Saturday, October 6, 2012

Major Achievements under LIFE project in September 2012@RCDSSS Ajmer


·                     Removed encroachment from 24 hac. of pastureland by Farmer’s Club initiative of Veer Teja Kisan Club of Surajpura in collaboration of district administration. A written application were submitted for it by Farmers Club on their letterhead to district revenue officer.
·                     Two applications for Old age pensions were submitted for Shrikishan s/o Ramkaran Jat and Biram s/o Choga Redas of Surajpura village.
·                     Obtained KCC (Kisan Credit Card) for Laxmanram s/o Kaluram Jat of Surajpura village and mobilize 25000/- as crop loan from bank.
·                     5 farmers in Nepoli, Kesarpura & Devaliya adopted Vermin Compost units whereas 3 farmers in Kesarpura & Nolkha established units of Azola Grass.
·                     18 birth certificates got prepared in Gudha village by handholding support of our animator.
·                     Panchu Singh s/o Mitthu Singh of Nolkha village got subsidy on purchasing of spray machine from Agri. Department by handholding support of our team.
·                     20 girls in tailoring and 12 girls in Beauty parlor trained in Nolkha village.
·                     Members of Shri Ganesh Kisan Club of Kesarpura mobilized an additional spray machine with the income of hiring charges of previous machines provided by Nabard assistance.
·                     37 farmers of Kesarpura & Nepoli village were trained on crop conservation and preparation of Rabi crop by scientists of Krishi Vigyan Kendra.
·                     KVK Ajmer as announced to provide crop demonstration of wheat to 30 farmers for 1 acre each.
·                     26 cattle receive artificial insemination through project support.
·                     Total 1803 people were benefited with the services of four Rojgar Dhaba cum Information Centres in Life project. Out of these 576 people participated in various meetings & trainings at the centre, 482 watched programs on TV and 745 people read newspaper & magazines.

    



Monthly Progress Report (MPR)

Month: September, 2012
Partner Name: Sampurna Jeevan Vikas Samiti, Banswara

  1. Context:
Promotion of livestock management and organic agriculture was the main objective of this month because livestock is also a part of income generation activity and promotion of organic agriculture in rural area.

  1. Major Achievements : (Results/targeted achievements)

·         16 farmers have  benefited through the interface with agriculture department
·    34 households, 50 cattels have benefited through the vaccination facility of government for livestock
·         5  house holds 12 cattels have benefited through the insurance schemes for livestock  
·     10 farmers have prepared  organic inputs-Amritpani and das patti ark medicine for the Kharif season.
·         226 villagers have visited in Rozgar Dhaba in reporting month

  1. Project activity:
    Name of activity
    No. of units planned/no. of units achieved
    Total participation (of community)
    Results achieved
    Rozgar Dhaba
    2/2
    226
    A total of 226people at both the Rozgar Dhaba had profited through the computer TV and news paper in which was from Ambapada 106 and from Kajalpada 120 people.  
    Four days workshop on proposal formulation (Manthan) for Jeevika and Ankur project.
    1/1
    3
    By the caritas India had  organized 4 days workshop on proposal formulation (Manthan) for Jeevika and Ankur project in Disha – R.C.D. social service society Ajmer  in which three people had participate from SJVS Banswara.
    Training on organic manure preparation
    3/3
    63
    All participants had known about the organic   agriculture and preparation of organic fertilizers and 27 farmers have started preparation of organic fertilizers.
    Training on Live stock management for sustainable Agriculture
    4/4
    84
    A total of 84 farmers had benefited through the training on Live stock management and know the government schemes of to live stock
    Review meeting
    1/1
    8
    The Coordinator had presented the monthly progress report and   result  of Septembers month and given feedback according to performance
Training on organic manure preparation


