Annual Progress Report-ILSP 2020-2021
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Integrated Livelihood Support Project Loan No - 856-IN
Annual Progress Report
Financial Year 2020-21 (1st April 2020 – 31st March 2021)
Central Project Coordination Unit (CPCU),
Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas Samiti (UGVS),
Project Society Watershed Management Directorate (PSWMD),
Uttarakhand Parvatiya Aaajivika Sanvardhan Company (UPASaC)
216, Panditwari, Phase -2, Dehradun
Phone & Fax: 0135-2773800/2774800
Email: [email protected]
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Contents Equation 1
Executive Summary .......................................................................................................................................... 6
Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 6
Project at a Glance ........................................................................................................................................... 6
Background of the Project ........................................................................................................................... 6
Objectives .................................................................................................................................................... 6
Key Components of the Project ................................................................................................................... 7
Project Progress Summary ............................................................................................................................... 8
Project Coverage .......................................................................................................................................... 8
Financial Progress ...................................................................................................................................... 10
Special Achievement – ............................................................................................................................... 11
Mann Ki Baat .......................................................................................................................................... 11
Land Mark Project .................................................................................................................................. 12
Special Initiatives – ..................................................................................................................................... 12
Common Marketing Strategy ................................................................................................................. 12
Online Marketing ................................................................................................................................... 12
Convergence Platform ........................................................................................................................... 12
M&E and MIS ......................................................................................................................................... 12
Component 1- Food Security & Livelihood Enhancement: ............................................................................ 14
Project Area ............................................................................................................................................... 14
Value Chain Approach for Sustainable Livelihoods ................................................................................... 16
Food Security & Scaling up......................................................................................................................... 19
Table 10 Details of the demonstration of improved beekeeping practices are as follows: ...................... 31
Table 11 Key output of the project:- .......................................................................................................... 33
Table 12 Overview of trainings, exposure and demonstrations conducted for the honey PGs ................ 33
Access to Market ........................................................................................................................................ 35
Table 13 Financial Year Wise LC Turnover (Amt in INR Lakh) .................................................................... 42
Table 14 Agri Business Growth Centers ..................................................................................................... 46
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Table 15 status of Parsad Distribution ....................................................................................................... 50
Innovation Linkages ................................................................................................................................... 53
Innovative Project from District Administration .................................................................................... 57
Vocational Training .................................................................................................................................... 58
Table 16 Major Sector and Employment Status ....................................................................................... 59
Table 17 Short Duration Courses .............................................................................................................. 60
Table 18 Long Duration Courses ............................................................................................................... 61
Knowledge Management ........................................................................................................................... 61
Monitoring and Evaluation ........................................................................................................................ 62
Best practice of Data Management & Monitoring– .................................................................................. 63
Expected Outcome Indicators .................................................................................................................... 64
Gender and Institutions ............................................................................................................................. 64
Convergence .............................................................................................................................................. 66
Technical Agency (TA)-: .............................................................................................................................. 74
Table 19 Financial Progress (UGVS) ........................................................................................................... 75
Component 2- Participatory Watershed Management ................................................................................. 76
PROJECT DESCRIPTION ............................................................................................................................... 77
PROJECT OBJECTIVE .................................................................................................................................... 78
PROJECT BENEFICIARIES ............................................................................................................................ 78
PROJECT AREA ............................................................................................................................................. 79
PROJECT SUB-COMPONENTS (PARTICIPATORY WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT) ................................. 80
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS– COMMUNITY DRIVEN DECENTRALIZED DEVELOPMENT APPROACH ......... 81
TOTAL PROJECT COST FOR THE COMPONENT- 2 .................................................................................... 82
EXPECTED OUTCOME INDICATORS ........................................................................................................... 82
MONITORING IN THE PROJECT .................................................................................................................. 83
AUDIT ARRANGEMENTS IN THE PROJECT ................................................................................................ 83
STATUTORY COMMITTEES IN THE PROJECT ............................................................................................ 83
PROJECT PERIOD.......................................................................................................................................... 84
PROJECT PERFORMANCE ............................................................................................................................ 84
Table 20 PHYSICAL PROGRESS UNDER "WATERSHED AND VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT" ....................... 84
Table 21 PROGRESS UNDER NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES- INTER GP SPACE
(MWS) ........................................................................................................................................................... 87
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Table 22 PROGRESS UNDER PRODUCER GROUPS/VULNERABLE PRODUCER GROUPS ............................. 89
Table 23 Agribusiness Growth Centre (ILSP) Progress Report March,2021 .............................................. 89
Table 24 Value Addition Support (FY 2020-21) .......................................................................................... 91
Table 25 Details of Livelihood Collectives-: ............................................................................................... 93
Table 26 Total No. of Trainings for Community (WWMC/GP/PG/VPGs) upto March 2021 ...................... 94
Table 27 Unit Level Workshops ............................................................................................................... 94
Table 28 Division Level Workshops ........................................................................................................ 95
Table 29 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT COORDINATION- .................................................. 96
Table 30 DETAILS OF EXPENDITURE IN FY 2020-21 (1st April 2020–31st March 2021) ........................... 97
Table 31 STATUS OF REIMBURSEMENT ..................................................................................................... 98
Table 32 PROPOSED REVISED ANNUAL WORK PLAN FY-2020-21 (PS-WMD) ............................................ 99
Table 33 Results achieved so far (with reference to achievement of objectives)-: Component-2 ......... 100
Component 3- Livelihood finance – UPASaC ............................................................................................... 102
Product Literacy Training - Building financial capabilities ....................................................................... 102
Risk Insurance Workshops ....................................................................................................................... 102
Workshop State, District Level and Cluster level – on banking products project appraisal .................... 104
Interest subvention benefits .................................................................................................................... 104
Bank Finance ............................................................................................................................................ 105
Table 34 Key Activities and No of LC avail CCL ......................................................................................... 105
Convergence – ......................................................................................................................................... 105
Table 35 Financial Progress (UPASaC) ...................................................................................................... 107
Component 4- Project coordination and management ............................................................................... 108
Project Coordination and Management .................................................................................................. 108
Annual Outcome Survey .......................................................................................................................... 108
Supervision Mission (SM) ......................................................................................................................... 112
Tripartite Portfolio Review Meeting (TPRM) ........................................................................................... 114
ILSP & Sustainable Development Goal: ................................................................................................... 117
Logical framework: Progress against objectives, outcomes and outputs................................................ 119
Annual Work Plan & Budget 2020-21 ...................................................................................................... 122
INDIGENOUS INNOVATION TO SECURE LIVELIHOODS -CHAIN LINK FENCING INITIATIVE ...................... 126
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Images
Figure 1 Project Area........................................................................................................................................ 6
Figure 2 Monthly Meeting of Pratigya LC, Kaljikhal, Pauri ........................................................................ 21
Figure 3 Maa Agneri Producer Groups, Chaukhutiya, Almora ................................................................. 22
Figure 4 Maize fodder, Jaunpur, Tehri ........................................................................................................ 24
Figure 5 Plantation of Pomegranate on Fallow land, Dehradun............................................................... 24
Figure 6 Mulbery, Bheemal Plantation on Fallow Land, Pokhri, Chamoli ............................................... 25
Figure 7 Honey production, Augustmuni, Rudraprayag,.......................................................................... 26
Figure 8 Chain Link Fencing, Prathibha Sabji Utpadak Samuh, Ayartoli, Garur, Bageshwars ............... 27
Figure 9 Demonstrate of Soyabean (ver. VL Soya-63) at Chandomati LC, Bhatwari, Uttarkashi .......... 29
Figure 10 making of Ringal/Bamboo produces by beneficiary, Tharali , Chamoli ................................. 30
Figure 11 Training session of beekeepers in Bhatwari, Uttarkashi ......................................................... 31
Figure 12 Footwear making unit and its products, Tharali, Chamoli....................................................... 34
Figure 13 Collection Center & Cool Chamber ............................................................................................. 36
Figure 14 Small Collection Center ............................................................................................................... 37
Figure 15 Weekly haat bazar operated by different SRCs of Hawalbag on every Saturday to market the
