ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS…………………NNGOs in Action..........

Kankadahad Block , District -Dhenkanal

In Dhenkanal district of Orissa Yuva Jyoti

training programme was inaugurated by

President of the Zi l la Parishad. She

praised the efforts of CAPART in bring

out such programme in smaller pockets

which wil l help young unemployed in

gett ing employment. The area being

domina ted by t r iba l popu la t ion w i l l

specif ical ly get benefi t ted from such

programme.

Training is being provided in Computer

Data Entry, Electrical Motor Winding,

Automobile Mechanic and Driving and

Floriculture.

AIRA - In Dhenkanal Orissa ...........

Yuva Jyoti - Training

Multi Applied System (MAS)- In Keonjhar Orissa

RYP Training on IT

'Sports Day, Distribution of Study material Kits'.

At: Khireitangiri, Block: Patna, Dist. Kendujhar of Orissa

Date: August 4th 2007

On August 4th 2007 the 'Sports Day' was organized to

increase fellow-feeling and Team Spirit among the students.

Events like 'Foot Ball', 'Kabbdi', 'Kho Kho' and 'Musical Chair'

were conducted.

Block Chairman, Patna, Sri Gaurahari Nayak was the

Chief guest and Addl. Project Director, DRDA, Mrs. Susamarani

Devi was the Chief Speaker, the BDO, Patna, Mr. Nirdha Topoo

was the Guest of Honour.

The guests lauded the initiative of CAPART and urged

the students to take benefits of the training available during

this program. They spoke about the rapid industrialization taking

place in the Kendujhar District and the computerization process

at the Panchayat and the Block level initiated by the Govt.

Zilla Parishad President Smt. P. Behera is inaugurating

the Training Programme by lighting the lamp.

CCD - NNGO Project(Gumma Block of Gajapati District, Orissa)

On 19th Aug'07, Hon'ble Minister for Rural Development

Sri Chandra Sekhar Sahu visited the interior pockets of

Ajayagada Panchayat of Gumma block of Gajapati District.

On the request of Mr. A. Jagannadha Raju, Secretary of

CCD the hon'ble Minister visited the Rural Young professional

scheme and Nodal NGO scheme implementing by CCD at

Gumma Block supported by CAPART.

At 11.00 AM Hon'ble Minister reached Gumma and visited

the computer training centre. Along with Mr. Ch. Ramachandra

Rao, President Zil la Parishad, Sri Trinath Sahu, MLA of

Paralakhemundi Constituency, Smt. Premika Mandal, Chair

Person, Gumma Panchayat Samiti also visited the training

centre. Interaction was held with RYPs, computer instructor

and with Block coordinator of NNGO-CAPART.

Hon'ble Minister also desired to know the issues of

Gumma Block. Block Coordinator of NNGO shared the issues

like Health, communication and Education. Minister suggested

to give more emphasis on education and promote high schools

at Gram panchayat level as the literacy rate is very low and few

panchayats have a high school.

He appreciated the developmental work done by CCD.

He wrote an appreciation note as follows.

"Today I had an opportunity to visit a training

centre at Gumma which has been supported by

CAPART. The NGO Cen t re f o r Commun i t y

Development which is the Nodal agency and has taken

up this training centre giving training about 50 students

belonging to SC & ST only on computer and automobile

trade. I had interacted with the trainees. They gave

their experience and are happy about the training as

this shall enable them for livelihood in future. It is a

remote tribal area. This type of activities shall definitely

help the downtrodden. CAPART should take up more

of such activities in remote areas. Hon'ble Prime

Minister Dr. Mon Mohan Singh and Hon'ble Chair

Person Smt Sonia Gandhi both have a dream for

developed India by 2020. So the "BHARAT NIRMAN"

a flagship program of UPA. I wish CCD to help the

poor in a more effective manner in future by taking up

such programmes in the whole of Gajapati District."

