Mitigating migration in Bundelkhand through HARIT PRAYAS@Chatarpur

Kota is one of the targeted village comes under Harit Prayas, it is far most & village from our cluster office Khajuraho & also very tough to reach there. The total no. of families is 35 SC & ST and population is around 200.

Condition before Project Intervention:-

•   There is high number of families migrates every year (ref. Baseline survey, 2010).
•   Number of people doing organic cultivation :- Zero
•  Input Cost in Agriculture is very high and the village is very far so they have to distant place to purchase Urea & DAP and have to wait 2 to 3 days for it in black.
•  They are not able to save money because profit is low and input cost is high.

 Condition after the Harit Prayas Intervention:-

•  Now, in Kota all 35 families (100%) are doing Organic farming.
•  10 families who migrate every year didn’t migrate this year.
• Now there input cost is reduced to 70- 90%.
• There Production is high so profit is high and now they are able to save money and didn’t need to go outside to earn their livelihood.

People Didn’t Migrated this Season:-

S.no.	Name	Village
1	Gorishankar Adiwashi	Kota
2	Munoo Adiwashi	Kota
3	Gopal Fojdar	Kota
4	Pratipal Fojdar	Kota
5	Ramkumar Fojdar	Kota
6	Halkaiyan Adiwashi	Kota
7	Mijaji Adiwashi	Kota
8	Badri Adiwashi	Kota
9	Dadri Adiwashi	Kota
10	Kajju Adiwashi	Kota

The impact is explicit. Data say it all. Last but not least, in order to measure the impact of Harit Prayas project, data alone can’t speak. The impact and positive changes in the lives of the poorest of the poor community members are more explicit when we visit them regularly. Community members have gained self confidence, they are aware of their rights and a list of positive changes is there at grass root level for which no measurement indexes have been developed in social sciences.

Source: Document by HARIT PRAYAS SSSS-Satna team in Jan 2013.