Training on organic manure preparation had conducted on 20, 22, and 24 September 2012 serial wise in Jamrai, Ambapada and Kanajpada village. The assistance agriculture officer Mr. Bhupendra Joshi was the resource persons for these trainings total 63 participants availed the benefits of these training. Where was from Jamrai 20, Ambapada 22 and from Kanajpada 21.
Focused On
·         About the organic agriculture
·         Benefits of organic agriculture
·         Land treatment, seed treatment
·         Organic fertilisers such as Green fertilisers, compost fertilisers vermin compost, super compost
·         Organic medicine such as Amrit pani, use of leaf of neem, das Patti ark etc.
·         Government schemes related for agriculture. He had also focused on up coming Rabi crops schemes for farmers Such as Rabi abhiyan, agricultural equipment schemes etc.
Output
All participants knew about the organic agriculture, preparation of organic fertilizers and government schemes of KVK related to kharif season. 33 farmers have started the preparation of organic fertilisers and medicine.

Training on Live Stock management for sustainable agriculture
Training on Live stock management had conducted on 6, 10, 21 and 26 September 2012 serial wise in khedlee, Kanajpada, Amlipada and Nathpura village. The Dr. Ranawat of vetnary Hospital and the assistant of vet nary hospital Mr. Valu bhabor and Mr. Ramchand Devda was the resource person of these training.  Total 84 participants availed the benefits of theses training.
Focused On
·         Importance of livestock
·         Feed practice
·         Artificial conception breed improved
·         Animal Vaccination
·         Animal Insurance
·         Treatment of decease
·         Type of breed of Hen and goat
·         Government schemes related to Live stock
·         He had also promoted to farmers for improvement of agriculture land and its production with the use of organic fertilisers.
Output
In this month, total 34 participants have the benefits of vaccination of animals and 5 farmers got the benefits of insurance schemes of Government in 50% subsidy

Monthly staff review meeting
The Monthly staff Review meeting had conducted on 1/10/2012 in SJVS, Banswara. In which Director of SJVS Banswara, accountant, coordinator and 5 animators of LIFE project had participated. Firstly, Animators of LIFE project had presented monthly activity report to the coordinator after that, the coordinators presented the combine monthly progress report September month and next month  planning to Director and all staff.  Coordinator and animator had shared some key learning of 4 days workshop on project formulation and related some field activity. The Director had told to coordinator and animators that this month may be external monitoring from funding agency of the project so please do work properly. He had also suggested to coordinator and animators that every one complete there target activity monthly wise and done the reporting systematically.

4. Linkages & Liasioning:
·         Networking with Panchayat for attending gram panchayat meting.
·         Mr. Rajendra Singh, DDM, NABARD, Banswara for linkage to farmers club for approval of farmers club.
·         Networking with KVK for organizing the training on organic manure preparation

   5.  Challenges faced during the implementation of the project (during particular month)

·  Problem in conducting the training at Village level because Resource person don’t meet at time by which training don’t successful according to planning.
·  Problem in Conducting inauguration program of Farmers club by NABARD because DDM time schedule is very busy and he isn’t giving fixed date for inauguration.  
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    7.  Learning’s from the project during particular month

·   LIFE team has learned about proposal formulation process for the project.
·   LIFE team has also learned about the live stock management process and knows about the government schemes for livestock.

Courtesy: LIFE project team SJVS-Banswara  






Sunday, September 30, 2012

LIFE web page milestone: crossed 30000 ( THIRTY THOUSAND) viewers for www.liferajasthan.blogspot.com





“LIFE PROJECT WEB PAGE IS THE INDIA’S 1ST WEB PAGE FOR ANY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT”

&
Now the daily online development news paper from 1st Oct 2012

LIFE project team is glad to share that the web page of LIFE (www.liferajasthan.blogspot.com) has crossed the mark of 30000 (THIRTY THOUSAND) viewers in 19 month span.  LIFE project has moved with its pace and has achieved 85.6% ( Source: based on the application of monitoring tools in July 2012) of total set results in 30 months of its implementation and each and every step of this success on daily basis have been uploaded on the web-page. In last 19 months LIFE project web page has following unique achievements:

What is the USP of LIFE web page?
Its almost daily updation

What makes possible to have daily updation?
It’s a strong team network and reach up the community level, daily reporting systems and almost daily interaction with project team at partner level.


