CHAPTER -V

STRUCTURE AND PROGRAMMES OF INTEGRATED TRIBAL

DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (I.T.D.A)

This chapter briefly depicts the origin and growth

of ITDA and presents the structure of ITDA, which includes the

functions and the duties of functionaries to implement the

programmes intended for the socio-economic empowerment of the

tribals, as well as the performance and efficacy of the ITDA.

Origin and Growth of ITDA

About the historical aspects relating to the emergence of ITDA

Paderu, the Paderu division, multi-purpose block was inaugurated

in 1956. It was converted into a tribal development block in 1962.

In 1964 the first body of the panchayat samithi consisting of

numbers from different village level bodies was selected. In 1975 an

integrated tribal development project came into existence covering

Paderu and some other tribal development blocks. In addition to

these agencies many developmental institutions covering the fields

of co-operative credit, educational services, medical facilities are

established for the all round development of the tribals. Several

protective legislations enacted by the state governments were

applied to the agency area.

The Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA), Paderu,

Vishakhapatnam District, is a society registered on 20th February,

1975 under the society’s registration Act XXI of 1869 and started

functioning from 4th December, 1975. The objectives of the ITDA are

to plan and execute programmes and schemes aiming at socio-

economic development of the tribal families in the tribal sub-plan

area. After the introduction of single line administration in the

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tribal sub-plan area in 1986, the ITDA was entrusted with the

responsibility of coordinating the activities of all departments both

developmental and regulatory, for better results. The tribal sub-plan

area comprises 11 mandal Praja Parishads viz., Paderu,

Pedabayalu, Munchingiputtu, Anatagiri, Araku, Hukumpeta,

G.Madugula, Chintapalli, G.K.Veedhi, Koyyuru and Dumbriguda.

At the beginning of the fifth five year plan as envisaged by this

strategy, the areas of tribal concentration and areas of dispersed

tribal population were identified according to the guidelines

provided by the central government. Accordingly a total number of

3521 villages located in the scheduled areas were identified as areas

of tribal concentration, since the tribal population in these villages

constitutes more than 50 per cent of the total population. The total

scheduled tribe population living in these villages was 5, 57,572

(according to 2001 Census). The ITDA was constituted for the

formulation and execution of plans and programmers for the

development of tribal living in these areas. In the case of areas of

dispersed tribal population, the modified areas development

approach was adopted for the development of these people.

The ITDA of Visakhapatnam was registered under the societies

Registration Act, 1860, the agency form of organization was adopted

for ensuring functional autonomy and flow of funds from different

institutions1.Originally, the headquarters of ITDA was located at

Visakhapatnam which is also the district- headquarters. Later it

was shifted to Paderu which is located in the heart of the

tribal belt in order to take it closer to the tribal people. Accordingly

its frame has also been changed from ITDA, Visakhapatnam to

ITDA, Paderu.

1 Integrated Tribal Development Agency Report on the Activities of ITDA, 1978-79 paderu, 1979,

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Objectives:

The objectives of ITDA are 2

1. Achievement of socio-economic development of the tribals

2. Narrowing down the disparities in the levels of development of

tribal and non-tribal areas;

3. Raising the productivity levels in the fields of agriculture,

horticulture, animal husbandry, forestry and so on to create

an economic impact which will enable the targeted number of

families in the Tribal Sub-plan to cross the poverty line and

4. Elimination of exploitation of tribals in respect of alienation of

land, money lending, debt bondage, forest, excise, etc.

Organizational structure

Since the adoption of the Tribal sub-plan strategy there has been a

spurt in the growth of administrative machinery for the tribal

people and tribal areas, beginning with the state level and going

down to the grassroots level.

Several new agencies are created and new patterns of

administration have been carved out to envelope and implement the

development programmes initiated by the sub-plan.

At the micro level i.e., the state level, there is a secretary in

charge of tribal development. In some of the states, the secretary

also acts as the Commissioner for tribal development, while in the

other states, this position is held by a separate officer. The

secretary/commissioner is assisted by the Director, Tribal

Development/welfare. In certain states like Madhya Pradesh and

Bihar there are Regional Tribal Development Authorities below the

state level authorities. Besides, there is a coordination committee

2.Ibid., P.14

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consisting of the Chief Minister as Chairman and the Chief

Secretary as Convener and a few other Ministers and secretaries as

members to review the implementation of tribal development

programmes in the sub-plan area.

At the micro level each ITDA (Integrated Tribal Development

Agency) consists of a project for each District having areas of tribal

concentration: It has authority for planning and overseeing the

implementation of tribal development programmes. There is a

project officer who is of the chief executive of ITDA whose duty is to

implement the plans and programmes evolved by the Project

Authority. Besides, there is a Project Advisory Committee with local

M.Ps and M.L.As, heads of departments connected with tribal

development work and a few prominent persons of the area to look

after both the formulation and implementation of the programmes

of ITDA.

Project Authority/Governing Body:

The ITDA Project Authority is also known as the Governing Body

which consists of the Collector as the chairman, Heads of related

departments, people’s representatives and the project officer of

ITDA as its members.

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The actual composition of the project Authority of the ITDA, Paderu is

as follows3:

I. Official Members:

District Collector, Chairman Project officer, ITDA,

Paderu.Member-cum-

Deputy Director, Agriculture

Member

Deputy Director Animal Husbandry

Member

District Cooperative officer

Member

District Educational officer

Member

District Tribal Welfare officer

Member

District Social Welfare officer

Member

Executive Engineer (Panchayat Raj)

Member

Executive Engineer

(Roads & Buildings)

Member

Superintendent Engineer (Irrigation)

Member

Superintendent Engineer 3 Integrated Tribal Development Agency, A Note on the working of ITDA, Paderu, 1980, pp.14-16

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(Electrical operations)

Member

Assistant Director (Fisheries)

Member

Deputy collector (Tribal welfare)

Member

Divisional Manager, Girijan

Cooperative corporation

Member

District Development officer

(Zilla Praja Parishad, Visakhapatnam)

Member

General Manager,

District Industries Centre

Member

II. People’s Representation

Members of Parliament (Bhadrachalam,

Visakhapatnam and

Anakapalli Constituencies)

Members

Members of the Legislative Assembly

(Chodavaram, G.Madugula and Chintapalli)

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Members

The composition of the General Body needs a few comments.

Making of the District Collector chairman of the Governing body of

ITDA, has both advantages and disadvantages. As the head of the

district administration and seasoned administrator he can provide

leadership and also effectively supervise and coordinate the

programmes of different, departments operating in the ITDA areas.

However, the District Collector is always very busy with

multifarious activities of the district administration and so he

cannot be stow adequate attention even on important matters

relating to ITDA. This seriously affects the functioning of this

institution. The tribal areas in the governing body and thus placing

them under the leadership of the District Collector ensures

convergence of all developmental programmes irrespective of their

controlling departments and such an integrated system of

administration perhaps, constitutes the corner stone of the whole

philosophy of the sub-plan strategy. These specialists can also

provide the necessary technical guidance to ITDA in the

implementation of its programmes in their respective fields.

The inclusion of the people representatives like M.Ps. and

M.L.As in the general body is in accordance with the spirit of

democracy to promote the participation of the beneficiaries in the

process of their own development which is most essential in the

context of tribal conditions. Thus the inclusion of both subject

specialists and tribal representatives make the Governing body a

balanced one. This enables it to perform its functions in an efficient

manner.

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The general body meets at least once in two months to

transact its business. However, in practice it rarely follows this

schedule. It was revealed that since its inception, the general body of

ITDA never met more than three or four times in a year. The main

reason for this seems to be the non-availability of the District Collector

and other officials for the meetings. It was stated thought of; it did not

materialize owing to the non-availability of the Collector of the

majority of the official members.

Powers and functions of the general body:

The General body transacts the following functions in its meetings4:

1. Preparation of Action-plans relating to the various schemes

and programmes to be undertaken in the tribal areas

2. Review of the progress achieved by the various schemes and

programmes implemented by ITDA

3. Consideration and approval of the annual budget of ITDA and

4. Review and approval of the action taken by the project officer

in running the administration of ITDA.

Besides the above powers, the general body is also vested with the

financial power to sanction up to Rs. 15 lakhs for executing minor

irrigation schemes. The general body is expected to discharge

certain other functions.

