TYMA watershed: A turning point in total village development in Jharkhand state

B.NijalingappaChief Executive Officer

Jharkhand Watershed MissionRanchi.

Date: 22. 06. 2011

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GolaDist: 9 Km.

•Area: 1016 ha.

•Households: 632

• ST &SC Households: 61%

•Av. Ann. Rainfall: 1180 mm.

•Forests: 35%

•Culturable waste: 21%

•NSA: 43% of Tot. area

•Cropping Intensity: 116%

•Fam. with food security: 33%

• Families under BPL: 64%

About TYMA Watershed Project

Project Implementation

• Project Implementation Agency: PRADAN

• Initiation of Capacity Building phase: 2001

• Initiation of Final Implementation phase: 2002

• Completion of Watershed Project: 2008

• Total budgetary outlay: Rs. 80 lakh

• NABARD’s Assistance: Rs.62.64 lakh

• People’s contribution: Rs. 6.79 lakh

• Loan from Banks: Rs.10.57 lakh

Intervention ProcessesCapacity building Phase

• Reconnaissance survey

• Initiating Social mobilization processes:

• Organize women SHGs

• Formation of Hamlet level Watershed Committees

• Promotion of Apex level Watershed Association

• Exposure to Purulia, W.B.

• Visioning exercise

• Entry Point Activities and preparation for Planning

Full Programme Implementation

• Training of Watershed committee members on:

– Technical design and Layout,

– Measurement of works and payments,

– Maintenance of books of accounts,

• Training of farmers to adopt improved technology for productivity enhancement,

• Creating pool of Community Resource Persons for livelihood service delivery including marketing,

• Training of Watershed Community on maintenance of assets

• Involvement of women in Planning process

• Preparation of various Maps:

• Resource map

• Current Land use map

• Problem map

• Interventions Map

• Overlaying family based plan map

• Prioritizing and budgeting works

• Role division for Implementation & Supervision by community

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Particulars Pre-Treatment Post Treatment 

1. SHG Promotion 0 54 (782 Members)

* Net Owned fund 0 19.79 lakh

* Total credit disbursed 0 48.27 lakh

* Bank Linked SHGs 0 44

* Bank Loan mobilized 0 23.08 lakh

2. Crop Cultivation    

* Net Sown Area 428.50 ha. 625.25 ha.

* Area under Double cropping 60 ha. 309 ha.

* Cropping intensity 115% 160%

* Orchards 0 10.57 ha.

3. Physical Infrastructure    

* Water Harvesting Tanks 13 40

* Renovation of old WHTs - 9

* Land Husbandry 0 177.19 ha.

* Plantations & pasture dev. 0 33.71 ha.

Changes: Pre and Post watershed Treatment

Satellite imagery of Treated Areas of Auradih

Watershed Treatments in Auradih

Impact: Village Auradih

Sl. Particulars Pre-watershed Post- watershed 

1. Net Sown Area 101 ha.(42% of Total land area)

178 ha. (58% of Total land area)

2. Area under Double Cropping 17 ha. (17% of NSA) 102 ha. (57% of NSA)

3. Area under Triple cropping   6 ha. (6% of NSA)   43 ha. (24% of NSA)

4. Families with year-round food security

 33%   80%

5. Av. Annual income from agriculture

Rs. 4,600  Rs. 18,000

6. Families accessing credit from banks

17 families 138 SHG member- families

7. Months of engagement in farming

4 months 10 months

Use of pond under TYMA1. Had more than one meter water in last year in 24

ponds in spite of the scanty rainfall.2. Avg coverage of low and medium land ponds ( 28

nos) are: Rabi: 2.5- 3 haSummer: 1.5- 2.0 ha

3. Community does crop planning as per water availability in the pond.

4. Average earning from fishery: No of pond in which fish reared: 24One villager (entrepreneur)- Ritulal Manjhi reared fish in 7 pond (own 2)- average earning Rs. 15000/- from each pond .

Watershed committee fund• Main source: – Working as a Resource Persons.– Charges varies from Rs. 2000- 3000 per exposure.– Service charges claimed for training as trainer.– Renting charge from impliments owned by WC.– Disciplinary fine collected from villagers.

• Use of this fund: – Maintaining the various structures developed.– Support the financial gap in some innovative projects such

as Drip in mango orchard.– Organizing training for the villages on new crop package

etc.– Supporting poor farmers and SHGs as decided by the WC

Socio-economic impact

• SHGs, Watershed Committees sustain development initiatives

• 82% increase in enrolment of students in the primary schools,

• 38% increase in retention of girls students in the middle level,

• Jangal Bachao Samiti has protected & rejuvenated 80 ha. forest,

• 2 –SHGs have taken bank loan under SGSY to install 2-MLI schemes to irrigate 18 ha.

• Today, Auradih has 10 television sets, 16 motorcycles, 20 mobile phones and 150 bicycles.

Way Forward

• Support adoption of technologies that can increase water productivity,

• Bring in more areas in existing W/S under similar treatments to improve overall hydrology of the area,

• Investments in farm allied & off- farm enterprises for landless families,

• Attending to well-being needs of the community such as drinking water and sanitation, electrification and better road connectivity,

• A bigger area (5000 to 10000 ha.) around Tyma Watershed could be brought under watershed treatment,

• At the macro-level, Tyma watershed project can serve as a demo. for the State to facilitate formulation of favourable policy framework for convergence and livelihoods.

Thank you