How to Serve our MOTHERS ?
2003-04
JANAKALYAN A Team Committed for People’s Empowerment Maruti Nagar, Jawalgera – 584 143 Tq. Sindhanur, Raichur District, Karnatka State
Tel: (08535) 264488, 264160 Email: [email protected]
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Annual Report
2003-04
INDEX Chapter Particulars Page No
Index 1
An Introduction of Janakalyan & its area of operation 2
Developmental Journey of Janakalyan 3
I Financial Status of the Organization 4-5
II Achievement During the year 6 2.1 Ongoing Projects 2.1.1 Manavi Mata 2.1.1.1 Jana-Sanghatana 7 2.1.1.2 Jana-Udyog 8 2.1.1.3 Jana-Shiksha 9 2.1.1.4 Jana-Shakthi 10 2.1.2 Bhoo Mata 2.1.2.1 Jana-Krishi 11 2.1.3 Go Mata 2.1.3.1 Jana-Raksha 12 2.1.4 Ganga Mata 2.1.4.1 Jana-Jala 13
2.2 New Projects of the year 2.2.1 AME, GESCom, PEN, Exhibition, Skill REDP 14-15
2.3 Non funded Project 2.3.1 IGA, Tailoring, Vermi Compost, Jana Shanthi
Dhaam, Samaj Kalyan Samitee, Refugee issues
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2.4 Unexpected Programs Vriksha Mitra, Organic Cotton 18
III Steps Towards Sustainability 19-20
IV Steps Ahead 20
V Visitors 21
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An Introduction of Janakalyan Objectives: Janakalyan is a team of professionals committed for people’s empowerment. The sole objectives of the organization is to serve for four holy mothers – Manavi mata (women), Bhoo mata (Soil), Go mata (Cow) and Ganga mata (Water) which have unique dependency relationship with each other. Janakalyan’s thrust area being empowerment of the underprivileged sections of the society, all the programs are being implemented through Self Help Groups formed by men & women.
Journey of Development: Janakalyan has stepped into 8th year of its developmental interventions, although it has a long history of almost 17 years through educational interventions in the forgotten areas of the district.
Area of Operation: It started its developmental interventions in the refugee-colonies and gradually extended the service to various places keeping the four mothers in focal point. It is presently working in the northern districts of Karnataka with various activities.
Strategies: It believes in empowerment strategies and the programs are designed keeping sustainability concept in mind. Janakalyan never considers itself an alternative to Government but a watchdog for the community. It does believe itself as an assisting agency for Government in developing the nation and its citizens.
The target community: Janakalyan is working with peasant communities belonging to the small & marginal categories with 4-5 acres of land. The marginalized women from the rural areas is another sections deserves the services of Janakalyan along with her children.
Its strength: The strength of the organization lies in its dedicated set of well-qualified and experienced human resources with commitment. The set consists of veterinary doctors, engineers, social specialists, agricultural specialists, accounts specialists and others.
Interventions: It has learnt through its experience that making agriculture a profitable enterprise is an important issue and is a cause for Illiteracy, thus Unemployment and Poverty. All these are interlinked and can be eradicated if the root cause is uprooted. Presently it has few major programs implemented through SHGs to eradicate the root causes of poverty.
Jana-Sanghatan: There is a great need to organize the rural masses, especially the extinct community like the refugees, to mainstream them in near future. With this
objective Janakalyan started (Women Development & Empowerment Program) to promote SHGs of men and women in the year 1997.
Jana-Krishi: Use of excess of fertilizers, pesticides & irrigation water has converted the land into saline & uncultivable. Janakalyan started Participatory Technology Development in Agriculture (PTDA) to promote organic farming for soil health management. Farmers’ Field School (FFS) is another program started to demonstrate Integrated Pest Management Systems and Poverty Alleviation Package for Refugees (PAPR) is for Soil & Water Conservation through Intensified Integrate Farming Systems.
Jana-Raksha: It is observed that beside agriculture, the peasant communities some sort of subsidiary source of income because the agriculture is becoming loss-making enterprise, day by day. Dairy Development & Cattle Breed Improvement Program (DDCBIP) is started to earn adequate income.
Jana-Jala: Acute Drinking Water problem exists in Sindhanur Rehabilitation Project. “The water is distributed through ration cards during the last summer @ 1 pot for two persons per day”. Roof Water Harvesting Program (RWHP) is introduced in the drought prone areas to provide drinking water in the summer months and also to get green vegetables through kitchen gardening using the surplus water.
Jana-Shakti: The burden on ecology is increasing day by day, especially because of the rural communities using the fuel wood for cooking. Renewable Sources of Energy Harnessing (RSEH) is a program of Janakalyan aims at harnessing the renewable energy sources like solar, biogas, etc.
Jana-Shiksha: Janakalyan runs regular schools for the education of poor people, who cannot afford their children’s education in the nearby cities. Despite the availability of the Schools, the parents send their children to fields to EARN instead of Schools to LEARN. To this serious and hazardous issue, Janakalyan responded by opening special Schools for Child Labors.
Jana-Udyog: Rural Entrepreneurship Development Program (REDP) is a program targeted to the educated rural unemployed youths of India. It identifies the potential entrepreneurs and develops their skills and entrepreneurial qualities in them. Finally they set up their own ventures for self-employment. It creates job creators and not job seekers.
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Developmental Journey of Janakalyan Janakalyan took birth in July 1997 with an objective to assist the refugees & repatriates to raise their income level through intervention in the field of agriculture. It started working with farming communities with its own resources. The strategy adopted to work with these peasant communities was ‘awareness generation’ among the mass about the mistakes that they have already done and the ways to rectify it. Training & exposure were 2 tools adopted to convince these farmers about the proposition that Janakalyan was propagating about organic farming. Year 1998 began with new hopes. The concept of raising income level of the farmer was added with land reclamation (soil fertility / health management and preserving it for the generations to come). It also worked out for subsidiary sources of income for these communities and found animal husbandry as a viable option. Started promoting the same along with agriculture. By the end of the year it realized that raising the income level through its different approaches would not serve the purpose if proper mechanism is not adopted to save the earned income. Thus, started promoting Self Help Groups of men and women. And thus the objective of Janakalyan was formulated as “to serve 3 holy mothers i.e. Manavi Mata, Bhoo Mata & Go Mata”. It also started working with children, keeping education as the focal point through ASHA & Child Labor Schools. The year 1999-2000 could be termed as Capacity Building Year for Janakalyan. Maximum effort was put to train the staff of Janakalyan at various NGOs and Institutions through training and exposure. Awareness generation, training and exposure for the community (woman & farmers), relation building with local officers, etc. were the major activities during the year. Fund flow also started from this year. Women Development & Empowerment Program, Mahila Arthika Swavalambane Yojana, Participatory Technology Development in Cotton, Dairy Development Program, Child Labor Elimination Program were the programs of the year. The important innovation of Janakalyan were Sansar Pathshala, Kishori Vikash Program, Shree Shakthi Sabha and Sangha Darshini Samittee. The fourth mata i.e Ganga Mata was added to the objective upon suggesting it by most of the distinguished visitors to Janakalyan. The year 2000-2001 is an important year for Janakalyan wherein the top management of the organization undergone various training at renown Institutes. Therefore, the same programs were continued during the year without much difference. However, the major step initiated during the year was formation of a Cluster Level Federation of SHGs and starting a Milk Marketing Center at Sindhanur through this Federation. Kitchen Garden Program was another innovative program to recycle the water to grow vegetable in the house-yard. Most of the activities / programs got hindered during this year due to improper management as the staff were deputed for higher studies. However, a research study was undertaken during the year in the Rehabilitation Project by the staff. The area of operation got extended to outside Rehabilitation Project. The year 2001-2002 is the year of transformation. After proper training of the top management, it realized that till date Janakalyan was functioning without proper planning. Planning Meeting was introduced for the first time in the organization to organize the activities in a systematic way after assessing the needs of the community in a participatory way. The organization also gave emphasis on professionalising the approach by recruiting the qualified employees like B.V.Sc., M.Tech., MSW, M.Com., MA graduates. A detailed Service Rules for Janakalyan was also adopted during the year. A few sets of innovative programs also got introduced during the year. The year is termed as Mass Mobilization Year because lot of efforts was put to organize the community in demanding their rights from the concerned authorities. The year 2002-03 is the year for sustainability of the organization. Sustainability of an Organization is nothing but having a dedicated professional team of Human Resource and a constant flow of Financial Resources. Towards this, Janakalyan put all the effort to have a competent team by recruiting a set of fresh graduates because, they could be tuned according to the vision and mission of Janakalyan. Many efforts were put to see that the programs as well as the organization become sustainable. The year is also most Planned Year in the history of Janakalyan. Also received the FCRA registration and exemption under section 12A of Income Tax Act, 1961. Received first foreign grant for the Cotton Based Integrated Farming System development program. Janakalyan got lot of publicity during the year through its program called Jana-Udyog. The area of operation was extended to outside the block as well as district. The administrative Office was established at Jawalgera keeping the conveniences like Bank, Post, Transportation and area of operation in mind.
