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EXPLORER EYES SATRA Annual Activity Report.

April 2014 to March 2015.

SOCIAL ACTION FOR APPROPRIATE TRANSFORMATION AND ADVANCEMENT

IN RURAL AREAS. (SATRA).

SATGHARIA, TRINAYANPUR.

SIPAJHAR, DARRANG,

ASSAM. 784145.

Website– www.satra.ngo

E-mail:satrasipajhar02@gmail.com

Ph No-9435185878, 7399001764

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SOCIAL ACTION FOR APPROPRIATE TRANSFOR-MATION AND ADVANCEMENT IN RURAL AREAS.

(SATRA)

Annual Activity Report

(April 2014 to March2015)

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Contents - Page No

1. Registration Details-

2. Genesis of SATRA-

3. From the Desk of Chairman.

4. From the desk of Executive Director

5. DRR Project

6. Livelihood Project

7. Sericulture Project.

8. Mental Health

9. Workshop

10. Dignitary Visit

11. Cancer awareness & Health Camp

12. Details of board member

13. Training/Meeting/workshop

14. Credibility alliance assessor visit

15. Photo of CMHP & Sericulture

16. Financial Report

17. SATRA staff strength

18. Acknowledge

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Registration Details-

SATRA is Registered Under-

1. Societies Registration Act. XXI of 1860.

No : RS/DAR/247/C/10 of 2002-03.

2. IT Act.1961 U/S 12A & 80G.

3. Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act.1976.

FCRA No : 020740039

4. PWD (People with disability) Act.

5. National Trust.

No : 210716131855007/MR/CP/AUTISM/MD

6. Employees Provident Fund

No : NEGHY/9388

7. TAN No : SHLS04922B

8. PAN : AAETS7554F.

9. Accredited with desirable norms by Credibility Alliance. New

Delhi. Vide CA/20/2015

10. Awarded Assam Chief Minister best community action

award in 2007.

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GENESIS OF SATRA

The birth of SATRA was in the year 2002.On 27th February 2002

Mrs.JyotiPrava Bora invited few social activists from different parts of

Assam her residence where it was decided to form an organization

with a view to work for greater interest of our socie-

ty.Dr.Dineshbaishya, former principal of B.Borooah College Guwahati

is the man who named the organization as Social Action For Appropri-

ate Transformation And Advancement in Rural as

(SATRA).Mrs.JyotiProva Bora a young lady started SATRA with its head

office at Sipajhar and acts as the founder chief functionary.Sri Nani Kr.

Saikia guided the organization from the very inception.

Vision, Mission and Objectives of SATRA

Vision:

To establish a progressive,peaceful and developed society based on

the values of equity,justice,trust,love,honesty,dignity and mutual help.

Mission:

To organize and empower the rural poor to promote development as a

liberating force for achieving social justice, economic growth and self

reliance.

Objectives:

To create a peaceful society for all without prejudice of

caste,creed,colour and religion where all the people can live unitedly

and harmoniously.

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FROM THE DESK OF CHAIRMAN.

SATRA has completed 13 years of existence, If I look back I

may count our achievement for, Rural and underprivileged

people under Sipajhar Development Block in particular

recognize SATRA by its deeds. SATRA has been working on

RTI from its birth itself, right from advocacy to get the bill

passed by the parliament and creating awareness after-

wards. Today SATRA is renowned for anything related to

RTI among the people of Darrang district. Positive impact

of our works for disable, Women empowerment, Liveli-

hood, Sericulture, Health care particularly Mental Health and Cancer are quite visible on

the field. In flood prone areas programme like Water Sanitation & Hygiene, Women per-

sonal hygiene, Disaster Preparedness, School programme & Capacity building has paid off

and practices considerably improved among the targeted community.

The path of SATRA to be on today was not smooth; it’s the result of sacrifice, dedication

and hard work by every volunteer and persons associated with SATRA on various capaci-

ties. I am sure these positive & energetic trends shall continue as for social work it is al-

ways “Mills to go before I sleep”. Transparency and accountability is something SATRA has

been maintaining from its inception and we are happy to inform you all that this year Cred-

ibility Alliance has accredited SATRA with Desirable Norms, for which all SATRA volunteer

and Executive Director Shri Nani Kumar Saikia deserve appreciation. So my sincere thanks

to all the volunteers and Shri Nani Kumar Saikia, Executive Director, SATRA.

SATRA has been fortunate enough to have the confidence and trust of funders and part-

ners from the very beginning. I thank all our funders and partners who associated with us

on times and at various levels. My appreciation and sincere thanks to all our present fun-

ders and partners like SRTT, NRTT, Oxfam (I), ICCO (I) and Ashadeep, Guwahati without

their support it would not have been possible to achieve,whatever we achieved. I wish for

their continuation of support in future. I would also like to thank North-East Cancer hospi-

tal, Guwahati for conducting cancer awareness & free health check-up camp, in association

with SATRA. At last but not the least I thank all well-wishers, Darrang district administration

and all members of team SATRA. Once again thank you all.

Prasana Kumar Nath.

ChairmanSATRA.

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FROM THE DESK OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

2014-15 was not just another year for NGO sector in India, this sector was constantly in news in India for not some good reasons. A portion of the se-cret report of IB on NGOs in India leaked in internet reveals that “A signifi-cant number of Indian NGOs (funded by some donors based in US, UK, Ger-many and Netherlands) have been noticed to be using people centric issues to create an environment, which lends itself to stalling development pro-ject”. Lots of talks are going on for the misuse of foreign fund by the NGOs, high administrative cost of running the organization and misuse of foreign funds particularly on Right based programme. Therefore for trans-parency and accountability there should be grading or accreditation of NGOs by an independent third party. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which has been entrusted with collating data on NGOs has informed the Supreme Court in August 2014 that the task is difficult given the mind-boggling number of NGOs as many do not file audit reports with the authorities. Credibility Alliance, a consortium of voluntary bodies, which accredited organization working in the voluntary sector. This initiative was taken from within the sector. Credibility alliance set Norms or Standards of Governance called Basic, Minimum and desirable norms and this helps in pro-moting the ideals of Accountability and Transparency. I am happy to inform you all that Credibility Alli-ance accredited SATRA this year with Desirable Norms. Accreditation provides an in-depth analysis of the strengths of an NGO and highlights areas that require improvement. This helps us identify practices that could be adopted. At present SATRA is implementing four major project, called “Peoples institute for livelihood security in Assam”, supported by ICCO (I) under the project we are working on livelihood programme like dairy, Goatary, Piggery and Kitchen garden. Sericulture project called “Intensification of Sericulture and Promo-tion of Silk Producer Company in Darrang District”, supported by SDTT. Under this project the Silk produc-er company is almost ready and expectedly it would be functional from September 2015. Project on Disas-ter risk Reduction called “Brahmaputra River Basin Resilience Building Programme”. (DRR Project). Sup-ported by Oxfam (I), Disaster Risk Reduction include wide numbers of issues to address, we are working Disaster preparedness, WASH, livelihood and institution building in 30 flood prone villages and Communi-ty Mental Health Programme, Supported by NRTT through Ashadeep, programme cover patients identifi-cation, treatment, free medicine, awareness, care giver training. Beside these major programme we also organized cancer awareness camp, trained 57 socially active women on cervical and breast cancer as Breast and cervical cancer are the most common causes of can-cer mortality among women worldwide, but awareness alone may largely prevent these diseases. SATRA promoted an NBFC in the name and style of SATRA Development Finance Private Limited for its Micro Fi-nance Operation. The new identity has started its Micro Finance activities separately in Four District of Assam. The assets of MF transfer process are to be complete in the next financial year. With the support of our donors, Partners, Volunteers and various stakeholders we may term year 2014-15

a satisfactory one. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our donors and partners specially

Oxfam (I), SRTT, NRTT and ICCO (I), I would also like thank North-East Cancer Institute, , our volunteers,

District administration, all stakeholder and all our well wisher. I wish SATRA get their support like always,

over the years to come.

