FIGURES AT A GLANCE - INDIA (census 2011)

FIGURES AT A GLANCE - INDIA (census 2011)
POPULATION	Persons	1,210,193,422
	Males	623,724,248
	Females	586,469,174
DECADAL POPULATION GROWTH 2001 -> 2011	Persons	181,455,986	17.64%
	Males	91,501,158	17.19%
	Females	89,954,828	18.12%

The Census 2011 is the 15th census of India since 1872 and conducted in two phases — houselisting and housing census (April to September 2010) and population enumeration (February 9 to 28, 2011).The Census covered all 35 states and UTs and cost Rs 2,200 crore. 27 lakh enumerators were involved in the exercise where 8,000 metric tonnes of paper and 10,500 metric tonnes of material moved.

For more information log on to:
censusindia.gov

Some positive facts:

• The highest child sex ratio is in Mizoram (971 females against 1000 males) and Meghalaya (970).
• Lahul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh has the highest sex ratio (1,013 female).
• For the first time, there is a significant fall in the growth rate of population in the Empowered Action Group states after decades of stagnation,” The EAG states are : UP, Bihar, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh and Orissa.
• The literacy rate has gone up from 64.83 per cent in 2001 to 74.04 per cent in 2011 showing an increase of 9.21 per cent.

Some –negative facts:

• Haryana’s Jhajjar (774 females) and Mahendragarh (778 females) districts have the lowest sex ratio
• The combined population of UP and Maharashtra is bigger than that of the US.
• The highest population density is in Delhi’s north-east district (37,346 per sq km)
• The lowest is in Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh (just one per sq km).
• Interestingly, the addition of 181 million population during 2001-2011 is slightly lower than the total population of Brazil, the fifth most populous country in the world.
• While China has 19.4 per cent of the world’s total population, India has 17.5 per cent of the world population.
• The Census indicated a continuing preference for male children over female children. The latest child sex ratio in is 914 female against 1,000 male–the lowest since Independence.

Now we have to think a lot about:

• Water problems
• Space problems
• Education
• Food availability
• Employment
• And many other concerns...

HARIT PRAYAS project Team

Name	Age / Sex	Qualification	Position
MVSS-Sagar (Madhya Pradesh)
Mr. Raja	25 M	Bachelors in Arts	Cluster Coordinator-field
Mr. Rajendera Patel	25 M	10+2, Diploma in social work	Cluster Coordinator-field
Mr. Hari	23 M	Bachelors in Arts	Cluster Coordinator-field
Mr. Mohit	24 M	Bachelors in Arts	Cluster Coordinator-field
Dr. Swati	31 F	Phd & Masters in Sociology	Project Coordinator
Sr. Karuna	35 F	Masters in Commerce	Accountant
JCSS-Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh)
Ms. Malti	40 F	Bachelors in Arts	Cluster Coordinator-field
Mr. Krishna	25 M	Bachelors in Science (Mathematics)	Cluster Coordinator-field
Mr. Kailash	40 M	Masters in Arts	Cluster Coordinator-field
Mr. Jeyrum	40 M	Bachelors in social work	Cluster Coordinator-field
Mr. Kumar rattan	30 M	Masters in Sociology	Project Manager
Ms. Stella	27 F	Masters in Commerce	Accountant
SSSS-Satna (Madhya Pradesh)
Mr. Rajesh Kumar	26 M	Bachelors in Arts	Cluster Coordinator-field
Mr. Arun Arya	27 M	Bachelors in Arts	Cluster Coordinator-field
Mr.Desrath	30 M	Bachelors in Arts	Cluster Coordinator-field
Mr. Veerander Sen	35 M	Bachelors in Arts	Cluster Coordinator-field
Mr. Sinu	30 M	Masters in Social Work	Project Coordinator
Mr. Rajesh	35 M	Masters in Commerce	Accountant

Baseline Survey completed

The baseline and the data entry process have completed on 25th March 2011 in the HARIT PRAYAS project villages in all the three districts (Satna-Chatarpur, Sagar and Jhansi). Further on staff would also be involve in report writing and analysis part. All the HARIT PRAYAS project staff at the concerned dioceses had put their all effort and given their best in the whole survey process.

