu Krishnaganj Village,PO-Malatipur, Malda IV Choobi Manda Total 100 [Type text]Page 10 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... AMBEDKAR HASTSHIP VIKAS YOJNA (AHVY) Supported by Ministry of Textile (Handicraft), Govt. of India. organization started working with these handicraft artisans with the help of – i) Marketing & Service Extension Centre, D.C (Handicrafts), Ministry of Textile, Govt. of India ii) DIC Malda The activity involves making identity card to the artisan, providing support to their Design Development to facilitate better marketing and promotion of marketing by fair, exhibition etc. Artisans in Bamboo & Pottery Craft assigned on the implementation of AMBEDKAR HASTSHIP VIKAS YOJNA (AHVY),Ministry of Textile(Handicraft), Govt. of India. Project at Chanchal II Block in the Handicrafts artisan in the target area of the organization are in Malda District. jeopardy. As a result the children in the family are also suffering a lot for the same. To bring an overall promotion to the livelihood, Details of Project Location: AHVY Name of Gram Name of Village No. of SHGs Total no. of artisan Location/Area : Panchayet 630 Malatipur- Aladipur, . Chanchal II Block Barna-kumarpara, Krisnaganj. Artisan Benefited artisan-337 Chanchal II Block Kshempur- Mokdara, SHGs-23 Paranpur Chanchal II Block Gouhand- Gourhand, Jugiapara, Enayetnagar SHPI (SHGs), JLGs & Farmers Club- Formation & Mobilization Supported by NABARD Govt. and by the well-wishers by supplying the above mentioned necessary facilities to those backward areas. KAGUS working as SHPI since 2008-09 for SHGs, JLGs and Farmers Clubs formation in the Malda District and monitoring by Identify poor men and women. Then they have get train on Capacity building, Books maintenance, Bank linkage, Social activities, Guidance in economic activities, Plan for withdrawal and this year these groups • KAGUS thinks that it can change the status of the members are mostly self confidence on their income deplorable condition of the women, Poor people and while there were engaged various programme of our farmers folk only by the kind help and support of the EDPs and skill development training. A Joint Liability [Type text]Page 11 Group (JLG) is an informal group comprising of 4-10 families have been benefited through bank credit linkage individuals coming together for the purpose of availing bank loan on individual basis or through group various bank District Malda. They made 200 SHGs and mechanism against mutual guarantee. Generally, the members of a JLG would engage in a similar type of give them various type of voc ational Trainings for their economic activity in the Agriculture /Allied /Non – Farm income generation. They also arrange some awareness Sector. The members would offer a joint undertaking to camp in the Schools with the students and the teachers the bank that enables them to avail loans.JLG members and GPs and blocks with the Govt. service providers. are expected to provide support to each other in carrying out occupational and social activities. Through this scheme with the collaboration of NABARD the organization formed 160 nos. and in this regard 960 Coverage Area Involved District Malda Block Chanchal-II &Ratua-II Block SHGs total 150 1950 SHGs Minority total 98 1176 JLGs total 160 960 SHGs Adolescents 11 88 Artisan SHGs 23 337 Farmers Clubs 41 400 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Rogi Sahayata Kendra (A may I help you centre- to RSBY & Swastha Sathi member service.) KAGUS has been established the RSK centre on March’2014 at four Hospital of Malda district at Chanchal SD Hospital, Malatipur RH, Masaldaha Bazar RH, Araidanga BPHC to help RSBY & Swashtha Shathi card holders with support of Malda District Health & Family Welfare Samity under NRHM. Time of functioning: From 8 am to 8 pm. i.e. 12 hours in two shifts (@6 hrs /shift) Responsibilities of the Rogi Sahayaks: • Maintain and update list of high-risk/serious patients. • Provide information sought for by the visitors in a • Take other necessary steps to ensure optimum friendly manner. functioning of Rogi Sahayata Kendra. • Provide guidance to the visitors/ patients. • Maintaining the checklist for Doctor-party meet. • Maintain and update information database. • Provide knowledge on different NRHM schemes to the • Receive complaints/grievances/ suggestions, record mothers on JSSK. them in appropriate registers, issue a receipt, and • Statutory announcement from time to time in Public forward the complaints/ grievances/ suggestions to the Address System. superintendent of the end of each shift. • RSBY registration, Reception and processing. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… RNTCP (Laboratory Technician) At Samsi RH, Bhutni PHC, Kushida PHC of Malda The organization has been working on TB free and successfully. The three Laboratory Technician has been established 3 nos. Laboratory centre through the testing sputum everyday to 70-80 persons. District Health & Family welfare Samity at above Hospitals at Malda district from March’2014 till today PC&PNDT [Type text]Page 12 Khanpur Azad Gram Unnayan Samity has been working in some area of the Burdwan District to implementing the various activities like USG Clinic visit, awareness meetings at wards, College Sensitization programme, Save the Girl Child Meeting etc. under PC&PNDT Project as DH & FWS, Burdwan. In this scheme we have targeted in this year by the DH & FWS, Burdwan is 166 nos. USG Clinic visit, 135 nos. awareness meetings at wards, 19 nos. College Sensitization programme, 1 no. Save the Girl Child Meeting. Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission of HIV-AIDS (PPTCT The PPTCTC project implanting at 13 nos. ICTC With 5 nos. ORWs & one coord. at various ICTCT of Malda and Darjeeling District follow up & linkage ANC HIV positive mothers with ICTCT, ART to prevent HIV of their new baby. More over 200 nos. ANC & PNC mothers are under this project. Identified HIV+ ANC Mothers at ICTC and follow and counseling her to take CD4 count, start ART & continue, Institutional delivery, getting NVP baby DBS test, feeding care, start & continuing CPT. After 18 month of child age getting to Rapid test and save it from HIV reactive. More than 300 HIV+ ANC mothers and 300 Childs are getting services in this project to long life them. The main focus of rural development is to provide the better environment to a child in terms of the basic need of children – food, shelter, treatment, education and poverty less happy family. The main hindrance of rural area is poverty and lack of entrepreneurship. The organization’s main focus is to promote the socio-economic development by way of development The overall goal of the society to enhance the bargaining power of the Communities by strengthening their capacity through knowledge and information so that they are able to access rights and justice as well as build awareness about the social taboos prevailing in their community that hinders them from availing the public services and their development. The focus areas of the project was i. Facilitating empowerment of the socially excluded for their active participation in political processes and local decision-making; ii. Enhancing opportunities / options for generating opportunity both material and social. Interventions taken up included awareness campaigns on food and livelihood rights; Sensitisation workshops on government’s policies & schemes; Workshops on RTI, Child Rights, Prevention of Child Marriage, Right to Education, Right to Health; Review meetings to monitor and evaluate implementation of the food and work schemes within the panchayet, etc. The samity has been working on the creating awareness on the necessity of the use and SAVE pure drinking water among the massages. It also has been working on the fatal effect of reckless measure of underground water in rural areas. SPORTS KAGUS has been a volley ball play ground in its land. The ground made through the support of Youth & Sports department (Govt. of West Bengal) last year. In this ground the youths are playing regularly and This year our organization organized a volley ball tournament. The community youths are very influence to play. We also arrange sports for women SHGs. More than 85 women are participated in the Sports programmee. AWARENESS KAGUS has been organized awareness meetings and rallies to implement MGNREGA while rural labours are more and more involved in the 100 day work right. We are engaged the all of Panchayet of Chanchal- II & Ratua-II block for all facilities implement for rural development by PRI. A view of local panchyet prodhans of Chanchal –II block in this year MGNREGA work done a record scale. Last year average work done 29 days and after awareness this year done this work up to 57 days. NYK also funded Mentor Club while we have been networking with 22 nos. small clubs & NGO in Chanchal-II block for the youth’s development and sports. AWARD [Type text]Page 13 Best District Youth Club Award 2017-18 from Nehru Yuba Kendra, Govt.of India, Malda “Nai Roshni”-2013-14, The Scheme of Leadership Ministry of Minority Affairs Government of India. [Type text]Page 14