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Participation and Action towards Community Empowerment Volume 13, No. 2, May-July 2017

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INS I D E� Financial Consumer ProjectionTrainings

� Vegetable Production andMarketing Training

� Stakeholders� ConvergenceMeeting

� Forming DPO Advocacy Cell� Giving Poor Consumers GreaterVoice

� Second AGMs of FPO Organised� CHD Representations� V isitors

Advocacy Meeting onRoad Safety MVA Bill 2016

A Divisional-level Advocacy Meeting on Road Safety Motor Vehicles(Amendment) Bill or MVA Bill 2016 was organised at Chittorgarh on

May 09, 2017 to discuss the changesmade in theMVABill 2016 and advocatefor its early enactment. Eminent persons like Inderjeet Singh, DistrictMagistrate Chittorgarh; District Transport Officer; Traffic Police Head; chief

representatives of ambulance services, consumer activists, non-government organisations (NGOs), legal experts, academicians and otherrelevant stakeholders participated in the event. Besides, few road accidentvictims shared their experiences in the event.

Child Labourers Rescued

CUTS CHILDLLINE, Labour Department and Anti-Human Trafficking Unitjointly rescued 16 children in the age group of 8 to 14 years. The children

were found working inBricks Industries,Bhilwara. Thechildren were takeninto custody andhanded over to theChild WelfareCommittee (CWC) fortheir rehabilitation.Besides, an FIR hasbeen registered underJuvenile Justice Actagainst the owner of

the Brick Industries, so that necessary action could be taken against theemployers.

Skill DevelopmentTraining

A skill development trainingfor the physically

challenged people on GroceryRetails was held at Departmentof Social Justice andEmpowerment (DoSJE),Chittorgarh onMay 22-23, 2017.During the training, discussionwas held on subjects like typesof retail; types of customers;market supply chain; marketstrategies for merchandisingpromotion; and financialmanagement.

O P Toshniwal, AssistantDirector, Department of SocialJustice stated about thegovernment welfare scheme.Anwar Ahmad, Facilitator of theTraining discussed about thevarious livelihood promotionskills. Kamlesh Sharma andKamlesh Jangid of CUTS alsofacilitated the sessions. About22 Disabled people attendedthe training programme.

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PROGRAMMES & INTERVENTIONS

Financial Consumer Projection Trainings

Surveyors� Orientation for Baseline Surveyunder Financial Consumer Protection was held

on June 06, 2017 with the objective to help thesurveyors to better understand the background ofthe project, overview of financial consumerprotection, methodology of survey and details ofquestionnaire. About 28 participants includingDeepak Saxena, Amar Deep Singh, AakanshaChoudhary fromCUTS CART andGauharMahmood,Madan Giri Goswami from CUTS CHD attended theprogramme.

Subsequently, the Baseline Survey was conducted in all the 23 blocks of Chittorgarh and Bhilwara districts toobserve the awareness-level of consumers regarding financial matters, financial inclusion and banking services.

Vegetable Production andMarketing Training

On June 27-29, 2017, a training was organised forPeople with Disabilities (PwDs) about the advanced

techniques on vegetable cultivation including greenhouse, use of appropriate vegetable varieties, pests andweeds control, environmental disorder, harvesttreatment etc. Rajesh Jalwaniya, Scientist; Abhay Bhati,Jr. Scientist; Ratan Solanki, Subject Specialist; and S KAgarwal, Scientist were the all resource persons fromAgriculture Science Centre, Chittorgarh. Sachin BadetiyaDistrict Development Manager (Chittorgarh), NationalBank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD)were the key speakers and Aarti Joshi was the trainer ofthe programme. Nearly 30 disabled people attended the training.

Stakeholders� ConvergenceMeeting

On July 21, 2017 a Stakeholders� Convergence Meeting was organised at Chittorgarh to sensitise thestakeholders and prepare plan of action to promote livelihood and employment activities for disabled

people in two blocks. Stakeholders from DoSJE, District Industrial Centre, NABARD, Rajasthan State LivelihoodDevelopment Corporation (RSLDC), National UrbanLivelihood Mission, Employment Office, Aditya BirlaCement Corporation, Baroda Swarojgar SewaSansthan, Dr Reddy�s Skill Training Institute, Skill India,Sanwaliya Multi Disability Sewa Santhan, MewarDisabled People Organisation (DPO) attended themeeting.

Sachin Badetiya, District Development Manager,NABARD; Sanjay Bhardwaj, Lead District Manager; AnilAnchaliya, Director Sanwaliya Multi Disability SewaSanthan; Vipin Saxena, Coordinator, CSR, Aditya BirlaCement; and Niraj Ladda, Secretary, DPO were the key

speakers of the event. Around 30 stakeholders attended the meeting.

FormingDPOAdvocacy Cell

With the objective of forming a State-level Advocacy Cell, Partners� Meeting was held at Jaipur on July 25-27,2017. TheMeeting also aimed at reformation of State-level DPO and review the Social Inclusion Programme�s

initiative and progress. In the event, around 35 participants were present from CUTS and organisations likeAstha, Urmul, Jan Chetna Sansthan and Sightavers.

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PROGRAMMES & INTERVENTIONS

CHD REPRESENTATIONS� Radhey Shyam Vaishnav of CHD attended Task

Force Meeting on �Care and Protection for ChildRights� onMay 16, June 21 and July 21, 2017. TheMeeting was organised by Labour Department,Bhilwara to discuss child rescue operations inthe identified places.

