Functional literacy visit of SHG members to different line departments like banks, Panchayat, post office, block office etc by Jeevika Ujjain.

Purpose of the class: To give a platform to SHG members of four targeted centers with various government non government institutions those working for the village women’s, SHGs, village development etc like Zila panchyat, post office, bank, employment units etc. For this exposure programme we have invite selected SHG members from each village

Zila panchyat: At first our team went to Zila panchyat where one session was taken by NRLM district programme Mrs. Rupali Shared about the Zila panchyat its way of working and various department in the zillapanchayt.

Canra Bank: From Zilla Panchayat team went to Canra bank. Bank manager welcomed all the members and narrated about the functioning style of bank and how linkage is possible in the bank. Manger also explained the team about new schemes of central government “Jan Dhan yojna” where the bank able to open an individual account on zero balance and provides a debit card and an individual accidental insurance worth Rs. 100000/-. After the v discussion and sharing some of the SHG members showed the interest to open self account. Manager and bank staff helped the members to open account at the same time as a result 32 members successfully opened bank account under new schemes.

Paper cup making units: Third visit was done to the income generation units run by the self help group in Ujjain city. All the members were taken to those units where women are involved in paper cup making. At Bapu Nagar near about 50 women are engaged in paper cup making and each them are earning around Rs. 200 to 250. The main intension was to give chance to targeted women to interact with the women who are engaged in paper cup making and motivate the target women to start the IGP units so that they will be able to earn additional income in their life. Fifty women participants took part the exposure and they have expressed that they have received valuable information about various government institution those working for their welfare.

Expouser visit of PRI members by Sedmap at Jeevika village of Ujjain

100 PRI members came with the SEDMAP team for the exposure. There were taken to Chaprikheda where more famers of Jeevika project are engaged in organic farming and making organic pesticides and manure. During the visit all the participants were shown the demo of the vermin pits which constructed with the help of Jeevika. They asked many questions to our farmers regarding the programe especially in comparison to organic and chemical farming to the farmers. Farmers gave answer to them and even they have shared very well about the organic manuer, Amrit pani and the process how to make organic pesticide and manure. Again there was demand from SEDMAP Bhopal to take their team to Ujjain for an exposure.

Rally on Gram Sabha at Village Durganayak cunducted by Jeevika team ANWC- Bhopal

Jeevika Team ANWC-Bhopal organized awareness programme on Gram Sabha through Rally on 28th of Sep2014 at Village durganayak Gram Panchayt Simpur Block Nasrullaganj District Sehore,

main purpose was of this programme, create awareness about Gram Sabha as well as increase community participation in Gram Sabha,People rise their voice with regard their problem in Gram Sabha and they will get solution through Gram Sabha

people of Village Durga Nayak gained more information about Gram sabha, and they understood importance of Gram sabha, more and more people will participant in up-coming Gram Sabha on 2nd Oct 2014, altogether,

there were 25 women and 15 man participant in Rally, this programme was so successful

Published By Jeevika team-ANWC Bhopal

DBRC COLLABORATES WITH CARITAS INDIA

Read blog of DBRC ( Don Bosco Research Center) written by Ms. Marina D'costa

http://bismumbai.blogspot.in/2014/09/bis-4140-dbrc-collaborates-with-caritas.html

NREGA to be restricted to tribal, backward districts

In changes proposed to the MGNREGA, Union Minister of Rural Development Nitin Gadkari has proposed that the permissible labour to material ratio of expenses be changed from the current 60:40 to 51:49. Even as the current upper limit in expenditure is not being met, the government wants to increase this from 40 to 49 per cent. The change will increase the presence of contractors in the job scheme and squeeze the funds available for wages.

“There was no prior consultation on the labour-material ratio changes and the Minister’s announcement came as a surprise to us. There is no real reason [for the change] when the States are not even spending 40 per cent [on material] right now,” said an official at the Ministry requesting anonymity.

With UPA-II government tightening spending in its last years, MGNREGA allocation was reduced from Rs. 40,100 crore in 2010-11 to Rs 33,000 crore in 2013-14. “Increasing material ratio will add Rs. 8,000 crore in expenses. This means under the current allocation, we will have that much less to spend on wages,” said a senior official.

