Section 1: About the NGO proposing the Project
Name & Address of the organization : INSTITUTE OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES (IRDMS) Plot No. 473, Kalinga Market, Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar – 751012, Orissa, India , irdms2001@yahoo . co. in, Tel/ Fax – 0674-2546413 .
Names and backgrounds of Directors : Mr. Brahmanand Rout, Secretary and Chief Executive
Contact No. 9337116728
Formation, Registration and FCRA Status.
IRDMS was formed in 1994. It is registered as a society under Societies Registration Act of 1860 on February 1995 bearing Registration No. 622-699 of 1995-96. Subsequently, it is registered under Foreign Contribution Regulations Act, Government of India and under Income Tax Act. It is also recognized by Ministry of Forest & Environment, Government of India.
Mission – The mission of IRDMS includes promotion of a sustainable process towards a dignified quality of life of concretized rural communities characterized by opportunity for secured livelihoods, ecologically sound upgrdation of natural resource base, access to basic education and primary health care, access to safe drinking water and hygienic living conditions and enhances self-reliance and self-esteem .
List previous/present projects undertaken by the organization.
The Organization has multifarious activities in the field. It has taken up education, health & sanitation, women empowerment, livelihood promotion, agriculture and horticulture, watershed development, animal welfare, handicapped welfare, forest and forestry development program. Specific program activities are given below :
Sl / Project / Location / Goal / Beneficiaries / Fund1 / Micro finance / Kandhamal , Bargarh / Sustainable economic life / Tribal womens / Govt. Orissa.RMK
2 / Rehabilitation of disabled / Cuttack / CBR / Disable child / SLF Netherland
3 / Establishment of Computer Laboratory / Khurda / Growing knowledge in IT / SC/ST Students / Govt. of India
4 / Micro Credit / Jagatsinghpur,Khurda / Growing socio economic conditions / Sc/st/dalit womens / Govt. of India
5 / Animal Welfare / Balikuda / Relief and rescue during disaster / All the domestic animals / Govt of India
6 / Environment Awareness / Kandhamal / Protection and afro station of forest / Tribal people of Kandhamal District / Ministry of Forest and Environment
7 / Non-formal Education / Nawbarangapur / Rise the literacy rate in Tribal Pocket / Children live in tribal area / DPEP
8 / Watershed Development / Baragarh / Sustainable Livelihood / People live in below poverty line / Directorate of Watershed Mission
9 / Child Rights / Jagatasinghpur / Aware about the rights of children / Parents,Gurdian,children / UNICEF
Number of full time employees.
IRDMS runs its activities with an active workers strength of 65. Of them, 46 work on voluntary basis. While 7 are full time workers, 12 work on part time basis.
Audited financial statement of last three years are attached herewith.
Please declare any religious, political, etc. affiliations of the organization.
It is purely a Social Development Organization
Section 2 : About the project
Title : Building Community Empowerment through Universal of Primary Education
Where is the project located? Include name of the village/town/city and district.
Contact person (name, contact information including email if available)
The project will be located at Tribal district Kandhamal in Orissa state of India. The project will be implemented in 10 most backward villages of Belghar area of Tumudibandh Block of the district. The details of the beneficiaries are given below.
Sri Brahmanand Rout, Secretary of IRDMS will be the chief contact person for the project. He can be contacted at and/or 91-9337116728.
Who is the project directed toward? Describe the target beneficiaries in terms of age, sex, and number.
Description of the project area – Kandhamal is a land-bounded district, which is situated in the middle of Orissa state in the eastern India. The project villages (10) are situated in Tumudibandh Community Development Block which is located in southern part of the district.. These villages are situated apart at a radius of 6 KMs. There are altogether 233 households including 170 (73%) ST and 42 (18%) SC households. Out of total population (1,247), children between 6 to 11 years account 15.07%. Agriculture is the main occupation for 95% of the households but small and marginal farmers constitute 79% of them. As the land holding is very less and production is very low, nearly 85% of the households depend largely upon daily wage earning, either in agriculture or other labour intensive works. Geographically, the area is a highland with degraded forests. The run off water forms gully and heavy soil erosion that degrade the agricultural land.
The demographic figure of the project area is given in the following Table.
Village / HH / P / M / F / P 6-11 / M / F / SC / ST / SchoolRandanga / 30 / 138 / 64 / 74 / 21 / 10 / 11 / 33 / 98
Dupi / 49 / 263 / 118 / 145 / 42 / 22 / 20 / 55 / 205 / Yes
Gochhaka / 13 / 92 / 42 / 50 / 17 / 9 / 8 / 6 / 86
Mahabali / 27 / 130 / 68 / 62 / 18 / 8 / 10 / 0 / 46
Pagarapadi / 18 / 116 / 51 / 65 / 18 / 10 / 8 / 0 / 109 / Yes
Pikusi / 21 / 119 / 56 / 63 / 16 / 8 / 8 / 0 / 119
Sushabhata / 25 / 128 / 65 / 63 / 18 / 10 / 8 / 70 / 58 / Yes
Gambhiri / 15 / 78 / 44 / 34 / 7 / 4 / 3 / 37 / 41
Tidipadar / 13 / 54 / 31 / 23 / 11 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 50 / Yes
Usabali / 22 / 129 / 60 / 69 / 20 / 11 / 9 / 23 / 106
Total / 233 / 1247 / 599 / 648 / 188 / 98 / 90 / 228 / 918
Analysis / 5.35 / 1082 / 15.07 / 18.28 / 73.62
NB : HH – Households, P – Population, M – Male, F – Female, P 6-11 – Population between 6 to 11 years of age, SC – Scheduled Caste, ST – Scheduled Tribe
There will be 188 children between 6 to 11 years age group, who shall be the direct beneficiary of the project. However, the project will indirectly help the community members to develop their socio-economic well-being.