It provides necessary guidelines to the executive wing of the

administration regarding the sub-plan programmes. It has the

responsibility to see that the development programmes are

implemented by ITDA strictly within the limits of the financial

outlays prescribed by the Annual plans and also to see that the

procedures prescribed by the Government from time to time are

followed. Thus the governing body plays a vital role in the working

of ITDA.

4. .A note on the working of ITDA, op.cit., p.22

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However, a perusal of the actual working of the governing

body reveals that it has no powers to exercise and its role is more or

less confined to ratification of whatever schemes and programmes

evolved at higher levels and passing them on ITDA for

implementation. Further, the members envinced little interest in its

deliberation. The items that are placed on the agenda of the

meetings are approved without much discussion by the members.

Further, the meetings are dominated by the project officer who

plays a very important role in the preparation of the agenda. The

participation of tribal representatives is at best negligible since the

proceedings are often conducted in English which is not understood

by the tribal members. Generally there were few occasions when the

tribal members actively participated in the deliberation. Thus a

close study of the working of the governing body reveals that even

though in the sub-plan strategy it is assigned very important

responsibilities in actual practice, its role is circumscribed on

account of several reasons.

Project officer:

The project officer is the chief executive of ITDA. He occupies

a pivotal place in the entire administration of this agency. The

overall responsibility for the management of ITDA lies with him. He

plays a key role not only in the preparation of plans and

programmes of ITDA but also in their execution. He is the captain of

the tribal team of officials who are involved in the task of tribal

development. He is also the friend, guide and philosopher of these

officials in performing their tasks. He also acts as liaison between

ITDA and the government and other agencies working in the same

field. He projects the image of ITDA among the public in general and

the tribals in particular. On the whole it can be said that the

success or failure of this organization in achieving its goal of tribal

development to a large extent depends upon the efficiency, vigor

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and dynamism of the project officer. Usually, an IAS officer of the

junior cadre in the rank of Joint collector is appointed as the

project officer. The appointment of an IAS officer as the project

officer is expected to serve two purposes: (a) he can secure the

obedience of the district level departmental heads because of the

status he carries (b) he can maintain good relationship with the

District Collector and other higher authorities like the secretaries

and can push through his plans and programmes without much

difficulty. In view of this appointing an IAS officer is a rational

policy. However, there is constant criticism from several quarters

that the IAS officers who are generalist administrators with highly

urbanized and sophisticated outlook are not suitable to man the

tribal development agencies because of the sensitive nature of the

tasks they perform and the socio-cultural life and personality of the

tribals they have to serve are very different. However, it was found

in the present study that this criticism was not supported by truth.

It was observed that about 80 per cent of the project officers

working in ITDA programmes under study were IAS officers. They

were found to be very dynamic and efficient and discharged their

duties with much interest and commitment. They have a good

record of achievement. Further, they mixed with the tribals very

freely and intimately. They were very sympathetic towards the

tribals. Several of them have earned a good reputation among the

tribal people for their commitment and zeal. Thus, the present a

study proved that IAS officer work more efficiently and deliver the

goods better than non-IAS officers as heads of the ITDA. The

controversy over their appointment as the chief executives of the

tribal development agencies like ITDA is purely imaginary and has

no empirical evidence.

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Tenure of the project officers:

There is no fixed tenure for the project officers; the sub-

plan strategy is silent about the tenure of this vital functionary.

However the government seems to favour between 2 and 3 years as

the term of this officer. This period is quite adequate for an officer to

understand the typical nature of tribal people and their problems

and to discharge his functions effectively. However, very few project

officers stayed beyond 2 years in the service of ITDA. Most of them

stayed less than one year in this organization. The reasons are

fairly obvious. The tribal areas which lack modern facilities were not

liked by some officers while others were transferred by the

government as a matter of routine without any reason. It is evident

from the reports of ITDA, that out of the 10 project officers who

worked in ITDA, Paderu, since its inception in 1979 only 4 project

officers served for 2 years while the others have stayed for very brief

periods ranging from 6 to 9 months. Frequent transfers of the

project officers caused serious dislocation in the administration of

ITDA.

Powers and functions:

In the sub-plan strategy the following functions have been assigned to

the project officer5.

(a) Identification and demarcation of areas of tribal concentration

(b) Identification of primitive pockets for special attention for

development under the package programme

(c) Recognition of more backward communities

(d) Coordinating and supervising all developmental activities in the

sub-plan areas

(e) Preparing periodical progress reports on the schemes and

programmes of ITDA

(f) Implementation of protective legislation and

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(g) Serving as member secretary of the Advisory committees on

tribal development

In general, the role of the project officer was found to be

that of a coordinator, even for discharging this function efficiently,

he had no administrative powers. As a result, instead of being an

effective coordinator, his activities often came to be confined to that

of progress reporting, i.e., to reporting and coordinating to the

extent possible the progress of the developmental with in ITDA. If he

happens to be an IAS officer, the departmental officers working in

ITDA readily extend the necessary cooperation to him because of

the consideration that the particular IAS officer might one day

become the head of their department. But if this is not the case

even for this cooperation he has to strive hard. This situation

prevailed because all the officials of the different departments

posted in an ITDA, reported not to the project officer but to their

respective district departmental heads who wrote their confidential

reports.

Further, the ITDA headquarters is located far from the district

headquarters and so it is very difficult for the project officer to

coordinate the activities of the departments from the project area.

Besides the project officer has no control over the district level

officers. It lies in the hands of their respective heads of

departments. Even if they fail to obey the orders of the project

officers, he has no power to punish them. Due to this, the role of

the project officer as the coordinator of the developmental

programmes in the project area cannot be effective.

5.Government of India, planning commission fifth five year plan, new Delhi, 1975,

pp.210-214

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However, a major change in the position of the project officer

occurred in 1987 when the government decided to make ITDA a

single agency in the sub-plan area for the speedy development of

the tribal areas. The government initiated several measures to

strengthen the position of the project officer. These measures

include6

(a) Elevation of the cadre of the project officer to that a Joint

Collector and Additional District Magistrate:

(b) Vesting the Project Officer with powers of Inspection,

review and responding on all officers and institutions

operating in the project area

(c) Making all the officers of the various departments which

implement the programmes of ITDA responsible to the

project officer

(d) The BDOs who are directly responsible for the

implementation of the development programmes in the

tribal areas are brought under the control of the project

officer

(e) The project officer is made the appellate authority under

the land alienation and the money lending regulations in

force in the state

(f) All the appointments to the posts in the Sub-plan should

be made by a selection committee with the project Officer

as its chairman

(g) He is authorized to make entries in the service registers of

all the class II officers including the block development

officers working in the tribal areas.

6.Government of Andhra Pradesh department of Tribal welfare a report on the

Tribal sub-plan Hyderabad, 1988, pp.41-44

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These reforms had little effect as there is no substantial

change in the position of the project officer of ITDA even after the

implementation of the changes. Consequently the project officer has to

confine his role to coordination and supervision of the activities

implemented by the different departments in the areas of operation of

ITDA. Nevertheless, a few project officers by virtue of their cadre were

able to command the obedience of the officials of the various

departments and implement the programmes effectively. For

instance, the programme evaluation organization of the Planning

Commission found that in several states including Andhra Pradesh the

project officers belong to IAS cadre7.

The working group appointed by the Planning Commission

during the seventh five year plan re-views the implementation of the

sub-plan programme. Observed that the role of the project officer of

ITDA in most of the states was that of a coordinator and even in that

role he is not able to discharge his duties effectively because he

happens to be a junior officer from the State Civil Services8. ITDA has

been conceived as operational units with a view to achieving

administrative organizational and financial integration of the areas

and programmes, for speedier development of the scheduled tribes.

But such integration has not been realized particularly on account of

the fact there has not been much devolution of power and

authority to the project officer9.

The working group made several recommendations to make the

position of the project officer stronger and to ensure his effective

functioning these recommendations is as follows10,

7. Government of India, planning commission, Evaluation of Report on Integrated Tribal Development project, New Delhi: programme Evaluation organization, 1987, pp.10-12 8.Government of India, Planning Commission, report of the working group on tribal Development during the seventh five tear plan 1985-90, New Delhi: Ministry of social welfare, 1989, pp.62-68 9. Ibid 10. Ibid

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(1) The Project Officers should belong to the superior services of

the state or All India cadres and may be given authority to

make annual entries in the performance records of all class II

officers of all developmental services and cadres of the state

governments working in the project areas

(2) The project officer may at their discretion inspect both the

offices and the field work of class II officers working within

their jurisdiction.