fresh local vegetables to potential consumers of Officer Colony Almora and Cahukhutiya................... 38
Figure 16 Bakri Haat, Pithoragarh .............................................................................................................. 39
Figure 17 Nano Packaging Unit ................................................................................................................... 39
Figure 18 Saras Canteen Pithoragarh ......................................................................................................... 40
Figure 19 Participation in “Management Development Programme on Co-operative Business Management
of Livelihood Collectives” VAMNICOM Pune ................................................................................................. 45
Figure 20 Agribusiness Growth Center, Jilasu, Chamoli ................................................................................ 46
Figure 21 Muffler prepared by VPG Members .............................................................................................. 48
Figure 22 Vaccination by Pashu Sakhi, Bageswar ......................................................................................... 49
Figure 23 recycling of flower waste ............................................................................................................... 50
Figure 24 Local produce processed under THR by PG members, Almora .................................................... 52
Figure 25 Progeny born, Rupkund LC, Ghat, Chamoli ............................................................................... 54
Figure 25 Gladiolus cultivation in Dimau village, Kalsi, Dehradun .......................................................... 55
Figure 27 Gladiolus flowering in Dimau village, Kalsi, Dehradun ............................................................ 56
Figure 28 Perilla plantation field and Oil ....................................................................................................... 57
Figure 28 Use of FMB, Village Dunger, Chandan Ganga SRC, Augustyamuni, ............................................... 71
Figure 30 Poultry Unit, Pithoragarh ............................................................................................................... 72
Figure 31 IFAD SM team in farmers field, chamba, Tehri ............................................................................ 114
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Table Table 1 Financial Progress (Amt in INR Cr) ................................................................................................ 10
Table 2 Financial Progress (Amt in INR Cr) ..................................................................................................... 10
Table 3 Comparative Financial Progress (Amt in INR Cr) ............................................................................... 11
Table 4- Progress against the main KPIs of ILSP .................................................................................... 13
Table 5 Model applied for value chain development /strengthen approach – ............................................. 17
Table 6 A brief summary of sub sectors are –................................................................................................ 18
Table 7 Coverage at a glance (New Groups) .................................................................................................. 19
Table 8 Summary of LCs / Federations Shareholders .................................................................................... 22
Table 9 Details of Camp and beneficiaries benefitted in Goat husbandry camp organised by UGVS ....... 28
Table 10 Details of the demonstration of improved beekeeping practices are as follows: .......................... 31
Table 11 Key output of the project:- .............................................................................................................. 33
Table 12 Overview of trainings, exposure and demonstrations conducted for the honey PGs .................... 33
Table 13 Financial Year Wise LC Turnover (Amt in INR Lakh) ........................................................................ 42
Table 14 Agri Business Growth Centers ......................................................................................................... 46
Table 15 status of Parsad Distribution ........................................................................................................... 50
Table 16 Major Sector and Employment Status ........................................................................................... 59
Table 17 Short Duration Courses .................................................................................................................. 60
Table 18 Long Duration Courses ................................................................................................................... 61
Table 19 Financial Progress (UGVS) ............................................................................................................... 75
Table 20 PHYSICAL PROGRESS UNDER "WATERSHED AND VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT" ....................... 84
Table 21 PROGRESS UNDER NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES- INTER GP SPACE
(MWS) ........................................................................................................................................................... 87
Table 22 PROGRESS UNDER PRODUCER GROUPS/VULNERABLE PRODUCER GROUPS ................................. 89
Table 23 Agribusiness Growth Centre (ILSP) Progress Report March,2021 .................................................. 89
Table 24 Value Addition Support (FY 2020-21) .............................................................................................. 91
Table 25 Details of Livelihood Collectives-: ................................................................................................... 93
Table 26 Total No. of Trainings for Community (WWMC/GP/PG/VPGs) upto March 2021 .......................... 94
Table 27 Unit Level Workshops ................................................................................................................... 94
Table 28 Division Level Workshops ............................................................................................................ 95
Table 29 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT COORDINATION- ...................................................... 96
Table 30 DETAILS OF EXPENDITURE IN FY 2020-21 (1st April 2020–31st March 2021) ............................... 97
Table 31 STATUS OF REIMBURSEMENT ..................................................................................................... 98
Table 32 PROPOSED REVISED ANNUAL WORK PLAN FY-2020-21 (PS-WMD) ................................................ 99
Table 33 Results achieved so far (with reference to achievement of objectives)-: Component-2 ............. 100
Table 34 Key Activities and No of LC avail CCL ............................................................................................. 105
Table 35 Financial Progress (UPASaC) .......................................................................................................... 107
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Executive Summary
Introduction
Project at a Glance
Background of the Project
Government of Uttarakhand, with support from the International Fund for
Agriculture Development (IFAD), is implementing Integrated Livelihood
Support Project (ILSP) since July 2013. ILSP was scheduled to be completed on
31st March 2019 with loan closing on 31st March 2021. The project is being
implemented in 44 blocks of 11 hill districts of Uttarakhand i.e. Almora,
Bageshwar, Nainital, Champawat, Pithoragarh, Chamoli, Tehri, Uttarkashi, Pauri,
Dehradun, and Rudraprayag.
Figure 1 Project Area
Objectives
The overall objective (goal) of ILSP is to reduce poverty in hill districts of
Uttarakhand. This is being achieved via more immediate development objective
to “enable rural households to take up sustainable livelihood opportunities
integrated with the wider economy”.
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The strategy behind ILSP is to adopt a two-pronged approach to build
livelihoods in hill districts. The first of these is to support and develop the food
production systems, which remain the main means of support for most
households. The second main thrust of the project is to generate cash incomes
by supporting non-farm livelihoods, especially community involvement in rural
tourism, and vocational training.
Key Components of the Project
The project has four components. The three main components of the project are
– Food Security and Livelihood Enhancement; Participatory Watershed
Development; and Livelihood Financing. The fourth component of the Project is
Project Management. The first three components of the project are
implemented by three different institutions –
Component 1 – Food Security and Livelihood Enhancement (Implemented
through Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas Samiti - UGVS): Key focus areas of this
component are Food Security and livelihood; market infrastructure and
linkages; skill development; and innovative livelihood initiatives. The activities
under this component are taken up in 37 blocks of nine districts (Almora,
Bageshwar, Pithoragarh, Chamoli, Tehri, Uttarkashi, Pauri, Dehradun, and
Rudraprayag).
Component 2 – Participatory Watershed Development – (Implemented
through Project Society of Watershed Management Directorate - PSWMD): Key
focus areas of this component are watershed development through gram
panchayat watershed management. The component is being implemented in 22
Micro-Watersheds of 7 blocks of three districts (Nainital, Champawat and
PauriGarhwal).
Component 3 – Livelihood Financing (Implemented through Uttarakhand
Parvthiya Ajeevika Samvardhan Company - UPASAC) - Key focus areas of this
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component are financial literacy, risk management, bank linkages and rural
financing services. The component covers all the 44 blocks of 11 districts.
Component 4 – Project Management (Managed through Central Project
Coordination Unit - CPCU) - Key focus areas of this component are Project
Coordination, Knowledge Management, Monitoring and Evaluation. CPCU is
established within the Rural Development Department and is headed by the
Chief Project Director (CPD). CPCU coordinates with all the three Project
implementation agencies (PIAs) and takes up areas which are common to all
such as Project Management, Knowledge Management, Monitoring and
Evaluation etc.
Project Progress Summary
Project Coverage
The project (ILSP) is being implemented by three project implementation
agencies UGVS, PS-WMD and UPASaC. So far, project has supported 1,37,109
HHs of 14,228 Groups in 3,569, villages (including 1,052 villages, 3,617 SHGs
and 35,397 HHs from ULIPH Project) directly. Total 233 Livelihood Collectives
(LCs)/Federations have been formed and registered under the Self-Reliant
Cooperative Act. Under the Vocational Training program, 24,398 youths out of
targeted 29,000 have been trained. Under component 2, project is working in
22 Micro Watersheds covering 70,194 ha area of 190 Gram Panchayat. Key
highlights of the project are as under:
Component 1 – Food Security and Livelihood Enhancement
3568 numbers of LDPE tanks have been constructed under the Irrigation
Infrastructure development and increasing the irrigation area.
1425 ha area have been covered under fodder cultivation, 1420 ha area
under use of fallow land and 2145.8 ha area protected through chain
linked fencing.
161 collection centers have operationalized and they are pooling farm
produce.
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690 small collection centers have been constructed at village level and
functional as well.
Under HILANS brand 145 kisan outlets are functional in the 9 districts.
In the collaboration with Agriculture Department, 186 farm machinery
bank, 12 custom hiring centers have been operationalized by Livelihood
Collectives (LCs) under the Mission on Agriculture Mechanization
Scheme.
An opportunity for exchange of ideas/technologies/innovations and
experiences among various stakeholders more than 50,000 households
have participated in 3 Kisan fairs and 20 Buyer Seller Meet organized at
cluster level in each district.
Component 2 – Participatory Watershed Management
22420 farmers in 1949 producer groups / vulnerable producer groups
(61% female members).
75581.35 cubic meters terraces repaired / vegetative field boundary
under treatment of arable land;
881.23 ha homestead plantation, 162.43 ha orchard development;
625 poly houses, 211 poly tunnels and 2107 mangers have been
developed;
6416 Roof Water Harvesting Tanks, 90 Village Ponds, 105.034 KM
irrigation Channel;
343 Small Bridges (up to 5 mt. Span) constructed;
Component 3 – Livelihood Financing
4245 Term Loans of INR 43.08 Crore;
9633 Cash Credit Limit of INR 58.84 Crore;
26429 Kisan Credit Cards of INR 122.68 Crore;
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Financial Progress
The total expenditure of Rs. 146.74 Crore was made during 1st April 2020 to
31th March 2021.The component wise total expenditure summary is as under:
Table 1 Financial Progress (Amt in INR Cr)
Component
Upto March 2018
FY FY FY Cumulative
2018-19 2019-20 2020-21
(July 2013 - March 2018)
(Apr 2018– March 2019)
(Apr 2019– March 2020)
(Apr 2020– March 2021)
(July 2013 – March 2021)
1. Food Security & Livelihood Enhancement
178.79 96.47 64.95 38.88 379.1
2. Participatory Watershed Management
131.68 56.41 29.2 59.22 276.51
3. Livelihood Finance
68.41 54.06 48.67 62.16 233.3
4. Project Management
6.21 3.69 2.71 2.71 15.32
Total 385.09 210.6 145.5 162.83 904.02
Table 2 Financial Progress (Amt in INR Cr)
Financier 2016-17 Progress
2017-18 Progres
s
2018-19 Progres
s
2019-20 Progres
s
2020-21
Target
2020-21 Progres
s
%
IFAD loan 52.89 102.31 128.7 78.56 82.62 75.61 91.52
State Govt 11.01 16.37 20.34 15.60 19.97 22.81 114.22
Banks 11.15 34.65 52.04 46.00 40.00 59.17 147.92
Beneficiaries
3.59 8.1 9.57 5.34 4.15 52.32 126.07
Total 78.64 161.41 210.64 145.5 146.74 162.83 110.96
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Table 3 Comparative Financial Progress (Amt in INR Cr)
Period UGVS PSWMD UPASaC
From July 2013 up to 31st March 2017 109.41 82.08 31.75
1st April 2017 to 31st March 2018 73.75 50.75 36.67
1st April 2018 to 31st March 2019 99.21 56.95 54.06
1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020 66.77 29.55 48.67
1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021 40.18 59.97 62.16
Total 389.32 279.30 233.31
DEA-IFAD Tripartite Portfolio Review Meeting (TPRM) – January &
November 2020
As per DEA-IFAD-TPRM (13th January 2020) minutes, ILSP continues to be a high
performer in the India country portfolio. The project has mostly achieved its
physical targets and has been steady in boosting its disbursement from 22.5% at
MTR (May 2016) and 59% in Dec 2018.
