BUILDING RUraL INDIA Annual ReportAnnual 2011-12 ASSIST 1 TARGET FAMILIES & POPULATION S. Comm- Total Families Target Population Area Villages No. unities SC ST BC OC MIN Total Male Female Total SC ST BC OC MIN KRISHNA 1 Avanigadda 12 12 - 34 4,163 25 - 4,222 7,653 7,284 14,937 - 146 14,665 126 - Total 12 12 - 34 4,163 25 - 4,222 7,653 7,284 14,937 - 46 14,665 126 - PRAKASAM 2 Ballikurava 12 14 1,154 467 269 99 - 1,989 3,762 3,581 7,343 4,350 1,724 911 358 - 3 Markapur 25 25 2,121 63 2,759 1,705 108 6,756 14,941 14,313 29,254 9,260 290 12,377 6,820 507 4 Ongole 53 53 4,691 812 2,520 2,118 70 10,211 20,504 20,082 40,586 19,417 2,905 9,408 8,126 730 5 Pullalacheruvu 48 48 3,688 1,987 4,296 2,408 983 13,362 28,278 27,017 55,295 15,261 8,222 17,777 9,965 4,070 6 Vetapalem 27 28 206 984 1,180 271 13 2,654 4,576 4,359 8,935 722 3,221 3,992 963 37 Total 165 168 11,860 4,313 11,024 6,601 1,174 34,972 72,061 69,352 141,413 49,010 16,362 44,465 26,232 5,344 GUNTUR 7 Bollapalli 33 49 1,982 2,178 1,232 90 - 5,482 13,446 12,981 26,427 9,316 10,977 5,625 509 - 8 Chilakaluirpet 10 10 730 283 463 75 180 1,731 3,139 3,238 6,377 2,676 1,107 1,754 242 598 9 Edlapadu 11 15 906 380 66 3 3 1,358 2,800 2,704 5,504 3,278 1,942 259 13 12 10 Gutlapalli 26 31 707 2,043 1,216 66 42 4,074 9,214 8,709 17,923 3,219 8,740 5,401 368 195 11 Piduguralla 17 31 2,111 703 2,206 549 463 6,032 12,394 11,947 24,341 8,739 2,822 8,930 2,078 1,772 Total 97 136 6,436 5,587 5,183 783 688 18,677 40,993 39,579 80,572 27,228 25,588 21,969 3,210 2,577 RANGAREDDY 12 Pudur 44 44 2,964 388 4,078 843 1,172 9,445 22,971 22,894 45,865 14,022 2,492 19,152 4,122 6,077 Total 44 44 2,964 388 4,078 843 1,172 9,445 22,971 22,894 45,865 14,022 2,492 19,152 4,122 6,077 Grand Total 318 360 21,260 10,322 24,448 8,252 3,034 67,316 143,678 139,109 282,787 90,260 44,588 100,251 33,690 13,998 Percentage 31.58 15.33 36.32 12.26 4.51 50.81 49.19 31.92 15.77 35.45 11.91 4.95 SC - Scheduled Caste; ST - Scheduled Tribe; BC - Backward Caste; OC - Other Castes; MIN - Minorities CONTENTS l FROM THE DIRECTORS ... 2 l SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ... 4 Sensitisation ... 5 People’s Organisations ... 7 Women Empowerment ... 10 Child Development ... 12 Community Health ... 18 l INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ... 20 Habitation Development ... 22 Safe Water & Water Resources Management ... 28 l ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ... 32 l CAPACITY BUILDING ... 36 l PARTNERS IN PROGRESS ... 38 l AUDITOR’S REPORT & FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ... 40 l FUTURE Thrust ... 46 l Organogram ... 47 l EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS ... 48 l TARGET VILLAGES ... 50 1 From the Directors Another year has passed with the continuous commitment of all the stakeholders to take the development process further in all our target communities. This particular year has proved that any political disturbance in the State starts affecting the development process initiated at the grass-root level. It is significantly visible, whatever the amount of empowerment programmes. Political disturbance in the State has put halt not only to the industrial growth but also created a state one could achieve at the community level, its sustenance is linked with the government policies, strategies and welfare of confusion among all the sections of people in the society. Though the existence of State Government has become a question mark, the people could survive with the continuous welfare measures combined with Employment Guarantee Scheme spread over the year almost. As a consequence, the development process preaching the target families to strive Increasing migration trend from the rural areas to towns and cities for for their own development with self-dignity, respect and pride is becoming less significant among the target population. want of employment and aspiring bright future in urban environment is also hitting the development process at the grass-root level. It is rural areas. It is quite visible in many of the villages that only old people gradually becoming difficult to get the required labour force in the are remaining as care takers of the houses and structures while the agro-based economy is effecting very badly and fertile lands are being majority of youth are employed out in the towns and cities. As a result, kept idle either for want of labour or due to increasing resources to cultivate them. On the other