The working group also suggested that to make ITDA a sufficiently

strong agency for intervention in several important sectors it would be

desirable to Strengthen ITDAs by providing them with a few

Assistant project Administrators who would be in charge of specific

sectors of development and assist the Project Administrator. The

number of officers to assist the project officer in this manner should

depend upon the size and population covered in an ITDA and also the

scheme taken up in the area11.

Staff Pattern:

The project officer is assisted by a number of subject specialists

who are designated as Assistant project officers. These subject

specialists belong to department like agriculture animal husbandry

Engineering, sericulture, Horticulture, and so on. These officers

who are of the cadre of Assistant Directors in their respective

departments are drawn on deputation to work in ITDA. Recently,

the district Tribal welfare officer and the special Deputy collector

(Tribal Welfare) were merged with ITDA for better coordination. The

District Tribal welfare officer was made the Assistant project officer.

Besides these officers, ITDA consists of a number of the project

officer is assisted by a number administrative and Ministerial staff

like office superintendents, Accounts officers and several office

Assistants, typists and attenders, peons, etc..

11. Ibid.

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While the Superintendents and Accounts Officers are drawn

from departments like the Revenue department and Treasury. The

remaining staff are the staff of ITDA

The functions of some important officers of ITDA are given

below12.

1. Executive Engineer (Tribal welfare):

The Engineering wing undertake various civil construction works like

construction of school buildings, check dams, office buildings, etc.,

and other small scale industrial houses in the agency areas. This

wing consists of a Deputy Executive Engineer a few Assistant

Executive Engineers, Draftsman and other field staff.

2. Special Deputy Collector (Tribal welfare):

This officer is meant to implement the provisions of protective laws

such as land transfer regulation money lenders regulation and debt

relief regulation in the scheduled areas.

3. District Medical and Health Officer

There is an Additional District medical and Health officer in ITDA,

besides the Medical officers in the Primary Health Centres, Mobile

Medical Units and Government Hospitals to supervise and man the

medical institutions.

4. Project Agriculture officer

He is in charge of the agriculture schemes in ITDA. He monitors all the

agricultural programmes of ITDA, besides organizing and

supervising the extension work relating to agriculture.

5. Project Horticulture officer

He supervises and monitors all the horticultural activities, besides

implementing programmes social forestry, and podu prevention

activities in the ITDA area.

12. Integrated Tribal Development Agency Report on the activities of ITDA, Paderu

1989, pp.28-32

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6. Project Education officer

The main function of the project education officer is to look after the

academic aspects of the schools in the ITDA area and to ensure

satisfactory educational levels among the tribals.

7. Assistant Director (Industry)

He looks after the industrial development in the tribal areas. He is also

responsible for improving the traditional skills of the tribals in a

scientific way so as to enable them to establish agro-based and small

scale industries

8. Assistant Director (Sericulture)

He executes and monitors sericulture programmes including tsar in

tribal areas and provides the necessary guidance to the tribal

farmers.

9. District Tribal welfare officer

He assists the project officer in the implementation of Tribal welfare

department programmes as the Ex-officio Assistant project officer of

ITDA. He specially looks after the implementation of educational

programmes and supervises the educational institutions in the ITDA

jurisdiction.

10. Project veterinary officer

He supervises the veterinary hospitals in the ITDA areas. He also

assists in the purchasing of cattle for the tribal beneficiaries under the

different schemes.

11. Statistical officer

Data connected with all the development programmes of ITDAs is

collected by this functionary. He also drafts the action plans and

looks after the monitoring of the developing programmes.

12. Administrative officer:

The Office Administration and other establishment matters are

looked after by the administrative officer.

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13. Assistant Accounts officer

The maintenance of accounts of ITDA is done by the Assistant

Accounts officer and his staff.

14. Assistant project officer (publicity)

The main function of the special publicity cell which he is in

charge of is to inculcate a sense of awareness among tribals about

development programmes through audio-visual techniques.

15. Extension officer -Fisheries

He guides the tribals in pisciculture. These officers are

generally posted to ITDA for three years. However, very few officers

complete this term. Several of them get quick transfers because of

their own wishes or owing to the policy of their respective

departments. As a result, these posts often fall vacant, and are not

filled immediately. Further, administrative control over these

officers is vested in their respective departments and the project

officers have no control over them. Hence, the project officer can

hardly secure their obedience to his orders and instruction. In this

situation these officials tend to be birds of passage without any

commitment. This attitude certainly reduces the administrative

efficiency of ITDA.

PROGRAMMES OF ITDA

The research is carried out with the specific objective of 1.

assessing the socio, economic, development of tribal communities

under ITDA project 2.for complete understanding and arriving at a

conclusion to suggest certain procedures for overall development

and better presentation in Paderu agency area. Tribal in Paderu

Agency Area developed and economically better off, ITDA, Paderu is

vibrant in coordinating and getting special programmes and

projects as and when demanded by tribal, Sectoral performances

are often above the narrow development objective and guided by

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ITDA’s goals and objectives. All the schemes executed for tribal are

demand driven and above the narrow political interest and

Institutional delivery mechanisms are energetic in the effort for

sustainable growth and development of the tribal living in the

nearby Agency area.

With a view to review the programmes of the ITDA, which is

the umbrella of departments, with single - line administration all

departmental activities and commitments have deeply been

analyzed at different levels and people’s opinion have been taken

there onto have a clear view on the programmes of the Department

and arriving at suggestions for improvement. The study therefore,

has given a lot of focus on various aspects of tribal development like

staffing pattern, Institutional pattern, various schemes of

Department, performance in each sector, behavioral pattern and so

on and so forth.

The performance of each department, so to say each one is an

independent institutions, has been examined at three stages 1)

Government Plan and Programme, 2) Measures adopted for

execution of the scheme and 3) effectiveness and sustainability of the

initiative. The study, in turn, arrives with specific ‘objective -

oriented’ suggestions and recommendations for progress in the

performance of all line departments.

EDUCATION

Education, being the most powerful instrument for tribal

empowerment, assumes special priority in the ITDA Annual Plan.

Efforts of ITDA Plan is, therefore, target - oriented in fulfilling the

goal of ‘ Education for Women’s equality’ as laid down in the

National Policy on Education (NPE), 1986 and revised in 1992.

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Under the umbrella of ITDA, improvement and providing

education is scrupulously dealt by two wings convergent i.e. Tribal

Welfare Department headed by a special cadre officer called District

Tribal Welfare Officer (DTWO) and District Educational Officer

(agency). Both the Departments deal with clearly specified issues.

Tribal Welfare department looks after the management,

improvement and ensuring quality living in welfare Ashram

Schools, while the DEO (agency takes care of extending general

education for the tribals in the agency.

The DTWO discharges his duties from the ITDA head Quarter

and manage the operation with support of Assistant DTWOs from

different mandal headquarters. The DEO (A) having base at ITDA,

manages education programme in the agency. The performance of

the departments are analysed with respect to the parameters like

institutional efficiency, scholarships and social welfare activities in

Primary, High School, Intermediate, Graduation all in terms of

quality education and above education in the following sections..

Educational Institutions and Their Management:

Since the inception of ITDAs in Andhra Pradesh and Paderu

in particular, education is given to top most priority as the

targeted involvement. Multiple layers of institutions have been

constructed and institutionalized across the agency to render

educational service to the tribals. Position of educational

institutions in Paderu agency shows that the primary schools five

times higher than all other educational institutions available (see

Table 5.1). There are 2285 primary schools functioning in Paderu

Agency Area to cater to the educational need of 85,478 tribal

students, with a basic objective to access to primary education.

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TABLE 5.1

Status of Educational Institutions in Paderu Agency:

S.No. Institutions 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 1 Alternative Schools

279 377 377 619 734 2 Primary Schools

1438 1438 1438 1551 1551 Upper Primary

3 Schools 112 112 112 140 140 4 High Schools 58 58 58 64 96

5 Govt. Jr Colleges 9 9 9 9 9

6 Private Jr. Colleges 1 1 1 2 3 7 Degree Colleges 1 1 1 1 2 8 Gurukulam

Schools 8 8 9 9 9 9 Gurukulam

Colleges 8 8 9 9 9 10 Polytechnic

Colleges 1 1 1 1 1 Source: ITDA, Paderu, Visakhapatnam District

Primary education is being offered through different

educational institutions such as, Alternative Schools, GPS (TW),

MPPS/ Govt, and Aided Schools. The enrolment statistics of boys and

girls to these institutions shows that students’ enrolment to

MPPS/Govt and GPS (TW) is high, which establishes the fact that

demand for these education is more. It is significance noticing that

admission of girls to these above mentioned institutions is relatively

high.(See Table:5.2)

In order to provide and impart quality education to the tribal

students in the face of their economic weakness and geographically

disconnectness, ITDA has opened up Ashram Schools to provide to

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the need of the tribal students perusing high school education.