Nani Kumar Saikia

Executive Director, SATRA,

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Oxfam (I) partnered SATRA in

the year 2011 and entrust us to

implement DRR (Disaster Risk

Reduction) project. In 2014

Oxfam (I) extended the project

and rename it as BRAHMAPU-

TRA RIVER BASIN RESILENCE

BUILDING PROGRAMME.More

than 200 million people are

affected by disasters each year.

Protect yourself, your family , A raised Hand Pump under construction

your community and our world by taking steps to be prepared for disaster is the

theme of the project. The aim of the project is to achieve to sustainably increase

community resilience against floods and emerging hazards in Darrang district – with

focus on the most vulnerable groups in the community and objective of the project

is to contribute to substantial reduction in disaster losses- lives and social, econom-

ic, and environmental assets through strengthening the capacities of communities

and government in Darrang district of Assam. It has been four years since we started

with this project so by now

satisfactory results are visi-

ble in and around the areas

we worked.

We identified four major

areas of disaster risk reduc-

tion-

(I) Disaster preparedness.

(II) WASH.

(III) livelihood

(IV) Govt. linkage.

(I)Disaster Preparedness-

Disaster never comes knock-

ing at the door, it may come

any moment so wise thing is

to be prepare and alert all

the time. Results of vibrant

and energetic awareness

drive are on the ground to-

day. Common people

learned various techniques

and its application during

disaster through mock drill

and awareness programmes for instance a girl was drone during flood in July 2014

in Cherang then a person who took part in Mock Drill organized by SATRA, show the

girl and using the technique he learned rescued the girl. Today there are at least five

trained volunteers in every disaster prone villages of our project area, these trained

BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER BASIN RESILENCE BUILDING PROGRAMME.

(DRR PROJECT)- 2011-2015.

Project Progress report April 2014

to March 2015.

1. Training and mobilisation of 4

groups on child-to-child & child-to

-parent PHP campaigns. Program

held at Rowmari LP School, No-2

Ghataraug LP School, Chaladal LP

School and No-2 rajapukhuri LP

School. 19 men, 7 women, 105

boy students and 146 girl stu-

dents participated.

2. Kitchen Garden Support (100%

women). Cover 50 beneficiary in

two villages Boralakhaiti and Bo-

ragijhar. Beneficiary got support

in terms of training, seeds and

saplings.

3. Skill Building/Petty Trade/

Market linkages for landless

households & single women

headed holds (women traders &

vendors were provided with seed

grant support).

4. All total 12 Livestock Manage-

ment Support (vaccination camps

pre & post monsoon) at Niz Sipa-

jhar ,No1 Rajapukhuri, Jhaku-

wapara,Baragijhar,No1 Rajapu-

khuri,Dhalpur,Sanowa,Kirakara,Sa

tkhali and Chereng Pachim Char.

In total 1859 household and 6200

cattle covered.

5. DRR day observed at Chalardall

Math Mandir. 45 men and 82

women, PRI president and mem-

ber and district disaster manage-

ment authority participated in the

program.

People are adopting good hygiene practice

A piece of soap is seen outside the latrine.

Country boat/ rescue boat distribution

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volunteers can organize,

guide, rescue, first aid and can

communicate with the con-

cern Govt. department when-

ever necessary. Under this

project or otherwise also we

have been observing disaster

day particularly in Schools and

without any doubt awareness

level of the students raised

significantly. So a long lasting

and continuance chain of dis-

aster preparedness has been established. Identifying cost-effective early warning

systems to better predict and react to threats and developing community action

plans such as evacuation routes and emergency shelters are two key components

of the project. Community action plan (CAP) was prepared and various problems of

peoples came to light. We addressed those in our periphery and for others made

linkage with the concern Govt. department.

WASH (Water, sanitation and

hygiene)-

access to water and sanitation

is the basic human fundamen-

tal right. Water supply for hu-

man and livestock consump-

tion, for cultivation, household

need during flood and after

effect of flood due to contami-

nated water. WASH is an im-

portant chapter of DRR for

WASH services are critical to

communities and save lives in

both routine and emergency

situations, Good practice on

water, sanitation and hygiene

may minimize the indirect

effect of the disaster. We

looked into the basic problem

during disaster like flood,

problem of drinking water,

problem of defecation, cattle

management Therefore we

installed raised hand pumps so

that it does not get submerged

6. Repair two Existing Country

Boats/Rescue Boats of Cherang

Chapari and 5 new country boat

distributed among people of flood

prone areas of Cherang Pachim,

Cherang Pub Char, Borolakhaiti,

Chitalmari and no-2 Ghataraug.

7. PVCA in ten new villages, Chi-

talmari, No-1 Bhokalikanda, Pa-

chim chereng, Pub Chereng, Che-

ru Char, No-40 Char, Muslim chu-

ba, sira seuj, Mowamari and

Baghpuri.

8. Training of Mechanics and chlo-

rination in two clusters,Rowmari

and Dosotani, in total 36 men and

57 women participated.

9. Chlorination of house hold level

hand Pump, more than 200 hose-

hold covered.

10. 8 School PHP program held

and 253 boy students and 245 girl

students covered.

11. 6 community awareness

meetings on PHP in Dosotani, Gas-

co, Borolakhaiti, Cherang Chapari,

Borluit Bhawan and Chero Char. In

total 86 men and 235 women par-

ticipated.

12. 2 Mock Drill conducted in Bo-

ralakhaiti area, 26 men and 37

women participated.

13. CAP update of existing 20 vil-

lages.

A village cleaning rally in progress

1. Initiative started for online chlorination. EaSOL Pvt. Ltd has been selected for online chlorination in raised hand pump, we

have already received 5 Popular6 hand pump (PureAll SH) and installed in flood prone areas of Sipajhar, expectedly people of

the area will get pure drinking water even during flood. 2. Because of the advocacy by CBO of Cherang the END department

Govt. Of Assam ,has put zero bag (ring band) in a erosion affected area. 3. Because of a linkage program conducted by SATRA

in Cherang Chapari. District veterinary officer ensure to set up a veterinary sub centre to be headed by Vet Doctor in the vil-

lage provided community give a house to the department.

Child in the picture is Shri Dhan Moni Nath of Bo-

ragijhar village and a student of Boragijhar LP

School, where we conducted child to parents PHP

Programme. Under the Programme we educate

young one about hand washing steps, importance

of purified drinking water, open defecation and use

of latrine in a way that knowledge could be trans-

form to parents from children.

Impact- Total no Household in the Boragijhar vil-

lage is 85 and when we first intervene we found

only 14 household access to safe drinking water,

other people would drink direct from tube well

without filtering. Through the programme we urge

young students to share knowledge of safe drinking

water with their parents and insist them to install a

filter and today almost all household has a filter.

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in water during flood and people at least get water for daily needs. Sometime after

flood epidemic like situation arises with contaminated water being the major or

only contributor so we organize hand pump chlorination and demonstration drive.

Hand pump chlorination is to kill underground water- borne pathogens, which oth-

erwise may cause gastrointestinal illness, diarrhea, liver ailment, typhoid, cholera

etc. Mobilization of community members on WASH activities, capacity building of

the wash committee members and awareness generating meetings showed results.

Sanitation includes excreta disposal, solid waste management and drainage etc.

excreta disposal is a problem during disaster like flood as the toilets

submerged in water. So we built raised toilets in flood prone areas

with hand washing facility and people are now using these toilets on

regular basis even without flood also. Because of our advocacy PHE

Department, Govt, of Assam. Completed few half-done toilets. In

this year action plan we have plan to construct raised toilets special-

ly design for elder, women and children. Now people of these areas

understand disease transmission, personal hygiene, safe water, ORS

preparation etc. School based programme focused on students’ per-

sonal hygiene hand washing steps in particular. Awareness pro-

grammes on women personal hygiene during flood or without flood

were of great help for women of the flood prone areas.