The project has undertaken many innovative activities, which have been scaled up
during the project life cycle through convergence with Government schemes.
Most notable among them are promotion of chain link fencing, Prasad making,
promotion of mandua products and fallow land development. The large scale
production of Prasad has led to increase in demand for cholai (amaranthus) which
in turn has led to increase in price from Rs 6/ kg to Rs 40/kg.
There is a 100% adoption rate of chain link fencing which has led to protection of
2103.8 ha area from ungulates and grazing animals. It has benefitted 66,810 HHs,
leading to reduced workload, increase in cash income by 60 – 80 % and 50 – 58%
increase in cultivated area of vegetables, spices and fruits.
The LDPE Tanks have contributed to an overall increase in production by 25-50% and increase in income by 30-40%.
Special Achievement –
Mann Ki Baat
On 29th April 2018, in 43th episode of Mann ki Baat, Hon’ble Prime Minister
recognized the efforts of ILSP federations “Maa Chilta Swayatt Sahkarita”,
Munnar, Kapkot Block, Bageshwar district for mandua biscuits.
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Land Mark Project
“We feel that IFAD funded ILSP is a landmark project of Govt. of India and it
is the opportunity to showcase its success story to the people.” as per 12th
March 2019 email of Department of Economic Affairs.
Special Initiatives –
Common Marketing Strategy
ILSP project has developed HILANS brand. Since two-three years, all
community institutions are doing their business activities under the brand. A
well-established marketing system of ILSP encourages other projects to adopt a
similar system for the marketing of rural produce. Instead of creating new
infrastructures, other programmes i.e. Uttarakhand State Rural Livelihood
Mission (USRLM) has adopted the same strategy and using the same set-up.
Now a common marketing strategy has been adopted by all projects/
programmes under the umbrella brand HILANS.
Online Marketing
Under the HILANS brand project initiated online advertising & marketing
through Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and online sale through
Hilans.org, Suvidha Supermarket, Tribes India, Amazon etc.
Convergence Platform
District Implementation and Coordination Committee (DICC) under the
leadership of District Magistrate and co-chaired by Chief Development Officer,
build an effective synergy among all line departments, boards, institution, NGOs
and community institutions. Some of the results are benefit for needful, no
duplicity of efforts, result-oriented activity, integrated development, increase
farmers income, etc.
State level synergy among the line departments i.e. Department of Rural
Development, Agriculture and Horticulture Department, Animal husbandry
provide lots of benefits i.e. utilizing government infrastructures (Saras Center &
Others) and Farm Machinery Bank to community institutions.
M&E and MIS
Project has developed strong monitoring mechanisms that use multiple-
channels and analysis tools. The project has a robust 24x7 management
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information system for data and information maintenance. Regular field visits
of all staffs and top officials, IIIrd party consultants, Government officials etc.
have improved implementation and quality of information. The systematic
review, feedback mechanism and evidence-based decision-making improve the
project progress.
Project M&E and MIS system are recognized by IFAD, Govt of Uttarakhand and
Govt of India. The project facilitates other organisation to improve the systems
and management processes. The system has adopted by / replicated in the
other IFAD funded projects i.e. JTELP, OPELIP, MLAMP and Word Bank& IFAD
funded projects i.e. PPAP.
Table 4- Progress against the main KPIs of ILSP
Indicators Cumulative
Progress
Target by end of
the project
%
Achievement
Outreach in Households 137109 126000 109%
No. of PG and VPG established -
Number
14228 13307 107%
Federations & LC undertaking
inputs and output aggregations
214 150 143%
No. of collection centres pooling
farm produce
161 130 124%
No. youths completed vocational
training
24398 20000 122%
No. of micro-watershed -
Number
22 22 100%
Increased area under rainfed
crop and production (Ha)
5676.14 3800 149%
Fallow lands brought under
cultivation (Ha)
270.91 200 135%
No. of households facilitated for
availing institutional finance
54511 60150 91%
Households accessing loans from
financial institutions
57% 50% 114%
% increase in farm-gate prices
over baseline
70% 100% 70%
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Component 1- Food Security & Livelihood Enhancement:
This component is being implemented by Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas Samiti and
is mainly covering the following activities;
a) Organizing the producer groups (PGs/VPGs) which will be federated as
livelihood collectives (LCs)
b) Extend support in crop and livestock production for food security, and
develop high value cash crops and other products (such as rural tourism,
etc.) to provide cash incomes to PGs/ VPGs and LCs through various
institutions.
c) Technical services are being provided and physical infrastructures are being
developed for providing market access support to producers.
d) Innovation linkage with various institutions for testing and dissemination of
innovative technologies and approaches for improving food security,
livelihoods and access to markets.
e) The project is also improving access to employment in the non-farm sector
by supporting vocational training linked to job placement. A total of 20,000
youths will be trained covering around 60% women.
Project Area
A total of 1, 14,689 households were benefitted from 37 development blocks of
the nine districts. The details of the blocks are as under:
SN District Block Name (ILSP) Block Name (Ex-ULIPH)
1 Almora Syaldeh, Salt, Bhikiasain,
Chaukhutia, Hawalbagh,
Tarikhet, Dwarahat
Bhainsiyachhana, Lamgara,
Dhauladevi
2 Bageshwar Garur Bageshwar, Kapkot
3 Chamoli Tharali, Pokhri Ghat, Deval, Narayanbagad,
Dasholi
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4 Tehri Chamba, Jaunpur (common) Bhilangana, Jaunpur
(common), Devprayag,
Pratapnagar
5 Uttarkashi Bhatwari Naugaon, Mori, Purola, Dunda
6 Rudraprayag Jakholi, Augustmuni -
7 Pithoragarh Kanalichina, Pithoragarh
(Bin), Munakot
-
8 Pauri Kaljikhal -
9 Dehradun Kalsi, Chakarata -
Strategy of Implementation –
To support and develop the food production systems which remain the
main means of support for most households.
To generate cash incomes by supporting non-farm livelihoods, including
community involvement in rural tourism, and vocational training.
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ILSP : - Participatory Plans & Integrated Strategy
1. Food Security Improvement Plan
(FSIP) for PG/VPG
2. Irrigation Infrastructure Plan (IIP) for
PG/VPG
3. Agri-Business Up-scaling Plan for LC
4. Market Infrastructure & Promotion
5. Gram Panchayat Watershed
Development Plan for Micro-watershed
Core Focus - FOOD SECURITY & BASKET of LIVELIHOODs FOR RURAL POOR
Eco System Support
Vocational Training
(Skill Development)
Primary Support
Capacity Building,
Technical
Assistance &
Linkages,
Exposure & Fairs
Rural Finance &
Risk Mitigation
Government Linkages:
- Convergence
- Technical Know-How
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Value Chain Approach for Sustainable Livelihoods
Project has mapped prominent value chains in the project blocks and clusters
and has facilitated building up of community plans around it. All activities has
implemented towards strengthening the value chains and its sustainability.
Key Interventions for VC development and Production Support System
VC identification, mapping and intervention planning
Project link Irrigation Infrastructure Plan with the Food Security
Improvement Plan;
Village, Cluster Specific Planning and Interventions covering focused
convergence, bank linkage and technical know-how;
Technological tie-ups with line departments, GB Pant University of
Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, VCSG Uttarakhand University of
Horticulture and forestry, VPKAS, KVK and Dr. Y S Parmar University of
Horticulture & Forestry Nauni , Solan , Himachal Pradesh.
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Promoting Organic practices, Major Millets (nutria-cereals), inter-
cropping and crop diversification;
Project facilitate for converge necessary inputs, equipment’s and
infrastructures through its own resources, convergence, banks and
beneficiary contributions;
For the risk mitigation – special focus on Soil Health Management, IPM &
INM, Crop Insurance and standard package of practices have been
promoted;
Post-harvest management, marketing tie-ups;
Business development and market access.
Table 5 Model applied for value chain development /strengthen approach –
S.N. Business
Model Focused crops interventions
No of
Groups
involved
1. Soil to Market
(S2M)
Traditional crops , Pulses , vegetables,
MAPs, spices 6644
2. Farm to Fork Cash crops , & Fruits , European Vegetables 2574
3. Farm to Table Dairy products, Poultry products , Bakery
products , Prasad making, and culinary
herbs
2194
4. Seed to
Bazaar
Seed production – spices, traditional crops,
medicinal & aromatic plants 245
5. Market to
Farm
European vegetable colored capsicum,
Cherry tomato, Cabbage , Strawberry , Kiwi
& Papaya , walnut & stone fruits and Honey
987
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Table 6 A brief summary of sub sectors are –
SN Sub-
Sector Major Activities Groups HHs
1 OSV Potato, Cabbage, Capsicum, Tomato, Pea, Onion, French Bean, Arbi, European Vegetables, Mushroom
5018 48270
2 Dairy Fodder bank, Milk collection center, ILDC, Integrated dairy farming Model Milk value addition and fodder development on land
5865 48601
3 Goatry Goatry, Fodder & Feed Unit; Health and goat management services through Pashu sakhi & CLM and collective goat marketing on weight Basis.
921 8339
4 Poultry Mother unit, Kuroiler bada, Rearing unit, Fodder & Feed Unit, marketing support though outlets/Meat Shops and institutional linkages
433 4740
5 Spice Coriander, Chilly, Turmeric, Ginger, Garlic, onion. Leek, Tejpaat and Large Cardamom
3949 39179
6 Cereals Paddy, Manduwa, Ramdana, Red Rice, Foxtail Millet and Maize
6421 50863
7 Pulses Rajma, Soyabean, Masoor, Gahat, Tor ( Arhar) ,Naurangi , Urd and Black soya
2078 25713
8 Fruits Citrus, Stone Fruits, Mango, walnut , Apple, strawberry and Kiwi
3734 36639
9 MAP Mari Gold, Rose, Damask Rose, Scanted Rose, Koot, Kutaki
294 2909
10 Eco tourism
Home stay, base camp, trekking route 97 923
11 RNFS-Enterprise
Handicraft, Fodder & Feed Unit, Input-Output Center, Canteen, Restaurants , outlets , Flour mills, oil expeller unit, bakery unit and input dealership etc.