‘Only in tribal parts’

Mr. Gadkari has also proposed to restrict MGNREGA to the poorer parts of the country. While the Minister made the proposal – which will require amending the Act – last week, the Ministry, since July, has been focusing on implementing the scheme in 2,500 backward blocks under its Intensive Participatory Planning Exercise. These blocks have been identified based on percentage of population below poverty line (BPL), as per the Planning commission estimates of 2013, and a backwardness index prepared by the Planning Commission using the 2011 Census data that uses five parameters – percentage of households primarily dependent on agriculture, female literacy rate, households without access to electricity, households without access to drinking water and sanitation within the premises and households without access to banking facilities.

Going by these parameters, in Tamil Nadu, one of the best performing States in the MGNREGA currently, only 98 of 385 blocks can be identified as backward, while in Chhattisgarh, 105 of total the 145 block fall into this category.

“This will end the universal spirit of the MGNREGA. More material expenses will mean more false bills and more farziwada (fraud),” said Shankar Singh, an activist with Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, Rajasthan.

Source: The Hindu, September 22nd 2014

Exposure Visit At Muaakheda District Hosangabad held by Jeevika ANWC-bhopal

Jeevika team ANWC- Bhopal thought that exposure visit is a best source for providing practical knowledge as well as motivate to people with regards IGP and sustainable agriculture practices.Later

Jeevika team was organized two day Exposure visit to other areas where such programme are successful on 26th , 27th of sep 2014 at Village Muaakheda and Fatepur District Hosangabal,

this exposure was focus on cost effective agriculture practices and to see how success people of our target community are running Income generation programmme in their areas,

Altogether 30 participated in exposure visit

Growth Indicators- Bring interest in the SHG and farmers Club to take up different IGPs,

people are showing interest for adopting organic farming and mixed cropping.

People have awarded about IGP and organic Farming

Migration will have decreased in Jeevika Project Village

published by Jeevika Team ANWC- Bhopal MP

KDSS, JEEVIKA: ORGANISED STREET PLAY ON ORGANIC FARMING

JEEVIKA KDSS, KHANDWA MADHYA PRADESH

NOW A DAYS EVERY PEOPLE TRY TO GET MORE BENEFITS IN VERY LESS EXPENSE. SO FARMERS ARE ALSO GOING IN SAME DIRECTION. THEY ALSO WANT MORE PRODUCTIVITY IN LESS EXPENSE. TO TAKE MORE PRODUCTIVITY FARMERS ARE USING CHEMICAL (PESTICIDES) VERY MUCH IN THEIR FIELD. THE DEPENDENCY HAS INCREASED ON THESE PESTICIDES BECAUSE THE ARE EASILY AVAILABLE IN THE MARKETS AND NO NEED OF LABOUR FOR MAKING. THE SCENARIO IS THAT DANGEROUS DISEASES INCREASING DAY BY DAY. THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WE ARE LIVING GETTING POLLUTED.

SO KEEPING THESE THINGS IN MIND JEEVIKA KHANDWA ORGANISED A STREET PLAY ON ORGANIC FARMING IN PROJECT VILLAGE DONGALIYA. THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THIS ACTIVITY IS TO INCREASE AWARENESS ON BAD EFFECT OF CHEMICAL FARMING ON HUMAN HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT AMONG COMMUNITY MEMBERS. HOW WE CAN USE OF DOMESTIC MATERIALS FOR AGRICULTURE PURPOSE INSTEAD OF CHEMICALS? THROUGH THIS PLAY THEY ALSO TOLD COMMUNITY (FARMERS) HOW THEY CAN TAKE MORE PRODUCTIVITY IN LESS EXPENSE AND THEY CAN ENHANCE THEIR LIVELIHOOD STATUS.

IN THIS ACTIVITY ALL JEEVIKA STAFF MEMBERS WERE PRESENT.

LOKESH RANJAN

PROJECT COORDINATOR

JEEVIKA

KDSS, KHANDWA