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More than 9000 projects under MGNREGS are still incomplete in Bundelkhand region

The state government is yet to complete more than 9,000 tasks under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in the Bundelkhand region this fiscal.

The department of rural development — the nodal department for the implementation of the scheme — has found that it has yet to complete 9,271 tasks under the scheme in the seven districts.

If the department fails to complete them by March 31 and provide utilisation certificates to the Union government, it will be difficult for it to get new projects sanctioned. Officials, however, said they were trying hard to complete most of the tasks by March 31.

Under the MGNREGS, sanctioned tasks must be completed within one financial year. Only after submitting the utilisation certificate for the current financial year can the state get the new budget approved and funds released.

According to reports of the District Rural Development Authority (DRDA), Jhansi, a total of 9,271 tasks are behind schedule in the region. Of these, 3,151 have been delayed for over three months.

DRDA (Jhansi) project director GP Gautam told The Indian Express, “Since we had to send the report to the state government, we got all the ongoing sites inspected and found that there are about 9,271 sites where work is still incomplete. Most of these works are related to water conservation activities.”

A senior state official said, “A large number of unfinished tasks would mean delay in submission of utilisation certificates and further delay in approval and release of funds for the next financial year. Hence, stress is on completing the work within that fiscal only.”

Jhansi has the highest number of pending tasks at 3,742. This is followed by Jalaun at 2,770, Hamirpur at 1,604, Lalitpur at 657, Banda at 282 and Chitrakoot at 216. Mahoba is the only district where the work is nearly 92 per cent complete.

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Courtesy: indianexpress.com

HARIT PRAYAS broucher

HARIT PRAYAS broucher has released on 28^th Jan 2011 by Fr. Fredrick D’Souza (Asst. ED Caritas India) at Sagar (Madhya Pradesh) during the HARIT PRAYAS launching programme.

Important links...

Caritas India: www.caritasindia.org

Caritas Spain: www.caritas.es

Caritas Italiana: www.caritasitaliana.it

MGNREGA: www.nrega.nic.in

LIFE Project: www.liferajasthan.blogspot.com

DPIP: www.dpipmp.mp.gov.in

MPRLP: www.mprlp.in

Forest Right Act: www.fra.org.in

TSA: www.tsanewindia.org

Madhya Pradesh Government: www.mp.gov.in

Uttar Pradesh government: http://www.upgov.nic.in/  

Karmyog: www.karmayog.org  

HARIT PRAYAS Project -an overview

Project Title: HARIT PRAYAS

Project Goal: Economic and political empowerment of the Marginalized targeted Community so that they can lead a dignified life by enabling them to participate in development processes and ensuring sustainable livelihood options

Project Objectives:

• Informed communities demand and secure their rights on different government programmes related to livelihood
• 70 % of school drop out rate reduced and mainstream the school drops out youth through vocational training programs.
• Ensure participation of women and marginalised groups in the socio economic development in the target area.
• Systems and practices of sustainable management of land and water resources strengthened for increasing agriculture production

Location:  Satna, Sagar districts of Madhya Pradesh and Jhansi of Uttar Pradesh of Bundelkhand region in India

Target community: marginalized farmers, women and youths

Time-Frame:  January 2011 to January 2014

Name of Partner: SSSS (Satna) , MVSS (Sagar) and JCSSS (Jhansi)

Context (Bundelkhand Region)

Bundelkhand is a geographic region of central India. The region is now divided between the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, with the larger portion lying in the latter. The major towns are Jhansi, Datia, Lalitpur, Sagar, Damoh, Orai, Panna, Hamirpur, Mahoba, Banda Narsinghpur and Chhatarpur. However, the cities of Gwalior, Jabalpur and even Bhopal are under close cultural influence of Bundelkhand, especially linguistically.