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Chapter II Financial Status of Organisation
The transactions in the year 2003-04 reached to Rs22.6 lakhs. The innovative and creative projects drew the attention of different Government and Non-Government agencies and Janakalyan team also got inspired to exhibit their excellence during the year. We, at Janakalyan, are grateful to all those who have directly and indirectly helped us in marching towards our goal. The figure below gives the financial status of the organization for the last 7 years since from its inception.
It is clear from the chart that the income has been constantly rising. In the year 1997, the transaction is only Rs.13100/- because the activities were restricted to liaison only. And also the organization started functioning only after 2nd July as it was registered on that day. But the source of income for the year was only promoters’ contribution. During 1998 the income reached about Rs.60,000/- and the activities restricted to awareness generation & training only. In 1999-00, the direct fund flow started to Janakalyan and the income reached about Rs.6.0 lakhs. In the year 2000-01, from the figure, it is clear that the income reduced to Rs.5.4 lakhs while in reality it is not the case. It seems so only because the year 1999-2000 contains 15 months (January 1999 to March 2000) as the organizational year was changed from agrarian to financial. The year 2001-02 saw a drastic change in financial position as the income suddenly risen to Rs.15 lakhs from Rs.5.4 lakhs in the previous year. The following year (2002-03) also saw an increase of Rs.5.0 lakhs as compared to previous year. The transactions during the year under report increased by about Rs.2.0 lakhs
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Receipts & Payment Income & Expenditure Balance Sheet
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The program-wise sanctioned budget, released amount and the utilization status for the year 2003-04 is furnished in the table below. Sl. No.
Programs Name of the Donor Sanctioned Budget
Amount released
Amount Utilized
Remarks
1 Jana-Sanghatan
NABARD Mumbai 0 64790 70920 Sanctioned in February 03
2 Jana-Krishi Sir Dorabji Tata Trust AME Foundation
1090000 110235
600000 110235
574239 81851
3 Jana-Jala CAPART Regional Committee, Dharwad
0 0 303255 Unutilized grant was available
4 Jana-Udyog NABARD R O GESCom
250000 21360
203381 21360
284974 21360
5 Jana-Shksha Ministry of Labor, New Delhi
469300 424861 345436
6 Jana-Raksha Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Mumbai
0 0 4926
7 Jana-Shakti UAS, Dharwad 22316 22316 22316
Total 1963211 1446943 1709277 The pie diagram shows the % allocation of funds for different program in the year 2003-04. Maximum funds (39%) of the total budget have been utilized for Jana-Krishi program. Jana-Krishi is implemented in 2 areas of dry and wet agriculture. Jana-krishi is the only program, which serves all the four mothers of Janakalyan. It has a component for Manavi mata
(Community Organizing), Bhoo Mata (Agricultural & allied activities), Go Mata (Animal Husbandry) and also Ganga Mata (Rainwater harvesting). Therefore, it does not mean that all the efforts of Janakalyan was put for Jana-Krishi only, though agriculture is the major program of Janakalyan. Jana-Shiksha ranked 2nd during the year consuming 20% of the total funds while Jana-Jala & Jana-Udyog ranked 3rd in the hierarchy.
FUND UTILIZATION IN DIFFERENT PROGRAMS
Jana-Sanghatan4%
Jana-Shakti1%
Jana-Raksha0%
Jana-Shksha20%
Jana-Krishi39%
Jana-Udyog18%
Jana-Jala18%
Jana-Sanghatan Jana-Krishi Jana-Jala Jana-Udyog Jana-Shksha Jana-Raksha Jana-Shakti
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Chapter II Achievement During the Year
The year 2003-04 is a successful year of Janakalyan. All the 7 tools designed for poverty alleviation and socio-economic empowerment of rural communities are carried forward with true spirit to achieve the goal of Janakalyan. Receptiveness of the community proved the appropriateness of the tools in the present context and built the confidence of Janakalyan. It proved that the ground level needs of the community and the tools designed to meet their needs synchronized. It has to be remembered at this juncture that all the 7 tools designed by Janakalyan are to serve four holy mothers – Manavimata, Bhoomata, Gomata and Gangamata. The number of tools in Janakalyan may increase or decrease based on the needs of the community but the focus should be any of these mata. The chapter “Achievement During the Year” deals with such tools of Janakalyan used to achieve the goal of eradicating poverty by fulfilling the needs of the community. The chapter has four major parts – 1. Ongoing Projects 2. New Projects of the year 3. Non-funded project of Janakalyan and 4. Unexpected Projects In the first part, only the ongoing projects are dealt in brief. The tools like Jana-Sanghatan, Jana-Udyog, Jana-Shiksha, Jana-Shakti, Jana-Krishi, Jana-Raksha and Jana-Jala are described. These tools are again categorized into 4 parts called Manavimata, Bhoomata, Gomata and Gangamata as below – Sl. No Mata Tools
1 Manavimata (Woman)
1. Jana-Sanghatan (Women Development & Empowerment Program) 2. Jana-Udyog (Rural Entrepreneurship development Program) 3. Jana-Shiksha (Child Labor Elimination Program) 4. Jana-Shakti (Renewable Sources of Energy Harnessing)
2 Bhoomata (Soil)
5. Jana-Krishi (Poverty Alleviation Package for Refugees)
3 Gomata (Cows)
6. Jana-Raksha (Dairy Development & Cattle Breed Improvement Program)
4 Gangamata 7. Jana-Jala (Roofwater Harvesting Program) In the second part, the new projects like AME funded Cotton Based Integrated Farming System, GESCom supported employment generation program, PEN, Exhibition and Marketing Mela and skill based REDP are dealt in brief. Efforts have been put to articulate such initiatives of Janakalyan, which are taken up without any funding support in the third part of this chapter. And in the last part, the activities, which are not expected but joined hands to achieve our goal, are articulated.
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JANA SANGHATAN Women Development & Empowerment Program
Jana Sanghatan, as the name indicates, is to bring the community, especially the discriminated, disadvantageous, underprivileged sections of the society under a common an umbrella. Social, cultural, educational, political and economic empowerment of such sections is the aim of the Women Development & Empowerment Program of Janakalyan. It is by making the community aware about their issues related various aspects and the attached roles and responsibilities. The major activities taken up during the year are– Developing awareness about the women
issues Training programs
to build the capacity of women to deal with their issues.
