Integrated Natural Resource Management(INRM)

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• Integrated Natural Resource Management(INRM)
• under MGNREGS
• in Kandhamal District

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The initiative

• The pilot project INRM under MGNREGS launched
  on 10th Nov09 in the district
• Plan was to take up 300 villages in 7 blocks
• All the stakeholders have been sensitized and
  oriented on INRM
• Involvement of 8 NGOs as facilitating agency and
  PRADAN is the nodal NGO

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Kandhamal context

• Annual rainfall is high (1521.8 mm), but the
  distribution is uneven
• Undulating land with low soil fertility, erosion
  of top productive soil
• Upland-66, medium-22, lowland-12
• High forest coverage(72), degrading stage
• Low productivity of crops(paddy-1.6t/Ha), paddy
  grain produced per capita-134.5 kg
• Average food sufficiency-4-6 months, 78 families
  are below poverty line
• Contd.

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• Farm based livelihoods are monsoon dependent
• Low productivity of Agriculture and animal
  husbandry.
• High dependence on forest depleting forest
  resource.
• Poor land husbandry with reducing carrying
  capacity
• Lack of appropriate ideas to enhance carrying
  capacity of land whose quality varies widely
  
• Livelihood of the people are subsistence
  agriculture, NTFP collection and seasonal wage
  labour

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The way forward to enhance acceptance and
awareness under MGNREGS

• Given the endowment nobody should remain workless
  and should not go hungry. So family based
  integrated NRM to enhance overall productivity
  looks to be a potential option. In-situ water
  harvesting has to be the beginning.

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Requirement of in-situ water harvesting

• In-situ harvesting and recycling ensure better
  access/control and address issues of equity
• Though this area receives fairly good (1600mm)
  rainfall per annum, still paddy fails due to
  frequent dry spells.
• About 850 mm of monsoon rain runs off, leading to
  degraded land resource
• Run-off volume is much higher at the valleys
  causing submergence
• Water holding capacity of the soil is low.
• Appropriate treatment can enhance absorption of
  water by soil and improve productivity
• Around 10 land under water bodies can facilitate
  percolation of 50 of runoff

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• An approach to
• Natural Resource Management

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• Process involves
• Locating the position of the individual plots of
  a holding in the micro watershed
• Their treatment with appropriate technology
  matching with purpose and needs of the family

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Upland
Medium upland
Medium Lowland
Lowland
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• These 30 x 40 model patches are covered under
  plantation for
• Better soil moisture conservation
• Generating income and sustaining the interest if
  these poor people in these patches

To recycle the seepage water at the valleys tanks
are constructed in the lowlands
Lands at the upper catchments of these are
treated with in-situ soil and moisture
conservation measures like 30 x 40
In medium uplands and medium lowlands we
identify places for constructing small water
harvesting structures like 5 model pits
The gullies are either plugged or transformed to
water harvesting structures
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Sabai 30X40link
A typical treatment
Agro-horticulturelink
Other plantationslink

• Gully plugginglink

5 WHSlink
Seepage tanklink
Big tanklink
Fisherieslink
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Purpose of upper catchments Treatment

• Checking degradation
• Diversifying land use to reduce vulnerabilities
• Enhance income of poor families through
  timber/fruit tree or grass plantation
• Checking siltation of the harvesting structures
  at the down stream
• Enhancing percolation to enrich moisture regime

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Purpose of In-situ Water Harvesting Structures

• 5 model
• To save paddy crop from dry spells providing life
  saving irrigation
• Increasing moisture regime
• Seepage tank
• Tapping sub surface run-off / recycling harvested
  water upstream to irrigate second crop after
  paddy

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Progress made

• System has been streamlined relating to planning,
  execution and monitoring
• All the BDO, AE, JE, GRS, EO and GS have been
  given training on INRM
• The GP and PS members are sensitized around INRM
  and given exposure for further execution under
  MGNREGA
• Work has been initiated in 220 villages and about
  1.3 crore rupees has been spent.

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Current senario

• In these 7 blocks the expense from INRM has
  become significant in terms of total blocks
  expenses under MGNREGS.
• Acceptance of people for INRM work has been
  enhanced after the first payment
• The villagers are now more involved in pallisabha
  and panchayat decisions.
• In the INRM villages more job card holders are
  now involved in work in comparison to previous
  year.
• Now more demand is coming from the people from
  nearby villages.
• Contd

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• People in these vilages have taken SRI in their
  treated plots
• Productivity from wasteland has improved through
  agro-forestry or agro-horticulture (Mango
  plantation in 300 Ha)
• PRI persons like block president, Sarpanchas,
  Zillaparsad members etc have been given exposure
  to INRM work
• Now block officials from other blocks are coming
  to these blocks to see the work and replicate the
  same.

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Keys to success

• People with shared concern at the core
• Comprehensive and long term programme
• Equitable distribution of benefits with plan for
  all the resources and families of the village
• Utilization of farmers knowledge in developing
  micro-plan
• Involvement of NGOs with rigorous monitoring at
  different level
• Focus on capacity building of all the stake
  holders

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Ways forward

• Saturation of Panchayat under INRM
• Training of villagers and youth around different
  farm based livelihoods
• Strengthening the existing village level plans
  with taking new villages in the existing and new
  blocks
• Strengthening the existing monitoring system and
  processes timely payment

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Seepage tank
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Land degradation
5 -pit
Bund strengthening with soil from the pit
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Barren Upland
Fruit tree plantation
5 pit
5-with SRI
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Land deterioration
Farm pond
Gullies
Loose boulder check
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Process of INRM Implementation
Submitted to block
JE, AE, BDO approval
Plan preparation
PRADAN
Village-Work starts
District for TS, gt 10 lakh
Work order issue
District for FS
MR issue to GS
Payment through bank/PO
Bill preparation , MR submission
Measurement by JE
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Village level planning
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Work order issue and work in progress

Work order issued by BDO of village Dedimaha Work-in-progress in the village dedimaha
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Awareness and Trainings
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