Communities in many parts of the Bundelkhand region have been living on existing forest resources and prevailing farm lands to meet their subsistence requirements. However, of late, with the external influence, access to market economy, there has been a constant shift in the interest of communities in preserving their natural resources. The recent trend is to migrate towards distant areas in search of wage opportunities and somewhat assured regularity in income sources (wages) are further weakening the traditional values of conserving the natural forest reserves. Moreover, the available accessibility to modern and attracting instruments of communication and entertainment are becoming driving forces towards venturing to far off areas and leaving behind legacy so far maintained. 

Project Area

The project will be implemented in 20 geographically contiguous villages of Rajnagar and Bijawar blocks (Chhattarpur district, MP), 24 villages of  Rehali block (Sagar district , MP), and 20 villages of  Babina block (Jhansi District UP).

HARIT PRAYAS Project –key aspects

Project partners proposes to demonstrate models of participatory development taking into account social, economic, environmental and gender/marginalisation concerns in the intervened villages. The project envisage to demonstrate more accountable, transparent, participatory implementation of the Government schemes by the Village Panchayats and on the other hand, it would demonstrate linking the benefits of various schemes with entitlement realisation of the poor. The key elements that the project will focus are:

§         Supporting the Panchayats to develop comprehensive plans in a participatory manner and ensuring convergence with relevant departments.

§         Support the implementation of MGNREGA, FRA and other schemes in order to converge the resources for improving the lives of the workers.

§         Building capacities of the Gram Sabha and Panchayat as well as sensitising the concerned agencies for participatory implementation and monitoring of the works and

§         Mainstreaming the pilot initiatives though process documentation and sharing the learning with the district administration for replication in other Panchayats.

Photographs...making change visible....

15^th-17^th March 2011: Caritas Spain delegates visit to HARIT PRAYAS project villages:

28^th Jan 2011: HARIT PRAYAS launching programme at Sagour (Madhya Pradesh):

Baseline survey  

Methodology

The project is basically planned to be implemented through formation and strengthening of Community Based Organisations (CBOs). Though the focus is on livelihood and environment management, importance will be given for empowerment of the local groups and enable them to take active part in the local self-governance and political system. In this process they will be able to make micro level policy changes in favour of the poor and marginalised towards management and control of natural resources.With natural resource management programme, the community will be involved  in selecting the area for the model project and will further involved in preparing replicable programmes in other villages with the support of the local government. Institutions such as KVK and Agricultural universities will be contacted to provide technical guidelines for helping the farmers to increase their production.  Crop demonstration and exposure with training input will be the part of the project.

Project Partners Introduction

MANAV VIKAS SEVA SANGH (MVSS)-Sagar : MVSS is based at Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, and is serving the deprived and downtrodden tribal and rural communities. It was registered on December 26, 1989, under MP firms and societies registration act, with a special stress to work in the development field. 

Samaritan Social Service Society (SSSS)-Satna: is the social arm of Satna diocese. It was registered under the Madhya Pradesh Societies Registration Act in 1993. SSSS is the mandated wing of the Diocese of Satna to carry out social development activities as a part of diocese’s commitment of the Church to serve the poorest, the deprived, and the challenged.

Jhansi Catholic Seva Samaj (JCSS)-Jhansi: started functioning in 1985 and has been working for the welfare of the poor and needy people in Jhansi Diocese for more than 2 decades.  The diocese comprises of seven districts of U. P. namely; Jhansi, Lalitpur, Jalaun, Banda, Mahoba, Hamirpur and Chtrakoot.

Strategy of Implementation

·         Understanding the context: To understand the context and the community, project partners do the, geo-hydrological study, survey of the area, stay with the community and participate in their different day to day activities to comprehend social, ecological economical and cultural aspect.

·         Institutional arrangement (habitation to micro-level): Formation of Community Based Organizations (CBO’s) by project partners at different stages viz. from habitation-Village-micro-level, and link with panchayats, which results in better community participation (including all social groups-for sustainability of institution as well as panchayats sustainability with community), formal enrolment (as members), habitation based decision making process (which converges with village level institution) and is for the reflective in micro level, where the committee members are the integral components of micro-level.