Purpose
  • Purpose of the web page to establish a transparent system of sharing project happenings and progress results so that a cross learning would take place at the broader scale.
Specialty
  • Is being used by the viewers as the daily online development news paper ( reaching to almost 45 countries of the world)
  • It’s an outcome of informal Research & Development wing of LIFE & HARIT PRAYAS project.
  • Its India’s 1st project based web page to have daily updates and with viewer ship of around 4500-5000 per month
  • Fr. Fredrick D’souza has launched the web page on 25th Feb 2011 at SJVS Banswara
  • Almost daily updation of the web page on recent development in the LIFE project as well as in development sector.
  • Through LIFE project we basically promote the process part of the project as well as the similar actions of other livelihood projects also. In last 19 months we have posted around 300 process based articles on the web-page.
  • The web-page is being accessed by agencies/networks like WATERAID, CII, Caritas Asia, & NACDOR for reference and study.  
  • Day to Day progress of the project is available on the web page.
  • Web page has 65 followers and 1800 + fans on its facebook.
  • We raised people concern on the subsidy policy by the government and did an online polling for the same.

Building capacity of others
  • Through LIFE project we have organized small-small training programmes/sharing for CI State Officials and CI partners to develop web-pages.

Impact on other projects
  • With the initiation of LIFE project web-page now around 13-14 projects of Caritas India has their web-pages and some more are coming and around 10 projects on facebook.
  • 30000+ viewers means direct  and immediate reach to 30000+ people!

Viewer ship
  • Maximum viewers of the web page by India, US, Russai, Srilanka, Spain, and Bangladesh
  • 80 case studies from the LIFE project villages have been posted on the web page
  • 30 News paper cuttings related with LIFE project have been posted ( indicating impact of LIFE project on sustainable agriculture, formation of CBOs & impact of Rozgar Dhaba’s, impact of LIFE project)
  • Web page has received 54 comments from viewers for its appreciation and betterment.
  • Maximum viewers view the web page content on LIFE project, analysis of union budget in respect with LIFE project and its progress report ( every month)

Support
  • Initial motivation for coming out with web page from Caritas India Head office and North zone officials and further on support and motivation from Caritas Spain (Ms. Maria Isabel).
  • Mr. Patrick (from Caritas India) has supported for linking the web page with Caritas India official website and regular suggestion and guidance for the improvement of the same.
  • Mr. Manish & Mr. Chandrapal (Project Coordinator), has supported for the promotion of web page in the amongst community members of the LIFE project in Ajmer.
  • All the team project team members of LIFE project has supported for providing the content of the web page on daily basis.
  • Krishi Vigyan Kendera (KVK) is providing Technical information for uploading on the web page


Future planning
  • Would be taking the shape of an online classroom for the practitioners in development sector; providing ample material on livelihood aspects for a rural and tribal context.

  • Would also be sharing the working, feasible and non-working and non-feasible models of livelihood

  • E-LHP (e learning of LIFE and HARIT PRAYAS ) course would be linked with the web page

  • Coming out with the concept of world’s first Development channel “D channel” and link with the web page

  • Promoting the web page as the online news paper for development sector



With the support and highly active team of LIFE project we are hoping to have crossing 7500000 viewer ship in next 6 months. Also now the updation of the website has been managed by the entire LIFE team rather than just one person and for its updation and freshness in the content team works even after office hours.

I thanks to all the team members, viewers and people related with LIFE project for this 30000 (thirty thousand) success.
                                                                       

To be the development volunteer for the LIFE project and being the development friend of LIFE project log on to www.liferajasthan.blogspot.com or www.caritasindia.org (blog) or follow us on facebook (LIFE Caritas)


Let’s bring change!
Let’s believe change!
Let’s make change possible!