Students enrolled to the institutions are provided with free

education, free boarding and Medicare facilities till the completion of

schooling.

The study reveal that the rate of student enrolment is

increasing upward over the five years under study .The higher

enrolement of students are enrolement indicates that the tribal

people have well understood the importance of education and its

value in the day to day life. All 11 mandals of the agency are

covered by 102 Ashram Schools, i.e. 70 for boys and 32 for girls the five

years ITDA enrollment figures of Ashram Schools reveal that almost

more than 32,000 students across the agency are availing residential

education across the years. statistics of current admission is little

above than the enrollment figure of the last three years i.e. from

2004to2006 is reported due to direct participation of primary school

teachers in education campaign.

Table: 5.2 year-Wise Students Enrolment In Primary Schools Of

Paderu Agency:

YEAR BOYS GIRLS TOTAL

2003-2004 33064 27043 60107

2004-2005 35178 28778 63956 2005-2006 39225 32090 71315 2006-2007 46909 37481 84390 2007-2008 47016 38462 85478

Source: Dist. Educational Officer (A), Paderu, Visakhapatnam

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Intermediate education in agency area is being taken care of

through Government Junior Colleges, Private Junior Colleges, and

APTWR Junior Colleges, (Boys & Girls). In total there are 16

Institutions functioning to provide Intermediate education.

Enrolment statistics of students shows that demand for

intermediate education is gradually increasing ( See table:5.4).

However, the intensity of girls intermediate education in APTWRJC

(G) is following zigzag path. The student’s enrollment trend to

Government Junior Colleges is upward increasing and the

institutions are capable of managing the increased strength.

Statistics reveals that there are on an average 3,000 students

taking admission into Intermediate Colleges across the agency area,

which in turn are opting for Degree Courses.

There are only two Degree Colleges functioning in the agency

area to cater to the higher level education need of tribal students. It is

surprisingly seen that students’ strength in Government Degree

College, Paderu is getting multiplied every year. As revealed from the

table below The current strength of 5253 is a figure in upper side to

manage the strength and ensure imparting of quality education.

The demand for Degree education, as has been revealed, is increasing

over the years.

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TABLE-5.3

Year-Wise Students Enrolled In Degree Colleges In Paderu

Agency:

Name of the S.No. 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08

College

Govt Degree 1

College, 1006 1378 2765 4577 5253

Paderu

Govt Degree

2 College, 163

Chintapalli

Total 1006 1378 2765 4577 5416

Source: Coordinator, collegiate Education, ITDA, Paderu,

Visakhapatnam Dist.

Adult tribal girls especially from the agency areas, going for

higher education needs moral support and escort, while they are

getting education in cities. It is also observed that adult girls

pursuing carrier settlement higher education are not sure of the

education pursuing and hence, carrier guidance is essential.

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Table - 5.4

Year-Wise Students Enrollment In Junior Colleges In Paderu

Agency:S

Name of the 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08

College

Govt. 2938 3179 3649 4509 4656

Jr. Colleges

APTWR 402 901 851 697 815

Jr. Colleges (B)

APTWR 132 641 429 361 586

Jr. Colleges (G)

Total 5471 6720 7788 6706 8056

Source: Coordinator, Collegiate Education, ITDA, Paderu,

Visakhapatnam Dist

Pre-Metric and Post-Metric Scholarships:

Tribal students of Paderu agency area are encouraged for

higher education and vocational education too. ITDA is

continuously encouraging students to continue current education

and inspire for pursuing higher education by way of extending pre -

Metric and post Metric scholarships. The activity is executed by the

district Tribal Welfare Officer of the agency and overall control of

project officer, ITDA. Decadal statistics of ITDA revealed that

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proportionately more expenditure was incurred for few students

during 90’s. During 1995-2000, per student expenditure for

scholarship was bit high while dramatic change takes place in the

year 2000. The expenditure per student has remarkably reduced.

More students have accessed the post - metric scholarship

obtaining the highest record of 16,154 students in the year.

Education being the prime force behind change of the

people’s life, livelihoods, attitude, behavior, brings about a

sustained overall change in the locality, the agency is mandated

towards imparting quality education through residential schools.

The tribal; welfare schools are persistently showing impact in the

agency through drawing attention of tribal students for taking

admission into the residential mode and retaining till completion of

the education. Similarly, parents motivated, mobilized and are

assured of good future by these institutions. Schools running under

the Tribal Welfare Department are taking care of overall

requirement of all tribal students taking admission into residential

mode of education and ultimately extending free education for all.

In order to draw the attention of the tribal students towards

education, provision of scholarships has been made to encourage

students to go for higher education. Scholarship statistics of Paderu

shows that no. of students accessing scholarship increasing over

the year’s statistics indicates that there is more number of students

opting for / pursuing higher education. The encouragement

thorough provision of scholarship has changed the mindset of tribal

and made them firm to continue education.

By mean, students enrolled to the Ashram Schools and

Gurukulams are supplied with all logistics to stay in the school and

pursue education without feeling bit of difficulty. Apart from

logistics, they are provided with pocket money of Rs. 75/- and Rs.

50/- per month per student pursuing education at Gurukulam

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colleges and schools respectively, needless to mention of Tribal

Welfare Department’s initiative toward providing to and fro travel

charges to students during school holidays is motivating non-

boarders and villagers at large to send their children to ashram

schools.

Pre - Metric scholarship figures revealed that an amount of

Rs. 2014Crores had been released towards the pre - metric

scholarship to the tribal student in 2006 while an amount of Rs.

1.95 Crores has been released in 2007.

Study Aids:

All inhabitants of Ashram Schools and Gurukulams are

supplied with bathing soap, chappals, oil, detergent, note books etc. at

free of cost. In fact, special care for girl’s children is provided. Basic

minimum requirements to live in the hostel and carry on education

are supplied by ITDA.

Social Welfare:

Apart from the education intervention for the tribals, the

ITDA is working closely on social welfare of the tribal. Inter caste

marriage in the agency have been encouraged, for which couple

going for inter - caste marriage are given with some financial

encouragements. Over he last five years, Paderu ITDA has seen 84

inter caste marriages in incurring an expenditure of Rs.8 Lakhs.in

2005-06, and 18 lakh in 2006-07.

Day Scholar Education:

Apart from the Ashram schools education tribal children are

provided education through institutions initiated by Education

Department. Children have been enrolled to different schools

functioning under the education department. During 1995 the

availability and accessibility to educational institutions was very

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poor, which was acting a negative factor for universalization of

education. The survey in 2006 revealed that around 10,000

students across the agency area were dropouts.

Best Available Schools (BAS):

The Best Available Schools was started in the year 1985-96

with a view to provide quality education in the District itself, as

these schools are said to be the best institutions in the District. The

objective of the scheme was to sanction Scholarships to the selected

Scheduled Tribe students taking admission into classes 5th and 7th

only in the Best Available Schools. In order to streamline and

strengthen the scheme, guidelines are issued the concerned

authorities, so that the selected bright ST children will have quality

education.

Selection of students for availing BAS scheme is done through

a Common Entrance Test. It is also worth to be noted that ST

children whose parental income is not exceeding Rs. 18,000/- per

annum are eligible for admission in Best Available Schools and one

child from a family is eligible for the scholarship under this scheme,

except for PTG (Boys and Girls) and ST Girls. Allotment of

institutions to the selected students is made as per the preferences

indicated by the parents/ guardians, basing on merit and

availability of the seats in the institutions.

TABLE-5.5

Students Enrollment In Best Available Schools.

Year 2003- 2004- 2005- 2006- 2007- Total

04 05 06 07 08

Students

Enrolled 801 765 831 827 1080 4304

Financial

Expenditure 65.39 65.98 73.73 74.22 134.29 413.61

(Rs.Lakhs)

Source: Dist. Tribal Welfare Officer Paderu, Visakhapatnam

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Students’ admission in the Best Available Schools in Paderu

Agency Area shows that demand for admission in to the Best

Schools has been increasing over the years. However, the number of

students availing the scheme is comparatively high in 2007-08 and

so also the financial assistance as evidenced from the above table.