Bank linkage to start self-employment ventures for economic sustainability.
Skill up-gradation & Entrepreneurship development training
Marketing assistance to sale their products at various places.
Bio Intensive Gardening (BIG) training to develop nutrition garden by using house-yard & wastewater from bathroom.
Promoted Village levels steering committees for SHGs viz. Sangha Darshini Samitee.
Janakalyan got a first grant from NABARD to promote 100 SHGs in 52 villages of Sindhanur taluk. The major constraints faced in achieving the target are – 1. Stree Shankti: The government has reached
each and every remote village of the State through Stree Shakti Program. The incentive package under the scheme has lured our potential clients as well as existing groups also.
2. Swa-Shakti: KSWDC has promoted about 50 SHGs in Sindhanur block under Swashakti scheme with lot of incentives and subsidies.
3. NGOs effort: Other than Janakalyan, there are few NGOs who are also promoting SHGs in the block.
Therefore, Janakalyan has taken a strategic decision not to form any more SHGs but strengthening the existing ones through economic activities. Such economic activities must be backed up with marketing arrangement to get sustainable impact. To this effect, Smt. Tilottama Mondal, Smt. Pushpa Sarkar and Smt. Lalmathi Biswas has ventured into the sweet marketing in their own villages. They are earning Rs.3000-6000 every month. The Chairman of Tungabhadra Gramin Bank, Sri P. Narasimha Murthy inaugurated the milk-based REDP at Venkateshwar Camp while Sri Hampanagouda Badarli, MLA of Sindhanur delivered the valedictory address. About 65 women have been trained to set up their own ventures in milk and food items. Efforts are on to empower many more women from the rural India through the various need-based strategies designed from time to time. Marketing of the products is the key issue for year to come, learnt from the experiences.
Training Programs Milk products
preparation to 25 women
Food Products preparation training to 15 women
Tailoring training to 110 women in 5 centers
Marketing Mela 2 days District Level
Exhibition cum Sale at Sindhanur – 33 stalls of women
Participated in 3 days District Level Exhibition at Raichur
Sold Sweets on Belore Declaration program at Dharwad
Sonar Bangla Sweet House at Sindhanur to sale milk products
Smt Karimbi & her drunkard husband
Smt. Karimbi experiences all those of a drunkard’s wife with 2 boy and 3 girl children. She had decided to migrate with the children leaving her husband behind.
Saraswati Mahila Sangha came to know about it and brought to the knowledge of Janakalyan staff. Ms. Minakshi & Mr. Pampapathi succeed to convince them. Advised to hire the defunct floor mill @ Rs.1500 per month and engage Mr. Hasansaab with the loan assistance from SHG. Her son now works in a garage after undergoing the Rural Entrepreneurship (skill) Development Training at Janakalyan. She has a chilly pounding unit. Poverty is away from her home. “Husband has shouldered the responsibility – what more is needed?” says Karimbi to the visitors.
Impact of involving the representatives
The MLA promised in his valedictory address to provide 20 houses to the trainees and within a week he purchased 1 acre land adjacent to the village and distributed to them.
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JANA UDYOG Rural Entrepreneurship Development Program
India should be proud of being the second largest population in the world. If each Indian take the responsibility of developing 5 individuals from the world, entire human-kingdom could be developed. Such a vast potential we have in terms of human resources. Sadly, the reverse situation is prevailing in India due to several reasons like illiteracy, blind-belief, poverty & unemployment.
It is the enterprise, which gives dignity to the human being. Therefore, with an objective of creating a cadre of Job-creators and not job-seekers, a program was introduced for the rural Indians viz. Rural Entrepreneurship Development Program.
The major activities under the program are – Identifying the needy &
deserving youths from the rural areas through effective tools.
Developing latent entrepreneurial qualities of the youths through behavioral and motivational tools.
Imparting and / or up-grading the skills for Entrepreneurship.
Supporting the entrepreneurs to identify and select feasible enterprises / ventures.
Assisting to source the technology and machines / equipment to start the ventures.
Linking up with the financial institutes for credit facility.
Trouble-shooting service throughout the stabilization period.
Supporting to develop and / or expand the enterprise.
About 30 days residential training followed by industrial exposure and placement for 15 days to gain hands-on experience about the identified venture.
Other than Janakalyan’s own human resources, we also hired the renowned
experts in the field for entrepreneurship from
reputed institutes
from within as well as outside the
district. The trainees were taken for an exposure to NDDB and NDRI at Bangalore. On demand,
they were taken to NABARD to meet the CGM. CGM gave an appointment for 5 minutes but the discussion went up for 1 hour.
The following training programs were conducted during the year- Sl. No
Place Inauguration
Valedictory
Trainees M F T
1 Milk Based 24.11.03 25.12.03 0 25 25 2 Kustagi REDP 06.01.04 05.02.04 26 0 26 3 Bangla Camp 23.12.03 22.1.04 0 25 25
The Chief General Manager of NABARD Bangalore in the presence of Sri G N Nayak IAS, Deputy Commissioner of Raichur, Sri Narayanswami MNIAS, CEO of Zilla Panchayat, Raichur and Md.Mehmood KAS, Assistant
Commissioner of Lingasugur inaugurated the milk-based REDP at Rehabilitation Colony No.4 on 6.1.2004. The Chairman of Tungabhadra Gramin Bank, Sri P. Narasimha Murthy inaugurated the milk-based REDP at Venkateshwar Camp while Sri Hampanagouda Badarli, MLA of Sindhanur delivered the valedictory address.
Though, the program was introduced in 2002-03 in Raichur district, we could reach neighboring district during the year with the support of NABARD. The bankers’ response and involvement during implementation was very high. The major constraints faced during the year to achieve the target are – Though the bankers were
involved right from selection till training, most of the bankers denied the credit
facility while starting the ventures. Few bankers supported but the procedural
delay caused unnecessary expenses and also demotivated the charged first generation entrepreneurs.
Poor but needy entrepreneurs could not provide the collateral and the security, although they had economically viable enterprise.
The efforts are continued to sensitize the bankers to support such initiative.
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Entrepreneurial lady changed mindset of her husband
Smt. Vanishree, the wife a daily-basis employee of CSF, Jawalgera lives in hand to mouth situation with her 3 years old daughter in a rented house.
She attended the REDP training facing difficulties for all the 30 days from her husband. Finally conceived the idea of putting a Photocopying Center at Jawalgera. When approached Syndicate Bank for the financial assistance with the project proposal, the manager refused the support for the want of security, as they are not residents of Jawalgera. With the recommendation of Janakalyan, finally the venture was started. Within 3 months her husband met Mr. Prasen Raptan with a proposal to take VRS from CSF but he was discouraged at that stage. In the fifth month, the manager of Syndicate Bank willingly gave one more loan to him to start a Telephone Booth. The couple is happy in a better house & her child is studying in a Church School. “Today, I needn’t ask for the pocket money to my parents”, says the husband.
History for NABARD
NABARD going to the SHG is very common while SHGs visiting NABARD RO is first time in the history of NABARD, said Mr. B. B. Mohanty, CGM to the women in his speech at NABARD, Bangalore
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JANA SHIKSHA Child Labor Elimination Program
In the age of LEARNING, there are thousands of children who are EARNING for satisfying their parents’ needs. Efforts are on to educate those who go regularly to schools. But, hardly few initiatives could be seen for the child who really deserves support to get access to the education, though it is constitutionally guaranteed. Janakalyan runs 2 special schools for such children since 1998 in Sindhanur taluk with the support of Ministry of Labor, New Delhi through District Child Labor Project Society. Every year about 50 child labors are inducted into each school to convert them into regular students. Each school is manned with 5 persons. The major activities undertaken in the schools are – Survey and identification of the child labor. Convince the parents and
induct the child. Motivate & educate the child in
special school for a year. Identify their areas of interest,
skills & needs Upgrade the skills through
vocational class Conduct parents meeting
regularly to keep the tempo on Extra-curricular activities to
keep the child in school. Taking the children for
exposure, picnic, etc Conducting & participating
various competitions at school and other levels.