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(Chandra Sekhar Sahu)MEMBER PARLIAMENT

(LOK SABHA)

BERHAMPUR CONSTITUENCY

The RYPs are welcoming the Hon'ble Minister Sri Chandra Sekhar Sahu

Interaction is going on with Block Coordinator of NNGO-CAPART

Interaction is going

on with RYPs about

computer education

Society for the Welfare of Weaker Sections

(SWWS) is the Nodal NGO for CAPART in

Rayagada and Gosani Blocks of Gajapati

Distr ic t in Or issa. The organizat ion got

sanction of 200 youth under RYP scheme.

The 200 youth are from Rayagada block for

the following trades

> Computer Data Entry Operator,

> Driving & Automobile Mechanics

> Tailoring & Garment making

The training is being organized at the district

headquarter town at Parlakhemundi.

SWWS in Rayagada district, Orissa

RYP Training

I visited the training centre being run by SWWS on Computers supported

by CAPART & interacted with the participants. It is definitely a good

initiative and would enhance the skills of the rural educated youth to

adopt self employment as well as to get employment to the market. The

participants need to have a clear vision of what they aspire and what

they can do through such brains. A good effort indeed.

Sri. B. K. Bal,IAS,State Director United Nations

Mr. Sasibhusan Padhi, PD, DRDA

explaining the trainees on schemes

“Reaching the unreached for life skillenhancement through RYP”

PRAVA - Nodal NGO for Balasore

Project Title - Rural Young Professionals

Area

126 villages covering all 25

GPs o f N i l g i r i B lock i n

Balasore District of Orissa.

Opening of Training Centre on

10.06.2007 at Beherasahi,

Nilgiri, Balasore and onwards

continuation.

Trades

> Domestic Electrician

> Tailoring

> Basics of Computer Operation ( Compulsory for

all trades)

Regular daily Theory, Practical & Yoga classes, Weekly

Environmental cleaning & Sanitation programmes, Monthly

Health Check ups, Monthly unit Tests and Assessments.

A four month residential training programme for Rural Young

Professionals (Gramin Yuva Jyoti) is organizing from 15 may,

2007 in Azagarbahr Panchayat of Korba Block. I t was

inaugurated by Chair Person of Zila Panchayat, Korba Mrs.

Shakuntala Kanwar in presence of PRIs members, villagers &

RYPs.

Initially general training has been provided on Career

building, Personality development, knowledge of health,

hygiene and sanitation. Information about Govt. policy like

CENTRE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (CARD), KORBA

Rural Young Professional Scheme

information right act, NREGA.

From 19/05/2007 intensive training (theory

& practical) is being provided in all selected 3 trades

i.e. Electrical, Auto Mobile Trade and Tailoring &

Agarbatti trade according to designed syllabus by

our experienced key trainers.

For sel f employment , a workshop was

organized at training centre. Mr. M.L. Kuser,

(Manager , D IC , Korba ) , Mr . N .R . Av inash i

(Manager, Antyavsai Vikas Nigam, Korba) and Mr.

P.L. Sahu (APO Zila Panchayat, Korba) participated

as the resource person in the workshop.

Market survey was facilitated for getting ideas for self

employment.

Rallies on Rural Sanitation Campaign were organised

in Azagarbahr, Narvada & Daladli village by RYPs for creating

awareness about sanitation, health & hygiene.

Bal lavpur Gi tanja l i Associat ion for Rura l Development(BGARD), a voluntary organizat ion was sanct ioned YPSTARTER package on 19th December, 2003 for the amount of

Rs.2,87,000.00. The society is located at the outskirts ofSriniketan-Santiniketan, the place of Rabindra Nath Tagorelocated at vill. - Ballavpur, P.O.Sriniketan, Dist. Birbhum,

Pin.731236, West Bengal.

Mrs. Rupa Salui (Karmakar) was the YP of CAPART in2000-2002 Batches. She was placed in a V.O at Howrah andthereafter she continued and completed her tenure in CAPART

at RC, Bhubaneswar. CAPART and its YP package helpedher to get inspiration serving rural masses.