1719 6106
12 RNFS- Service Sector
THR, RUTF, Government Institutions, Hostels, Training, Survey, Insurance, Micro Finance 2406 17744
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Food Security & Scaling up
A total number of 79,292 HHs of 8,647 Producer Groups/Vulnerable
Producer Groups in 2,135 villages are supported as per their food security
and improvement plan from the beginning of the project.
Table 7 Coverage at a glance (New Groups)
SN Districts Villages Supported
PGs/VPGs
Supported
HHs LCs
1 Almora 767 2456 23062 40
2 Bageshwar 155 762 6708 11
3 Chamoli 151 978 7596 13
4 Dehradun 228 718 8024 13
5 Pauri 132 331 3256 6
6 Pithoragarh 255 1155 10126 16
7 Rudraprayag 203 1062 9115 15
8 Tehri 174 779 7601 11
9 Uttarkashi 70 406 3804 6
Total 2135 8647 79292 131
Cumulative 20,898 vulnerable households have been supported for 1st year
seed capital.
Cumulative 20,898 vulnerable households have been supported for 2nd year
seed capital.
Livelihood Collectives (LCs) are being graded in participatory manner; all
the 131 LCs have been graded and as a result 24, 96 and 11 LCs acquired
grade A, B and C respectively.
PGs/VPGs are being graded in a participatory manner; so far 8,647 groups
out of 8,647 have been graded and as a result 7073, 803 and 119 groups
acquired grade A, B and C respectively as under :
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District Block Name Total Graded
Grading Category
A B C
Almora
Bhikiasain 360 261 11 0 Chaukhutiya 331 313 0 0 Dwarahaat 339 279 52 2 Hawalbagh 333 251 42 4 Siyalde 385 301 46 1 Sult 359 297 14 0 Tarikhet 349 349 0 0
Total (Almora) 2456 2051 165 7
Bageshwar Garur 465 395 53 4
Garur-H 297 228 1 3 Total (Bageshwar) 762 623 54 7
Pithoraharh
Munakot 413 348 58 3
Kanalichhina 363 334 29 9 Pithoragarh (Bin)
379 325 36 10
Total (Pithoragarh) 1155 1007 123 22
Chamoli Tharali 349 221 101 21 Tharali H 206 170 29 5 Pokhri 423 361 41 0 Total (Chamoli) 978 752 171 26
Rudraprayag Augustmuni 440 341 66 3 Augustmuni-H 194 187 0 0 Jakholi 428 403 7 1
Total (Rudraprayag) 1062 931 73 4 Pauri Kaljikhal 331 250 39 2
Total (Pauri) 331 250 39 2
Tehri Chamba 425 320 74 0 New Jaunpur 354 266 13 9
Total (Tehri) 779 586 87 9 Uttarkashi Bhatwari 406 316 52 0
Total (Uttarkashi) 406 316 52 0
Dehradun Chakrata 382 298 44 24 Kalsi 336 259 22 18
Total (Dehradun) 718 557 66 42 Grand Total 8647 7073 830 119
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Figure 2 Monthly Meeting of Pratigya LC, Kaljikhal, Pauri
ILSP provided support for micro-irrigation activities (LDPE tanks) which
are being promoted for increasing the area under irrigation, enhance the
productivity of crops, and provide life-saving irrigation. The tanks with
capacity of 20 KL (6x3.5x1.25 meter) and 13.5 KL (5x3x1.25 meter) are
constructed. The project also provided a 150 meter HDPE pipe with each
tank to fill the tank from the water source and further irrigate the command
area. The project also supported shade-net to cover the tank and reduce the
evaporation of water. Till date, cumulative total of 23,169 HHs of 3,621
groups have been benefited by increasing 398.76 ha of land area under
spices, OSV, pulses, and fruits. 110 poly-houses (covered area 100 sqm)
established with LDPE tanks through convergence from Agriculture &
Horticulture Department are being used for the Hi-Tech farming of
Vegetables.
377 water-lifting pumps have been operationalised through livelihood
collectives in all nine districts. The groups are being benefited by lifting
water from seasonal water sources and they are irrigating their crops during
the summer season from Feb -Jun.
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Figure 3 Maa Agneri Producer Groups, Chaukhutiya, Almora
Annual General Body Meeting is being conducted in all LCs; during the
reporting period, 100% of AGMs have been conducted in all 131 Livelihood
Collectives. The regular monthly board meeting is being conducted in all LCs
to strengthen their governance system.
Table 8 Summary of LCs / Federations Shareholders
Division No of LCs No of Groups No of
Shareholders
Almora 40 2456 23062
Bageshwar 11 762 6708
Chamoli 13 978 7596
Tehri 11 779 7601
Uttarkashi 6 406 3804
Dehradun 13 718 8024
Pithoragarh 16 1155 9115
Rudraprayag 15 1062 9115
Pauri 6 331 3256
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Total (LCs) 131 8647 79292
Division No of
Federations No of SHGs
No of
Shareholders
Almora 11 793 6168
Bageshwar 12 641 8247
Chamoli 19 801 6461
Tehri 12 733 7452
Uttarkashi 17 649 7069
Total (Fed.) 71 3617 35397
LCs + Fed. 202 12264 114689
An online grading system, review mechanism, and dashboard have been
developed under ILSP-MIS for all LCs/federations. All livelihood collectives
and federations are regularly entering their progress data into ILSP-MIS as
login id and password have been given to them individually, and they are
entering their data and analyzing their performance with others.
Fodder Development – To cater the need for green fodder and to reduce
women drudgery project initiate fodder development activity in 5 ha land
under each collectives. Under fodder development, community are growing
various kind of grasses i.e. Hybrid Napier, Dolani, Guchhi, Broom, Fodder
Maize, Mulberry, Bhemal, Kachnar, etc. Cumulative 1420 ha community
wasteland has been brought under fodder cultivation. On average 90 to 110
Qtl fodder production has started in each LC. The green fodder is now
available during the lean period (3 to 5 months).
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Figure 4 Maize fodder, Jaunpur, Tehri
Use of Fallow Land – Cumulative 1425 ha fallow land brought under
cultivation, in which different fruit trees i.e. - Citrus (Malta, Kagji Lemon),
Mango, Lichi, Apple, Walnut, Pomegranate, Peach, Plum, Pear, Kiwi etc. and
medicinal plants i.e. Tejpat, Large Cardamom, Alovera, Damask Rose have
been planted.
Figure 5 Plantation of Pomegranate on Fallow land, Dehradun
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Figure 6 Mulbery, Bheemal Plantation on Fallow Land, Pokhri, Chamoli
Man –Animal Conflict and Crop Protection
Fencing – 131 livelihood collectives have procured chain-linked fencing
(specification - 3” x 3” GI Wire, Dia 3.15 mm, Height 1.5 meter). LCs are
providing fencing to their shareholders on rent basis (on an average Rs
2000 per 100 running meter per year) and total 2145.8 ha crop area has
been protected through chain link fencing. Fencing is being used for
protecting crops from the wild ungulates and grazing animals to ensure
the production of crops round the year. Households are also saving time
and spending that saved time into another income generating activities as
well.
Bee Keeping – Bee vibration disturbs monkey menace and keeps them
away that reduce the crop losses. It is also an additional source of income
for households. The project piloted the bee-keeping activity in
Rudraprayag district and after the preliminary results; it is being scaled-
up in Bhatwari block in Uttarkashi.
Households getting average 3.6 KG honey per season;
Average Rs. 1106 per season or 3,318/ year from 2 bee boxes
additional income from bee keeping;
Crop production has been increased mainly in Fruits & Vegetables,
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Beekeeping as a business identity for livelihood
Till date total 3234 HHs are engaged in Beekeeping activities under
the project area.
Figure 7 Honey production, Augustmuni, Rudraprayag,
Bio-Fencing – Medicinal & Aromatic Plants i.e. Scented Rose, Basil
Crop, etc. are not damaged by the animals and provide higher returns
to the households. The project piloted such crops through Livelihood
Collectives / Federations.
Un-irrigated / uncultivated land area converted in cultivated land;
Farmers started off-season vegetables with basil crops;
Average income Rs. 8000 per households per season through Basil
Crop;
Cropping intensity is higher due to a shorter period of Basil crop only
60 days than 3-4 vegetable crops easily can be grown after
harvesting of Basil Crop
The market is available for fresh and dried produces at the local
level.
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Figure 8 Chain Link Fencing, Prathibha Sabji Utpadak Samuh, Ayartoli, Garur, Bageshwars
A total cumulative 7925.52 ha cultivated land area has increased after project
initiatives; under which 1687.12 ha under spice crops, 2326.26 ha under off-
season vegetables, 692.45 ha under pulses, 315.63 ha under traditional cereal
crops, 11.0 ha under medicinal and aromatic plans, 48.06 ha under seed
productions, 1420 ha under fodder development and 1425 ha under fruit
plantation.
Innovative Activities through Livelihood Collectives –
Improvement of Goat Breed– There has been 42 Pashusakhi’s and 9
cluster livestock managers (CLM) of districts (Almora, Pithoragarh,
Uttarkashi, Chamoli, and Rudraprayag) trained through Central Institute for
Research on Goats, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Makhdoom,
Farah, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh and Govind Ballabh Pant University of
Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. These pashusakhi's and CLMs are
providing their service I.e. Artificial Insemination (AI), Castration,
Vaccination, and first aids to community livestock at their doorstep.