Mainstream the child in regular schools or help them to settle with a venture after 14 years.
Follow up with them to see that the child is in school, everyday.
During 2002-03, the data of the schools are – Schools Admission mainstream
M F T M F T Ma Sharada, R. H. Colony No.2
16 34 50 16 27 43
Swami Vivekananda, Diddigi
13 37 50 13 29 42
After 4 years of operation in R. H. Colony No.2, we found no more child labors in R.H. Colony No. 2. Similar was the situation in Diddigi after 2 years and therefore shifted these schools to Jawalgera & Turvihal in the month of June to assist more needy children. The induction of the children into the schools was as under-
Name of the Schools and Village
Admission M F T
Ma Sharada, Turvihal 0 50 50 Swami Vivekananda, Jawalgera 06 44 50
Emphasis is given on to teach the importance of
education and not the education per se. The objective is to assist the out-of-school children to the schools. The parents are utilizing the stipend given to the children for their own purposes. To avoid, a strategy was adopted to provide Sewing Machines to the trained child with the stipend amount. This year about 7 machines were distributed in 2 schools.
More than education, we motivate the child as well as their parents. We also promote SHG among their parents.
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What is special about these Schools?
Do not teach but motivate Keep relation with parents Not only the child but also the
parents are targeted Stipend of Rs.100 per child
per month Mid-day meals, everyday Vocational courses 5 staff for 50 child Regular health check up
Celebrations to create desire to continue in school
Independence Day – 15th Aug Teachers Day – 5th Sep Hyderabad-Karnataka
Vimochana Day – 17th Sep Gandhi Jayanti – 2nd Oct Karnataka Rajyotsava – 1st Nov Children Day – 14th Nov Vivekananda Jayanti – 12th Jan Netaji Jayanti – 23rd Jan Republic Day – 26th Jan
Rajubegam and her Dream Kasimsaab, father of Rajubegam, migrated to Jawalgera with 3 children & his wife. Kasim is a mason while his wife sells bangles from door to door. The income does not satisfy the family needs. Kasim sends his son to Government School to learn but Rajubegam to field to earn. After opening of Swami Vivekananda Child Labor Special School, our teachers convinced her parents and inducted to the school. now she is best girl in the school and dreams to become a well educated girl.
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JANA SHAKTHI Renewable Sources of Energy Harnessing
Electricity has become life of the people, especially the elite living in the city and towns of any country. Similar are the situation of diesel, petrol and other forms of energies. Right from the bathroom, kitchen till the Factories, Offices, everywhere one form or the other energy is very much essential. On the other hand the rural communities disturb the ecology by putting pressure on the tree-species for the want of fuel wood. Although, this is must for the survival of the humankind but it is our responsibility to preserve it for the generations to come. Therefore, the efficient use of these sources of energies is a must for both the urban and rural communities. They should learn and make use of renewable sources of energies, in whichever form it is available and whatever quantity. Raichur district has abundant renewable sources of energies viz. solar, wind, etc. Animals’ excreta, which are available in huge quantity, are just dumped without making its proper use. On the other hand, the rural women are suffering from many respiratory diseases, as they are compelled to use various kinds of woods for cooking, which has become scarce in the recent past. To take care of the women health and to make use of the energy sources, Janakalyan introduced JANA-SHAKTHI program to harness the renewable energies. The major activities under the program are – Identifying the needy women
from poor families Making them aware about the
health problems caused by smoke (cooking) & unsafe disposal of the wastes (excreta).
Assisting the interested women to construct Smokeless Improved Chullah to avoid respiratory problems.
Assisting the needy women having animals to construct Biogas plant for safe-disposal of the excreta in a productive manner. The gas is used for cooking and lighting.
Promoting Solar Cooker to avoid respiratory problems among women.
Promoting Solar Dryer to utilize sunlight and dry the agriculture produces with better quality.
The following activities are completed during the year – Constructed two Gobargas plants in the project. Constructed about 20 chullah for the women.
Oriented the beneficiaries about solar cooker and solar dryer.
Studied the usage of the chullah as well as biogas plant that was constructed during the previous years.
It was understood by the study that the chullah are suitable for the small families comprising of 3-4 members and not for the joint families. Even the biogas plant can satisfy the energy needs of nuclear families. The farmers demanded the solar
cooker as well as solar lights. A solar dryer has moderate demand while biogas plant can also be
constructed, as per the experiences of Mr. Chittaranjan Roy. The other major constraint of the rural communities is the “voltage problem”. By extending the electrical post to the villages, Government has declared that the villages are electrified. Whereas, in reality none of the child can study with the illumination that we are getting from a 100-watt electric bulb in the villages. Those who are using it for study purposes are loosing their eyesight in the tender age itself. Therefore, Janakalyan is now thinking if the solar lights can be introduced in the villages. Similarly if all energy needs could be met out by the renewable sources of energies,
available in the nature without putting any pressure on the environment and ecosystem.
2.1.1.4
Poorwoman’s LPG – Gobargas Plant Chittaranjan is a farmer of R. H. Colony No.4 assisted under Jana-Krishi Project. He has also constructed a biogas plant under Jana-Shakti Project of Janakalyan. He has a small family comprising of his father, wife and 3 children. He also has about 6 cattle. The excreta he feeds to the biogas plant and the gas he uses regularly for cooking food whereas the slurry from the biogas plant he reuses for the Vermicompost pit for production of manure. His wife happily says that earlier she had to walk miles together to fetch fuel wood while today the same is available in her kitchen. She says it is poor-woman’s LPG. Although, she resides in her farm without electricity, she says she enjoys the facility of a city-woman because of the gobargas plant.
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II Achievement During the Year 2.1 Ongoing Projects 2.1.2 Bhoo Mata
JANA KRISHI Poverty Alleviation Package for Refugees
Poverty Alleviation Package for Refugees is an ongoing project of Janakalyan to experiemnt and develop a self-sufficient model for the tail end farmers. The major objective is to use the available resources viz. land, water, crop-wastes, animal excreta and human resources. Emphasis was also given on complete recycling of the resources and intensified integrated farming system development. It is Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai funded program. This program is not merely for the targeted farmer.
Although the direct benefit of the program is for participating farmers, the farmers should work with a service motive so that other farmers can see and get motivated for the package.
The package is for on-farm cultivation and thus part of the family shifts to the farm.
Preferably all the farmer having a pair of bullock was selected.
Other than these, the emphasis were also given to see that- The farmers grow varieties of crops. This
is for risk distribution. If one crop fails the other would compensate.
The risk distribution is on trees, which conserve soil moisture, help in enriching the soil, binds the farmers 365 days in field. Otherwise, the farmer never turns towards the farm in the summer months.
Fish, Animals, birds like poultry, ducks, etc. are also grown as a source of additional income.
The major objective of the program is to enrich the soil fertility, improve soil health and preserve it for generations to come.
The second major objective is to get 365 days work in their farm for all the family members.
Land preparation plays important role in cultivation. Farmers must do it in time.
Judicious utilization of water. Because the water is scarce and need to be use effectively whatever quantum available.
To adopt new crops with new package of practices, technologies, etc.
Land available is only 5 acres but the family is growing bigger and bigger every year. We need to survive from this piece of land. Therefore, intensive utilization of land.