Describe the current situation of (i) the local community (income level, occupations, etc.) and (ii) the target beneficiaries.
Problems
a) Area :
Topography and Climate – The area is situated in the south western part of Tumudibandh block of Kandhamal district in coastal Orissa. Geographically, the area is a part of Eastern Indian Highlands. The whole block area is highland with dense sal (Shorea robusta) forest in places. Due to high run off many gullies are formed and local streams emerged, but carry water only in rainy season. There are few low lands where cultivation takes place. The area is highly drought prone. Barring 1996 (1010mm), the area receives good rainfall (above 1700 mm per annum). But there is no natural system for rain harvesting in the area. There is good amount of forest coverage. But the forests have no water retention capacity due to deforestation. However, the forest serves as the life line of the most of the households as they gather non timber forest produces round the year, though in small scale.
Land and Cropping Pattern - Only 32.30% of land is available for cultivation. Out of this, only 15% land is low land. Irrigation facility is available only to 5.32 % of land from various traditional sources. With high percentage of upland and agriculture being rain fed, the production is very low in the area. Among cereals paddy, ragi, maize and millet are the primary crop produced in the area. While traditional varieties of paddy give a maximum production of 6 to 8 quintals per acre, production of other cereals are very less. Due to gully formation, many cultivable land become waste and high run off takes away field bundhs in every monsoon.
Transport and Communication – The nearest bus stop (Tumudibandh) on Kandhamal – Muniguda Road is 54 KMs on average from the project villages. The nearest rail stop (Muniguda on Raipur-Visakhapatnam Rail route) is 70 KMs. The internal road system in the GP is not good. There is no public transport available to the project area. One has to travel 25KMs (up to Tumudibandh) to catch a bus.
b) Its population
Socio-economic situation – The people of the project villages though eligible for development programs funded by the Government still remain exploited and deprived of their basic human rights. From the baseline survey, it is evident that there are 69 landless families in the four of the project villages (Gochhaka, Pikusi, Tidipadar and Ushabali) out of which 34 families do not have homestead land. Similarly, in the GP there are 23 women headed families for whom the Government has no special provision. The overall economic situation of the households depending upon daily wage earning is very bad. The ST and SC communities constitute 92% of the total households. These 92% households form a large section of poverty stricken population in the project villages.
Literacy & Education – The literacy rate of the project villages (10.98%) is far below than the district average. The female literacy (3.86%) is still lower and far below than the district female literacy rate. This is primarily because of absence of educational institutions, lack of service providers and effective super vision. Only four out of 10 villages have primary schools. But, the teachers hardly visit the schools; hence no education takes place in the schools. These small villages with low population do not qualify for opening of a Government Primary School. In that pretext the education is given a back sit in the area.
Health & Sanitation – The health facilities available in the project area are practically nil. There is only one ANM centre in the area and the nearest PHC is 15 Kms on the rough road. The people suffer from common and contagious diseases through out the year. Due to lack of health facilities and effective referral services, serious patients are always carried to city hospitals at the last stage. The RCH service delivery is also not satisfactory.
Sanitation condition in the area has been neglected very much. People do not know the benefit of a good environment with improved sanitary condition. In rainy season, all around is full of filthy water. Domesticated pigs make the environment more polluted.
Livelihood & Income Generation – It is evident that people depend upon agriculture and daily wage earning in agricultural sector. Besides, almost every household depends upon gathering of forest produces. Cereals including paddy is the primary agricultural production of the area. But now-a-days, production of paddy though increased, it is not profitable. As the cultivating is rain fed, only one crop comes in a year. As there is no or little subsequent utilization of land, income is limited. This is not sufficient for managing the family. Hence it is noticed that nearly 80% of the households follow daily wage earning. Here the opportunity is also not wide open. Agricultural laborers are engaged in cultivation works in the rainy season. But as people do not have cash, they pay paddy or rice as wage. However, the livelihood options are very limited.
Besides, people go to forest to gather forest produces. This is also scanty now with large scale deforestation and degradation.
Environment & Culture – The tribals (mainly Kondh) are traditional settlers of the area. Dating back to 100 years, the first non-tribal and SC communities settled here. The Kondhs have a rich cultural heritage which was in tact till the advent of modern entertainment system. Traditional folk dance is the witness of the culture. The people were living in a traditional natural environment with full of natural resources. But the present village environment is polluted with the advent of outsiders. They exploit the tribal by taking their produces in cheaper price. Also they lend on high rate of interest during lean season. Community structures are hardly created, poorly maintained and repaired only on government grants. Citizens’ responsibilities and duties are not followed properly. There is degraded human value in the environment.
In the project area, there are informal channels of communication between these two sections of people. There is direct access of poorest people to the elites. With reservation of seats in local self-governance, poorest even get a chance to sit at par with others. This has reduced the gap rarely.
Community Organizations – There is hardly any structured community organization in the project villages. Traditional tribal headman ship is still existing but it is hardly referred to. There are no existence of village development organizations, organizations for forest development, women empowerment, health and sanitation. Also the representatives of panchayatiraj institutions (local self government) do not have much awareness.
Please describe the existing status of the proposed project (not yet started, in progress, etc.). If the project is already in progress, describe existing infrastructure, existing staff, curriculum used, teacher/student ratio, govt. recognized status, and teaching methodology (discuss all that applicable)
The project is yet to start.
Please describe your project plan in terms of short-term and long-term goals.
Goal :
All the school going age children will enroll, attend and successfully complete primary education by 2010.
Objectives
· To aware the community about the utility of education and bring their participation in developing educational standard of the villages.