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Table 9 Details of Camp and beneficiaries benefitted in Goat husbandry camp organised by UGVS
S.
No.
District No. of
Camp
No. of
Participants
No of
Animal
/Goat
Vaccination No. of
kids
born
Revenue
Generated
as wealth
1 Pithoragrth 62 1590 4770 3975 795 238500
2 Rudraprayag 139 4256 6500 600 1165 325000
3 Almora 63 1954 4795 112 1297 239750
4 Uttarkashi 25 690 1300 1100 700 65000
5 Chamoli 45 1820 3650 405 115 182500
Total 334 10310 21015 6192 4072 1050750
Integrated Dairy Farming Model – Two models of integrated dairy farming
have undertaken in district Uttarkashi and Tehri. These units would be soon
providing produce milk as well as bi-products i.e. Ghee, Butter, Cheese,
Mawa etc.
Integrated Farming Model – 8 models have been functional in three
districts (Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Tehri, and Bageswar). After the establishment
of ployhouses, water tanks, shed-net, poly turner, and animal sheds and
showing of vegetables, spices, European vegetable and fish farming is being
done. Various crop produce are being sold in the local as well as through
private players.
Organic Farming – 150 HHs from 45 livelihood collectives covered under
the organic farming training conducted at State Organic Training Center
Majkhali, Almora from 9 project Districts (Almora, Bageshwar, Chamoli,
Tehri, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Pithoragarh, Dehradun and Pauri). Bio-
decomposer and light traps for the promotion of organic farming have been
procured and installed at the project site while bio- decomposer is being
used for organic manure.
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Seed Production - Under this activity by the showing of potato, finger
millets, spices, wheat, and onion the five districts i.e. Uttarkashi, Chamoli,
Bageshwar, Tehri, and Almora have undertaken seed production activity in 2
ha land areas each.
Figure 9 Demonstrate of Soyabean (ver. VL Soya-63) at Chandomati LC, Bhatwari, Uttarkashi
Nursery rising of vegetable, fruits, medicinal & aromatic plant and
fodder plants – All the 9 districts has undertaken nursery activity by the
establishment of a mother plan block of winter fruits. The mother plant
materials for the establishment of the nursery have procured from Dr. Y.S.
Parmar University of horticulture and forestry, Nouni, Sonal, Himachal
Pradesh. Now the procedure for the registration has been initiated according
to standers of the new nursery act issued by GoUK. The seedling of
vegetables and flowers are being sold in local market to cater the local
demand of seedlings by the farmer/Households.
Up-scaling of New activities
Up-scaling of Bamboo/ Ringal activities : Under the up-scaling project
“To Develop Model Villages through Creation of Sustainable Rural
Livelihoods (Ringal/Bamboo & Natural Fibre Based Handicraft) in Tharali
Block of District Chamoli” Empower Society conducted 10 Basic Trainings,
10 Advance Training cum orientation programmes and 10 tool kits
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distribution to develop model villages through the creation of sustainable
rural livelihoods by the processing of Ringal/bamboo/natural fibers into
value-added products (Lamp, Paper Dustbin, Sanitizer Sprinkler, Jewellery,
Bheemal Chappal, Bags: Purse, Hanging Ghanti Lamp, File Cover, Service
Basket, Double Layer Service Basket, Netted Flower Pot, Bamboo Bottles,
Bottleneck Flower Pot, Puja Basket, and Tray, etc) pricing, forward linkages,
market-driven products, mix match products, advance designing and
complex weaving patterns, pricing, master folder preparation, etc.
Figure 10 making of Ringal/Bamboo produces by beneficiary, Tharali , Chamoli
As of now, total 300 targeted beneficiaries from 10 villages of Tharali block
are covered under the project and around 35-40 per village who are
audience participants will be undertaken as a backup group in upcoming
adding up to the targeted number of artisans. . A work shed/CFC has been
established in Soledungri village adjoining with growth centre to carry out
the business activities. To support Ringal/Bamboo & Natural Fibre Based
Handicraft plantation of 500 bamboo ringal saplings done in 10 villages with
188 HHs. So far Rs. 7.50 Lakh business generated by the sale of ringal
natural fibers value-added products through marketing tie up with 8 clients/
buyers 1. Himalayas to Home, Rajpur road, Dehradun 2.Big Bees, pacific hills
, Dehardun 3.Dichang enterprise , Dehradun 4.HILANS Brand, 5. Unsung
Brand 6. Caleriya, Hyderabad 7. Kinikh, Dehradun and village ways
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Charitable trust, Faridabad. The sub-project has been completed successfully
with significant results.
Up-Scaling of Beekeeping Honey products: The Up-scaling sub-project
has been initiated in the Bhatwari block of Uttarakashi district with the key
objective of “Up-scaling of beekeeping enterprise through development of
Honey value chain”, is benefitting 300 HHs (88% BPL HHs) from 15 villages.
Table 10 Details of the demonstration of improved beekeeping practices are as
follows:
Type of Demo Total Achievement
Improved wall hive technology introduced in villages (No) 15
Bee Hives 16
Mud Hive 63
Bee boxes 512
Swarm catches 84
No. of colonies produced through division 17
Total Bee colonies available in the areas (No.) 664
No. of exposure visit 02
Figure 11 Training session of beekeepers in Bhatwari, Uttarkashi
In 15 project villages, a total of 8,23 kg honey has been produced from 2,56
colonies by 1,45 be keepers in two seasons. The total income earned by
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beekeepers is Rs. 3,29,200. So far 535 kg out of 823 kg honey has been
marketed through forwarded linkages.
S.N. Activities Units
1 Bee Producer (No) 300
2 Producers groups formed (No) 15
3 Trainings conducted (No) 7
4 Improved wall hive technology introduced in
villages (No)
15
5 No of bee boxes provided to the producers 35
6 No of colonies produced through division. 5
7 Total bee hive 191
8 Total colonies available in the areas (No) 65
9 Honey production (Kg) 823
10 Honey Marketing (Kg) 535
The project has successfully facilitated honey based enterprises for over 352 women in the project areas. These women producers are part of the PGs formed in the different project villages and are actively engaged in honey production. The women producers are seemingly have acquired the knowledge about beekeeping/ honey production indicative of their confidence in management of the their honey based enterprises and their ability to negotiate the prices at the most advantages terms. The women are quite adept now in handling the bees, equipment and harvesting honey without the support of male members. These women producers not only handle the swarm but know as to how the bees can be retained and nurtured even in the difficult conditions. The important outcome of this particular endeavour is economic rehabilitation of over 352 producers who had been by the during project pried average annual income was recorded as INR 7,171 per annum in 2019-20 while in 2020-21 the honey production increased by 6,311 KG and subsequently it kept on increasing. The increased production increases the income for the producers correspondingly.
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Table 11 Key output of the project:-
SN Activities Total
Targets
Achievement
(November ‘20 to
March ‘21
1 Development of Para Technician 4 4
2 Training to HH - 8 Trainings -
3 Capacity building of beekeepers / Honey
producer groups (HPGs)
8 12
3 Training on Bee Management 8 36
4 Bee Boxes Demonstration of improved
beekeeping / honey production.
1000 1105
5 Market development-Market campaign and
product promotion
1 1
6 Establishment of Two Bee Breeding Centers 2 4
7 Shed nett house /Bee Shed 1 1
Table 12 Overview of trainings, exposure and demonstrations conducted for the honey
PGs
S.N Key Activities Unit
Status (by end of
the project)
1 Orientation of Honey PGs on beekeeping/
honey production
Nos. 15
2 Technical training-bee management, risk
mitigation, disease preventions, swarm
catching, settlement, prevention form
absconding and honey extractions.
Nos. 36
3 Primary processing of honey and storage Nos. 12
4 Demonstration of different bee hives/ boxes Nos. 38
5 Training on manufacturing bio-agents to
prevent the diseases/ fungus in crops.
Nos. 7
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6 Exposure visits conducted to see the
improved/ commercial level honey practices*
Nos. 2
7 Developed honey village Nos. 1
8 Commercial Bee Keepers Nos. 14
9 Bee nursery Nos. 4
New Initiatives
Footwear Production Unit: Nanda Devi Ajeevika Swayatt Sahkarita is one
of the Livelihood Collective established at Sunla, Tharali in District Chamoli,
which have availed and utilized the CCL benefits for establishing their
Footwear making Unit through which they are growing their business.
Through CCL, Footwear making Unit of Rs. 2, 59,135 has been established by
this SRC. Within one month of established federation sold 1150 set of
Slippers in the local market with a business turnover of Rs 63,250/- and
earned a net profit of Rs 9,487.
Figure 12 Footwear making unit and its products, Tharali, Chamoli
Mushroom Production: Integrated efforts are being made to the doubling
of farmers’ income by the project. Mushroom production is one of the
additional activities for many households in this context. Many producer
groups are growing mushroom and are being sold by the ILSP LC after
grading, packing under the HILANS brand. With the efforts of the ILSP,
where households are getting good prices for their products, consumers are
getting pure and fresh produce. One of the example -
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In Bin (Pithoragarh) block under Gurang Ghati LC, 24 Households (including
8 Youths) from 7 producer groups are growing Mushroom with the technical
support of Horticulture Department and ILSP. In the last 3 months, total
production was around 800 kg. LC has sold 4000 mushroom packets worth
Rs 1,60,000. A 200-gram mushroom packet in poly-bag, the sale price is Rs
40 in which LC’s share is Rs 8 and in box packing, the sale price is Rs 50 in
which LC’s share is Rs 10. The net profit is around Rs 65,000.
COVID 19 and Lockdown: Extensive rural community-based network of the
Livelihood collectives have started providing support to households in far
flung areas of Uttarakhand. LCs helps in maintaining the supply of essential
items including food items, milk, and vegetables. PG members who received
skill training in sewing and tailoring are engaged in the manufacture and
sale of face masks.