On-farm cultivation is a must. This would help us to use the morning and evening time productively. Otherwise, the farmer goes to the farm at 10 a.m. and comes back at 5 p.m. If he stays in the farm, the morning and evening hours could be used effectively. Regular meeting to learn from each other.
The najor activities under taken during the year are- Continued service to all the 6 farmers to consolidate
the result in second year. Selection of new farmers and excavation of pukur
for 1 farmer. Introduction of drum kits with 4 farmers to
demonstrate effective water utilisation. Preseason training to the farmers by the KVK,
Raichur for effective planning by the farmers in advance.
Fish rearing in the pukur to intensify water use effciency.
Efforts were also initiated to market the agriculture produces directly to the consumer after value addition.
Farm women were also targeted to organize into SHGs for their socio-economic empowerment.
The major contraints faced during the year are – Drought – consecutive drought
for 3rd year caused lots of inconveniences to the farmers as well as to the program, as it is a climate-sensistive program.
Funds constraint – the financial support gap between close of 1st grant and commencement of 2nd gap was nine months. Janakalyan had to face lot of difficulties to further the program for these nine months.
Un-seasonal rain – need of shower caused drying up of all the existing crops while there was a shower when it was not at all required causing huge loss to the farmers.
Pests – pest attack to almost all the crops caused reduction in yield.
The major learning of the year are - Apart from the training and exposure, monthly meeting
of the participating farmers should be made as a compulsion for each farmer. This would help each other to gain the experiences.
The Pukur should be of 0.75 acre size to save the land. It should be deepen as much as possible to reduce seepage. Further, the existing 6 pukurs must also need to be deepened at least by 150 tractor-hours.
At least 400 tractor-hours are to be used for a Pukur. The topsoil must be distributed in the remaining 4 acres of land
2.1.2.1
“About 10 guntas of vegetable helped me to keep my family alive”, said Mr. Sunil Dey. “I had lot of expectation from paddy but the loss experienced during the year is ever seen in the last 7 years. This is what compensation of one crop by other – the basic principle of the project I understand”, he added.
The experiences of Sumanta Shil
The major changes in my life during the year is that I need not go out for labor migration as did in the previous years, leaving behind my family & children. Today I am with my family and have some work in my farm whereas last year I was in Goa by now. Unlike previous years, my farm is green today (20.3.2004 – the result-sharing workshop was held in his farm). I could repay the previous debts in these 2 years. I am with mental peace, which I never had in my life because of moneylenders, says Sumanta Shil in workshop.
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II Achievement During the Year 2.1 Ongoing Projects 2.1.3 Go Mata
JANA RAKSHA Dairy Development & Cattle Breed Improvement Program
Jana Raksha is a program of Janakalyan to provide the backward and forward linkages to the women entrepreneurs for smooth running of their agro-enterprise, i.e. Dairy. Janakalyan appointed a veterinary doctor to provide door services to cattle of these S H G members round the clock.
The major activities undertaken during the year are – Veterinary services to the cattle for
first half of the year. Thereafter, we failed on the account of non-availability of veterinary doctor.
Conducted cattle health camps in the villages with the cooperation of the veterinary department.
Assisted the SHGs to purchase milch animals through bank loans as a subsidiary source of income.
Promoted private milk marketing by individuals in order give additional price to the producers.
Assisted the MPCS (Milk Producers Cooperative Societies) to reach out more beneficiaries.
Trained the women in milk processing to produce Bengali sweets out of milk and market locally.
The major constraints faced by the women are – Drought – consecutive drought for
3rd year caused non-availability of green fodder as well as water and thus most of the women sold out their milch animals at throwaway prices.
Migration – the women are forced to go out of the colonies for the want of employment as a result of 3 consecutive drought. They had no other go than to sell out their milch animals.
Funds – after closure of the SRTT funds, Janakalyan failed to mobilize funds to run the program. Medicines and AI facilities are must to run this program.
Halfway in the year the veterinary doctor left the job and then onward we could not extend the services to the communities. Many a times the communities requested to provide the service.
The efforts to sale the milk with the “Pousthik” brand took off very well in a short span of time at Sindhanur. But, we had to stop it in between because of the very bad road conditions, especially in the rainy season.
This was the first attempt of the Milan Teertha Federation of SHGs with a loan of Rs.50,000/. The setback has created a negative impact in the mind of all these women. Now they are not ready to take any risk.
The old wine in a new bottle; likewise Janakalyan changed its strategies and
started
creating
women-
entrepreneurs to process the milk into milk products, especially the Bengali Sweets. Trained the women calling the trainer from Kolkata. Now the milk is being processed and marketed in the form of sweets
to avoid transportation problem.
The major learning of the year is – The veterinary service is an essential
component for animal husbandry and should be available in the vicinity of the project.
The milk as such is not marketable, although it has lot of demand, without having the processing equipment and all-weather-road
Animal husbandry can be promoted only if there is provision of direct marketing.
For women from the farming community, the only viable income generation activity is animal husbandry
2.1.3.1
Series deaths of sheep & goats Sheep & goats rearing have become a major subsidiary source of income in the area after introduction of Janakalyan’s Dairy Development & Cattle Breed Improvement Program. Every family, especially women, have at least a ship or goat in addition to their main occupation. Milch animals are common in the area as because they have both backward & forward linkages through Janakalyan. Round the clock the veterinary services are available at their doorstep. But in the later part of the year, it was difficult for the community to get the similar facilities from the Department of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Services. Due to an epidemic a series of deaths happened to the sheep & goats. Even after regular efforts the community failed to access the services to save their investment. This has de-motivated the community to go for the ship & goat rearing.
In seventh attempts also I failed to bring doctor home from Sindhanur, says Mr. Chittaranjan. And finally I lost my 3 sheep without getting veterinary services. All because of Janakalyan withdrawing the services. Janakalyan must again start providing the same services, he demands
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II Achievement During the Year 2.1 Ongoing Projects 2.1.4 Ganga Mata
JANA JALA Roof Water Harvesting Program
Jana Jala is a program to harvest rainwater for drinking and greening the house-yard. During the summer months, especially in the drought years, the water becomes a commodity for these refugees and is being distributed using the printed cards through the Samaj Kalyan Samitee (Village Development Committee) promoted by Janakalyan. The drinking water falls in the women domain and hence it is their headache to fetch it from any source, however distant and difficult it may be.
Each refugee-family was given a tinned hut during their resettlement. Every year it yields about 17000 liters of water in normal condition of 581mm of rain. This quantum of water floods their surroundings causing growth of all kinds of nuisances and useless shrubs. To make its productive use, a project was designed to harvest rainwater to use for drinking and making use for kitchen gardening. CAPART assisted to experiment it with 50 families. The major activities under the program are– Identification of needy
women and orienting her about the importance of (rain) water.
Construction of rainwater harvesting structures in their houses.
Putting them all in practice of using rainwater.
Growing the vegetables in the kitchen garden grown using the harvested water.
The activities undertaken during the year are– Identified 25 women and motivated them
to take up rainwater harvesting.
Constructed structures in their home. Used the structure for storage of water. Trained the women and developed kitchen
garden in their house-yard. The major constraints faced during the year
are – The design was for
underground while AFPRO suggested for aboveground. This demanded more investment while CAPART denied providing additional funds.
The women filled up the structure without proper curing to store the canal water for summer months. The floor of the structures failed.
The major learning from the program is – Local knowledge is far
better than the expertise from outside. AFPRO engineers made the entire program a failure.
Everything should be done very systematically. Unplanned activities cause lots of penalties.
The community contributes to any extent if it is worth contributing.