After completion of YP tenure in CAPART, she involvedactively in BGARD as the Secretary of that organization.

The society started its journey towards intensive ruraldevelopment availing YP starter Package. Initially, they took

few villages as their working area for holistic approaches forsocial-economic development under Bilati Gram Panchayet ofIllambazar Development Block of Birbhum district. The interior

location, poor communication, far away from main market and

Impact of YP STARTER Package

Step towards SHG formation in a

ST village, Achaipara

SHG members are encouraged

for own business at Dangapara.

Gathering for SHG formation

in Pratappur village

Mr. Das, MC, CAPART with Mr. Ghosh,

Pradhan, Bilati G.P of I l lambazar

Block, Birbhum district

A CASE STUDY OF SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF RURAL TECHNOLOGY IN CHANGING

RURAL LIFE (CAPART helps to increase the Seed Replacement Ratio in Orissa State)

Live and Let Live (LALL) is Voluntary Organisation basedin Jagatsinghpur district in Orissa. This district is worst

affected by Super Cyclone in Orissa in 1999. In post supercyclone period, there was great shortage of improved varietyof seed to rehabilitate farmers whose main occupation was

agriculture. This organization under a team of professionalshaving agricultural background entered into agriculture fieldparticularly in seed production, preservation and aromatic rice

production in order to increase the per capita income of smalland marginal farmers of Raghunathpur block of Jagatsinghpurdistrict.

CAPART Hqrs., New Delhi being convinced about theproject proposals supported the organization for the activitiesof farmers training increase soil fertility, inputs, seed processing

and seed processing technology under Public Cooperation (PC)Scheme. The technical input support to this project wasprovided by Central Rice and Research Institute (CRRI),

Cuttack and Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology(OUAT), Bhubaneswar

In the year 2006, the farmers could produce 700 quintalsof foundation seeds and 200 quintals of aromatic TL seedsfrom 135 acres of land by 150 BPL farmers and marketed that

quantity of seeds by 42 dealer points through the marketinglicense of Green Feed Seeds, Bangalore, in the state of Orissa.The farmers have got Rs700/- per quintal from high yield paddy

seeds and Rs800/- per quintal from aromatic paddy. Among

those 10 nos. of farmers had gone to CIAE, Bhopal by the helpof CRRI, Cuttack to get the farmer specialized training aboutf i rm mechanizat ion such as mat type nursery , power

transplantation, combined harvester etc.

Mrs. Archana Nayak, Hon'ble M.P, Kendrapara hasvisited the seed patch and has supported Rs.2.5 lakhs from

her MP Lad towards construction of seed processing shed.

This project of CAPART has succeeded in generatingtrust among the local, off icials & non-officials that rural

technologies can really bring change in the quality of rural life.

lastly Minority and ST population were the reasons for selectionthe panchayet as project area. Now, the entire Panchayet was

covered consisting 32 villages. Still, BGARD is the only societythat is working in the area and all the SHGs have been formedby their own effort. The impact of YP starter package may be

summarized by the following heads:-

Economic empowerment : With due consultation withthe panchayet authorities, the society started to organise therural poor and help them to form SHGs with the objectives to

unite them, to grow up nature of savings, to create savings andcredit transaction with Bank. The society formed more than 65SHGs through out the Panchayet which consist more than 700

rural poor. All the groups are having SB A/Cs in bankinginstitutions. They have developed their own group fund bydepositing monthly subscriptions. They are used to utilize their

group fund by interlending to the members to meet urgent need,start ing micro enterprises. The main economic activit iesundertaken by SHG members are kantha-stich work, animal

husbandry, nursery raising etc. Need based capacity buildingtraining to the SHGs were imparted by the organization. The

society workers help to sketch out different IGP (Incomegeneration Programme) for the SHGs and made liaison betweenthe SHGs and the Block level official for training components.