ITDA has given priority for PTGs taking admissions into these

schools. The district statistics of Best Available Schools shows that

there are five schools selected under the scheme during first phase

and looking at the demand that the English medium school in BAS

shall be opened by TW Department itself to give quality education to

bright students.

However, Best Available School scheme under Tribal Welfare

Department (TWD) is not yielding expected results.

Education programmes in the heart of the involvement of

ITDA. ‘Charity begins at home’ is grossly guided by the level of

education of the family members to understand the issues of

development. High tribal concentration, low literacy level and poor

communication ability are viewed to be factors inhibiting tribal

growth and development and crippling the economy closed.

Health:

In Paderu Agency Area, there are 33 PHCs and 195 sub

centers institutionalized to deal with the health issues. Seasonal

analysis of health shows that T.B., Viral Hepatitis, Acute

Respiratory infections and Typhoid are being endemic. Health

services are operational under the primary health care system. In

tribal area, the health services are executed by the Additional

District Medical & Health Officer and malaria by District Malaria

Officer and monitored by ITDA. The PHCs are functioning at Mandal

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level and health service is rendered grossly operational at village level

through MPHA (M) & (F).

Health service is rendered in the face of in - adequate staff and

geographic spread of agency necessitated development of a

comprehensive, systematized and collaborative health intervention to

reduce the seasonal morbidity and mortality in coordination with all

departments working under the umbrella of ITDA. The health

services offered, impact created and people’s opinion/satisfaction is

discussed in the subsequent paragraphs.

Early Detection and Prompt Treatment (EDPT):

The G.O.s, The Self Help Groups, Village Organizations of IKP

and all Voluntary Organizations working in the agency area are

joining hand to extend assistance to Health Department to respond

quickly to the referral cases. As per the mandates of the Mandal

Mahila Samakhya (MMS) who is acting as the platform to the

respective mandals on the schedule day of MMS meeting, all

departments are to participate and solve the issues of the

community. Each department is getting a time slot for addressing

the issues raised by SHGs. The current arrangement has enabled

the health department to know the problem and provide quick

response to the needy and most vulnerable and marginalized and in

the community.

Water Borne Diseases in Agency Area:

Primarily people in Paderu agency area depend on spring and

stream for drinking and household purposes. The soil topography

and location mostly pose the challenge to go for dug well or bore

well. However, ITDA had dug several wells and bore wells and

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kundies in almost every second habitation. Tribal because of

traditional practice generally use spring water as it is their

traditional practice spring and stream water during rainy season

often get contaminated with man as well as animal wastes, natural

wastes and hence, became the major source of outbreak of

diseases, where families and villages together gets affected.

It is observed that the Diarrhea occurrence in the agency area

is very severe. Statistics of Diarrhea patients in agency always

touched the four digit figure. Jaundice and Typhoid though caused

of consumption of non - portable drinking water, its severity is very

much limited. Overall trend for diseases occurring due to

consumption of un - hygienic drinking water is following a

downward decreasing trend over the periods under study (see

table:5.6)

Table - 5.6

Status of Water Borne Diseases in Paderu Agency

S.No. Disease 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

1 Diarrhea 4863 5231 4645 2284 2463

2 Jaundice 402 531 488 423 117

3 Typhoid 481 517 654 404 371 Total 5746 8283 7792 5117 4958

Source:ADM&HO(T),PADERU, Visakhapatnam District

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Anemia:

Tribals in Paderu Agency Area are very laborious and hard

working. Enough nutritious food with tiring work will enhance the

energy level of the body and hence, the resistance power. It is

observed that women are mostly engaged in agricultural works. And

it is known that agriculture in Agency Areas is mostly confined to

Podu cultivation” and cultivation is carried out following slash and

burn technology. In the face of strenuous work and because of age

old practice of ‘early age marriage’ and early child bearing in most of

the cases made pregnant and lactating mother and children are

anemic due to lack of adequate nutritious food in Paderu Agency

Area.

Agency Anganwadi centers statistics reveals that there are

2222 mini and main Anganwadi centers functioning in the Agency

Area to cater to the need of the lactating mothers, pregnant ladies and

children(See table:5.7)

ITDA has made persistent effort to increase the accessibility

of reproductive health service in remote of the remotest villages.

Statistics reveals that there are 1427 Anganwadi Centers

discharging service across the Agency Area during 2003-04 to

2005-06. However, a dramatic expansion of Anganwadi Centers has

taken place during 2006-07 and 2007-08. There are 795 Main and

Mini Anganwadi centers which have been institutionalized to cater to

the service need of remote villages. (See Table:5.8)

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TABLE-5.7

Status of Anganwadi Centres in Paderu Agency Area

S.No. Name of the Main Main Total

Project Anganwadi Anganwadi

Centers Centers

1 Ananthagiri 123 83 206

2 Arakuvalley 225 105 330

3 Chiontapalli 192 284 476

4 G.Madugula 96 173 269

5 Koyyuru 85 58 143

6 Munchingiputtu 99 127 226

7 Paderu 196 184 380

8 Pedabayalu 106 86 192

Total 1122 1100 2222

Source: Project Director, Dist. Women & Child Devp. Agency,

Visakhapatnam

TABLE-5.8

Year-wise Status of Anganwadi Centres in Paderu Agency

Area

S.No. Year Main Main Total

Anganwadi Anganwadi Anganwadi

Centers Centers Centers

1 2003-04 812 615 1427

2 2004-05 812 615 1427

3 2005-06 812 615 1427

4 2006-07 971 615 1586

5 2007-08 1122 1100 2222

Source: Project Director, Dist. Women & Child Devp. Agency,

Visakhapatnam

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Statistics of antenatal service shows that there are almost

88per cent of women have access the service during the reporting

period across the Agency Area.

Statistics reveals that 87.88per cent children are fully

immunized across the Agency Area over the period under study.

The DPT/OPV/HEP-B coverage statistics shows that 89%children

have accessed the immunization service during the year 2005-07.

Similarly coverage of BCG in the Agency Area shows 92% , the year

2006 reveals highest achievement (10058). Coverage of Measles in

the Agency Area during the study period is 82.66% . (see table 5.9)

Apart from the THR and IFA distribution, AWC’s are serving as

counseling centers for the newly married and immunization centers

for the children.

Respiratory Infections Among the Children:

The seasonal growth and development of parthenium weed is

provided to be a notorious plant which causes respiratory problem

among the children during flowering season due to wide spread of

pollen grains in the air. The flowering season is coinciding with the

increase of fever incidence and respiratory problems during May till

August.

TABLE: 5.9

Status of Child Immunization During 2005-2007

2005-06 2006-07 2007-08

Method Target Achiev % Target Achiev % Target Achiev % Total

ement ement ement %

DPT,OPV 10754 8299 77 9680 9440 98 10560 9760 92 89

, HEP-B

BCG 10754 8264 86 9680 10058 104 10580 9120 86 92

Measles 10754 7761 72 9680 8546 88 10580 9325 88 82.66

Total 32262 25324 78.33 29040 28044 96.66 31720 28205 88.66 87.88

Source: Dist. Immunization Officer, Visakhapatnam

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Malaria:

The seasonal analysis of fever and, malarial cases in Paderu

shows that April - June is the period where the cases of malaria

and fever are reported to be very high across the years. (See table:

5.10).

At the habitation level; Community Health Workers (CHWs)

are rendering health services. All to together 3200 active CHWs

daily visiting all families in their area of operating habitation and

giving the first aid solution. CHWs are deployed with a noble view to

extend health services to the most remote village located in hilltop

and cut off locations all time. Apart from collection of blood smears,

distributions of first aid medicines, mobilization of pregnant ladies

for institutional delivery are the responsibilities shouldered by her.

A total of 966 Anganwadi centers in Paderu also joining hand in the

drive of malaria evacuation in the Agency. Anganwadi Centers are

the model centers for awareness creation on promotion of

consumption of boiled drinking water, village cleanliness and village

health and sanitation.

Table-5.10

Month-wise Incidence of Fever and Malaria cases

S. No Month No. f Fever Cases No. of Malaria Cases

2005 2006 2007 2005 2006 2007

1 January 21126 18051 10651 282 131 131

2 February 26175 20375 12427 440 190 163

3 March 36076 25243 20049 597 279 259

4 April 38682 26679 23139 680 474 323

5 May 67726 28534 28351 1139 448 311

6 June 74796 42258 30501 1730 515 305

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7 July 73956 47605 31751 1496 490 306

8 August 61895 25933 26742 904 259 207

9 September 37484 21087 23111 415 183 161

10 October 33773 20990 19501 262 202 134 11 November 38802 19448 16606 295 234 72

12 December 25194 17465 11430 208 183 54

Total 537690 315675 254259 10453 3588 2426

Source: ADM & HO (T) Paderu, Visakhapatnam.