Livelihood-

Poverty is considered as one of the major vulnerabilities against any disaster risk, since it drastically reduce the

coping ability of a family and make a family poorer after disas-

ter. We took many activities under livelihood programme and intro-

duce kitchen and floating gardening concept and provided women

of the area with livestock support. Farmers also got the opportunity

for technical training and exposure visit. We provided the farmers of

the area with flood resilient and high yield seeds, these seeds re-

sponded well and productivity increases remarkably. Floating gar-

den was a new concept for us and was not a quit successful pro-

gramme. Floating garden is better suited with the place where wa-

ter remains for 8/9 months in a year. So Floating garden programme

was stopped.

14. 8 Farmers technical training

covering 700 beneficiary.

15. Stress tolerant maize seed

support to 150 farmers.

16. One Linkage meeting with

line department.

Department linkage meeting with veterinary Dept.

Cattle Vaccination Camp

Mock Drill – Impact.

On 19th August 2014, Smt Seba Das W/O Shri Harekrish-

na Das, Resident of Pub Cherang under Mowamari GP of

Darrang District, trying to cross the flooded Brahmaputra

river on a yacht made of banana tree. After moving a few

meter from the bank of the river she slipped off from the

yacht and went down under it at the same time her leg

got tight with the saree she was wearing. She somehow

manage to get hold a bit of the yacht with one hand and

she was drown in the water for around 300 meter. Then

Mohan Das a SATRA volunteer, who organizes Mock Drill

at the flood prone areas and three other companion of him, also knows rescue technique learned in the Mock Drill organized

by SATRA, Show the women and rescued her using the technique they learned. The women was semi-conscious with stom-

ach filled with water, Mohan Das and his companion did all necessary things and Smt Seba Das recovered within half an hour.

Smt Seba Das, Mohan Das, Volunteer SATRA.

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PEOPLES INSTITUTION FOR LIVELIHOOD SECURITY IN ASSAM. By ICCO.

ICCO stands for ‘innovative change collaborative’. ICCO India affiliated to ICCO Cooperation, The Netherland. It is an international develop-ment Cooperation working in 44 countries. Poverty alleviation is an area of priorities of ICCO Cooperation. We are grateful to ICCO for se-lecting SATRA among four CSOs selected in Assam; under the project “peoples institution for livelihood security in Assam” capacity building of small farmers through scientific application and involving self- em-ployment on the traditional activity using improved technology is the concept of this project. We are working on sustainable livelihood pro-gram taking piggery, dairy, goatery, organic kitchen garden and SRI (System of rice intensification) altogether 612 farmers are getting sup-port of various kind.

Piggery:-People of many communities here have traditionally being reared pigs and with the input of scientific management and use of improved technology it could be a good source of income for poor ru-ral farmers. Under this project we are supporting 115 farmers with training on scientific management, supply of calendar developed by expert to the farmers for on time administer of dose of vaccine, de-worming and other thing for three pigs. Beside free vaccine, deworm-ing, calcium and minerals, they will also get a free concrete plate for Pigsty, which SATRA will construct at the sight farmers want, construc-tion for the plate is about to finish.

Work done-

1. 1st phase of training cum awareness to the beneficiary by a vet doctor from district vet hospital

2.Construction of the plate is completed.

3. A calendar given to every beneficiary for on time administer dose of vaccine, deworming, calcium, minerals and for other care and the input support is going on as planed.

Dairy:- Human domesticated milk giving animals for thou-sands of years. So rural people poses the traditional skill of cow rearing but still as a source of income it is not cash attractive for farmers .We intervene to educate the farmers that it is a cash attractive business if manage scientifically, and motivate them to adopt scientific method of dairy farm-ing. Under this project 100 farmers will get support from SATRA in terms of training, a concrete plate for cow shed, , free vaccine, deworming, calcium, minerals, iron, and AI for three cows, they will also get a calendar prepared by vet specialist so that it’s easy for them to perform on time sci-entific application.

Work done-

1.A calendar provided to all the beneficiary for timely administer doses of vaccine, deworming, calcium, mineral, iron and AI.

2.Construction of concrete plate is completed.

Goatery:- Goat keeping has been an important livelihood activity for the peoples. Application of scientific method in the management is still lacking so under this project 125 farmers will get training on scientific rearing of goat, 2 tin sheets for shed. A calendar will be provided to the entire beneficiary to make it easy for them to administer

Activity Dairy of the projectActivity Dairy of the projectActivity Dairy of the project

August 2014August 2014August 2014--- beneficiary identification.beneficiary identification.beneficiary identification.

Sept2014Sept2014Sept2014--- Household survey.Household survey.Household survey.

Oct 2014Oct 2014Oct 2014--- finalization of beneficiary list.finalization of beneficiary list.finalization of beneficiary list.

Nov 2014Nov 2014Nov 2014--- Awareness programme. Awareness programme. Awareness programme.

NovNovNov--- Dec 2014Dec 2014Dec 2014---Baseline survey.Baseline survey.Baseline survey.

Dec2014Dec2014Dec2014---Jan2015Jan2015Jan2015---1st phase of training 1st phase of training 1st phase of training

to beneficiary and construction work to beneficiary and construction work to beneficiary and construction work

begin.begin.begin.

JanJanJan---Feb2015Feb2015Feb2015---1st phase of support pig-1st phase of support pig-1st phase of support pig-

gery, dairy and SRI.gery, dairy and SRI.gery, dairy and SRI.

March 2015March 2015March 2015––– Tin Pat distributed to 157 Tin Pat distributed to 157 Tin Pat distributed to 157

beneficiary. Construction completed for beneficiary. Construction completed for beneficiary. Construction completed for

115Pigsty and 65 cowshed.115Pigsty and 65 cowshed.115Pigsty and 65 cowshed.

Dairy beneficiary with Dr Bajrul Islam after training.

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doses of vaccine, deworming, AI etc. in right time. Beside these they will also get free vaccine, deworming, calcium, minerals, iron and AI for three goats.

Work done-

1.1st phase of training.

2.A Calendar provided to the entire beneficiary for timely administrator doses of vaccine, deworming, calcium, miner-als, iron and AI. Other support are going on as planed.

Organic Kitchen Garden: - . Aim of organic kitchen garden is to fulfill the dietary requirement of the family through better farming techniques. 120 women of this area are getting support in terms of training, seeds, saplings etc. for

kitchen garden. We are also supporting two local nurse-ries so that people of this area easily get seeds and sap-lings. The entire rural household in this area has back-yards but managed it traditionally without any scientific input. So we are promoting this organic kitchen garden. Soil of backyard of this area has not lost its natural health due to the effect of the green revolution unlike other part, peoples here does not use chemical manure and pesticide in the backyard so with little afford land could be turned to produce organic vegetables.

Work done-

1.1st phase of training cum awareness.

Women getting seed support for kitchen garden

SRI after a week of sowing, Supported by SATRA

SRI After a month.

Women getting feed supplement for cattle Tin Pat support to Dairy beneficiary

SRI After 15 days.

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2.A calendar provided to the entire beneficiary to make it easy for them to take timely care of the garden.

SRI (System of rice intensification):- SRI system of rice cultivation different to traditional rice cultivation so it is a challenge to motivate farmers to follow this method at every stage of cultivation. SRI is a technology management system which enhances the rice production, this system of cultivation is particularly useful for farmers who own less land. Under this project 150 selected farmers will get training, high yield seeds and manure.

Work done-

1. 1ST Phase of training cum awareness.

2. Demonstration on seed purification and seed support.

3. Seed support to the beneficiary.

Intensification of Sericulture and Promotion of Silk Producer Company in Darrang District.

