newsletter - jan 26 2014
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Anuraag a newsletter of NSS IIT Kharagpur
In this issue:
Highlights Photo feature: Regular NSS
activities Photo feature: Annual Camp
activities Reaching the Unreached an
article by Mr Anand Kapoor
Highlights Volunteers of units 12 and 15 of NSS IIT Kharagpur have been
working for more than a year to facilitate issuance of SC/ST certificates to residents of Rangametia and Sholadahar villages. During a survey they realized many at these villages did not have their SC/ST certificates a basic necessity for receiving a number of governmental assistance. They then sensitized the villagers about the usefulness of such certificates, assembled the documentary evidence needed for the issuance of the certificates, organized camps to bring the villagers in direct contact with the government officials and finished the application process by making online filing on behalf of the residents. Of about 150 filings from Sholadahar 130 were found to be in order and of 50 from Rangametia 20 were accepted. Distribution of the first instalment of 50 certificates took place on the occasion of NSS day celebration on October 5, 2013. Such activities are being rolled out at other villages where NSS IIT Kharagpur are active over the past several years.
About 500 volunteers, mainly first year undergraduate students of IIT Kharagpur, participated in the NSS IIT Kharagpur Annual Camp at Ayma, Nayapara and Arambati areas at the outskirts of Kharagpur between November 27 and December 3, 2013. These areas are flanked by major railway tracks and marshalling yards. As a result, access into and out of these low income neighbourhoods is poor. NSS volunteers repaired about 5-km of roads in these areas during the camp. Other camp activities included a training program on life-saving first-aid procedures such as CPR, a medical camp where 220 residents of Ayma and Porapara were treated, and distribution of clothes collected by the volunteers from IIT campus to about 300 residents of Ayma and Nayapara. An anonymous donation of medicines worth Rs. 30,000.00 for the medical camp patients needs a special mention in this regard. These activities are shared through a photo feature in this newsletter.
In addition, our NSS volunteers continue to teach underprivileged children, plant saplings, conduct damage survey, make water quality assessment, campaign to raise social awareness, help repair damaged village hutments and facilities, and conduct medical and blood donation camps.
This newsletter also shares the work of Mr Anand Kapoor, (Civil, 1974, LLR) and his wife Kusum Karnik amongst the tribal peoples of Maharashtra, which our volunteers and well wishers might find inspiring.
January 26, 2014
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Photo feature Regular activities
Photo feature Annual Camp activities
More than 1000 NSS volunteers from IIT Kharagpur spends three hours every week
teaching children, planting saplings, surveying damaged
hutments, assessing water quality, and campaigning to
raise social awareness, helping repair damaged hutments, and conducting medical and blood donation camps at 20 villages and slums around IIT Campus. This photo feature illustrates a
few of these activities.
More than 500 NSS volunteers of IIT Kharagpur participated in
an annual camp at Ayma, Nayapara and Arambati areas at
the outskirts of Kharagpur between November 27 and December 3, 2013. They participated in road repair,
garbage cleaning, and social awareness campaigns through a
rally and street plays in these low income neighbourhoods.
They also organized a program on first aid training for the locals aided by Dr D Gupta or BC Roy Technology Hospital, a medical camp, distributed clothes they
collected earlier from IIT Campus and medicines donated by an anonymous donor to the
locals.
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Construction of Dimbhe dam in a remote, hilly rainforest of Pune district led to the inundation of 11 villages displacing the inhabitants belonging to the Koli Mahadeo, Thakar, and Katkari tribes. Over the past 34 years I and my wife Kusum Karnik are working amongst these people through a voluntary organization, Shashwat. The reservoir has since been stocked with fish. Fishing leases, boats and nets have been arranged for the locals. The community uses state-of-the-art techniques of cage and pen culture taking care of sustainability by adopting net-size regulations and strictly-observed closed seasons and banning dynamite use. Fish size and abundance have increased, as have local incomes, and in 2013 the fish cooperative has come in to profit. From a relatively meagre 3670 kg of catch in 2007 of carp with average size 700 gm the production went to 27000 kg in 2013 with average size of 7 to 9 kg. Compared to only 3 manual fishing boats operating in 2003, 148 manual fishing boats operated at present.
Shashswat catalyzed creation of new paddy terraces on steep hill slopes above water line within the catchment area. The organization also supports local farmers obtain official ownership documents. Through lobbying and partnership with the local government, the organization has arranged pumps and pipelines for irrigating cultivatable lands that emerge when the reservoir water level goes down. Grain harvests have improved substantially, providing food security for the economically marginalized population and stoppage of seasonal migration away from the villages. Shashwat is helping the inhabitants conserve nearby forests, document conservation practices, and promoting wildlife sanctuary management in forest lands. Shashwat setup twelve pre-primary schools, a residential primary school for tribal school dropouts, a tribal girls hostel, which they hope will become a tribal sports academy in future and a health care program that focuses mainly on women and children.
