Special Plantation Drive In

Bundelkhand

2008-2009

Context

� Poverty coterminous with forest spatially.

� Predominance of poor populace inside and on

fringe of forest

� Afforestation – a labour intensive work.

� Afforestation – an answer to water scarcity

and strengthening of livelihood of poor

households.

� The prospects of good rains offered an

opportunity to take up drought proofing works

on a large scale in Bundelkhand area.

Contd.

� The plantation work has multiple positive contribution in combating poverty.

� Common Property Resource of the area, which plays a vital role in life of poor inhabitants of the area.

� In Bundelkhand region protection of degraded forest or community land (with rootstock) -

regeneration

� The regeneration rate can be enhanced with water

conservation efforts.

� Seed sowing of leguminous grasses - fodder

availability - a boost to the pastoral economy.

Bundelkhand at a Glance

� Total Area : 294180 Sq. Kilo meters

(12.21 percent of Uttar Pradesh)

� Population : 8232000

(4.95 percent of Uttar Pradesh)

� Total Farmers : 3248000 (45 percent)

� Marginal Farmers : 50 percent

(less than 1 hectare)

� Small Farmers : 25 percent

(1-2 hectares)

� Total Irrigated Land : 41 percent

(48% by canal, 4 % private sources, 41 % other sources)

� Area under Reserve Forest : 195000 hectare

� Degraded Forest Area : 124200 hectare

Details of Forest land

50000124200708001950002941800Total

5000208003460055400309200Chitrakoot7

500740020009400288400Mahoba6

5007600270010300453200Banda5

700011100670017800428200Hamirpur4

50017900680024700456500Jalaun3

24500426001460057200503900Lalitpur2

1200016800340020200502400Jhansi1

Planting Target

Degraded (< 0.4 crown

density)

Dense (> 0.4 crown

density)

Reserve Forest Area

Total Area (Ha.)

DistrictS.No

Source: State of Forest Report, Forest Survey of India, 2005.

Unit –Ha.

Total Plantation Target

368.7510.00Grand Total

75 crore in subsequent two years. From Departmental budget, State budget and NREGS

175.005.5050000Forest Department

Departmental Budget25.000.50Local Bodies / Local Authority

NREGS60.001.20Gram Panch.

Deptt. Budget25.000.50Electricity

Deptt. Budget25.000.50Irrigation

Deptt. Budget25.000.50PWD

NHM and NREGS33.751.3030,000Horticulture

Source of FundingFinancial Require-ment(in crore)

Number of Plantscrore

Area to be covered (Ha.)

Departments

Area of Coverage For Departments

Citrus, Guava, Aonla(Kalmi), Ber.

Individual farmer’s land .Horticulture

Species can be from the one specified for the Horticulture as well as Forest Department.

Village ponds/ lakes, Schools, community land, PMGSY roads, other village link roads and public buildings located in their jurisdiction.

Gram Panch.

Same as the one specified for the Forest Deptt.

Land belonging to them and colleges, universities, cantonments, any other public offices situated in their jurisdiction.

Local Bodies / Local Authority

Mahua, Neem, Aonla(Desi), Bamboo, Imli, Jamun, Kanji, Pipal, Bargad, Gular, Chilbil, Shisham, Siras.

Reserve forest areas with crown density less than 0.4, degraded community land, road side, canal side, and railway track side plantations.

Forest

SpeciesArea of CoverageDeptt.

Area of Coverage For Departments

The species used will be

the same as the one

specified for the Forest

Department.

Plantation on their own land and

make arrangement for their

irrigation, fencing/ watch and

ward.

PWD,

Irrigation

Electricity

SpeciesArea of CoverageDeptt.

Administrative Set-up

� A Committee under Chief Secretary

� Project Implementation Committee

(Commissioner, Rural Development,

Secretary, Forest and PCCF)

� Divisional Commissioner at Division level

� District Magistrate to head at district level

with DFO as nodal officer to coordinate.

Media Plan

� Project Period - From 1st July to 30th September 2008.

� Participation of people is absolute necessity.

� The following activities were carried out for this in the project

area:

�One day workshop each at Division and District Level in first week

of July.

�To identify one or two reputed NGO / Agencies including colleges

and universities for carrying out a two month campaign.