·         Planning: Planning are initiated at habitation level (based on the perspective), and are discussed and converge in village, watershed and at panchayats level. This helps in developing, rolling as well as annual plans of the concerned institutions and the region.

  

·         Specific projects are incorporated with Long-term plan for the area: Project partners envisages a long-term vision for any area, given the context of landscape and community. Strategizing the intervention strategy given the ecological and social context, proposals are prepared for different agencies. This helps in developing the proper prospective plan for the concerned area.

·         Holistic development approach (convergence of project activities with others scheme & programs): Project partners have perspective plans at habitation level, where project partners on its part accentuate on ecological and land scape based planning and intervention. In lieu of the same process it also strengthens the community capacity to attract other schemes and also negotiate with other agencies for a holistic village development approach.  

·         Phase-out strategy (from the day of initiation): To maintain the sustainability and to participation of the community, from the day of initiation partner organizations have strategy of phasing out, which reflects in handing over the responsibilities more on the community, so that the community prepares itself to manage the resources on their own-with or without the project.

·         Promotion of village volunteers:  Project partners have strategy to strengthen the knowledge (in relation with holistic development) of youth groups/women groups/opinion leaders/village elders etc. in the form of village volunteers for providing the services for village development.

• Decentralised approach: Project Partners firmly believes in discussions and decisions are taken in gram sabha’s. Committee’s are formed for execution of gram sabha decisions and the selection of committee members are sole responsibility of the gram sabha’s. This lead to more transparent and participative approach.

• Networking and advocacy:  with Agriculture & Irrigation Dept., PRI and other relevant agencies. Advocacy measures will be initiated by the people’s organization for the proper implementation of NREGA. This also will ensure that the works done under NREGA contributes to enhance the agricultural productivity of the villages.

About Supporting agencies...

What is Caritas?

The word Caritas comes from Latin. It means, Charity - Love. The name connotes the Church’s efforts to bring Compassion and Love to Humanity, as Mother Theresa aptly put it, Charity is Love in Action. Caritas exists to bring Solidarity and Social Justice. Caritas across the world works under the following guiding principles:

• Uphold the human dignity everywhere and all times
• Combat the de-humanizing poverty through option for the poor Strengthen the capacities of the local partners
• Protect the Unity of the Family through formation of values  &Build Solidarity

CARITAS Espanola

Caritas Spain operates through 68 diocesan offices, which manage the work of 65,000 volunteers. In Spain, Caritas works to support vulnerable and marginalized people, the poor and needy, immigrants and young people in difficulty, among others. It supports research into the causes of poverty and regularly produces publications on related issues.

About Caritas-India

Caritas India is the official national organisation of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India for social development. It was established in 1962 to assist the Church in India in efforts to eradicate poverty, reach relief and rehabilitation in times of disasters and organize communities for self advancement. During the last four decades of its humanitarian and development efforts, Caritas India has served the poor and marginalized, without any distinction of caste, creed and ethnicity. Caritas India works in collaboration with Diocesan Social Service Societies and NGOs in the country. Caritas India works within the framework of national plans, needs and priorities in collaboration with the Central and State Governments at various levels.

About Caritas-Italiana

Caritas Italiana is the Pastoral Body created by the Italian Episcopal Conference in order to promote, in cooperation with other bodies as well, the charity commitment of the Italian ecclesiastical community, in the forms that are appropriate considering time and needs, for a complete development of man, social justice and peace, with particular attention to the poor and with a mainly pedagogical function.Caritas Italiana was founded in 1971 answering to the will of Paul VI, in the spirit of renewal launched by the  II Vatican Council. The activities of Caritas Italiana are strictly connected to the 220 diocesan Caritases engaged in the territory, animating the civil and ecclesial community and promoting pastoral services like Counselling Centres, Centres for Poverty and Resources Monitoring, Parish Caritases, Reception Centres for needy people, etc.