� Madan Giri Goswami attended DistrictEnvironment Protection Committee Meetingheld at Collectorate, Chittorgarh onMay 18, June16 and July 13, 2017. TheMeeting was addressedby eminent District-Level Officers. Under thiscampaign, CUTS will plant 1000 trees in threedifferent areas.

� Madan Lal Keer of CHD attended monthlymeeting organised by the Department ofMinority Affairs at Collectorate, Chittorarh onMay22, June23and July 17, 2017.Around42othergovernment officials also attended the event.Madan Lal Keer andGauharMahmood presentedthe updates regarding the Nai Roshni LeadershipDevelopment Programme in the meeting.

Giving Poor ConsumersGreater Voice

The project �Giving Poor Consumers Greater Voice� aims to create awareness among the people to use safe andsustainable consumer products and use social marketing techniques to influence the behaviour of the

consumers. In this regard, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and Interviews were held in Netwal Garh and Eralvillage of Chittorgarh to collect consumers� opinion, perceptions and views of men, women and teenage groupabout the grievances and challenges related to the consumer products in rural areas.

SecondAGMs of FPOOrganised

On July 20 and July 25, 2017, 2nd Annual General Meetings(AGMs) of Farmers Producer Organisations (FPOs) were

held in Chittorgarh and Bhilwara to discuss: fiscal informationand subsidy schemes; increasing shareholder membership;capital mobilisation; and market linkages with the farmers.

In Chittorgarh event, Shrikant Agnihotri, Deputy Directorat Department of Agriculture, Rajasthan; Ram Singh Thakur,Chief Executive Officer, Samarth Farmers Company Limited,Madhya Pradesh; Rajaram Sukhwal, District Plant Manager,Rajasthan Seed Corporation; S K Agarwal, Krishi V igyanKendra; Sachin Badetiya, District Development Manager, Chittorgarh; Sanjay Bhardwaj, Lead District Managerwere the eminent participants and key speakers. Gauhar Mahmood welcomed the guests whereas Madan GiriGoswami presented vote of thanks to the participants.

In Bhilwara, Arpita Soni, Sub DivisionalMagistrate; G L Chawla, Deputy Director(Agriculture); Lokesh Saini, District DevelopmentManager; Dinesh Kumar, Assistant AgricultureOfficer; R P Laddha, Lead District Manager, Bank ofBaroda; Saurab Sharma, Branch Manager, Bank ofBaroda; Gauhar Mahmood; Madan Giri; and RadheShyam were the key speakers of the event. Around610 farmers attended both the events.

� GauharMahmood andMadan Giri Goswamimet RajaramSukhwal, Manager, Rajasthan Seed Corporation on June15, 2017 to participate in workshops of FPO for sharingvarious departmental schemes. The AgricultureDepartment provided subsidised seeds to 300 farmers.

� GauharMahmoodMadanGiri Goswami, Radhey Vaishnavmet Muktanand Agarwal District Collector, Bhilwara; LalRam Gugawal; Additional District Magistrate; andUmardaraz Pathan, Minority Welfare Officer on July 12,2017 to provide updates about CUTS projects in Bhilwara.

� GauharMahmood andMadanGiri Goswamimet InderjeetSingh, District Collector; Sushil Sharma, ChairmanMunicipality Council; and S K Jain, General Manager(HRD), Birla Cement Corporation on July 21, 2017regarding the �Road Safety Challenges� project inChittorgarh.

� Gauhar Mahmood and Madan Giri participated in VanMahotsav organised by District Forest Office inChittorgarh on July 02, 2017 to create awareness andenthusiasm among the masses for forest conservationand planting trees.

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MEDIA

VISITORS� Pushpendra Kumar from Samunnati Financial

Intermediation and Services Pvt. Ltd. visited CHD onMay10, 2017 regarding the FPO�s access to financial productsin agriculture and agri-related activities.

� Sunita Gurjar, Station House Officer, Anti-HumanTrafficking Unit and Arun Pradhan from LabourDepartment visited CHD on May 11, 2017 to review childlabour rescue operations.

� R P Sharma, Lead District Manager, Bank of Baroda,Chittorgarh visited CHD on May 15, 2017 regarding creditlinkages on solar energy access to Self Help Groups(SHGs).

� Liaquat Ali Shorgar, District Minority Welfare Officer,Chittorgarh visited CHD on June 06, 2017 to review theprogress of Nai Roshni project and SHG�s activities,ongoing livelihood activities and schemes of NationalUrban Livelihood Mission.

� Noor Jahan, Consultant, Sightsavers visited CHD on June08-09, 2017 to review the progress, plan of action,achievements and various welfare schemesimplemented. She also met the project beneficiaries toacquire the status of livelihood activities.

� Sunita Gurjar, Station House Officer, Anti-HumanTrafficking Unit and Arun Pradhan from LabourDepartment visited CHD on June 13, 2017 toassess the child labour rescue operations.

� Noor Jahan, Ketan Kothari, Amresh KumarPandey and Varidhi Singh from Sightsaversvisited CHD on May 05, 2017 to attend�Orientation Workshop for DPOs on SustainableDevelopment Goals (SDGs)�. The workshop wasattended by about 30 members of DPO.

� Rajesh Kumar, District Coordinator and AbhishekKumar from Rajasthan State LivelihoodDevelopment Corporation visited CHD anddiscussed about the SHGs� livelihood trainingon June 19, 2017.

� Lokesh Saini and Sachin Badetia, DistrictDevelopment Managers, NABARD fromBhilwara and Chittorgarh respectively visitedCHD to discuss about the progress of FPO.

� Ram Singh Thakur, Chief Executive Officer, FPO,Madhya Pradesh attended the Annual GeneralMeeting of FPO in Chittorgarh on July 20, 2017.

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