Contract Farming: Farmers have been linked directly to the buyers for
contract farming of medicinal crops like Kutaki and Kut. The major
companies that are entering into the contract with the farmers growing
these two crops are M/s Dabur India Ltd. New Delhi with 398 farmers, M/s
Emami India Ltd. New Delhi with 276 farmers; and M/s Organic India Ltd.
Lucknow with 246 farmers; M/s HARC Alaknanda Sawaytt Sahkarita –
Kaleshwer , Chamoli for crop of Tulsi (holy basil) with 200 farmers; M/s
Rahul Prakash & Company, Kichha , U.S. Nagar for European vegetables like
Colored Capsicum, Red Cabbage , Broccoli, Yellow & Green Zucchini , Snow
pea etc with 2496 farmers; M/s Mother Dairy - New Delhi for Mango, Pear ,
Peach, Vegetable Pea, Plum & Apricot with1790 farmers; M/s HIMOARD Ltd.
Shimla , Himachal Pradesh for Finger Millet, Soybean & buck wheat crop
with 767 farmers.
Access to Market
Collection Center – An aggregation and value addition premises that are
used as LCs’ office and outlet at the cluster level. So far, 161 collection
centers have been operationalised and pooling farm produces. The project is
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upgrading existing collection centers through convergence from MNERGA.
The advantages/ usage, a collection center brings to a LC are summarized as
below:
The center is a fixed asset for cooperative and saves up on the routine
operational expenses.
Aggregation of produce enables collective marketing and price realization
to around 20-30%.
Save upon the time and transportation cost for the farmers at the cluster
level.
It is being used for sorting, grading, drying value addition and packaging
of produce at the cluster level.
It also acts as a resource center for farmers and contact points for private
players/buyers.
Figure 13 Collection Center & Cool Chamber
Village Level Storage Center –This is termed as a small collection center
that acts as a satellite center for the main cluster level collection center. 690
such centers have been operationalized so far and are being utilized as
storage of rural produce, milk-collection center, village meeting, etc.. It is a
primary market infrastructure at the village level that reduces wastage of
farmers produce. The advantages it brings to the farmers are as:
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It is established near villages and farmers’ field that reduces drudgery
and saved their time.
30-40% crop losses are reduced using these infrastructures.
It is also acting as social infrastructure and utilized by all households in
the village.
Figure 14 Small Collection Center
Haat Bazaar –Haat Bazaars are being organized under ILSP at district and
block level to provide better prices to the community for their perishable
commodity like fresh vegetables, pulses, etc.. The space for Haat Bazaar is
being provided to concern LCs by the district administration where,
LCs/Federations are buying local vegetables, rural farm and processed
produces from its members and are selling at the haat. At present 20 weekly
haat bazaars are being organized regularly and it is planned to upgrade the
place of haat bazaar through convergence from MNREGA. The key outcome
of this intervention are :
Perishable commodities are sold on a regular basis;
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Regular cash income is available at farmer/household level;
Buyers are getting fresh, local and natural vegetables;
The average sale of per haat is around Rs 6500 to Rs 13000;
Figure 15 Weekly haat bazar operated by different SRCs of Hawalbag on every Saturday to market the fresh local
vegetables to potential consumers of Officer Colony Almora and Cahukhutiya
Bakri Haat -To strengthen backward and forward linkages in Goatry value
chain, project organized Bakri Haat on a half-yearly basis. The Bakri Haat
covers backward integration through technical inputs from different
organisations / departments and forward integration through market
linkages as well as marketing tips with private players.
In the Bakri Haat, different departments provide information about their
schemes i.e. Goat shed from MNREGA, services from NLM and scientific
techniques of Goatry, Vaccination, Medicines, Bank Finance, Insurance, Feed
& Fodder, and marketing methods etc.
Animal Husbandry, Agriculture-Horticulture Dept, District Cooperative
Bank, RSETI, Rural Development, other line departments, 8 Meet buyers and
208 Goatry Households participate in the Bakri Haat.
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Figure 16 Bakri Haat, Pithoragarh
Nano – Packaging Unit – 129 Nano-packaging units have been established
at cluster, district and state level outlets. Commonly each unit includes –a
Bend Sealer, Weighing Machine, Foot Sealer, Manual Sealing Machine, Hot
Air Gun, Cap Sealing Machine, Box Stepping Machine, Bar Code Machine etc.
Project is also educating and encouraging its LCs/Federations to have nano-
packaging unit at their establishments for consistency in quality of
packaging and branding. The immediate output and outcome of the
intervention are :
Similar and standardize packaging as demanded in the market;
Value addition and better price realization for the producers;
Figure 17 Nano Packaging Unit
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Cool Chamber – To provide prolonged life and keep the perishable produce
fresh, cool chambers are being established under the project. So far, eight
cool-chambers of 4-5 ton capacity have been constructed at district levels,
which are now used by LCs for the preservation of seeds, pulp, fruits etc.
Government Infrastructure – There are more than 14 government
infrastructures i.e. Saras Centers which are being used by livelihood
collectives on lease/ rent basis. With the help of district administration,
project facilitates cooperatives to take advantage of these infrastructures for
their business and showcasing.
Saras center, Kausani, Bageshwar – Department of Rural Development
has allocated a Saras Center to ILSP Baijnath LC in Bageshwar for 30
years lease for running their business. The LCs running their outlet and
homestay in the center.
Saras center, Pithoragarh – Department of Rural Development has
allocated an outlet in the Saras Center to ILSP’ Chomubaba LC running
their business.
Figure 18 Saras Canteen Pithoragarh
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Agri Business Up-scaling Plan / Business Development Plan: LCs /
Federations have prepared their AUP/BDP based on available resources in
the cluster and FSIP of shareholder’s PGs & VPGs. All existing AUPs have
been reviewed and upgraded periodically for sustainability and are in sync
with the present market scenario. The plan includes cluster specifics
strategies, seed production, storage facilities, Nano-processing, Agri-
business growth centers, Outlets and backward-forward linkages,
convergence tie-ups for different schemes.
Business Turnover –The project is facilitating community institutions for
their sustainable business linkages. The cumulative turnover of all
PG/VPGs/LCs/Federations till 31st March 2021 was Rs. 596.31 Crore (in
which LCs/Feds. business is Rs. 142.91 Crore).
During the reporting period (1st April to 30st March 2021) around 131
livelihood collectives (LCs) of project, districts were engaged in various
business activities and earned a turnover of Rs. 35.19 Crore (in 2019-20,
turnover was Rs 22.68 Crore).
If we segregate the cumulative business of these LCs/federations, 5 are more
than 2 Cr, 18 are more than 1 Cr and 150 are more than 50 lakh category.
Through LCs/federations farmers are getting benefits such as –
LCs/Federations are supplying daily need items and inputs at the
doorstep at a lower price in comparison to direct purchasing.
LCs/Federations are purchasing farmers products from farmer’s fields at
reasonable prices and selling into the market.
In the profit of LCs/Federations, farmers are getting benefits in terms of
dividends against their shareholding and patronage as per norms.
Farmers’ time is also saved through transaction with LCs/Federations.
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Table 13 Financial Year Wise LC Turnover (Amt in INR Lakh)
Key Value Chains 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21
Dairy 0.2 32.9 122 289.15 336.23 342.41
Cereals, Pulses 4.1 108.5 249.4 310.08 907.20 967.71
OSV, Spices 21 108.1 203 328.57 385.56 978.54
RNFS 3.7 107.6 241.2 444.08 544.32 100.59
Poultry - 0.9 65.3 123.68 68.32 26.51
Brand Development – Brand development is the process of creating and
strengthening the professional services brand. ILSP is focusing on HILANS as
a community product/service brand through its association with specialized
firms/professionals. A pool of specialized firms/professionals is being
constituted for developing product promotion strategies as under:
Identity strategy: Commodity strategy, Branding strategy
Innovation strategies: Rural and Urban common
Customer value strategy: Brand positioning among the target audience,
Mass product strategy, premium product strategy
Quality strategies: Quality improvements strategy
Packaging strategies: Establish Nano packaging units for premium and
standard packaging with basic information like ingredients, nutritional
value, FSSAI license, Date of Manufacturing, Expiry Date, Packaging
Details, and Batch Number etc.
Brand strategies: Brand extension strategy, Multi-brand strategy, Brand
Image/ Equity Management
Logo and Product Story Line: Project has empanelled a marketing firm
for the redesigning of a logo, standard and quality packaging, develop
product stories, and other promotional activities.
HILANS which is an abbreviation for “Highland Innovative Livelihood
Ascending Nature Sustainability” is being used as a brand and is
registered under class 29, 30, 31, 32, 35 & 43 of Indian Trade Marks Act.
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Brand Promotion - In continuation of the promotion initiatives, a website
(www.hilans.org) has been developed with Trade India and is being
regularly updated. Other mediums i.e. social media (Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter, YouTube), print media (News Paper, magazine, mobile van, workshop,
fairs) are used for brand promotion. Promotional Literature like food habits,
culture of Uttarakhand, recipe book, product catalogue and others are being
developed and published to promote the product range.
A common strategy of marketing for different govt. departments / schemes
under the HILANS brand has developed and now other departments/
schemes i.e. USRLM, ICDS are also promoting their produce under HILANS
umbrella. In addition to this, livelihood collectives are also participating in
the fairs and exhibitions at the state and national levels for product
promotion and fetching orders.
HILANS Outlets - Under the supply chain management(SCM), a chain of
outlets (1 state-level outlet at Dehradun, 11 Kisan outlets at district
headquarter, 134 at cluster level) are operating successfully and all are
managed by livelihood collectives. These outlets are fetching an average sale
of Rs 8000 - 10000/day. It is resulting in :
Better price realization of produce/ value-added products;
Demonstrating rural products and creating awareness in a wider market;
Marketing Tie-ups
Online Marketing - Apart from the traditional marketing system, project
initiated online marketing through AMAZON, Government e Marketplace
(GeM), Trade India and through its e-commerce platform www.hilans.org
to promote rural produce at a global level.