Rainwater harvesting has got priority in the national and international agenda but not reached the villages of India. Janakalyan, for the first time, brought it in rural India. Although Janakalyan has a responsibility to popularize, it is up to the community to make its effective use
2.1.4.1
Last is lasting Mr. Bellaswami is an entrepreneurial farmer from R. H. Colony No.1 resides in his farm at R. H. Colony No.3. He has been associated with Janakalyan activities since from the beginning. He learnt that Janakalyan is constructing rainwater-harvesting structures for the community. He demanded for one structure and got the structure built by Janakalyan in his farm with his partial contribution. His structure was the last structure among 25. The mason, having constructed 24 structures, got an experience about the structure and could make his own assessment by the time. The last structure was built keeping all these learning in mind and became successful. Today, Bellaswami is using it for many purposes. He proudly says that this kind of structure is very much essential for the communities of Sindhanur Rehabilitation Project.
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II Achievement During the Year 2.2 New Projects of the year
JANA KRISHI Cotton Based Integrated Farming System
Janakalyan is working with the farmers since 1998 to develop technologies suitable for local climate using Participatory Technology Development (PTD) approach, especially on cotton crop in collaboration with AME. After a gap of 2 years, it has started working with 25 farmers in Diddigi village of Sindhanur taluk to improve the cotton eco-system with program viz. Cotton Based Integrated Farming System.
Use of excessive chemical fertilizers and pesticides has caused soil degradation and pest immunization, respectively. In turn it has also impact on health of the all animals and climate. Therefore, organic cultivation with emphasis on integrated farming is the objective this program. This is an AME Foundation supported project.
The major activities undertaken during the year are – Diddigi village selected for the
experiment because it falls under dry zone where Janakalyan is functioning for last 3 years and already few SHGs are operational.
About 25 interested farmers selected for the experiment and are organized into 2 SHGs.
Yearlong training conducted for the farmers to make familiar with latest technologies in the field of organic cultivation.
Celebrated Independence Day in the farm to build a sense of pride among the farmers that they are Indians and they must have the right to fix the price for their produces.
Provided the critical agricultural inputs to the farmers.
Conducted few exposure trips for the farmers to learn by seeing.
Conducted Farmers Field School (FFS) on cotton eco-system.
Field Day: A Field Day conducted in the experiment plot inviting farmers from the village as well as neighboring village to spread the result of the experiment. Agriculture Scientists, Progressive Farmers and participating farmers’ interface was created to exchange the ideas and learn from the experiment.
Visioning Exercise – is a new tool tried out with Bengali farmers in Sindhanur Rehabilitation Project. The same was also used with these 25 farmers to plan their
activities in advance. This helps the farmers to dream how his farm should look like after certain period of time. The major constraints faced during the year are – � Wrong selection of seeds – the farmers lost their
interest in taking up the farming activities as the seeds selection was wrong, which was identified only after the germination.
� Farmers’ selection – the farmers’ selection process was done without proper planning due to urgency of the donor, which resulted into induction of wrong persons in to the program.
� Revolving Fund - although, the groups were not matured, there was pressure from AMEF to transfer the revolving fund to their accounts. The farmers did not repay it.
� Manpower – non-availability of a suitable technical person for implementation of the program with the limited remuneration effected the quality of the program.
� Technical Support – AME did not have required manpower and thus we failed to get necessary technical support in FFS as well as implementation of the program.
The major learning out of one years experience are – The farmers have learnt about the importance of organic
cultivation. They have also learnt about group approach of farming. FFS is a strong tool to learn by doing – they learnt. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) – extensively need to
be used for better crop and health management. In-situ soil and water conservation plays important role in
dry cultivation. If this approach is practiced, the farmers can come out of
the vicious cycle of the moneylenders. Soil is “the most” important resource for human being.
Needs to conserve for the generations to come. We must follow our ancestors to keep soil and
environment healthy but not the mark.
Role of AMEF, Raichur
Other than financial support AMEF is supposed to provide technical support in every step of implementation of the program. It should also equip the field staff by way of training and exposures.
Mounesh Badiger – example for a good leader
Mounesh Badiger is farmer from Diddigi village having a joint family of 8 members with agriculture as the main occupation. He is president of Basaveshwar Krishi Sangh.
He says any good message needs continuous efforts to percolate down into the mind of the community. Cotton based Integrated Farming System is one among them. It is our luck that the organization like Janakalyan has selected Diddigi and us for the experiment, he adds.
Today farmers have become lazy. It is our duty to make them aware about the fact and take them along.
More than preaching, he does the things and demonstrates others how to do it. Before asking anybody to repay the revolving fund, he first repays it and then asks other to follow.
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International Women Day Exhibition cum Sales Mela for SHG Products
For years Janakalyan is promoting IGA (Income Generating Activities) through SHGs (Jana Sanghatan). Many rounds of training were conducted for the women to impart various skills of production. Similarly under Jana Udyog (REDP) also few batches of women and youths have been trained to create a cadre of job-creators and not job-seekers. But, at the end of the year it is felt that without proper marketing facilities none of the entrepreneurs can come up in their life.
With this understanding, a two-days Exhibition cum Marketing Mela was conducted on the occasion of International Women Day at Sindhanur. About 36 SHGs participated with their products for 2 days and got a sales of Rs.25,000/-. The response was very good. More than the sales, we could reach out to the city-community and got a advertisement about the efforts and initiatives of the SHG members. It was a NABARD supported program for the rural youths and SHG women.
Participatory Employment Network PEN is an attempt to provide employment to the rural communities through chain approach. Janakalyan tried to become part of the National Network and conducted few rounds of talk with the
Network leaders and the youths. Got huge response and had few rounds of workshops. But, finally dropped as because the network did not ensure the market for the produces.
Meter Reading - GESCom Janakalyan signed an agreement with Gulbarga Electricity Supply Company (GESCom) to provide the services of meter reader in the rural areas. The objective was to provide partial employment to many educated rural youths. The contract was for 6 months and completed successfully.
The company then made the meter reading computerized and therefore the contract was then awarded to some other company. But most of our meter readers were inducted for the work. Many of them are still continuing with GESCom. About 20 youths got partial employment by this program.
Skill REDP The Rural Entrepreneurship Development Program (REDP) is a product of Janakalyan in Raichur district to create a cadre of job-creators and not job-seekers. So far Janakalyan provided only general REDPs while during the year it has ventured into skill-based REDPs. The various skill-based REDPs conducted during the year are-
Tailoring Fashion Designing Milk Products Screen printing Unlike general REDPs, the skill-based REDPs are more specific and the complete batch is trained about the specific skill in addition to the general entrepreneurial skill development and motivational package.
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II Achievement During the Year 2.3 Non-funded Projects
Jana Shanti Dhaam A Platform of Senior Citizens of Rural India for Peace
The projects run by the NGOs are normally donor-funded. But Janakalyan runs several project without any aid from the external agencies. One such initiative is Jana Shanti Dhaam. As the name itself indicates, this is to create a platform for the senior citizens for peace. Today, in rural India the aged are considered as burden for the family. They find it extremely difficult to spend their time in home. To avoid this Jana Shanti Dhaam is created where all senior citizens of 60+ are members, irrespective caste, creed and gender. In other words it is known as “Bhakta Sangha” What do they do? Everyday afternoon they assemble in a house and
chant the great epics like Mahabharata, Ramayana, Srimad Bhagavatgeeta, etc. for 2-3 hours.
Early morning all of them again assemble and walk on every street with all musical instrument and Sankeertan – Hare Krishna, Hare Rama.
In all religious occasion they participate and take lead to celebrate it.
Today, the Sangha has a status in the society and is facing difficulties to allot the dates to the members for the monthly celebration. Even the non-members are requesting them to grace their marriages, religious celebrations, etc. with presence of the Sangha. The members of the Bhakta Sangha are really with peace. They are equally happy.