Supported by– SDTT. The ongoing project on sericulture is

“Intensification of Sericulture and Promo-tion of Silk Producer Company in Darrang District”, with the aims to establish worka-ble and sustainable silk producers company for overall development of the community through sericulture, to create an infrastruc-ture for sustainable development of a Sipa-jhar and Balipota silk cluster. Under this pro-ject we emphasis on adaptation of hybrid plant like S-1 and S-1635, which suits well with the environmental condition of the area and resulted in quality and quantity of leaf production. We also proposed to pro-mote a producer company by the name ”SATRA silk producer company” deigned of the producer company is that Cocoon pro-ducer will sell their cocoon to the company at company’s rate, the women who works at the reeling center will be the member of the producer company. Apart from this those farmers who produce leafs and sell to our cocoon producer at the price fixed by the company shall also be the member of the company. Some cluster will be formed on area basis taking 50-100 members. Each cluster will elect one member to the board for three years. Two members will be nomi-nated from SATRA, one member will be from donor. The management committee shall appoint the entire office bearer. Con-struction work of reeling and cocoon stor-age is going on, and likely to functional in another 3-4 months.

Rearing Mulberry is a traditional activity for

generating subsidiary income particularly

Objectives Particulars No Before inter-vention

After interven-tion

Improve the socio economic condition of 500 poor families and to create an infrastructure for sustainable development of a silk cluster.

Cocoon production

Per 20 DFL

6 kg 10 kg

Cocoon price

Per Kg

Rs 150.00 Rs 230.00

Cocoon size

irregular Regular

Yarn price Per Kg

Rs 2000.00 Rs 2500.00

Yarn/Cocoon colour

Whitish gray Silver

Income Per Season

1500-3000 Rs 3000.00- Rs 5500.00

Transfer effec-tively the tools and techniques for the best value added silk products to the women groups.

Disinfec-tion of rearing materials

Farmers did not use disin-fectant,more mortality

Farmers using scientific meth-od of disinfec-tion,less mortal-ity

Use of scientific rearing materials

Used tradi-tional rearing materials.

Using scientific rearing materi-als.

Promotion of Silk producer company.

Construction is on and likely to operational in 4-5 months.

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for the women of Yogi community of Sipajhar area. But because of least scientificap

application, production and quality of mulberry rearing were decreasing. Adopting scientific method and application Mulberry could be reared four times a year but the farmers of this area were doing it twice only in a year. SATRA decided to intervene in the arena in 2006. Ac-cordingly we implemented a pilot project cover-ing 20 farmers supported by RGVN and NEDFi and technical support from Central Silk Board and State Sericulture department Mangaldai. Input of technology and scientific management in the pilot project showed improved quality of leaf pro-duction, cocoon size and yarn quality and increased the income by threefold. Encouraged by the result of the pilot project, in 2008 SATRA expanded the activity and cover 100 farmers supported by SDTT through CML. Two groups were formed by the name “Panchajanya SATRA Karma Goot” for Mallapara village and “Partha Sarathi SATRA Karma Goot.” For Athiabari village. Under this project the beneficiaries were provid-ed with seeds, manures, trainings, rearing appliances like Tray, Net, mountage etc. and four reeling ma-chines were also provided to those two group. The farmers were encouraged by the income they generat-ed. During this project two officials of SATRA visited MASUTA producer company in Deoghar, Jharkhand to get a firsthand knowledge on how the small tasak farmers are benefited from producer company because there are similarity between tasak and mulberry. In 2014 we further expanded the activity covering 500 women of Sipajhar and Balipota area with the support from SDTT, with the objectives of promoting a silk producer company

Programme Findings:

1. Cash attractive farming. 2. Noticeable changes between the scenario of sericulture in the area before and after SATRA intervene, in

terms of earning, leave production, cocoon production, quality of yarn etc. 3. Formation of small group of five women was a good strategy and would help us in many dimensions to

achieve our goal. Project Design and implementation: It was designed to motivate the mulberry farmers through various awareness and training programmes From April 2014 to March 2015 -Farmer mobilization, Group formation, then cluster formation, Farmers

motivation, Skill up gradation Productivity increases at various level i.e leaf production increasee,mortality decreases, increase cocoons productivity, Quality improvement of the yarn. Activity done during the year.

Sl. No Name of the programme Total nos. of pro-gramme

Total nos. of Partici-pant

Remarks

1 Mulberry Awareness Meeting 10 735 Awareness regarding basic technological inputs provided to benefi-ciaries

2 Mulbery plantation Training 5 200 Knowledge given about scientific method of plantation to increase the mulberry leafs

3 Mulberry Silk Worm Rearing Training

5 200 Adaptation of scientific methods for quality cocoons production in spite of traditional rearing.

4 Disinfection Demo. 4 200 Sterilization of rearing house and (rearing materials) montage, chandraki rack etc. with formalin and bleaching powder

5 Distribution of Rearing Mate-rials

5 200 Provided tray and mountage

6 Distribution of Hybrid mul-berry plants

2 200 Hybrid sapling provided

7 Group (Cluster) Meeting 1 202 Idea of a Silk Producer Company

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Project Outputs and Dissemination.

Impact: SATRA has been working in the field of sericulture since 2006. As rearing mulberry is a traditional activity for the people of this area, it was a challenge for us to motivate people to adopt scientific application, but now farmers are adopting scientific method and application. Farmers are applying ma-nure and treatment to the plant as and when required. Awareness on scientific method of mulberry farming raised significantly. When we intervened it was not a cash attractive farming for the farmers but now it is one of the best subsidi-ary source of income for 500 families we are supporting and many more who are not getting support also. Women are enthusiast about the idea of Producer Company and huge number of women taking part in the meetings to promote Producer Company so this project is also helping in women empowering. Overall Assessment: The project activities are going on as per activity plan set by SATRA. Farmers response are good .We have also able to get full cooperation from Central Silk Board as well as state seri-culture department.Farmers realized that unless scientific

Sl Name of the programme No Outputs

1 Mulberry Awareness 10 21 new farms set up, more and more women are showing interest.

2 Mulberry plantation training 05 Started taking care of plants like using manure,cleaning etc,Produced quality and quantity of leafs. Overcome traditional method.

3 Mulberry silk worm rearing training 05 Adaptation scientific method of rearing,use separate room for rearing,maintain tempera-ture, use of montage.

4 Disinfection demonstration 04 Lower mortality rate, increased cocoon production & earnings.

5 Cluster meeting for SATRA Silk Producer Company.

01 Women who participated understand what a producer company is.

6 Mulberry calendar 500 Easy to farmers for timely scientific application and rearing.

7 Distribution of rearing materials 500 Size of cocoon and colour of the yarn improved. Earning more.

Capacity Building: We formed four cluster group and we manage the project through the grouped we formed. Because of these groups it helps us in exe-cuting the programme, easy to mo-tivate, helps in setting marketing strategy as well as to achieved pro-ducer companies goal.

Sl

Capacity Building measures outcomes

1 Small group frmation Abolish middle man in the silk marketing system.

2 Awareness meeting Understand the opportunity of this farming.

3 Adaptation of scientific method Improved quality & quantity production of leafs, cocoon and yarn.

4 Linkage with CSB Farmers now can approach CSB, knows and avail Govt. schemes.

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knowledge getting more income is difficult.So all the identified farmers are taking part in all our programmes and showed interest for better farming of mulberry.It is a good medium to address the issue of women empower-ment, inequality and poverty elevation. Recommendations: Part of Darrang district could be a Silk hub, if we can extent the support to around 5000 women. Arrange buyer seller meet to completely abolish middle man in the marketing system.

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME.

Implementing by SATRA

in association with Ashadeep, supported by NRTT.

SATRA has been working to improve the lives of people living in ru-ral areas by transforming needed social and economic changes. Based on our experience of working in the rural areas we identified mental health issues to work on earliest possible, which is otherwise far from reach of the rural people. These people always depend on Govt.aided treatment for any kind of illness and Govt. policy on mental health is really pathetic. Treatment of it often ends up in the hands of the people who practices superstitious methods to ward off evil. Beside very poor infrastructure regards to mental health in India, the ratios of psychiatrist to the population is one is to four lakhs, which alone is enough to describe the scenario of mental health care in the country. Another dreaded combination we no-ticed in the rural areas is that mental illness and poverty together.