Saturday, September 29, 2012


                  PROGRESS STATUS OF LIFE PROJECT IN LAST 6 MONTHS @RCDSSS-AJMER

Youth Skill building & Employment:
  1. Two trained youth members at Nolkha village started earning Rs. 2500 to 3000/- per month through house-wiring work. A youth member Mr. Devendra s/o Pratap Singh of Nolkha village placed in cattle feed plant in Jaipur.
  2. A youth Man Singh s/o Shankar Singh of Nolkha placed as a computer teacher in Govt. Sec. School Bubani for one year.
  3. Two youth members of Surajpura & Mavashiya were enrolled in House Wiring training organized by ITI and RMOL.
  4. 4 youth members of Mavashiya provided Roadways recruitment form through internet (Jaisingh, Ramesh, Pradhan, Pradhan)
  5. Two tailoring centres run in Nolkha & Gudha village and 24 girls were trained in tailoring and stitching work. Technical support was availed from JSS Ajmer. Out of these 8 girls are now doing tailoring commercially in village itself and earning Rs. 1000/- to 1500/- monthly.
  6. 20 youth trained in house wiring training in Mavashiya block. 8 youth members started earning Rs. 1500 to 2000/- monthly by doing house wiring and general maintenance in nearby villages.
Resource Mobilization from KVK, NABARD, Panchayat & others :
  1. 32 Farmers got benefits of micro-nutrients spray for wheat from KVK in February, 2012.
  2. 25 farmers of Nepoli & Laxipura village got crop demo Khareef season and trained by KVK Support.
  3. 2 farmers of Surajpura, 2 Farmers of Nepoli, 4 farmers of Mavshiya received benefits of Farm Pond from Agri. Deptt. of Rs. 49,850/- per farmer. And Shyoji s/o Ruggha of Nepoli received Rs. 60000 for Farm pond scheme.
  4. Bharmal S/o Ramkaran Jat received Rs. 150000/- and Ramdhan S/o Dhukal Bheel recieved 40000/- from KCC which was made with our facilitation.
  5. 6 farmers of Nolkha & Godiawas received Mineral Mixture at subsidized rate from agriculture department.
  6. 4 famers from of Surajpura and 2 farmers of Nepoli purchased seeds of millet on subsidy rates during Khareef Abhiyan with the support of Agriculture Deptt. And 6 framers got free demo on vegetable crop (ladyfinger)
  7. Verms were sponsored for 12 units of worth Rs. 4200/- for establishment of vermin compost units in life project villages.
  8. 3 proposals of micro-plans are approved and being implemented in Nepoli village out of total 10 works. (Handpump, CC road & drainage system)

Training cum Production Units for Self Help Groups members :
  1. Total 5 production cum training units were established for income generation and skill development of SHG members in 5 villages. The details are as follows :
                                I.      Unit–1 : Spice (Masala – Chilly, Coriander, Turmeric) Pocessing (Grading, Grinding, Packaging & Selling) Unit; run by Ghareeb Nawaj SHG of Gudha village, maily owned by Mrs. Phulbano. They process the material as per requirement of the shop setup by Phulbano earlier. Monthly she sells 20 kg. Chilly powder, 7 kg. Coriander Powder & 5 kg. Turmeric and earn profit of Rs. 1000/- to 1500 monthly.
                              II.      Unit – 2 & 3 : Tailoring cum Bag Making Unit at Kesarpura & Devliya run by Jagdamba SHG of Devliya & Vishvakarma SHG of Kesarpura. Total 14 SHG members are trained regularly, they completed tailoring and now production bags is going on for upcoming pushkar fair.
                            III.      Unit – 4 & 5 : Production Unit of Vermin Compost run by Krishna SHG Noklha & Peepalderani SHG Devliya. Total 6 SHG members have established 12 vermin compost units of 20’×3’×2’ size and producing compost. From the next two months the ready compost will be packaged by other members of SHGs & sold to the market.
Information cum Rojgar Dhaba :
  1. Total 3889 people visited Rojgar Dhaba in this half year. Out of these TV & Internet services users were 2065 villagers and people who read news-paper & other magazines related to agriculture were 1818.
  2. Rojgar Dhaba is providing a platform to learn and update knowledge about agriculture and different government schemes. It also services people, especially youth to be informed about openings of various vacancies in government as well as private sectors. Results are also provided online for various exams.
  3. Krishi Darshan, Kalyani & other social issues related serials are liked by the visitors. They are also attracted with the IEC material recently developed and displayed at the centres and getting handholding support to access the services and knowledge about government schemes, organic farming, RTI, MGNREGA and various other useful technologies which could be helpful in promoting their sustainable livelihood.