�Each block to organise a meeting with all pramukhs, pradhans, and

other social activists on this topic. This to be organized in first and

second week of July.

�The project envisages an expenditure of Rs.1750000 on Media

Plan.

Monitoring and Evaluation

� Monitoring and evaluation by a third party - lends credibility to

the campaign and the efforts being made for the success of the

project.

� The agency can be any university, NGO or any other

institution deemed fit to carry on the work.

� IGFRI, FRI and Bundelkhand Univ. used for concurrent

Evaluation.

� The idea of carrying on with the monitoring and evaluation

task parallel is to use their valuable inputs for making in

time or mid course corrections in the project

implementation.

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Resource Mobilization Summary

90.00218.56100.51409.07Grand Total

0.140.14Monitoring and Evaluation

6

0.17500.1750Awareness generation and Media Plan

5

90.00218.25100.51408.76Sub-Total

60.0060.00Gram Panchayats4

90.00127.0023.00240.00Forest Department3

31.252.5133.76Horticulture2

75.0075.00Departmental Plantations by PWD, Irrigation and Electricity Department

1

State PlanNREGSSource of Fund/ Department’s

own resources/ budget

Fund Require

ment

HeadS.No

Details of Plants Available in Departmental Nurseries of Bundelkhand

631.25538.405792.85Grand Total

316.54255.932960.61Total

82.9059.16723.74Mahoba7

107.9095.571112.33Hamirpur6

25.629.23216.39Banda5

100.1291.9798.15Chitrakut4

314.71282.472832.24Total

101.5992.9598.64Orai3

114.80103.201011.60Lalitpur2

98.3286.32912.00Jhansi1

Total Plants

No. of Plants to Arranged

No. of Distts. From Where Plants are to

arranged

Plants Available In district

DistrictSl.

Unit – Lakh Nos.

PROGRESS AND FINANCIAL EXPENDITURE AS ON 30.08.2008

7.8010.00Total

0.231.00Public Part.

0.081.30Horticulture

0.410.50Electricity

0.240.24Nag Vikas

0.080.25Awas

0.470.50PWD

0.480.50Irrigation

1.291.20G.Ps

4.524.51Forest

AchievementPhysical Target (in crore)

Departments

Lessons Learnt� Plants be raised locally as far as possible. Long distance

transportation of plants be avoided.

� Before beginning with the project work on ground all the concerned staff upto Forest Guard be given an orientation course of two days about how to go about the project implementation with special reference to NREGS.

� The Gram Panchayats be involved in selecting the plantation sites and the workers to work on that site.

� Arrangement for seeds of grass to be raised in plantations be made in advance.

� All payments be made through banks and checques.

� The mix of species to be planted should be need based and suitability to the area and not on the basis of availability of planting material.

Cont…

� Plants like bamboo, Mahua, Mango, Jackfruit, Imli, Beland other species which are of use and liking of the local populace be give top priority.

� Soil and water conservation works be completed before rains on and near plantation sites.

� The protection work is the key to success and barbed wire fencing is the most effective method of protection, and arrangement for the same should be done either beforehand or simultaneously.

� The water conservation works and arrangement for watering of plants be done simultaneously or beforehand.

� Regeneration of old rootstock be given due importance.

Positive Outcomes

� The ultimate positive and ameliorating impact of plantations on environment and livelihood of poor in the area will be witnessed after 4-5 years.

� The forest department alone created more than 30 lac mandays and disbursed wages to NREGS workers.

� The wage disbursement through banks enabled many NREGS workers in opening up of bank accounts hence it made speedy financial inclusion possible.

� There was a drastic improvement in the collaborative efforts between the officials of the forest department and the people who live on the fringe of forest land.

� This in turn changed the attitude and made the perception more positive among the above two main stakeholders i.e. forest officials and the villagers.

� The programme also increased the awareness in public and other departments about the work of forest department.

Cont…

� The involvement of Civil Society Organizations in

monitoring improved the transparency and led to timely

redressal of grievance of NREGS workers.

� The involvement of third party for monitoring and

evaluation lend credibility to the programme

implementation.

� Forest department will maintain the details of coordinates

of plantation sites by using GPS, so that the same can be

monitored later on through use of satellite imagery.

Thanks