Institutional Marketing - The LCs/federations are linked with ICDS and
other government schemes and are acting as a service provider.
Events – Buyer-Seller events, Buyer visits, fairs, exhibitions and other
promotional activities are being organized on a regular basis and during
crop harvesting.
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Marketing tie-ups– The project facilitated its Livelihood Collectives /
Federations to join hands and have formal or informal tie-ups with
private partners for supplying bulk/ furnished products. Inter-federation
linkages are also strengthened for the consumption and supply of
produce for whole selling and retailing. Some of the examples are listed
below:-
Vinayak Enterprise, Dehradun
M/s Ashok Anil Enterprises, Suvidha Supermarket Dehradun
A.S Associates, Urban Buy Dehradun
Grain Growers pvt ltd Delhi
Himadri outlet at Uttarakhand Sadan, New Delhi
Nature's Hive at Delhi
Just Comfort online portal
EBB and Flow Services Pvt ltd.
Praduman Nagpal and company
Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP):- 17 and 4 batches
consisting around 490 and 120 participants includes Project staff and members of different livelihood collectives participated in 7 days program based on capacity building of BODs and LCs sustainability between Jan to March 2021 in collaboration with IIM Kashipur and Vaikunth Mehta institute of Co-operative Management, Pune respectively. The Program was focusing on : How to establish supply chain management in rural areas of Uttarakhand. Costing & financial management of farmer’s organization. Human resource management & development. Marketing Strategies for rural products of Uttarakhand. Interaction with startups & entrepreneurs of Uttarakhand. Eco-Tourism as a profitable business activity. Industrial visit and personality development activities.
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Figure 19 Participation in “Management Development Programme on Co-operative Business Management of Livelihood Collectives” VAMNICOM Pune
Agri Business Growth Center
Department of Industries has launched a Growth center scheme in the entire
State for identified economic activities at specified rural locations in order to
promote value addition and forward linkages and to ensure due recognition
for local products and services at national and international levels and to
generate employment opportunities locally.
The objectives of growth center is to increase growth of employment and
self-employment opportunities for local youth, checking migration from hilly
areas, to help promote local products which in turn will help traditional
farming and to cultivate lands which were lying barren. Aligning with
objectives of growth centers of State government, ILSP project has also set
up 25 growth centers related to Bakery, Prasad Making, Value addition –
Spices, Value additions fruits, European Vegetables, Bee Keeping, Recycling
of Waste flowers and aroma (Damask rose) based agri-business. These
growth centers are intended to ensure sustainability for Livelihood
Collectives formed under the project.
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Figure 20 Agribusiness Growth Center, Jilasu, Chamoli
Table 14 Agri Business Growth Centers
SN Types of ABGC No. Location
(Nayay Panchayat wise)
1 Bakery unit Activities 2 1- Hawalbag (Almora) 2- Loharkhet (Bageshwar)
2 Prasad Making 5
1 - Tharali (Chamoli), 2- Siso- Jakholi (Ruraprayag) 3-
Bandrani (Uttarkashi) 4- Satyu (Tehri) 5- Kotigad
(Tehri)
3 Value addition –Spices 4 1- Gaurihat (Pithoragrh) 2- Ghandiyal (Pauri) 3-
Machor-Sult (Almora) 4- Basot- Bhikyasain (Almora)
4 Value additions fruits 6
1- Bentandhar- Chaukhutiya (Almora) 2- Machkali –
Dwarahat (Almora) 3- Baijnath (Bageshwar) 4-
Visayalkhal-Pokhari (Chamoli) 5- Palkot
(Pithoragarh) 6- Kyark (Uttrakashi)
5 European Vegetables 2 1- Koti- Kalsi (Dehradun) 2- Unyora (Almora)
6 Bee Keeping 1 1- Baswara ( Rudraparyag)
7 Recycling of Flowers,
Waste Flowers 1 1- Jilasu (Pohari)
8 Medicinal & Aromatic
Plants 4
1- Bageshwar- Garur, 1- Chamoli, 1- Pithoragarh, 1-
Uttarakashi
Total 25
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Bakery Unit & “hO Daaju” Cafeteria
A Bakery Unit and a cafeteria established by Pragati LC, Hawalbagh, Almora.
LC preparing various value-added product i.e. Christmas Cookies, Manduwa
(Ragi) Christmas Tree Cookies, Chinchilla Muffin, Chocolate Marble Cake,
Subway Chocolate chip Cinnamon Cookies, Mandua Wheat Cookies etc. 30 to
35 members in Bakery Unit from different groups are regularly working
under the consultation of food Consultant and Chef. Other members are
supplying raw materials to LCs.
Agro Processing Unit
A fruit-processing unit has established by Vikash LC, Hawalbagh, Almora.
The LC processing fruits and preparing high value topping recipes - Kiwi
Jam, Apple Jam, Garlic - Ginger Chutney Pickle etc. 35 members in Processing
Unit from different groups are regularly working under the consultation of
food Consultant and Chef. Other members are supplying raw materials to
LCs.
Rice Mill
In July 2018, Maa Agneri Livelihood Collective, Betandhar, Chaukhutiya,
Almora established Rice Mill in Aapnu Bazar. Livelihood Collective has been
procuring paddy from farmers groups at the rate of Rs. 12 per Kg; thereafter
paddy is being processed into the rice and selling at the rate of Rs. 25 per Kg.
After deducting all expenses, a net profit of Rs. 4 per Kg is being fetched by
LC on Rice. In addition to this, the hay of paddy is being sold at the rate of Rs.
8 per Kg. The rice mill is functioning well manner.
Fruit Processing Unit
Dhwaj Livelihood Collectives, Kanalichina has establishment a Fruit
Processing Unit in Kanalichina block. The building for processing unit was
hand ended over by of District Horticulture Department. ILSP has provided
training to its LCs staff and PG/VPGs members and resumed the processing
unit by making of fruit juice, jam, jelly, and pickles etc. with the name of
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Hilans Fruit Processing Unit. Presently the production of Buransh and fruit
juice, jam, jelly, pickles and squash is being going on.
Tea Leaf
Farmers are cultivating Tea in Bageshwar, Chamoli and Champawat. In
Bageshwar, Garur block, with the support of Tea Board, 94 households from
38 Producer Groups in 18 villages growing Tea on 35.28 ha land area. These
farmers are selling through 4 livelihood collectives. They are earning Rs
35000 to Rs 40000 per household from the Tea leaf.
Muffler and Bag Making
14 shareholders of Pherinag federation, Kapkot, Bageshwar, are making
Woolen Muffler and Bag. All members belong to Schedule Tribe (ST). In the
local market, the wool price is Rs 450 per pound, federation purchase wool
from Ludhiyana on bulk at the rate of Rs 275 per pound. From August 2017
up to August 2018 they supply for a total of 1450 pieces worth Rs 329000. In
this making cost including raw material of muffler is Rs 165/- and sale price
Rs 210/-, similarly for Bag is Rs 225/- and sale price is Rs 310/-. Profit
distribution is 10% federation and 30% of households.
Figure 21 Muffler prepared by VPG Members
Goat Marketing through Body weight
Under the innovation linkage, The Goat Trust introduced Community
Livestock Manager (CLM) and Livestock Nurse (Pashu Sakhi) for providing
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primary health services and handholding support in marketing. They are
working under the livelihood collectives. They are also preparing to improve
feed and fodder for Goats.
At present, A Pashu Sakhi is earning Rs 3000 to Rs 4000 per month in a
village through service charges. She is involved in providing primary health
services, medicine, vaccinations, castration etc. under the guidance of CLM
and local veterinary doctor. A CLM is earning Rs 7000 to Rs 8000 per month.
Presently 84 Pashu Sakhi and 11 CLM have been working in Bageshwar
(Garur) and Dehradun (Chakrata).
Figure 22 Vaccination by Pashu Sakhi, Bageswar
Before project intervention, Goats was sold by auction/bidding or lump sum
basis. After project intervention under Innovation Linkage, now the price
depends upon the body weight of goat. Household are getting between 20 to
25% more income through LC and fair price of their Goats.
Lahurghati LC and Annapurna LC, Block- Garur, Bageshwar, purchase 226
Goats from 15 Goat Producer Groups PG and sold to local venders through
Goat Trust. Total turnover was Rs 5, 65,925 with a Profit of Rs 1, 42,509. The
rate decided based on body weight Rs 170 per Kg.
Prasad Making
Cooperatives are supplying Prasad made from Cholai (Amaranths) to the
different temples. Through the support of District Administration, 14 LCs of
ILSP prepare Cholai Laddu Prasad and supply in Kedarnath Dham. 828
women members of 94 Groups under 14 LCs prepared 40651 Packet of
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Prasad and the total sale was Rs 16.26 Lakh. Apart from this, 55 women
members of 7 groups prepared 27193 packets of Dhupbatti and the total
sale was Rs 3.26 Lakh. The activity provides an additional income source to
rural households and farmers are also getting good prices of their rural
produce used in Prasad making.
Table 15 status of Parsad Distribution
SN District Current status of Parsad
Distribution
Proposed temple for Parsad
Distribution
1 Almora Jageshwar Chittai
2 Bageshwar Baijnath Bagnath
3 Chamoli Badrinath Gopinath, karanprayag
4 Rudraprayag Kedarnath, Koteshwar Trijuginarayan, Dhari Devi
5 Uttarkasi Gangotri Yamunotri, Vishwanath
6 Pithoragarh Mustmano Thal Kedar
7 Dehradun Mahasu Lakha Mandal
8 Pauri Sidhbali Neel Kanth
9 Tehri Surkanda, Kunjapuri Chanderbadni
Figure 23 recycling of flower waste
Recycling of Flower Waste –
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The project adopted the technology of flower waste recycling from “Help Us
Green”, Kanpur based social enterprise and making Incense Cones, Incense
Sticks and other items from flower wastes. A team of five persons visited
Kanpur for exposure and training. After the visit, they provide further
training to 32 members of Ghandiyal Devta LC in Rudraprayag. During the
training, LC members collected 15 kg waste flowers, petals & leaves from the
Koteshwar Temple and prepared 300 boxes of Incense Cone. All boxes have
been sold at the rate of Rs. 20 per box in the Koteshwar Temple.