Ashadeep, a Guwahati based mental health society on CMHP, asso-ciated with SATRA in June 2013 to implement community mental health programme, supported by NRTT. As of now 523 patients are getting free treatment and medicine. Under the project we orga-nized Awareness campaign, patients identification, monthly psychi-atric review camp attended by specialist Psychiatrist, patients follow up, Care givers training, Support group formation, livelihood support to selected poor patients and training of grass root level health workers like ASHA,ANM and MPW. Non-availability of psychiatrist at local level is a problem to be concern of, because of which many pa-tients remain without diagnosed and treatment. We organize special training for the local Doctors of PHC and CHC so that they be able to diagnose and prescribed medicines to begin with. It is to mention here that because of advocacy by Ashadeep with Govt. of Assam, a psychiatrist has been appointed in Sipajhar CHC & FRU in March 2015.

Nearest care givers of the patients (usually family member) has the most difficult and responsible job to do in order to maintain proper line of treatment. Problem of care givers is being neglected in the society but they are the one who suffer most. Medication refusal is a common symptoms of psychiatric patients and it’s often challenge for the nearest care givers to administer daily dose of medicine. He or she has to tolerate all social non sense and often has to manage financial need of the family. So we formed support group involving family members of the patients and organized motivational programme and training for them. As ASHA, ANM and MPW are the grass root level health workers, to bridge the gap between MI patients and healthcare institute we trained them as well. Awareness on mental illness is as low as negligible so we organize awareness campaign in every villages of our project area but there is still lot to do on this front. Beside social stigma and superstitious believe, Right to equality to all, granted by the constitution of India to all its citizen is being violated constantly with every MI patients because Right to equali-ty is to prohibit discrimination, mental illness patients are often discriminated by neighbor and relatives on the grounds of disability (mental illness). So more energetic, vibrant and innovative awareness drive, so as to reach everybody is the need of the hour.

Quick Re -Cape of the programme, 2014-15

1.Total Awareness Campaign- 14.

2.Total No of persons attended awareness

campaign—634 (Male-247. Female-387).

3. Total care givers training– 46.(464 attended)

4. Total Patients identified– 244.

5. Total Patients under treatment-523.

6. No of cases under follow-up– 109.

7. Total Psychiatric review– 15.

Awareness Programme on Mental Health.

Capacity building Programme

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Advocacy- Late Baldev Sharma (Name changed) was a school teach-er in Darrang District. When he died he left behind five daughters and two sons beside his wife. Now there are eight members in this family and all of them are suffer-ing from mental illness, six of them are suffering from major kind of illness. Because of non-availability of near-est care givers and for the discrimination on disability by their relatives and neighbors, Psychiatrist who attended on behalf of SATRA advised hospitalization of at least two members of the family for better treatment, but with limited resource and means it was not possible for us to implement proper line of treatment as advised by the physician. Initially there is no alternative to force full medication as one of the symptoms of schizophrenia is refusal to take medicine. So nearest care givers is one of the important parts and parcel for proper line of treat-ment of schizophrenic patients. So we approached Dep-uty Commissioner, Darrang and explained the condition of this family and urge Govt. intervention as Right to equality is to prohibit discrimination, this family is being discriminated by neighbor and relatives on the grounds of disability (mental illness) also they lives in very inhu-man condition, which is violation of basic human right. As a result of our advocacy this family is now under treatment of Psychiatric Department Mangaldai civil Hospital, Doctor and other staff of the department visit-ed them regularly and taking care of their needs.

Eight members of the family

Case study-

Sawpan Sarma. (Name Changed) Age 26 years, attend-

ed our review camp on 9th Nov 2013 for the first time

with some of the symptoms mention below-

1.Suspicious towards other member of the family.

2.Does not stay at home, used to sleep under the trees

or in open field.

3.Ate anything like leaves and banana trunk

4.Hardly spoke with other people.

5.Ferocious behavior,

wanted to hurt others.

5.Shouted at people

with foul language.

Disease was diagnosed

by Doctor as Schizo-

phrenia, and treatment

for the same started, it

was not easy at the

beginning to adminis-

ter medication, so ap-

plying various other

technique care givers

managed it, and our

field workers constant-

ly monitored and fol-

lowed up the case to

ensure that regular

medication goes on.

He is attending review

camp as and when

asked for by our field

worker. Now after one

and half years under

our programme and

around 10 years since showing his first symptoms.

Present Status-

1.He is very sincere in taking medicine, does not need

help of others, he himself takes medicine.

2.Social behavior improved.

3.Having Good sleep.

4.Doctor’s remarks as improved.

5.Presently working as daily wage labour. Women members of the family

Picture caption

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Dilip Kumar Deka, (Name Changed)

In 2008 when he was returning home from Gujrat with the

money he earned working there as labour in a factory, he

was robbed and beaten black and blue in a running train.

Somehow he managed to reach home. After around a week

of reaching home he was showing symptoms and gradually

it was prominent. The symptoms were-

1.Always wanted to loiter hither and thither.

2.Negligible sleep at night and no sleep during day as

well.

3. Attracted to opposite sex in unusual way.

4. He became increasingly agitated.

5. Food habits changes.

6. Always used abusive language.

Two weeks after showing these symptoms he was taken to Guwahati for treatment. Condition was improved on

regular medication. Mother took up all the hardship physical and financial for three years to take him to Guwahati

on regular basis for checkup. But after that he recovered, and because financial problem he stopped going for

checkup and give up medication. He was normal till six months of giving up medicine. Exactly on seventh month

symptoms recurred again and because of financial problem they could not afford his treatment, after two years

without medicine SATRA identified him and on 29th July 2013 he was brought to our review camp, from then on

our worker constantly followed up and facilated consultation with the Doctor as on when required.

His mother participated in the care givers training or-

ganized by SATRA and also member of support group

formed by SATRA.

Observation-Mental illness, the name itself prevent

people to return to work. A general perception about

mental illness in the society is that the person who

once suffer will not be capable of work. In our project

area it has been observed that work and means of live-

lihood plays an important role in the process of recov-

ery. Recovery in mental illness does not mean that the

person need no support further but continued support

and follow up is necessary, its important to ensure patients access to basic human needs like a house, safe water ,

a latrine, work and social security. Recovery in a period of time and to make the patients capable enough to look

after themselves and could manage even after the project is over is our goal.

Present Status- His condition improved after six months of medication and at present he is well, taking regular

medicine, making handicraft items from cane and bamboo for livelihood.

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMME

SUPPORTED BY NRTT, MUMBAI THROUGH ASHADEEP, GUWAHATI

PROGRAMME DURATION– 3 YEARS. FROM JUNE 2013– JUNE 2016

TOTAL GRANT– RS 2706550.00 ( THREE YEARS).

AREA– 14 GRAM PANCHAYAT UNDER SIPAJHAR DEVELOPMENT BLOCK.

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workshop on Sensitization of communities against stigma and false

perception attached to mental illness.

SATRA has been working in association with Ashadeep, Guwahati, on

community mental health, and under this project around 513 mentally ill

patients of Sipajhar area are getting free treatment and medicines. Many

patients recovered and living healthy and normal lives. So based on the

experience of our ongoing project we feel this is the most preventable

disease if we can raise people’s awareness, abolish social stigma and su-

perstitious believe. We also realize that the life of the patients of the

mentally ill peoples of this area are really pathetic, inhuman and end up

in the hands of the people who practice superstitious method to ward off

evil and they are being constantly discriminated for disability by the soci-

ety. SATRA orga-

nized a workshop

on Sensitization of

communities

against stigma and

false perception

attached to men-

tal illness on 7th

March 2015 at

Youth Club, Man-

galdai with the

objective to help

open the eyes to

the reality of men-

tal illness. This was

an effort to raise

awareness, end

social stigma, su-

perstitious be-

lieves and false

perception associ-

ated with mental

illness.