Organic Farming & Sustainable agriculture :
  1. 2 farmers (Budharam s/o Sujaram & Fulwanti w/o Lalsingh) of Nolkha village and one farmer (Shankar Lal Sen) of Kesarpura village established additional vermin units seeing the success of first units.
  2. 14 Farmers established kitchen garden and grow vegetables using organic measures. Jeev Amrit, Dashparni, Vermin Compost & Beej Amrit were used in the kitchen garden. But only 6 got vegetable production due to failure of crop for insects, and attach of mouse and other small underground animals.
  3. 214 farmer trained and in organic farming and adopt Beej Amrit, Jeev Amrit & Dashparni organic preparations for Kharif Crop. These farmers were trained in Organic farming & IPM techniques.
  4. 147 farmers from 10 villages send soil sample for Khareef crop and select crop as per the recommendation and prepared land accordingly.
  5. Rampal s/o Chhoga and Ranglal s/o Shankarlal of Nepoli; Devaram s/o Mangu of Kesarpura adopted vermin compost unit, whereas Panchu Singh and Budharam of Nolkha village established Ajola Grass Unit.

Farmers’ Club initiatives :
  1. Received sanction of remaining 6 farmers club of Life project. Hence all 9 clubs have been approved by NABARD under Farmers’ Club Program. The only remaining farmer club of Godiawas is waiting for approval from NABARD since its’ application was sent lately due to their internal conflicts. 
  2. Farmer's Club of Kesarpura purchased agriculture equipment (spray machine) from NABARD’s financial assistance for public use on nominal rent.
  3. Shiv Kisan Club Naulakha and Balaji Kisan Club innaugrated on 25th July at Nepoli
  4. Farmer’s Club organized a Linkage meeting with bank, MFI and govt. officials at Nepoli. In which total 270 SHG members and Farmers club members and youth participated.
  5. Farmer’s Club of Nolkha & Mavashiya decided to develop their 5 bigha pastureland as demonstration purpose with the support of the project. As a result 5-5 bigha land of pastureland were protected mutually and grass seeding was done in the area. A chowkidar is appointed for three months until the grass is fruited.

Bank linkages of Self Help Groups :
  1. 5 farmer club and 10 SHG were linked with BOB Ramsar.
  2. Bank Loan Process for 7 SHGs of Mavashiya panchayat was facilitated with ICICI bank and total 8 SHG’s including 7 of Gram Panchayat Mavshiya and 1 of Gudha village got bank loan of Rs. 589500 with support of ICICI bank. Hence all Self Help Groups of Life project have linked and initiated the bank loan. 40% SHG members used this loan for different purposes of Livestock management like purchasing, fodder, feeding place etc.
  3. Aradhana SHG in  Guda village mobilized loan of Rs. 280000/- from the SBBJ branch Bhudol.

Livestock management :
  1. One Azola unit was established in Kalyanipura village for better nutrition for milk giving livestock and good compost.
  2. 65 breed improvement were done in this half year including cows of Geer breed and buffalos of Murra breed.
  3. Veterinary vaccination camp organized in 8 villages. 332 livestock rears benefitted with vaccination of  3192 animals including cow, buffalo, goat and sheep.
Social Security Schemes benefits:
  1. Widow pensions of Badami w/o Narayan singh and Kamala w/o Ratana of Nolkha village were started.
  2. One widow pension and one palanhar benefit form has been processed in Kalyanipura village.
  3. Benefits of Palanhar Yojana (Rs.4700) provided to Miss Harju D/o Kalyani of Kalyanipura through effective use of RTI.
  4. A Widow pension and one Palanhar application is processed in Kalyanipura (Geeta /Ramdhan) and Devliya (Ladi/Ranglal
Source: Half yearly reports 

Friday, September 28, 2012


Posters on various components of LIFE project developed 
by RCDSSS-LIFE project team in Hindi!