Samaj Kalyan Samitee A Village Development Committee to maintain peace & harmony in the society
This is a platform of villagers to implement all developmental activities for the village. It consists of the elected and non-elected representatives and village well-wishers inclusive SHG members. The objective of the samitee is to maintain peace & harmony in the society. During the year it has successfully completed several projects like - Food for Work – Janakalyan mobilized a grant of
Rs.1.0 lakh for food for work which was given to Samaj Kalyan Samitee and was successfully completed.
Mobilized about Rs.2.0 lakhs from Taluka Panchayat and was used for deepening of the Community Pond.
Mobilized Rs1.6 lakhs contribution from villagers and applied for Swajaldhara to have a Drinking Water System for R. H. Colony No.4.
Many other developmental activities are being planned and implemented through SKS. Even beneficiaries for various projects of Janakalyan are identified in consultation with SKS. Summarily, it is a very good instrument for implementing developmental activities.
Vermiculture Pomotion A technology to convert wastes into manure for soil health management
Excess utilization of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides have damaged the soil structure making it infertile. On the other hand, the available biomass is being burnt for no use. To avoid this situation Janakalyan has promoted a technology to convert the wastes (biomass) into productive manure for soil health improvement. It has 4 methods to convert the wastes into manure – 1. Dig a pit (10’x3’x2.5’) in the earth and fill the wastes
and cow dung layer by layer.
2. Create a structure (10’x3’x2.5’) with M.S. slab and fill the wastes and cow dung layer by layer.
3. Create a permanent brick structure (10’x3’x2.5’) and fill the wastes and cow dung layer by layer.
4. Put one layer of cement block (10’x3’x0.5’) and make heap of the wastes and cow-dung layer by layer.
The 4th method is more scientific because it provides more aeration and light to the worms thus the process becomes faster & easier.
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Advocacy for Refugee Issues The Prime Concern of Janakalyan
The refugees of Sindhanur Rehabilitation Project have two kinds of issues – 1. Issues of specific nature – issues, which have
aroused specifically due to their migration and rehabilitation. Such issues are not seen in the any other localities except these kinds of resettlement places. They are 1) Withdrawal of Caste Certificate from the Namasudra Community, 2) No ownership over the Housing Plot and land allotted to the refugees & repatriates, 3) Inhabitants of Colonies and not revenue villages still after three decades, 4) Withdrawal of Mother tongue from the primary level, 5) No Citizenship for many families even after 3 decades, 6) Power to Gram Panchayat and 7) Minority
2. Issues of general nature - issues that can be
found in any Indian villages but the intensity of
problem may differ from village to village. They are 1) Accessibility to Rehabilitation Project, 2) Accessibility to Agricultural Land, 3) Drinking Water, 4) Health care, 5) Housing, 6) Unemployment, 7) Hygiene & Sanitation 8) Irrigation water, 9) Public Transport Facility, 10) Post & Telecom Services 11) Internal Roads, 12) Saline Land, 13) Veterinary Services, 14) Temple, 15) Play ground, 16) Expanding Village Boundary, 18) Market at Rehabilitation Project, 19) Cremation Center, 20) Grazing Land, 21) Library and reading room
Janakalyan, through the community based institutions at the ground level taking up the advocacy at appropriate level besides its developmental activities. Some of the issues are taken up at local, district, state and national levels as the case may be.
Income Generation Activities To broaden the economic base of the community
To sustain developmental interventions is to broaden economic base of the community. Rural India is completely based on agriculture, directly or indirectly. Agriculture completely depends upon the climate and monsoon, which is not certain. Therefore, the livelihood of rural communities is uncertain.
To create a situation of sustainable livelihood, Janakalyan is putting emphasis to create a cadre of job-
creators through its unique entrepreneur creation program. It believes that the entrepreneurs are not born but created. In other words, it is trying to provide gainful employment to each and every members of the family thus reducing the burden on agriculture. The efforts are through the SHG members, their children and also their husbands. The enterprises may be anything for s/he is competent to manage.
Tailoring Centers for SHG Members Skill up-gradation to increase home-based employment
Most of the SHG members are wage-laborers. They get an employment for maximum 200 days in a good year. For rest of the year, they are idle and it becomes extremely difficult for them to manage the family affairs.
To provide some source of income for this period is a concern of Janakalyan and thus started the income generating activities as stated above. But there are some other women who are interested to start the service industries like tailoring and embroidery.
Janakalyan started about 4 centers for these categories of women in four villages to train the women in tailoring and embroidery. These centers run for 12 months in a year in batches. This year about 125 women / girls have been trained from these centers. Many of them are earning Rs.200-500 per month after attaining their routine works. Further the amount that they used to spend for stitching their own clothes is saved now. Some of them are also getting very good orders from the schools for uniform.
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II Achievement During the Year 2.1 Unexpected Projects
Vrikshamitra – Market Launch The Programs for Employment Generation through Organic Approach
To launch its new organic product called Virkshamitra, Shubodita Agro Services, Bangalore wanted an agency. Sri P.N. Murthy, the Chairman of Tungabhadra Gramina Bank advised the proprietor to appoint Mr. Prasen Raptan for the assignment, in his individual capacity. But finally Janakalyan took up the assignment of launching the new product i.e. Vriksha Mitra, a bio-fertilizer in Raichur & Koppal districts to fulfil its objectives like - Promotion of organic farming for which
it is already putting efforts. This would also be a complementary effort to its Jana-Krishi Program.
Few youths would get employment that would again be a complementary
effort to the program called Jana-Udyog.
To initiate the program was taken up for 3 months and appointed 2 persons for the assignment having little marketing experience. They could launch the product successfully. About 125 tons of Vrikshamitra was sold in the off-season of January – March. But the impact of Vrikshamitra on the yield was not measurable. Although, the Company did not renew the agreement with Janakalyan but these 2 persons were absorb in the company.
Organic Cotton Program A Chain approach from Production to Marketing of Cotton
Netherlands based institute called Solidaridad wanted to take up a project in Raichur district viz. Organic Cotton Growing and Marketing. After studying the NGOs of the district shortlisted Janakalyan and two other NGOs. The program aims at production of organic cotton with assured irrigation in the cotton growing areas of Raichur district. Such organically grown cotton would then be ginned and purchased at premium price through OCGrA (Organic Cotton Growers Association). Janakalyan wanted to take up this project for few reasons like – The project will help the farmers to get
their soil reclaimed in the process. The farmers will be interested to go for organic cultivation because they will
get a premium price, which otherwise would have been difficult.
The soil of the district is known as BC (Black Cotton) soil. Therefore, cotton growing deserves reviving.
Organic cultivation is need of the hour. But the farmers do not understand it. Through this project it would be possible to make them aware about the practices.
It is also assumed that the farmers will definitely start growing other crops, especially vegetables and food grains organically after getting the taste of it.
The workshop on implementation strategies and signing the MoU was held at Nrupatunga Hotel, Raichur, wherein the NGOs from 3 states (Karnataka, Maharastra & Andhra Pradesh) participated.