This workshop was to sensitize communities to allow people with mental illness to live in harmonious lives of dignity and re-

spect. Awareness on mental illness and removing of false perception attached to them, raise awareness against stigmatization

of people with mental illness and uphold human rights of mental patients and highlight symptoms and opportunity of treat-

ment. This workshop was to promote emotional wellbeing to the community, encouraging people to maximize their health

potential, enhancing the coping capacity of communities, families, and individual and increasing mental health recovery.

Dr Anjana Goswami Director Ashadeep spoke on “ How stigma prevents people from seeking mental health treatment.” She

shared her long experience of working in community mental health programme. Shri Nani Kumar Saikia ED, SATRA spoke esson

“How to Sensitize communities against stigma with regard to MI.” Shri Rajveer Hussain ADC Darrang District also addressed the

gathering, leading citizen and journalist of Darrang district participated in the workshop.

Outcome -

There is clear evidence that stigma has a toxic effect by preventing people seeking help for mental health problems, and middle

class people in the society are the worst affected by stigma. Mental health stigma can be divided into two distinct types: social

stigma and perceived stigma or self-stigma. social stigma is characterized by prejudicial attitudes and discriminating behaviour

directed towards individuals with mental health problems as a result of the psychiatric label they have been given and per-

Shri Nani Kr Saikia, ED SATRA speaking in workshop

Dr Anjana Goswami Director Ashadeep Dr Bajrul Islam addressing participants of workshop

Shri Rajveer Hussain ADC addressing the workshop A presentation by Ashadeep

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ceived stigma can significantly affect feelings of shame and lead to poorer

treatment outcomes. stigmatizing beliefs about individuals with mental

health problems are held by a broad range of individuals within society,

regardless of whether they know someone with a mental health problem,

throughout history people with mental health problems have been treated

differently, excluded and even brutalized. This treatment may come from

the misguided views that people with mental health problems may be

more violent or unpredictable than people without such problems, or

somehow just “different”, but none of these beliefs has any basis in fact.

Similarly, early beliefs about the causes of mental health problems, such as

demonic or spirit possession, were ‘explanations’ that would almost cer-

tainly give rise to reactions of caution, fear and discrimination. Stigma em-

braces both prejudicial attitudes and discriminating behaviour towards

individuals with mental health problems, and the social effects of this in-

clude exclusion, poor social support, poorer subjective quality of life, and

low self-esteem. As well as its effect on the quality of daily living, stigma

also has a detrimental effect on treatment outcomes, and so hinders effi-

cient and effective recovery from mental health problems, In particular,

self-stigma is correlated with poorer vocational outcomes.

This workshop was to sensitize communities to allow people with mental

illness to live in harmonious lives of dignity and respect. Awareness on

mental illness and removing of false perception attached to them, raise

awareness against stigmatization of people with mental illness and uphold

human rights of mental patients and highlight symptoms and opportunity

of treatment. This workshop was to promote emotional wellbeing to the

community, encouraging people to maximize their health potential, en-

hancing the coping capacity of communities, families, and individual and

increasing mental health recovery.

Padma Shri Deep Joshi’s visit to SATRA

Shri Deep Joshi, an eminent scholar on rural development, recipient of 2009 Magsaysay award and recipient of 2010 Padma

Shri award. He advised the Government of India on poverty alleviation strategies and also was a member of Working Group on

Rainfed Areas for the Eleventh Five Year Planning Commission, Govt of India. He was accompanied by Shri Partha Pratim Pato-

wari, ED, CMLi and Shri Anil Pegu, Visited SATRA on 3rd January. Shri Nani Kumar Saikia ED, SATRA presented a power point

presentation on all the project implementing by SATRA, he watched the presentation with outmost attention and advised on

his observation. He also interacted with other volunteer of the organization.

SATRA volunteer with Padma Shri Deep Joshi. Watching a Presentation.

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cancer awareness and Free health check-up camp.

An estimated 14.1 million new cancer cases and 8.2 million can-

cer related deaths occurred in 2012, compared with 12.7 million

and 7.6 million, respectively, in 2008. WHO predict a substantive

increase to 19.3 million new cancer cases per year by 2025. A

WHO report stated that At least one-third of all cancer cases are

preventable. Tobacco use is the single greatest avoidable risk

factor for cancer mortality worldwide, causing an estimated 22%

of cancer deaths per year. In 2004, 1.6 million of the 7.4 million

cancer deaths were due to tobacco use. Dietary modification is

another important approach to cancer control. There is a link

between overweight and obesity to many types of cancer such

as oesophagus, colorectum, breast, endometrium and kidney.

Diets high in fruits and vegetables may have a protective effect

against many cancers. Another avoidable factor is the use of alcohol, risk of oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, colo-

rectal and breast cancer increases with the amount of alcohol consumed. Prevention offers the most cost-effective long-term

strategy for the control of cancer, knowledge of the disease among common masses are very poor and social stigma prevents

many to seek proper line of treatment, So awareness has the vital role in preventing and seeking proper line of treatment for

the disease.

SATRA in collaboration with North East Cancer Hospital and Research Institute and in association with Krishak Swahid

Puthibharal, Patharighat Organized a free health Check-Up Camp and an awareness meeting on cancer at Patharighat on 28th

of February 2015. Altogether 223 poor patient's avail free treatment and free medicine. Dr Gazi Gyasuddin Ahmed retd Direc-

tor B. Barooah Cancer Hospital delivered a thought provoking lecture on Cancer, he shared his long experience of treating can-

cer patients and explained it so simply that everyone presence understood, Shri Kulen Deka retd school teacher and now a re-

nown social activist of the area presided over the awareness meetings, speaking on the occasion ………….Shri Nani kr Saikia ex-

ecutive Director SATRA spoke on the social stigma attached to the disease, importants early detection…………

Physician prescribing medicine in the health camp.

Physician prescribing medicine in the health camp Shri N K saikia ED, SATRA addressing the gathering

Public in the health camp. Health Worker on duty in the health camp

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On the same day SATRA in collaboration with North East Cancer

Hospital and Research Institute organized a cervical and breast

cancer awareness programme in the office premise of SATRA.

Many rural women with breast or cervical cancer died without

being consulting specialist or without being diagnose, tradition-

ally they are not comfortable to disclose about the disease be-

cause of stigma in the society. For the day long programme 57

women volunteer of SATRA were selected as participants for the

programme. Volunteer were selected on the basis leadership

quality and acceptance in the society, so that they may dissemi-

nate what they learned among rural women. Dr Juri Borgohain

of NECHRI conducted the program. Having the awareness of

risks is very beneficial for early detection and early detection is

the key to successful cancer treatment. Cervical and breast can-

cer does not affect a woman alone but society at large, so is the

area of priority for SATRA. These cancer has an impact on mar-

riages and when marriages break it is the children who suffer

the most. Main focus of the awareness program was to educate

the women about their health, necessity of regular screening,

method of Breast self- exam (BSE), the risk factors associated

with the disease, the age when women are most likely to devel-

op cancer of the cervix, linking of cervical cancer to HPV infec-

tion and other sexually transmitted diseases, and also the pre-

ventive measures to combat the risk factors.

Breast cancer awareness is an effort to raise awareness and

reduce the stigma of breast cancer through education on symp-

toms and treatment. Greater knowledge will lead to earlier de-

tection of breast cancer, which is associated with higher long-

term survival rates.

In 2012, 1.7 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer.

Since the 2008 estimates, breast cancer incidence has increased

by more than 20%, while mortality has increased by 14%. Breast

cancer is also the most common cause of cancer death among

women.

Dr Juri Ghohain touches the following lines while educating

the women present.

•how breasts develop and changes throughout life.

•What breast changes to look and consult physician.