I am a visiting faculty at Centre for Technological Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA), IIT Bombay. For last 8 years, two CTARA M. Tech students spend 10 weeks every year in the tribal villages of Shashwat project area to learn the tribal way of life, and the opportunities and challenges of the tribes. The students try to return the favour by making project reports on small development opportunities, e.g., diversion of hill streams for irrigation for subsequent implementation by Shashwat.
Shashwat was awarded the global UNDP Equator Prize and the Special Recognition Award for Freshwater Resource Management, by the Equator Initiative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) at the RIO+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development at Rio de Janiero, Brazil in June 2012.
Kusum and I welcome IIT KGP-ians to visit us and participate in our efforts at reducing the poverty of the tribes on the margins of the Dimbhe reservoir by helping them develop sustainable initiatives to live on the natural resources of the area.
Reaching the Unreached Anand Kapoor (IIT KGP 1974 Civil, LLR)
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Meet the new members of the NSS Team Professor Paramita Bhattacharya (CE) joined the NSS team in September 2013. She has been over as the Program Officer of Unit 11 serving the Talbagicha area. Professor Brundavanam Maruthi Manoj (Physics and Meteorology) has also joined the NSS team in January 2014 to take charge of Unit 12 that serves Rangametia village. He replaces Professor Ramkrishna Sen (Biotechnology), who is on sabbatical during Spring 2013-2014. The NSS team want to thank Professor Ritwik Layek (ECE), who was leading Unit 11 as Program Officer before Paramita took over.
NSS Officers, IIT Kharagpur Name (Function, Unit) Telephone Email
Vikranth Racherla (PO, 1) 3222 282900 [email protected] Kumar Rawat (PO, 2) 3222 281864 [email protected]
Dibakar Dhara (PO, 3) 3222 282326 [email protected] Ahin Nag (PO, 4) 3222 281900 [email protected]
Dilip Kumar Swain (PO, 5) 3222 283170 [email protected] Manab Kumar Das (PO, 6) 3222-282924 [email protected] Mantu Prasad Rajak (PO, 7) 3222 281800 [email protected]
Mintu Halder (PO, 8) 3222 283314 [email protected] Prosanta Guha (PO, 9) 3222 283124 [email protected]
ND Pradeep Singh (PO, 10) 3222 282324 [email protected] Paramita Bhattacharya (PO, 11) 3222 282472 [email protected]
Ramkrishna Sen (On leave) 3222 283752 [email protected] B Maruthi Manoj (PO, 12) 3222 283752 [email protected]
Arghya Deb (PO, 13) 3222 283412 [email protected] Sudip Misra (PO, 14) 3222 282338 [email protected]
Venimadhav Adyam (PO, 15) 3222 282340 [email protected] Abraham George (PO, Admin) 3222 283236 [email protected]
Debasis Roy (PC, NSS) 3222 283456 [email protected]
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NSS Officers, IIT Kharagpur Name (Function, Unit) Telephone Email
Vikranth Racherla (PO, 1) 3222 282900 [email protected] Kumar Rawat (PO, 2) 3222 281864 [email protected]
Dibakar Dhara (PO, 3) 3222 282326 [email protected] Ahin Nag (PO, 4) 3222 281900 [email protected]
Dilip Kumar Swain (PO, 5) 3222 283170 [email protected] Manab Kumar Das (PO, 6) 3222-282924 [email protected] Mantu Prasad Rajak (PO, 7) 3222 281800 [email protected]
Mintu Halder (PO, 8) 3222 283314 [email protected] Prosanta Guha (PO, 9) 3222 283124 [email protected]
ND Pradeep Singh (PO, 10) 3222 282324 [email protected] Paramita Bhattacharya (PO, 11) 3222 282472 [email protected]
Ramkrishna Sen (On leave) 3222 283752 [email protected] B Maruthi Manoj (PO, 12) 3222 283752 [email protected]
Arghya Deb (PO, 13) 3222 283412 [email protected] Sudip Misra (PO, 14) 3222 282338 [email protected]
Venimadhav Adyam (PO, 15) 3222 282340 [email protected] Abraham George (PO, Admin) 3222 283236 [email protected]
Debasis Roy (PC, NSS) 3222 283456 [email protected]
26, 2014