Concerted effort is made by the health department to reach

the services to each and every habitation. All the welfare schemes of

central and state Government are reaching the targeted beneficiary.

Agency administration has given lot of focus on the improvement of

village cleanliness and construction of garbage pits during the

period under study. (See Table:5.12). It is also reported that there

are more and more number of beneficiaries are accessing NMBS

and JSY schemes.

Tuberculosis and HIV / AIDS:

Tuberculosis in Agency Area is a disease drawing attention of

Health Department. Around 1382 cases have been recorded during the

study period across the mandals of the Agency. The trend of Tuberculosis

is increasing upward over the years.

Scenario of HIV/AIDS is spreading rampantly in the Agency

Area during the periods under study. Out of 12,661 tested for HIV

166 cases get confirmed during the years 2003 to 2007. This

situation confirms to the illiteracy, ignorance as well as sexual

practice of tribals. This may be cursory indication of sexual habits

of tribals having multiple partners, poverty, migration as well as

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distressed economic condition. The study also reveals that there are

more number of cases detected in advanced - well connected

mandals in the agency area. The advantage of hill station is also

playing a role in spreading the disease, found in discussion with

Positive People Living With Aids (PPLWAIDS). Further, the

advantage of multifamily system of the tribal culture is also adding fire

to the fuel of HIV/AIDS.

Roads:

TABLE - 5.11

Division-wise Road Works Status During 2004 to 2007

Division 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08

No. of Fin.(Rs No. of Fin.(Rs No. of Fin.(Rs No. of Fin.(Rs

KMs Lakhs) KMs Lakhs) KMs Lakhs) KMs Lakhs)

Tribal

Welfare 25.00 699.60 41.8 505.50 23.00 22.45 54.83 1311.01

Panchayat

Raj 34.00 687.04 53 1152.80 83.00 2051.08 41.00 954.00

Roads &

Buildings 99.14 935.73 49.26 1052.79 54.22 898.64 30.00 982.50

Total 158.14 2322.37 144.06 2711.09 160.22 2972.17 125.83 3247.51

Source: ITDA, Paderu, Visakhapatnam Dist. Paderu agency with its vast geographic spread constitutes

56.38% of the Visakhapatnam Dist. Out of the 3574 habitations in

Paderu division, 1629 habitations are not connected by any road.

There are 86 major BT roads connecting 1930 habitations. Thus,

nearly 35% habitations are never connected with any road and many

tribals have to walk long distances.

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Due to lack of road connectivity, it is becoming increasingly

difficult for the tribal community to reach the road point to catch

buses and reach the health centers in time. Due to lack of bus

connectivity patients bare being brought to the health centers by

Dolis and horses, which invariably takes time for the patients as

evident from the table below. Most of the patients are reluctant to go to

the health centers by Dolis and horses.

TABLE-5.12

Status of Road Connectivity

There are 3574 habitations in 11 Mandals of ITDA, Paderu

Habitations

Populations Un Connected Total

Connected

Less than 100 1112 301 1413 100-250 217 995 1212

250-499 54 509 563

500-999 5 140 145

SOURCE: Executive engineer (TW) Paderu, Visakhapatnam Dt.

Poor road connectivity crippled the tribal economy in many

forms, i.e. Marketing of agriculture produce, NTFPs available and

other products. Road connectivity brings in geographical isolation,

and material deprivation. Invariably, supply - demand gap in

delivering services and inaccessibility is created. Purchase of house

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hold consumer durables and perishables are mostly takes place on

head loads.

Road connectivity in Paderu Agency Area are managed by

Tribal Welfare, Panchayat Raj, and Roads & Buildings division

separately. Statistics of ITDA shows that 588.25 KMs of road have

been constructed by all three Departments over periods under

study in the face of huge requirement of 35% of road connectivity to

the entire agency (See Table:5.13). Road works progress in the

Agency Area seems to be very slow. Financial expenditure on road

construction by all three Departments together during 2004 to 2007

revealed that expenditure on road construction has increased over the

years.

A visible gap is evidenced between the service availability and its

requirement in Agency Area. The unconnected, and semi

connected villages through all - weather roads, is in fact, need to be on

priority of ITDA for establishing connectivity.

Drinking Water & Sanitation:

There are plenty of perennial water resources available in the

form of springs and streams in Paderu Agency Area./ Some villages

are provided with open wells, bore wells and kundi by ITDA. Natural

springs which ia known as “oota” are the only sources available for

drinking as well as utility purpose in the remote villages. Due to

lack of safe drinking water, people are susceptible to various

communicable and water borne diseases like malaria, Typhoid,

Diarrhea, Cholera etc,. Almost 90% of the uncovered habitations

are inaccessible and also hill top villages. Various drinking water

schemes like PWS schemes, Gravity schemes, open wells, hand

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pumps etc. are taken up to provide portable drinking water through

Tribal Welfare and Panchayat Raj Division

However, Panchayat Raj Department/ Rural Water Supply

(RWS) involvement in provisioning potable drinking water came into

force in the year 2005 and hence, have limited contribution towards

the endeavor. There are 3033 Drinking Water devices constructed

in the agency during the period under study (See table 5.17).

Statistics reveals that the Engineering Department has taken up

maximum number of Drinking Water devices 1108 in the Agency Area

during the year 2007-08, which is reflecting the seriousness of the

Government to address the problems of Tribals. The drinking water

initiative by ITDA is limited acceptability by tribals. Bore well and hand

pumps are not used to poor water delivery, frequent breakdown and

production of reddish water.

ITDA is persistently working to provide portable drinking

water to all habitations though constructions of different feasible

drinking water devices. Statistics of ITDA reveals that no number of

drinking devices constructed is more in 2007-08, clearly evidences

the fact that issue of hygiene and health are seriously addressed. It

is high time for the tribals to practice use of safe drinking water for

protecting themselves from various vulnerable diseases.

Drinking Water devices constructed in the agency area are

handed over to the community for use, without imparting adequate

training and managerial skill to the community for management of

the drinking water devices. This in most of the cases, as revealed

from discussion with the people, leads to ill functioning and mal

functioning as well as frequent breakdown of the devices, leading to

dependence of the people on ‘ootas’ for water. In order to make the

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drinking water devices constructed in the agency area use worthy,

ITDA has attempted to impart training to villagers on the

management and malignance of drinking water devices. At least two

members from each Mandal have been trained to look after the

maintenance of the bore - wells and other PWS/MPWS.

TABLE-5.13

Drinking Water Devices Executed in Paderu Agency

Year Tribal Welfare Panchayat Raj

2003-04 31 47.53 24 25.50 2004-05 22 59.50 20 25.50

2005-06 260 151.02 288 242.67

2006-07 713 209.22 567 153.47

2007-08 1093 658.04 15 35.60

Total 2119 1125.31 914 482.74

Source; ITDA Paderu Sanitation:

Tribes are diminutively aware of safe hygiene. Garbage dumps

are found in front of each residential area and are the breeding

ground of flies and mosquitoes. There are no proper drainage

facilities available, which seriously cause diarrhea, jaundice and

some common skin diseases. The available water from common

sources is being used for multiple purpose for washing clothes,

bathing, kitchen and for animal bathing too. In order to provide

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secured sanitation and to avoid diseases, ITDA is constantly

endeavoring to ensure the following at the habitation level.

1. Temporary earthen drains during monsoon are provided. 2.

Special drives for use of Individual Sanitary Latrines. 3.

Construction of individual latrines and promotion of usage of

individual latrines through awareness programmes.

Minor Irrigation:

Plenty of water resources available in the form of rivers

springs and streams in the Paderu Agency Area. Agriculture is the

major source of economic development of the community, but

mostly rain fed in natural. In the lean season farmers practice

stream cultivation along valley lines. Second crop is only possible

for those, whose fields are fed by the natural springs. ITDA is

making concerted effort to provide water for irrigation using surface

and sub surface water. The following devices are executed in the

agency area depending on the availability of the surface and sub -

surface water.