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Chapter III Steps Towards Sustainability
Sustainability of the programs as well as the organization is important for long term benefit of the community as well as employees of the organization. Although, all the NGOs have started institutionalizing the activities by forming SHGs, Farmers Groups and other such techniques, the scope and impact has been very limited. Janakalyan has also followed the same practices and found some of the lacuna in the approach. Therefore it has initiated few innovative steps during the year to sustain the impact of the programs as well as organization. These are illustrated in this section in brief. Sangha Darshini Samitee: To make the people’s institutions stronger, a village level steering committee called “Sangha Darshini Samitee (SDS)” is formed with the SHGs. The long-term goal is that the SDS must manage the SHGs of a particular village. Milan Teertha Federation: As an apex body of al the SHGs of Sindhanur Rehabilitation Project and the SDS mentioned above, a cluster level Federation is formed viz. Milan Teertha Federation. Its functions would be to bring oneness among all the SHGs of Sindhanur Rehabilitation Project. Samaj Kalyan Samitee: To maintain the peace & harmony and Law & Order in the villages, a village level institution called “Samaj Kalyan Samitee (Villae Development Committee)” concept is introduced during the year. Its function is to implement all the government sponsored schemes and other developmental programs systematically without any leakage. Jana-Shanti Dhaam: To preserve the culture of the community and also to protect the rights of the age-old persons (both men & women) a forum called “Jana-Shanti Dhaam” is introduced during the year. All the wo/man above 60 years of the village is member of the body and assemble everyday in one person’s house to chat the religious scripts. Jana Smparka Sabha: Another tool called “Jana Samparka Sabha” is introduced during the year to resolve the refugee issues. In this Sabha the entire administrative body is brought in front of the gathering to respond to the demands of the public.
The above efforts are to sustain the impacts of the programs of Janakalyan while the efforts for organizational sustainability is dealt in below. Professional approach: Sustainability of an Organization is nothing but having a dedicated professional team of Human Resource and a constant flow of Financial Resources. Towards this, Janakalyan put all the effort to have a competent team by recruiting a set of fresh graduates because, they could be tuned according to the vision and mission of Janakalyan. The team that we have during the year consists of the following professionals. 1. Shanti Ranjan Das, PUC 2. Prasen Raptan, B.Tech. , PGDMN 3. Dr. Mallikarjuna G, BVSc 4. Vijaya Prakash, B.Sc. (Ag) 5. Ku. Meenakshi T A G, PUC 6. Shishir Ranjan Roy, BA 7. Pampapati Palled, BA 8. Saibabu U< MSW 9. Aravinda R Page, MSW 10. Narayan Raptan, MCom 11. Ku. Sreedevi, BA 12. Ramakrishna Kulkarni, B.Com 13. Ku. Shivaleela, JODC 14. Ku. Basavarajeshwari, BA 15. Abhijit Sarkar, SSLC 16. Smt. Shobha Roy 17. Smt. Jayamma 18. Formation of Core Team: To develop a sense of ownership among the employees in the organization, a core team consisting of 9 employees was constituted in the beginning of the year. Human Resource Development: To enhance the working capacity of the employees, various training cum exposures were organized for the employees at different parts of the country in various disciplines. Also, some of the in-house training programs were organized at Janakalyan by hiring the resource persons from different organizations. In addition to these, a series of training was conducted at Janakalyan with the resource persons like Sri Basavaraj from Jaycees, Sri S.H. Somashekhar, etc. on different aspects of development interventions.
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Chapter IV Steps Ahead
Path to be covered to reach the goal Whatever has been done in the past is very little if compared to the tasks to be completed to empower the people of the rural India. There are many hardcore issues concerning the rural disadvantageous communities, which need immediate actions. But, due various reasons and constraints Janakalyan had to set back for a while. Efforts are still going on to organize the resources to address these issues. Some of the major issues are enlisted below- The major issue today is Drought in
Raichur Disitrict and thus migration of able-bodied persons leaving behind the age-old parents without anybody to care them. Is there any way to mitigate the issue? Is it possible to take up some disaster management activities? Need immediate reactions.
The only disadvantageous group today in Sindhanur block is the wage-laborers. With the TBP coming in, lot of labor-class community forced into the block as the crops grown then were labor-intensive. But today the cropping pattern has changed with change in quantum of water availability thus reducing the labor requirement in agricultural operations. Also mechanization of agricultural operations has taken away the employment opportunity for these groups. Thus, these groups today neither have an opportunity to engage themselves in wages nor they have any other options for their livelihood. Could anything be done for these groups? Can the cotton be revived in the area?
The small & marginal farmers of TBP command, especially the tail enders, are the victims of irrigation today. In the beginning, with the fertile soil they used to get high yield from the land and thus family management was never an issue for them. But, today with the manifold polarization of families, the per capita land has reduced and the same time the yield has reduced to any extent. Further, the irrigation facility is restricted for one
crop only. Therefore, it has literally become difficult for the small and marginal farmers to sustain. Can the yield be intensified? Can the soil fertility be improved / retained with organic farming?
Salinity and alkalinity is a major problem in the low land of TBP command, which generally belongs to small and marginal farmers. Neither they can go for reclamation of such land nor can they sell and buy another piece of land at some other places. Further, they also don’t have any other option for their income generation. How can they survive? Could the command area development program be initiated?
There is vast potential to lift the water for irrigation from the nearby nala/streams while rarely the farmers are able to take advantages of the resources. Could this be a program of Janakalyan to meet the needs of the community? With rising scarcity of irrigation water, it is wise to think about drip irrigation practices in the TBP command.
Although, it is under an irrigated belt, an equal number of farmers are practicing dry land agriculture. It is necessary for them to adopt some sort of low cost soil & water conservation practices. Can the farm pond be an alternative for the dry land farmers also?
With all this practices also, it is never possible to absorb the entire workforce, especially the educated youths, in to agriculture. Therefore, the entrepreneurship development must get priority in the agenda of Government and Non-Government Organizations.
There are some other issues, which need immediate attention like Woman Health, HIV/AIDS, Education, rural infrastructures, marketing network, etc.
These issues are in the agenda of Janakalyan and would be taken up in the years to come with the availability of resource.
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Chapter V
Important Visitors to Janakalyan Few eminent visitors to the organization on various occasions are listed here.
Sri B B Mohanty, Chief General Manager, NABARD, Bangalore, Visited on 6th January 2004 to inaugurate the REDP function in Bangla camp
Sri G N Nayak, Deputy Commissioner, Raichur Visited on 6th January 2004 for inaugurate the REDP function in Bangla Camp No. 4.
Sri Narayanaswami M N, IAS, Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Panchayat, Raichur Visited on 6th January 2004 for inaugurate the REDP function
Sri P Narasimha Murthy, TGB Chairman, Bellary, Visited on 24th November 2003 to inaugurate the Skill based REDP in Venkateshwar camp
Sri L K Havanur, General Manager, TGB, Bellary, Visited on 24th November 2003 to inaugurate the REDP function in Venkateshwar camp
Sri N Narasimlu, Lead District Manager, Raichur, Visited for three times to our Organization
Sri K N Jnanendra, District Development Manager, NABARD, Raichur Visited Many times
Sri Hampanagouda Badarli, MLA, Sindhanur, Visited on Valedictory function of REDP at Venkateshwar camp
Sri G U Huded, Deputy Resource Person, District Industries Center, Raichur, Visited at Once to our Organization
Sri D B Puranik, Resource Person, Sri G R Venugopal, Resource Person, Mysore Sri M Doddabasavaraj, (Ex) President, Taluka Panchayat, Sindhanur Visited on
5th February 2004 for Valedictory function of REDP at Jawalagera Sri Jagannath Das, Lead District Manager, SBH, Koppal, Visited on 5th February
2004 for Valedictory function of REDP at Jawalagera Sri Janardhan Rao, Branch Manager SBH, Hutti, Visited on 5th February 2004 for
Valedictory function of REDP at Jawalagera Sri Pramod Kulkarni, Secretary Prerana, Raichur, Visited Many times Sri Gijs Spoor, Solidaridad, Holand from Neatherland Visited to our Organization Sri K Sharanabasava, Secretary SPRED, Visited twice Sri C Somashekher, Samuha, Tavaragera, Visited at Once Sri S E Nataraj, Associate Director, SIRD, Bellary Visited at Once Sri Suresh Kustagi, Samuha, Tavaragera, Visited at Once