All these activities helped in -

> Social empowerment of the women> Improvement of literacy status> Success of immunization and raising health status

> Improvement of social awareness

Now these days, the society nurture 65 SHGs under

SGSY scheme, 68 SHGs under NABARD assistance, conductdifferent need based skil l development/ IGP programme,promote marketing of SHGs' products through export house

and melas, exhibition etc, run two child labour schools, promoteagricultural practice in a scientific manner by the poor farmers,organize awareness programme for environmental issues etc.

Mrs. Ranjana Chopra, IAS, Director ofAgriculture & Food Processing, Govt. ofOrissa inspecting the seed processing unit.

M rs . A r chana Nayak ,Hon'ble M.P, Kendraparahas visited the seed patchand has supported Rs.2.5lakhs from her MP Ladtowards construction ofseed processing shed.

Seed Processing Plant

Fight for Poverty : A Case Study

Smt. Sukanti Patra, Aged 32, Wife of Sri Basudev Patra

Trade - Leaf Cup/Plate making.

Smt.Sukanti Patra who had migrated from Ganjam district is

residing in Vi l l . Khajuripada, GP/Block - Khajuripada of

Kandhmal district since last 7 years. She was supplementing

her family income by working as daily wage earner engaging

herself in agricultural and other labour related works. She was

being exploited by middle men resulting in meagre wages i.e.

Rs. 25-30/-per day. In addition to this, she used to collect Siali

leaves from nearby forest and sold them in Bhanjanagar

township, around 90 kms away from her village. Her total income

from the above sources was hardly Rs. 1000/- per month.

After being informed about "SKILL DEVELOPMENT

TRAINING" under Special SGSY Programme of CAPART RC

(EZ) by CHARM, Khajuripada, she availed the opportunity to

undergo the training in the Trade of Leaf Cup/Plate making for

a period of one month. By acquiring this skill, presently, she is

engaged in CHARM IGP Unit for moulding Leaf Cups and

Plates. Initially, she could mould 500 leaves per day and used

to earn Rs.20-25/-per day. But now,she is able to mould about

1000 leaves and earn Rs. 45-55/- per day.

Hence, it is evident that due to the acquired skills, she

is today better positioned to provide reasonable healthy family

standard for herself and her children.

Life skills for Food Security- A Case Study

Shri Krishna Kishan, Aged 25 years, Son of Sri Bhuja Kishan,

V i l l . Bha luduma, GP/B lock - Ra jgangpu r , D i s t .

Sundargarh.

Trade - Fast-food Preparation.

Sri Krishna Kishan is the eldest son of the family. His father,

Bhuja is a low salaried employee of Electrical office. To

supplement his income, Bhuja Kishan started a road-side hotel

in Rajgangpur township area. He persuaded Krishna to take

over the hotel business leaving his Intermediate studies.

However, his hotel business suffered losses inspite of his further

investment of another Rs. 5000/-. This was due, primarily to

unskilled and untrained culinary skills. In course of time, he

shut down his hotel and started a chowmein stall which too ran

up huge losses for the very same reason.

In the meanwhile, he saw the advertisement of Youth

(Partner NGO of OPDSC) relating to "SKILL DEVELOPMENT

TRAINING" of CAPART under Special SGSY and availed the

opportunity to undergo Fast food Preparation Training under the

supervision of master trainer from nearby start hotels. After

successful completion of 15 days training programme, he

invested an amount of Rs. 5000/- for re-opening his Fast food

stall. By acquiring the new culinary skill he is now able to cater

many more customers and serve them tasty food items like

Egg Roll, Chicken Pakoda, Chicken Manchurian, Fried Rice

etc.

Now, his weekly income amounts to Rs.4500 to 5000/- .

This has enabled him to share Rs. 1000/- per day from his profit

after meeting all expenses. He himself admits that the skill

development training of CAPART has helped a lot in realising

his dream of a hotelier in the near future.

ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS…………………

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Area of Operation: 1 Pilot Block Jhalda II of Purulia District, WB.