hand, in the urban areas, agglomerations conditions. It is herculean task for any Government to take care of this are multiplying day by day with ill health, unhygienic and insanitary creating Special Economic Zones by taking away the fertile agriculture abnormal urban growth. In the name of reforms, Government policy of lands is also added factor for this situation. Interim review of 11th Financial Five Year Plan (2007-2012) states broadly that the socio-economic trends in Andhra Pradesh in the past few years have delineated a distinct dynamic and expansionist phase since 2004-05 spanning the Tenth and the Eleventh Five Year Plan periods covering all the sectors of the State economy. In fact, a period of with negligible growth in agriculture bringing down the overall growth consolidation followed from 2008-09, spurred by the global slowdown rate for the year to 6.88% from an overwhelming 12.02% in the previous year. With 11th Five Year Plan nearing completion and 12th Five Year entire 2007-08 to 2011-12 will throw light on the development that Plan on the anvil, a review of the performance of the economy for the took place across sectors during the 5-year period. One perceptible improvement is in the standards of living of the people in the State in the recent past, attributable to a number of strategic initiatives put in still has expanded the gap between the rich and poor and hitting badly place by the Government over the years. However, this improvement J. RANGA RAO at the Gini Coefficient Operational Director between urban and rural as landless population in the Country over . At the same time, the percentages differ in the decades are still landless in spite of the land distribution schemes for the betterment of poor. 2 From the Directors Assessing the situation as a whole, one can come to the conclusion that everyone started looking at the short-term gains resources including human resources in the long-term perspective. It is heartening to hear the people as everyone tries for their personal benefit or survival rather than looking at the sustainable development with optimum utilisation of to throw the blame on someone else: political parties want to complete their term of existence keeping intact their vote bank with more and more promises to come back to the power; bureaucrats want to complete their period of service with many compromises; common people are getting adjusted merely with the welfare measures surrendering their self-respect, pride and dignity. more on keeping the community-based organisations as cohesive as possible and not to disturb the development process In this scenario, ASSIST has completed one more year of its service to the society continuing its efforts having concentrated as follows: initiated in its target communities. At this juncture, ASSIST would like to highlight the specific interventions of the year ● Entry into Pullalacheruvu Mandal of Prakasam District, which is the most backward, neglected and underdeveloped in Agriculture sector with the support of Plan India is the most mandal of the District, to combat the problem of Girl Child Labour challenging task taken by up by ASSIST during this year. This mandal being the 6th lowest one in the entire State and 1st lowest in the ● DistrictSensitisation in literacy continued rate, it to is play really a major a gigantic role task.not only in developing the positive mind set about the sustainable development of their communities including themselves but also in enabling them to for their betterment in an organised way by acquiring the necessary reflect on their present status in the society and to promote them ● skills,Community knowledge based and organisations talents. have been moulded to take up the developmental initiatives on their own in their respective communities by pooling the possible resources locally and by tapping the resources from the Government and Non-Government sources. ● Combating the problem of child labour in all the operational areas of ASSIST through the rehabilitation of working children in going children to the local schools by extending the supportive Transitional Education Centres, mainstreaming the non-school assistance and strengthening the school infrastructure to make the school environment child-friendly and parent friendly. Enlightening the target population including the children on Right to Education Act and strengthening the school management committees are the focussed areas of the year.