•Breast Self-Examination (BSE)

Dr Ghohain also spoke on the role of tobacco in causing cancer.

Tobacco smoking causes many types of cancer, including can-

cers of the lung, oesophagus, larynx (voice box), mouth, throat,

kidney, bladder, pancreas, stomach and cervix. About 70% of

the lung cancer burden can be attributed to smoking alone.

This year SATRA also published a bilingual (English & As-

samese) pamphlet on breast cancer and distributed more than 5000 copies in various places. SATRA wishes to work to fight

this deadly disease by mobilizing and imparting awareness among common people.

Participants of the cancer awareness programme.

Dr Juri Bogohain on cancer awareness programme.

SATRA volunteer in the cancer awareness programme.

Shri N K Saikia, ED SATRA addressing SATRA volunteer pre-

sent in the cancer awareness programme

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Details of the members of the Governing Body along with remuneration details

Sr.No.

Name

Age

Gender

Occupation

Position in the

Board

Total

amount

paid in

last finan-

cial year

(Rs.)

Form of

payment

1 Dr. Prasanna Kr.

Nath

49 Male Associate Professor, Sipajhar

college.

Chairman Sitting fee

2 Sri Nani Kr.

Saikia

45 Male Social Activists Executive Direc-

tor

Salary

3 Dr. Dhrubajyoti

Saharia

42 Male Asst.Professor,Guwahati Uni-

versity

Board Member Nil Sitting fee

4 Dr.Arup Kr. Nath

34 Male Asst.Professor,Tezpur Central

University

Board Member Nil Sitting fee

5 Miss.Samhita

Baruah

40 Female Asst.Professor,TISSGuwahati

campus

Board Member Nil Sitting fee

6. Shri Kamal

Bhatta

47 Male Advocate Board Member NIL Sitting fee

7. Shri Jyoti Kr.

Nath

45 Male School Principal Board member NIL Sitting fee

8. Mrs. Jyoti Prova

Bora

38 Female Schoo teacher Board Member. Sitting fee

9. Mrs.Bhakti dev-

ee Saharia

55 Female School Teacher Board member Nil Sitting fee

10. Mrs.Binita Saha-

ria

36 Female College teacher Board Member Sitting fee

9 Dr.Bazrul Islam 50 Male Vety.Surgeon Board Member Sitting fee

11. Sri Kulendra

Deka

46 Male ADO Board Member Nil Sitting fee

12. Sri Jyoti Kr. Nath 43 Male School Teacher Board Member Sitting fee

13. Mrs.Olee Bora 48 Female AGM,NEDFi Board Member

(NEDFi Nominee

Nil Sitting fee

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SL NO

DATE SATRA PARTICI-PANT

NAME OF OR-GANIZER

PROGRAMME VENUE

1 05/04/2014 to

06/04/2014

Nani Kr. Saikia Jagadish Hazarika

OXFAM(I) Strategy Plan Hotel Pragati Manor, Ghy

2 30/04/2014 to

03/05/2014

Sachindra Sarma Hemanta Phukon Samarendra Nath PankajPratim Nath Harichandra Nath

OXFAM(I) Institution Building Train-

ing

Dhan Foundation People’s Academy

3 13/06/2014 Sachindra Sarma Dharmendra Sa-haria

CML IIE, Survey GVM Office, Nalbari

4 17/06/2014 to

19/06/2014

Jitu Deka Kuladeep Bora

OXFAM(I) Finance & Lo-gistic

Hotel Senitor, Kolkata

4 01/07/2014 Sachindra Sarma Moni Bora Jagadish Hazarika Kuladeep Bora

OXFAM(I) Inception Workshop

Gateway Hotel, Guwahati

5 31/07/2014 Sachindra Sarma Jagadish Hazarika Kuladeep Bora

OXFAM(I) PVCA Training Wild Grass Resort Kaziranga, Golaghat

6 11/08/2014 Sachindra Sarma OXFAM(I) MIS Training Hotel Landmark

7 14/10/2014to

16/10/2014

Sachindra Sarma VSO How to Better Disaster Risk

Reduction

ITC Group, Kolkata

8 30/10/2014 to

31/10/2014

Tridip Kumar Nath

SENSE Deaf/ Blind Re-gional Network

DBI, Kharghulee, Ghy

9 6/11/2014 to

8/11/2014

Sachindra Sarma Trideep Kumar Nath Dharmendra Sa-haria

ICCO Online Baseline Survey Training

Hotel Zinzar, Guwahati

TRAINING/WORKSHOP/MEETING ATTENDED BY SATRA PERSONAL

2014-15

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10 26/11/2014 to

27/11/2014

Kamaruz Hoque Sachindra Sarma

IIE CSO_CSR Bridge

NEDFi House, Ghy

11 3/12/2014 to

5/12/2014

Nani Kr. Saikia Sachindra Sarma Jitu Deka

OXFAM(I) Financial Ca-pasity Building

Training

Hotel Land-mark, Ghy

12 16th & 17th Dec 2015

Nani Kr Saikia & Jitu Deka

ICCO Finance training Programme

IIBM.

13 01/01/2015 S Saharia, R Hazarika, Parul Devi

NEN Women Right

Guwahati Club.

14 3rd to 5th Feb 2015

K Z Hoque & Mo-han Das

Oxfam(I) & RedR

PHP Bongaigaon

15 10th and 11th Feb 2015

K Z Hoque. NEN workshop on Inequality

Hotel Land-mark.

Credibility Alliance assessor visit-

Credibility Alliance assessor visiting a Mulberry Farm. Credibility Alliance assessor talking with beneficiary of

Credibility Alliance assessor visiting a patient home

admitted Under CMHP. Credibility Alliance assessor with Executive Direc-

tor

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SATRA Board Members

Dr Prasanna Kr Nath, Chairman

Shri N K Saikia, Executive

Director

Dr Prassana Nath MA, PhD age 50 years, a renown socially active personality of Darrang district with more than 25 years of experience in Education, literature and rural development, presently working as associate professor of Assamese in Sipa-jhar college and is an EC member of the Assam college teachers association, he authored several books including autobiography of Late Dr Bhupen Hazarika. He is associated with various literary organization of Assam and is former secretary of Sipajhar Sahitya Sabha, Contact- E-mail- Ph-9435385850

Mr Nani Kr.Saikia B.Sc age 47 years, he has been associated with rural de-velopment for last 25 years, well known in Assam for his contribution to spread awareness on RTI far and wide, he is also a renown RTI activist, a social worker/activist and renown social entrepreneur. He had the oppor-tunity to exchange ideas on microfinance and livelihood with Muhammad Yunus, Nobel laureate from Bangladesh, during a microfinance exposure visit to Bangladesh. He guides SATRA from its inception and presently serv-ing as Chief Functionary. Contact- E-mail- nani_saikia@yahoo.com Ph- 9435185878.

Mrs Bhakti Devee Saharia

Mrs Bhakti Devee Saha-ria, MA , district, she is associated with various social organization. Presently working as subject teacher in Pa-chim Rangamati HS School.

E-mail-bhakti.d.saharia@gmail.com Ph-9435006567.

Mr Jyoti Kr.Nath B.A age 45 years, he has been associated with various children organization and a renown social work-er, he also served as the chairman of an Ngo called AGAN for few years later he established a School

at Paneri, an educationally backward place of Odalguri District. Presently he is serving as principal of that School. Contact-Ph-9435491088 Shri Kamal Bhatta Mr Kamal Bhatta B.Sc.LLB age 47 years, an re-nown advocate Guwahati high Court. He has been associated with various social and stu-dent organization since his college days. Contact- E-mail- Ph-9864018759

Shri Jyoti Kr. Nath

Miss Samhita Baruah,

MSW age 37 years, an

dynamic social worker,

worked for NEN (North

East Network) a renown

NGO of North east region

for quite sometime. Later

she joins at TISS Guwahati

as associate professor.