Gram Panchayats covered: 9 GP (Hirapur Adardi, Noahatu, Bamnia Beldi, Chika, Rigid, Majhidih, Tatuara, Chitmu, Begunkodar)

Plantation

Lakshipur and Murguma village of Begunkodar GP has achieved a lot in

plantation. Over there forest protection cell members are also the membersof Vikash Sarathi group. This year they have planted 7 acres of land (includingforest and community land) under Joint forest Mgt. programme. Except these

some scattered plantation are also done in pvt. Land. Local range office haspraised their initiative and supported them from his department. However thiswill help to check surface run off water as well as reel erosion of topsoil.

Building Water Reservoir

Bamnia Beladi GP has taken a positive

initiative to preserve the surface run offrain water in some structures in a plannedway after GVA induct ion training. Mr.

Parameswar Kumar, Upa Pradhan of theGP had attended the training and has gotselected as Vikash Sarathi member. He has

used 100 days work scheme for the purposeand materialized the village developmentplan before rainy season. The reservoirsare planned so to collect runoff water from

village roads and nearby hills having a longcatchments area. During summer this waterwill be used by community for daily use

and irrigation purposes. The community hasstarted fishery in those reservoirs this year.Plantation is going on the banks of the

reservoirs.

Movement against BDO

Movement raised by the “Vikas Sarathi Group” against the BDO

and other responsible officials of drinking water department, indemand of repairing of damaged tube wells and sanction of newtube wells or any other methods of preservation of water and

supply of drinking water to the water scarcity areas is really a goodsign for the success of the GVA.

The news was covered by several news papers in appreciation ofthe public and “Vikas Sarathi Group”.

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Mr. Birendra Sahu, Zilla Parishad Member of Karlamunda Zone-2had participated in the 5th Phase Training of Gramin Vikas

Andolan at Regeda G.P. as a Guest. Mr. Sahu had internalisedthe whole discussion as well as the burning problem of KarlamundaBlock. After few days of training session Mr. Sahu had attended

a meeting at Zilla Parishad, Kalahandi. He naratted his experienceof Gramin Vikas Andolan Programme and he had demanded formassive plantation as well as Water Conservation Measures to

be implement at Karlamunda Block. Mr. Sahu could influenceother members to take the problem as an issue of the area and

implement some activities accordingly. Also the block

chairman of Karlamunda Block is very active to supportthe objective of Gramin Vikas Andolan.

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IN SARANGARH BLOCK, DIST. RAIGARH, � ����!��

In Chhattisgarh, the “Vikas Sarathi groups” of Sarangarh Block of Raigarh district operated by the VO Janmitram has

taken over the responsibilities to identify and list out the water scarcity areas and appropriate places for the

development of new water structures for the benefit of the community. This list will latter be helpful in emerging the

program with NREGS and Swajaldhara schemes of MoRD.

Impact

> At Tand iPar V i l l age , Peop le

Demanded Irrigation officials ForRational Distribution of Kodar DamWater

> At Nou-Rungpur, Panchyat hasin i t i a ted p lan ta t i ons w i thou texternal budget sanction.

> Jal Yojna is being prepared byVikas Sarthees, voluntar i ly inmany panchayats

> 178 PRIs (Ward Members )Volunteered to become Vikassarthi in there cluster. Local MLA

Wants to Lead Vikas Yatra.

> ZP has approved a p lan fo rPanchyat Helpline under BRGF

Scheme, t o f ac i l i t a te wa te rconservation projects

BAGH TALAB Bacho Aandolan

Senior citizens of Raigarh City count over 50 ponds in there memories. However

the new master plan of city has counted only 16. When the vigilant civilians wentthrough the list, they got an important pond missing. BAGH TALAB (Tiger’s pond),the oldest and biggest pond was shown as land, owned by direct descendants of

Raigarh dynasty. Soon there are rumors that a colony is being planed over thepond.