ITDA has made concerted effort to extend assured irrigation

facilities for 12,163 acres land under the JRY millennium

programme. About 600 wells are constructed and motors have been

provided to the beneficiaries in the Agency Area costing Rs.20.00

crores. Adding to the drive of irrigation for all cultivable land, Check

dams and Diversion Structures are massively constructed in Agency

Area with people’s involvement. There are as many as 1811 Minor

Irrigation structures i.e. Check dams and Diversion Structures and

Ancients have been constructed in Agency Area to cater the need of

command ability 63,833 acres. (See table: 5.18 & 5.19)

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TABLE-5.14

Mandal-wise Ayacuts in Paderu Agency Area

S.no Name of the Mandal No. of Ayacuts in

sources (Acres)

1 Koyyuru 233 11335

2 Chinthapalli 124 6908

3 G.k.veedhi 102 4129

4 G.madugula 109 4846

5 Paderu 165 4842

6 Hukumpeta 160 5738

7 Pedabayalu 125 3918

8 Munchingiputtu 111 3786

9 Dumbriguda 131 4471

10 Aruku 223 6509

11 Ananthagiri 328 7351

TOTAL 1811 63833

Source: ITDA,paderu,Visakhapatnam

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TABLE-5.15

Status of Check Dams Constructed in Paderu Agency Area

Division 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 TOTAL

Phy Fin. Phy Fin. Phy Fin. Phy Fin. Phy Fin.

(Rs. in (Rs. in (Rs.in (Rs.in (Rs.in

lakhs) lakhs) lakhs) lakhs) lakhs)

Tribal 213 562.17 203 379.66 183 374.01 131 680.39 517 1434.06

welfare

Source: Executive engineer (Tribal welfare),paderu,Visakhapatnam

district

Economic Support Schemes:

All the economic Support schemes for the tribal are guided by the

following objectives:

1) To build strong grass root level institutions of the poor where the

tribal community will actively participate in planning,

implementation and monitoring of the programmes and develop

greater access to and control over resources to sustain their

livelihoods and achieve self-reliance.2) To provide linkage and

convergence of all the resources available under tribal development

strategy and all other anti-poverty programmes of the Government

for the Tribal Development with a view to reaching out to maximum

number of Schedule Tribes. 3) To provide sustainable livelihood

opportunities to the Schedules Tribes who are below poverty line

particularly the poorest of the poor among them, for enhancing

their incomes and improving their quality of life.

Coffee Cultivation:-

Coffee cultivation requires cool climate and adequate shade

and hence, indeed, silver oak is massively planted to provide shade

to coffee plants. However, in order to maximize income from the

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terrain, during the coming years focus has been given on plantation

of income generating plants like Mango,Neredu,Kamala, Busi,

Pongamia, etc., in place of silver oak as mixed shade plants for

shade in a phased manner. The mandays of employment generated

in coffee plantation is 3, 60,200 in last five years (See table 5.16)

Coffee cultivated in the Agency Area is organic in nature. The

leaf litters, and in some cases compost produced from the vermi-

copmpost initiative is applied in the coffee cultivated area. Coffee

cultivation has not only ensured supply of minimum needs of

marginalized community, but also addressed environmental

problem of deforestation arising from “Podu Cultivation”( shifting),

soil erosion and maintaining the forest eco-system intact.

Table-5.16

Extent of Coffee Coverage and Employment and Generation

Year Extent in No.of Beneficiaries No.of Mandays

acres covered Genarated

raised

2003-03 5556 5556 444480

2004-05 12677 13420 1014160

2005-06 7372 7840 589760

2006-07 7418 7472 593440

2007-08 12042 11572 963360

TOTAL 45065 45860 3605200

Source: ITDA,paderu,Visakhapatnam district

Agriculture:

Agriculture requires lot of investment of both man and money to

start with. Many farmers became bankrupt and mortgage of either

land or the product in the onset of the cultivation. In order to arrest

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the situation and make the tribal farmers free from the clutches of

money lenders, ITDA has leveraged resources from GCC and the

Regional Rural Banks (RRB’s) working in the agency. It is also

reported that, loan sanctioned to interested farmers are not

following the stringent rules and procedures of loan allotment.

ITDA has guaranteed on behalf of tribal beneficiary interested for

availing loan. Total financial inflow into agriculture was noticeable

High in 2007 (See table 5.18) However, fund leveraged from GCC in

the 2007 is little less in comparison to the subsequent years.

Under the Indira Prabha (CLDP) Scheme 7801.59 acres of

assigned lands of ST farmers have been renovated with an

expenditure of 332.94 lakhs and made use worthy. The intervention

being objected to restore the agricultural land in one hand and

provide employment to the unemployed in lean season on the other has

achieved mileage in 2005-06.

TABLE-5.17

Loan Leveraged for Agriculture Cultivation in Paderu Agency Area

Year Bank GCC TOTAL

2002-03 630.20 23.3 653.5

2003-04 620.10 21.15 641.25

2004-05 630.00 30.42 660.42

2005-06 760.00 41.38 801.38

2006-07 774.31 32.89 807.2

TABLE 3938.61 176.59 4116.2

Source: GCC, Paderu, Visakhapatnam district & RRBs in Paderu

Sericulture:

Sericulture has been practiced for the past many years in

Tribal Area of Visakhapatnam District. Three types of natural silks

like mulberry, Tsar and Muga (experimentally) are grown in the

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Tribal Area. Out of these (3) varieties of silk the tribals have

explored mulberry silk commercially. The farmers are getting an

average return of Rs.10, 000/- per acre of Mulberry garden per

annum through 3-4 crop cycles per annum.

The Department of Sericulture having its operational base at

Paderu is extending technical guidance and inputs to the farmers

through four technical service centres, three seed farms and one

reeling unit in Paderu Division.

Statistics revealed that there are 549 Tribal farmers who are

engaged in mulberry cultivation in 296 acres across 46 villages.

Over the years sunder study, 68.795M. Tons of Cocoons have been

harvested and fetched an amount of Rs.29.60 lakhs with average

yield of Rs.10, 000/- per acre ( see table 5.18)

TABLE-5.18

Sericulture Intervention in Paderu Agency Area

S.No Year Mulberry No. of Cocoons Subsidy

planted Beneficiaries produced sanctioned

in acres in Tons. (Rs.in

lakhs)

1 2002-03 60.00 105 16.500 7.315

2 2003-04 75.00 131 14.640 0.700

3 2004-05 53.00 100 10.871 0.000

4 2005-06 50.00 87 12.829 6.278

5 2006-07 58.00 126 13.955 8.705

TOTAL 296.00 549 68.795 22.998

Source: Assistant Director, sericulture, Paderu, Visakhapatnam

district

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Land Transfer and Regulation:

Constitutional provision to safeguard the tribals in their own

nativity is in force by way of many rules and regulations.

Constitution has crafted the policies favoring tribals. All these

aimed at restoring tribal rights, cultures, and ethnicity in their

place of living.

The Revenue Department is supportively dealing with benami

land issues of the tribals. In the agency like Paderu there are 5517

cases registered on 22260.32 acres of land till 2007 and of that

3517 cases are solved on 21613.00 acres of land and conferred

decision favoring schedule Tribes of 4213. The Department has not

taken any side in conferring decisions. This has been revealed

through conferring favorable decisions for 1114 non-schedule

tribes, covering 4359.00 acres of land ( See table 5.19) The split

between the act 1/70 and before is delineating the line of control for

transaction and non-transaction of immovable of tribals. People

residing before 1/70 are almost treated as tribals and are mingled with

tribal cultures and lives.

Effective enforcement of land transfer regulation, i.e.,1/70 Act

is in a problematic state. This is primarily due to low

understanding and no understanding of the act, which often

created fractions, confusions, and rivalry among the inhabitants.

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TABLE-5.19

LTR Status in Paderu Agency Area Till 2007

S.no Particulars NO.of cases Extent

registered (in Acres)

1 Total cases Detectod 5517 22260.32

2 Total Cases disposed 5327 21613.00

3 Cases decided in favour of 4213 17254.00

STs

4 Cases decided in favovur 1114 4359.00

of non-STs

5 Land restored to tribals 3013 139.9.00

6 Cases pending 190 645.00

Source : special Deputy collector(TW),Paderu, Visakhapatnam

Disrtict Community Investment Fund:

The community Investment Fund (CIF) provides resources to

the poor communities for use as means to improve their livelihoods.

