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Project
| Nariyambudur
Watershed Project |
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• Milestones
• Commencement of initiative: 2006
• Area: 6300 sq/mtr
• Total Working
Area: 1100 hectares
• Irrigated
area: 100 hectares
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WHAT
DO WE DO?
Taprish has initiated a comprehensive Watershed Development Fund programe to educate the people in using methods for soil-water retention and the reversal of land degradation and change in crop planting pattern.
Water
Shed Management
This is a project was offered to TAPRISH from a reputed orgnaisation in India called NABRAD {National Agricultural Bank of India} www.nabard.org . The staffs of Taprish were offered a 3 day in house training on Watershed Management. Taprish currently works as a facilitator for NABARD in executing, training and coordinating with the villagers in FOUR villages called, Nariyambudur, Nariyambakkam, Malayankullam & Kattukolai situated about 8 miles from the nearest town Uthiraimerur and about 19 miles from Kanchipuram(the temple city) and about 100 miles from Chennai.
This project is called "Village Water Shed Nariyambudur". The uniqueness in NABARD project is the villagers have to contribute 16% in the form of labor "Free of cost" towards every Rs.100/- invested by NABARD encouraging participation in full.
People’s
Participation
There is a close relationship between the environment
and human community living within that region. When
the economic condition of a community deteriorates,
it leads to over-exploitation and degradation of natural
resources. Thus any programme aimed at improving the
environment and takes steps to evolve suitable mechanisms.
Just as human being and their activities are the primary
cause of environmental destruction, they can also restore
its health. Hence, no watershed development project
can be successfully implemented unless it is “owned”
by the villagers/villages.
Participatory
Watershed Programme:
Watershed
development by outsiders without involving the local
community is not sustainable as the local community
may not be knowing about the utility of assets or
wrong selection of treatments without considering
the future use planned by the farmers. Hence, to make
watershed development sustainable, there is a basic
requirement for involving local community
in all stages of development including planning,
implementation, management and maintenance. Only the
local community can maintain the assets created for
long term utility. The role of external experts is
be restricted to technical suitability of the structures.
The need of the hour is participatory watershed development
involving all the dwellers/people of the area, this
also creates employment to the people in the villages
and decreases migration.