A Peoples forum has been formed to save Ancient Bagh Talab. Lawyers, NGOs,

EX-MLA, Human rights activists have joined the movement. Now the agenda haveincluded other recently degenerated ponds. Commissioner of City Corporation isnow facing the heat. An unprecedented awareness and sensitization is seen for

water conservation at Raigarh.

THE KEDAR DAM

TandiPar is a Village of Sarnagarh Block, in Raigarh district of Chattisgarh. It is

only 3 Km Away form a dam, made by irrigation department. Care takers of dam, are

apparently concerned about water level that ideally should be maintained. They

generally discharge water when it goes over the limit. As a result, farmers of

TandiPar never get water in summers, or at time of sowing. instead, in last two

years, Dam gates were opened at a time when crop was ready for harvest.

In May 2007, GVA Training was conducted by Jan-Mitram. People discusses there

pain and vikas sarthis decided to take initiative in this regard. Few enthusiasts went

to meet irrigation officials, however no result obtained. Then the

media, Covering GVA run this story on TV Channels. Soon the

officials visited the village, discussed the issue and dam employees

were instructed to keep in touch with villagers, release water

accordingly.

GRAMIN VIKAS ANDOLAN AT BODLA BLOCK, KABIRDHAM, CHHATISGARH

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PROJECT AREA BACKGROUND

> No. of Panchayats 98

(52 Under PESA)

> Village (Total) – 312

> Tribal Villages – 163

> Forest Village – 10

> Total Population – 1,38,861

S.C. – 9.2%, S.T. – 39.09 %

> Area – 1741.01 Sq. Kms.

> Average Rain – 499.0 mm.

> Perennial drought hi t hence under

D.P.A.P.

> Primitive Baiga Population - 18343OUTPUT OF THE PROJECT TILL DATE

> All training programmes are nearing to complete

> Demand generation from community for water conservation

> Specific objectives were derived by the community itself

> Government line agencies were linked and involved into the

programme thoroughly.

> Various issues in different fields are being sensitized amongst

the community.

> VSGs formed – 28 out of 41

> Watch Agencies formed – 71 out of 98

SUGGESTIONS FOR STRENGTHENING GVA

> Fostering competition amongst the VSGs & Watch Agencies

(VIKAS UTSAV)

> Induction of VIKAS DOOTS at Panchayat level

> State level sensitization programme of Grameen Vikas Andolan

> Outsourcing some of the village level works of government to

VSGs.

Village - Daldali on 19th May 2007 , Inauguration of GVA by Dr. Raman Singh, Hon’ble Chief Minister,Chhatisgarh in presence of the District Collector, Chairman Zilla Panchayat and Chairman, JanpatPanchayat Bodla.

T h e T r a i n i n g P r o g r a m w a sinaugurated by the JilaPanchayatChairman Thakur Raghuraj Singhinthe Gracious presence of Mr. H.K.Das, Co-ordinator GVA Program

CAPART-EZ atVillage- Chhaprinear Bhoramdevon 6th May, 2007

AT NOU-RUNGPUR, PANCHYAT HAS

INITIATED PLANTATIONS WITHOUT

EXTERNAL BUDGET SANCTION.

Nourangpur is a panchyat, situated at 12 Km in eastof Sarangarh. This panchyat has representation ofyoung ward members, who themselves volunteered

to become Vikas Sarthis. The panchyat has decidedto go for plantation, with its untied fund and peoplessupport. It is a remarkable event because in these

areas, Panchyat never do any work without externalfunding, or sanction in any schame. Jal Yojna isalso being prepared in the village.

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A number of PRIs after sensitization, now ask for experts assistance

for formulation of the water harvesting projects as per various MORDScheme’s guideline.

Further assistance will be needed for implementation

The helpline centre will be established at the block HQ of VO, which will

have a telephone and a PC set with internet connection. Its telephoneNo. will be circulated to all PRIs, Vikas Sarthi Groups and watchagencies.

This helpline will provide ready availability of experts to those PRIs whoare willing but lake expertise for water related projects. Watch agencieswill also have experts support to perform their duty