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KCES’ JalaSRI Watershed Surveillance and Research Institute have extended its work in Dhule and

Nandurbar districts along with Jalgaon district. We are mainly working for water centric activities and

our areas of work are: Implementation and evaluation, Research and Education, Training and skill

development and awareness and outreach.

In reporting period of 2016-17 we have achieve few more mile stones and theses are as follows:

Implementation and Evaluation: We have developed, Horizontal and Up floor Reed Bed for

treatment of sewage water using natural media in Pathri village. It is an innovative but proven

activity for treatment of domestic sewage water for Pathri village.

We worked extensively and intensively as third party for the assessment of work done under

Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan which is a flagship program of Government. We offered the third party

evaluation job by district administrator Jalgaon and to be finished in very short span of time.

And we successfully finished the survey work in 23 days and all data were computerized and all

activities were tagged using GIS. The report was unbiased and eye opener for all. We presented

the analysis and observation for each activity before the honorable collector, CEO ZP, DCFs,

SADO and all district and taluka level executives of all departments.

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After Jalgaon district’s experience we would like to spread our working area and after

continuous visit and telephonic conversation with district level officers in surrounding districts,

we got the opportunity to work in Dhule as well as Nandurbar district. We may extent our area

further may be in next year.

In Dhule district we have done evaluation for 121 activities and report submitted to district

administration.

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Research and Education:

We are running one lab for development of biofertilizer and we have developed 600 small bags

and simultaneously doing field trials also at very small scale.

We have also developed a small nursery for indigenous species and more than 4000 saplings

are ready for plantation in coming monsoon.

We are also trying to establish a unit for mushroom cultivation but sometimes climatic

conditions become hurdles.

Budding Research:

• Two students (Hemant Mahale and Aditi Patil) of Third year Statistic department prepare a short paper on “Rain fall monitoring using control chart for the last hundred years (1916-2015) for Jalgaon district” for Avishakar and this will be developed in the form of poster.

• Ravindra Jadhav B.Sc. Geoinformatics, “Identification of suitable sites for water harvesting structures in Suki watershed” also participated in Avishakar

One research Project is ongoing entitled, “ S & T Communications and interpretive capacity

building on Eco and WASH issues” sponsored by DST New Delhi. In this project awareness

component is well done in five villages of Jalgaon District.

Various street plays were organized at village level for sensitization of personal hygiene

and sanitation

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Training and skill development: This year JalSRI offered technical training to the ground level

executives of different departments who are working for Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan in three districts viz.,

Jalgaon, Dhule and Nandurbar. Our senior team member Mr. Milind Pandit who is main trainer for

training on, “Water conservation: technical and practical learning in context to Jalyukta Shivar” become

honorary advisor for the executives of Jalyukta Shivar in three districts.

Mr. Milind Pandit Main Trainer of the program explaining easy tool to draw the contour line

Mrs. Rubal Agarwal, Collector Jalgaon, Mr. Anil Bhokare, PM Vasundhara Project,

Prof. U.D. Kulkarni Principal M.J. College Jalgaon also present on this occassion

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Certificate Distribution By Hon’ble Collector Dhule to participants of various batches

Upgradation of knowledge for staff member

Mr. Tushar Chaudhari attended DST SERB Workshop on Advanced Techniques for monitoring water

quality and management of stressed groundwater aquifers organized by Sri Shakthi Institute of

Engineering and Technology at Coimbatore

Mr. Tushar Chaudhari and Mr. Chetan Mahajan have successfully completed course on 'Remote Sensing

and GIS Applications in Carbon Forestry' held during 16 Feb - 10 Mar 2017, under IIRS off campus

outreach certificate programme sponsored by National Natural Resources Management System

(NNRMS), New Delhi

Awareness and outreach:

Our work for awareness of water during water week: we are actively participating in awareness

program for water conservation and in this context water week celebration become our regular annual

celebration. We organized talk show, poster presentation, short film show (water centric), workshops,

path natya etc

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KCES’s President Shri. Nandkumar Bendale welcoming Jalgaon district collector

Mr.Kishor Nimbalkar for water awareness week program at M.J.College

Mr.Kishor Nimbalkar, Dr.Swati Samvatsar and Dr.U.D.Kulkarni observing posters

prepared by M.J.College students under water awareness week

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M.J.College students presenting a street play at Kavya Ratnavali Chauk, Jalgaon to

create water awareness

Dr. Swati Samvatsar, Director JalaSRI, delivering a lecture to students and parents at Balvigyan

Manch program

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Roof top water harvesting awareness camp in association with Jalgaon Municipal

Corporation, Jalgaon in the presence of Nitin Laddha Mayor, Sanjay Kapadnis

Commissioner

Self help group exposure visit to Bahadarpur

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Vice Admiral Mr. Sunil Bhokre is accepting live green gift from us and with team members of JalaSRI.

Hon’ble Collector Ms Rubal Agrawal IAS and Mr. Anil Bhokre Agriculture Department Jalgaon

Chetan, Sanket and Aaba were actively involved in the fair and interacted with farmers

We also participated in Kisan Agri fair at Pune

Dr. Swati delivered a lecture for water centric development at Department of Environment

Sciences North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon and Rotary Club Jalgaon

Beneficiaries/stake holders

• Number of participants for workshop: 250

• Number of participants for field visit: 115

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• Number of villagers present during pathnatya: 875

• Number of students involved in budding research program : 2

• Number of participants in technical training on water: 349

JalaSRI is committed for Community development

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JalaSRI Committed for

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