This component supports the poor in prioritizing livelihood needs by

investments in subprojects proposed and implemented by the

Community Based Organizations (CBO’s). The cumulative CIF

expenditure up to 2007 is Rs.693.72 lakhs and the total numbers of

beneficiaries is 9532 in Paderu Agency area (See table 5.20).

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TABLE-5.20

Community Investment Fund Expenditure and IGA

Beneficiaries

S.NO Year No. of village No.of No.of Amt. organizations self beneficiaries (Rs.in

Help lakhs) Groups

1 2004-05 286 2674 33855 309.14

2 2005-06 298 1303 9532 384.58

3 2006-07 149 999 7484 3984.58

4 2007-08 132 514 3861 274.06

TOTAL 865 5490 54732 4952.36

Source : IKP-TPMU,ITDA,paderu,visakhapatnam Collective Marketing:

Various marketing initiatives are taken up in 2007-08.

Rajma procurement in Paderu Agency Area is taken up by 78 VOs,

which fetched net benefit of Rs.2.3 lakhs. Similarly procurement

and value of addition of Turmeric is constantly taken up by CBOs,

which earned profit margin of Rs.10.00 lakhs across the VOs.

Procurement and sale of organic coffee is another initiative taking

momentum. Till the reporting year nearly 142 tones of coffee has

been procured and sold in the market. Effort of collective

marketing through VOs is seen in Tamarind, Amla Pulp, Niger, Red

Gram, Jafra, Pongamia seed, and many more ( see table 5.21).

Voss are constantly working on streamlining, strengthening, and

organizing themselves to bring marketing of all produces to the fold

of collective marketing in Paderu Agency area.

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TABLE-5.21

Collective Marketing Activity of IKP, Paderu

S. Item 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08

No Qty.in Amt.in Qty.in Amt.in Qty.in Amt. Qty. in Amt.in

Tons lakhs Tons lakhs Tons in Tons lakhs

lakhs

1 Rajma 192.83 27.73 284.5 51.9 136.75 38.90 305.71 79.37

2 Coffee 64.79 26.37 1.07 0.28 37.81 17.40 38.19 27.04

3 Tamarind 162.67 11.04 241.17 1.19 9.04 0.76 2.42 0.16

4 Turmeric 53.02 6.36 208.35 17.19 184.21 13.90

5 Adda leaf 94.52 5.94 4.73 2.6

6 Amla plup 8.18 1.41 3.29 0.55 11.11 1.96

7 Other 457.58 28.87 200.36 36.31 90.46 9.59 200.18 21.25

Commodities

Total 1033.59 107.72 943.47 110.61 472.38 82.51 546.5 127.82

Source: Dy .Engineer,(APSH Corpn),paderu,Visakhapatnam IAY Housing:

The programme is useful to tribal beneficiaries, in

comparison to RPH scheme. In Agency Area, most of the villages

are very interior and not having any infrastructure facilities. The

sanctioned number of IAY houses is not sufficient to fulfill the

houses required by the eligible tribal beneficiaries. As per the

Government Order 14per cent of District allocation under IAY may

strictly implemented along with additional subsidy as all the houses

constructed in interior track. There are 1593 beneficiaries with an

outlay of 309.68 lakhs benefited till 2007 (see table 5.22).

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TABLE-5.22

Indira Awas Yojana Physical Units and Outlays

Year No. of physical Outlay

units (Rs.lakhs)

2001-02 229 4.58

2002-03 471 9.42

2003-04 304 60.8

2004-05 385 7.68

2005-06 402 100.5

2006-07 806 201.5

TOTAL 2597 384.48

Source: Dy. Engineer,(APSH Corpn), Paderu ,Visakhapatnam

district Animal Husbandry:-

Tribals are born in nature and die in nature. Hence animal,

trees, forest and stones are the Gods and deity for the. Animal

always forms part of the society. It is seen that dwarf animal are

reared by the tribals. It is primarily because of the geographic

location of their habitations and the food availability. ITDA under

the Animal Husbandry Department is working closely towards

maintaining the traditional animals and also on their health.

The statistics of the Department statistics shows that more

number of cases treated by the Department was in 2003-04 while

nonetheless pace is maintained till now. Over the decease,

castrations cases reported are high in 2003-04 and so also the

vaccination of the animals (see table 5.23). The Department has

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taken lot care to address the FMD during rainy season and the

winter. Since tribals use to keep goats and chickens at houses, the

disease taking life of man and animal altogether is obvious. Hence,

before the in-set of the season precautionary care has adequately

ensured at all habitation level.

TABLE-5.23

Activities and Beneficiary Details of Animal Husbandry

Initiative

Item of work 2002-03 2003- 2004- 2005- 2006- TOTAL

04 05 06 07

1 Cases 191064 300195 253056 246992 220042 1211349

Treated

2 Castrations 11372 15586 14336 10715 9326 61335

Done

3 Vaccinations 393709 549740 581817 418927 352806 2296999

Done

4 Fodder 2350.00 4204.2 4747.4 3227.4 2998.4 17527.40

Development

(in Acres.)

Source: Assistant Director (Animal Husbandry), Paderu,

Visakhapatnam district Girijan Co-Operative Corporation:

Girijan Cooperative Corporation is established in the agency area

with many fold objectives. It is mandated to.

1) Procure Minor Forest Produce (MFP) collected by the tribals dult

paying them Remunerative prices and thereby eliminating the

middlemen and private Traders who indulge in unfair trade

practices

2) To supply Essential Commodities and other Daily Requirements

at reasonable prices to the tribal consumers through the

network of DR Depots

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3) To provide Short Term Credit to the tribal farmers for their

Seasonal Agricultural Operations

4)To Undertake activities such as processing and grading for the

benefit of the Corporation and its affiliated Societies and their

members and for their purpose to own or hire necessary plants

and machinery.

5) To undertake generally such other activities as are conducive to

the promotion of the economic interests and welfare of the

scheduled tribes and for the attainment of the above objectives.

TABLE-5.24

Decadal Activities of GCC, Paderu

S. YEAR MFP items AP Items DRs Sales Loans Total Purchases Purchases (Rs.In issued Turnover

No (Rs.in (Rs.in Lakhs) (Rs.In (Rs.In

Lakhs) Lakhs) Lakhs) Lakhs) 1 1995-96 116.42 153.29 660.89 18.10 948.70

2 1996-97 182.35 45.52 769.86 10.53 1008.26

3 1997-98 179.57 108.32 927.51 12.69 1228.09

4 1998-99 262.61 59.29 1075.75 13.46 1411.11

5 1999-00 207.07 100.08 1024.59 18.18 1349.92

6 2000-01 463.46 33.12 1946.78 16.12 2459.48

7 2001-02 300.71 26.84 1619.75 8.44 1955.74

8 2002-03 225.39 144.59 1467.17 19.11 1856.26

9 2003-04 430.52 89.51 2130.95 32.73 2683.71

10 2004-05 467.35 61.26 2457.71 37.26 3023.58

11 2005-06 480.83 187.49 3191.09 43.35 3902.76

12 2006-07 385.8 187.49 3498.58 33.04 4104.91

TOTAL 3702.08 1196.8 20770.63 263.01 25932.52

Source-Divisional Manager, GCC.Paderu,Visakhapatnam District

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Statistics revealed that purchase of Minor Forest Products

(MFPs) by GCC follows an increasing upward trend having the

highest amount of procurement in 2005-06.similarly the DRsales

are drastically increased Rs 3498.58 in 2006-07. The comparative

performance of all parameters over the decade revealed that

performance of the sector in the year 2006-07 is remarkable (see

table 5.24) .Apart from Girijan Co operative Corporation, other

marketing agencies do have a strong presence in the agency area

too. The agriculture marketing committee in the agency area do

have physical presence without functionality, which in sense is

opening up of opportunities for the other marketing agents to play

.There are approximately 52 shandies both major and minor in

Paderu agency area.

To sum up the study has deeply analyzed the functionally,

outcome and impact of different programmes like 1.Education,

2.Health, 3.Agriculture, 4.Land Transfer Regulations Act, 5.Land

Assignment, 6.Economic Support Schemes, 7.Engineering, 8.Coffee

Project, 9.Integrated Horticulture Development Project, 10.Indira

Prabha (CLDP), 11.Indira Kranthi Patham, 12.Remote and Interior

Area Development Programme, 13.Indiramma, 14.Animal

Husbandry and 15.Girijan Co-Operative Corporation departments.

The assessment regarding the implementation of these programmes is

presented in chapter VI.

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