Contact:

E Mail: Samhita.barrooah@gmail.com

Ph: 9435115310

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Mrs. Jyoti Prova Bora. E-mail-jyoti77saikia@gmail.com

A Board Meeting is in progress

Dr Bazrul Islam

Mrs. Purnima Bora

E-mail-

Mrs. Purnima Bo-ra MA, BT, age 51 years a social ac-tivist on women issues, education and health. Pres-ently working as Subject teacher in Kamrup Academy Higher secondary School Contact- Ph- 9435104413

Dr Bazrul Islam BVSC, age 51 years, a veterinary surgeon by profession working as senior veterinary surgeon under Govt of Assam in Darrang District, He is closely associated with various social organization of Dar-rang district, A person with commendable knowledge on rural develop-ment and an asset to the organization in motivating and aware the rural people to adopt scientific method of livestock rearing and sustain liveli-hood. He visited Amul, Gujrat and attended a special training on Milk production and Dairy development through cooperatives. Contact- E-mail-bazul24vet@gmail.com Ph-9435185973

Mrs Jyoti Prova Bora BA, B.Ed age 38years. Founder Chief Functionary of SATRA.Closely associated with SATRA since its inception. Present-ly working as Asst. teacher of Bor-doulguri ME School. Contact- Ph-9854782892

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Dr.Arup Kr. Nath

Dr Dhrubajyoti Nath Dr Dhrubajyoti Saharia MA PhD age 41 years, Presently assistant pro-fessor in geography, Gau-hati university. Trained in GIS and remote sensing from ITC, The Nether-lands. Visited Srilanka, Nepal, Germany etc.

Presently holding posts as general secretary North East India Geographical Society. Asst. General secretary, Assam Science Society. As-sociated with a number of voluntary organisa-tions. Started career working with world wide fund for nature, New Delhi. Contact- E-mail- saktola@gmail.com Ph-9864137971.

Shri Kulen Deka Mr Kulen Deka 47Yrs B.Sc(Agri) age 47 years, a re-nown social entrepreneur of Assam, at a time when dairy cooperative was considered largely unsuc-cessful in Assam, he took initiatives and formed a dairy cooperative in Path-

arigat and today the cooperative is among the successful dairy cooperatives of the state. Pres-ently working as Agriculture Development Officer under Agriculture Department of Govt. of Assam. Contact- E-mail- kulendra_deka@rediffmail.com Ph-9864193646.

Mrs. Binita Saharia Mrs Binita Saharia MA,B.Ed age 35 years a college teacher associated with many women and cultural organization. Contact- E-mail- Ph-9435129709

Mrs Olee Bora Mrs Olee Bora M.A age 48 years. Presently work-ing as general Manager of NEDFi (North East De-velopment financial Corporation ltd.) Contact- E-mail- olee@nedfi.com Ph-9854028200

Dr Arup Nath, MA, PhD age 34 years, currently working as an Assistant Professor of Lin-guistics in the Department of English and Foreign Languages, Tezpur University, Assam. He has published a few peer reviewed papers along with some book chapters in various books. He is also regularly publishing articles in various magazines and newspapers both in English and Assamese on different issues. A book tiled Impact of Code Switching- Mix-ing in Assamese has also been published recently Dr Nath has also presented various pa-pers in different national and international seminars and conferences. Recently, he was awarded with DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst: German Academic Ex-change Service) Fellowship for one month to carry out research in Germany

Since his college days, he has shown keen interest in various socio-economic activities aiming at the upliftment of poor people in the society and also been part of many such endeavors. Contact- E-mail- arupjnu@gmail.com Ph- 9864196993

Dr Dinesh Baishya, Chief Advisor. SATRA.

Dr Dinesh Baishya, Former Principal, B Borooah College,

Guwahati. Dean, Media and cul-

tural studies, University of sci-

ence and technology, Meghala-

ya, Executive Director, Society

for Appropriate Technology,

Guwahati, he is also a renown

intellectual, Author, Media com-

mentator and social worker of

Assam. He writes poetry and

fiction, He has Authored more than 35 books both in

Assamese and English, he is a well-known columnist of

Assam and his article on social & political issues are be-

ing regularly publishing by various News Paper in As-

sam.Dr Dinesh Baishya has been guiding SATRA from its

inception. SATRAs name was coined by him; presently he

is the Chief Advisor of SATRA.

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Photograph from Community Mental Health Programme.

Left– Care

Givers

Training,

A very

important

compo-

nent of

the Pro-

ject.

Right-

Awareness

program.-

Getting

partici-

pants is a

challenge

in rural

areas.

Left– Ca-

pacity —

Building-

ANM

ASHA,

Training.

Right–

Awareness

Meeting.

Photograph from Sericulture Project.

Credibility Alliance visiting a Mulberry garden Participants of Mulberry plantation training

Participants of TOT

Yarn produced by beneficiary

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SATRA Staff Strength

Distribution of staff according to salary level for all staff

The salary and benefit of the NGO head,the highest paid staff member and the lowest paid staff member

in 2014-15

Remuneration Paid to Executive Committee(Board member)during the Year 2014-15

Note:Remuneration paid to Nani Kr. Saikia towards his full time involvement as Director(Programme)

Type of staff Male Female Total

Paid Full Staff 23 09 32

Paid Part Time NIL NIL NIL

Paid Contract Staff NIL NIL NIL

Paid consultant 1(CA) NIL 1

Slab of gross monthly sala-ry plus benefit paid to staff

Male Female Total

≤5000 10 06 16

5001-10000 08 02 10

10001-25000 04 01 05

25001-50000 1 NIL 01

≥50000 Nil NIL NIL

Total 23 09 32

Head of the Organization:Nani Kr. Saikia/Director(Programme)

Rs.492000/

Lowest Paid :Office cleaner Rs.33,972/

Sl.No Name and Designation Amount

01 Dr.Prasanna Nath NIL

02 Sri Nani Kr. Saikia Rs.492000/

03 Mrs.Purnima Bora NIL

04 Dr.Arup Kr. Nath NIL

05 Dr.Dhrubajyoti Saharia NIL

06 Samhita barua NIL

07 Jyoti Prova Bora NIL

08 Dr.Bazrul Islam NIL

09 Mrs.Bhakti Devee Saharia NIL

10 Mrs.Olee Bora NIL

11 Sri Kulendra Deka NIL

12 Mrs.Binita Saharia NIL

13 Jyoti Kr. Nath NIL

14 Kamal Bhatta NIL

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Acknowledgment

SATRA is ever grateful to those agencies, organizations, individuals and Govt. Departments, for having confidence on SATRA in the initial years and gave us support of various kinds. I on behalf of SATRA, would like to take this oppor-tunity to show our gratitude to

Registrar of Societies, Assam,

RGVN.

North East Network(NEN),Guwahati,

NYK,Mangaldai,NEDFi,KVIC,

FST,Guwahati, IGSSS,

Oxfam(I),

Action aid,

SDTT, NRTT,

CRY,

Give2Asia,

Manaviya,

CML, Guwahati

In addition to that i sincerely appreciate Home Ministry Govt. of India,Income TaxDepartment,National Trust,

I would also like to thank our friendly organization Grameen Sahara Chayga-on,GVM Nalbari,Nitingale Charitable Trust Guwahati,The Ant Chirang,NEADS Jorhat ,MMM Morigaon,Ajagar Social Circle Goalpara,RVC Dhemaji and PAD Laximpur for sharing illuminating view with us.

I would like to expand my deepest gratitude to all those who have directly and indirectly guided SATRA in grooming to a responsible CSO of the state.

Ashadeep,Guwahati,

SIDBI

Sishu Sarothi,Guwahati.

Indian Grameen Services,

CAPART,

NABARD,

KVK,Darrang,

Vety Dept,Darrang

Agriculture Dept.darrang,

Circle Officer,Sipajhar,

District Administration Darrang,

Social Welfare Darrang,