The activity is being up scaled through good quality machines & equipment
under the Agri-business Growth Center (ABGC) scheme of MSME. It will
create more value in terms of quality, quantity, climate, income and
employment. 5 ABGC has been already approved for Prasad making and
recycling of flower waste.
Ready to use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) -
Nari Ekta SRC, Almora has continuously supplying 1838.75 Kg Ready to
Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF-ऊर्जा) for 11 blocks of district Almora (under
the Chief Minister Child Malnutrition scheme). The federation is moving
towards self-sustainability and getting a turnover of more than 3.5 lakh per
month under this scheme and fetching profit of INR 40,000 to 45,000 per
month. Approx 106 producers groups are being indirectly benefitted with
this scheme as they sales their local produce i.e. Maduwa, Wheat and
Soybean to the federation. Apart from it, women of 53 PGs are engaged in
packaging of this Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF-ऊर्जा) material into
the poly package and are getting INR 0.75/packet on rotation based.
Makhlogi SRC, Tehri has continuously supplying processed local produces,
in which they are earning an average Rs 2,70,00 net profit per month and
providing employment to 8-10 women.
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Figure 24 Local produce processed under THR by PG members, Almora
Lashya SRC, Pauri has got an order for supplying THR processed local
produces to 35 Aaganwari Center of the block Kaljikhal, in which they are
earning an average Rs 12,000 net profit per month and providing
employment to 3-5 women.
Poultry – Livelihood Collective has continually moved forwards and scaling
up the opened Poultry input and output center in Pithoragarh City in the
Saras center as well as a meat shop called HILANS Chick Chop (H2C) which is
sourcing the chicks from the LC members but dressing it and selling it to
buyers as a business initiative. The District teams of UGVS worked with the
Chief Development Officer of the District to help in allotting this place to the
LCs. Farmers are getting Chicks, fodder, medicines, and equipment from this
center at a reasonable rate. They can avail a maximum of 45 days credit from
this center too. They are saving up to Rs. 6,000 per cycle and no longer get
trapped in the hands of money lenders and middlemen. This Centre also has
entered into an agreement with Godrej Agrovet Com for the dealership of
poultry feed that is making it available to them at a cheaper rate and poultry
farmers have saved more than Rs. 91 lakhs as the input cost in 2019-20. At
the same time, the poultry center is making a profit of more than Rs. 6 lakh
includes earnings of more than Rs. 60,000 by the young person from the
local area who is given employment by the LC to manage the Centre.
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Agriculture tool Manufacture Unit – agriculture tools have
many advantages as compared to humans. These tools have a high efficiency
and they perform the work faster and certain tasks at a faster rate
than humans’ beings. In view of the positive response of the people towards
the use of agri-tools in the mind; Lata Baba SRC, Sumari, Rudraprayag has
opened an Agriculture Tool and Equipment Unit under MSME scheme and is
engaged in making plough, hand hoe and favada etc.
Innovation Linkages
Under the innovation linkage, sub-components project promoting innovative
sub-projects from different Line Departments, Boards, KVKs, Universities, and
NGOs have been completed; whereas the 3rd party assessments of these
innovative projects are planned in the year of 2020-21.
One project Integrated Dairy Project (IDP) implemented by Uttarakhand
Livestock Development Board and Animal Husbandry Department is still going
on as under:
Integrated Dairy Project - Project implemented by Uttarakhand Livestock
Development Board and Animal Husbandry Department. Under this project,
100 AI & Milk collection centers has been established in all the 9 project
districts and 2500 fodder plots were developed. A brief summary of the
project is –
100 Paravet centers and 100 milk collection centers and sub centers
are established.
4000 - 4300 liters /day milk collection started from these centers
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Figure 25 Progeny born, Rupkund LC, Ghat, Chamoli
30,426 Artificial Insemination (AI), 40,981 Vaccination was done and
6,152 progeny have been born.
There are 18 women trained as paravet. The project has provided
mobility vehicles (scooter) to them from which they are providing
services i.e. AI, Castration, Vaccination, and first aids to community
livestock at their doorstep.
9 Fodder Nurseries of fodder plants established in 9 project districts
Fodder seeds like African Tall maize, Oats. Barseem (Trfolium
alexandrium) etc distributed to farmers for sowing.
Silage demonstrations units being established at dairy farmers field
Average Milk production has increased from 1.2 liters to 2.1
liters/animal/day.
1500 Training on fodder production (Scientific Farming Practices) has
conducted.
In the year of 2019-20 two more sub-projects were initiated under the under
the challenge fund Scheme:
Promoting Livelihood by flower cultivation and Marketing: - Project has
initiated by HARC in Kalsi block of Dehardun district with the key objective
of “promoting livelihood by flower cultivation and marketing with 200
Farmers”. The project has covered 200 progressive farmers (150 farmers-
Chrysanthemum, 25 farmers -Gladiolus and 25 Farmers - Lilium) in 5
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villages of block Kalsi, Dehradun. The implementing agency HARC has
imparted two training programs I.e. Harvesting, Grading, Sorting and
Packaging of harvested flowers. An exposure visit to 10 years old Gladiolus
commercial farm, Biharigarh with 25 farmers has conducted in February
2020 to gain the knowledge of packages and practices on Gladiolus
commercial cultivation. 25 farmers of two villages (Dimau and Kota) have
started showing of Gladiolus in 2.25 ha land. The harvesting of this crop will
be done in June 2020.
Figure 26 Gladiolus cultivation in Dimau village, Kalsi, Dehradun
Outcome
Capacities of 200 farmers are built in various production technology of
floriculture like post-harvest management, nursery management, Seed
production, harvest management, IPNM Management etc.
Despite of COVID-19 and lockdown situation average of Rs. 8,217 per farmer
income increased annually through flower production.
Now, Kalsi block are immersing as a flower production zone through
commercial cultivation of Lilium, Chrysanthemum and Gladiolus.
Flower Supply chain is developed at Kalsi through federation level and
linked to mandis of Vikasnagar, Dehradun, Gazipur and Delhi.
5 paratechs in gladiolus cultivation, 4 paretech in lilium cultivation and 5
paretech in Chrysanthemum cultivation are developed for knowledge
transfer of commercial cultivation of floriculture.
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Now farmers of Kalsi village are willing to form separate institutions with
prime objective of floriculture development at Kalsi block.
Germs plasma in terms of bulb, corms and mother plants are preserved
within farmers for future propagation under the project.
Figure 27 Gladiolus flowering in Dimau village, Kalsi, Dehradun
Establishment of organic value chain of Perilla : Under the challenge
fund sub project “Establishment of Value chain of Organic Perilla in remote
Uttarakhand’ SARG conducted orientation programme to provide cutting
edge technical inputs at field to increase the value chain of the agriculture
products to increase productivity as well in the post-harvest and on-farm
value addition of the neglected agriculture crops of Cluster through
demonstrating the possibilities of sustainable livelihood of the agriculture
based communities with the traditional diversified agriculture crops also
useful in mitigating Climate Change in Sult block of Almora. A total of 490
farmers on 344.4 nalis in 38 villages have been registered for Perilla project.
The seeds were sown by 490 farmers in the month of March 2020. Training
on Organic Farming & Perilla production were given in May/ June 2020
Weather conditions did not support the production of perilla in all villages
and 40 % success rate was found in areas where rain and moisture was
available.
Collection center established in Hanola, Salt
Cold Press Unit for extraction of Oil was established in Oct ‘20
Branding was done in Jan 21
Samples released in Jan 21
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Output
Farmers get a crop option ,
hardy and safe from wild life
Price of seed range from 100 - 150 per kg and production per ha is nearly 7 -
9 quintals per ha
Value chain of ‘Perilla oil’ bring an incremental value to 10 times (approx)
Outcome
Increased option for livelihoods for the community
Raw materials for pharma industry
Revival of a lost agro diversity vital which is climate resilient
Boundary crop support for the main crops like chilly etc as a pest repellant
/boundary crop
Figure 28 Perilla plantation field and Oil
Innovative Project from District Administration
District Administration has submitted some innovative projects. The summary
of approved projects is following –
SN District Activity Status
1 Almora
Endeavour towards Green
fuel- ETC
The project has been
completed , The third
party assessment was
also done
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2 Bageshwar
To develop model village
through holistic approach –
Empower society
The project has been
completed. The third
party assessment was
also done
3 Dehradun
Commercial Production of
Vegetables under protected
cultivation – Horticulture
Department
The project has been
completed. The third
party assessment was
also done
4
Pithoragarh
Livelihood improvement
through sustainable large
cardamom cultivation –
DHO
The project has been
completed. The third
party assessment was
also done
5
Establishment of integrated
modal farm for capacity
building – CAO
The project has been
completed. The third
party assessment was
also done
6 Uttarkashi
Protected Cultivation of
European vegetables
through vertical farming –
CHO
The project has been
completed. The third
party assessment was
also done
7 Rudraprayag
Livelihood Project of
Mushroom Production -
Garmati organization
The project has been
completed. The third
party assessment was
also done.
8 Tehri
Livelihood improvement
through sustainable kiwi
fruits cultivation – DHO
The project has been
completed. The third
party assessment was
also done.
9 Pauri
Man Animal Conflict –
Unnayan
Project is completed.
The third party
assessment was also
done
Vocational Training
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In the directions of rural remunerative employment, project goal is to train
20,000 youth (with at least 60%women) for various trades and facilitate
employment generation for at least 80% of them. So far, till March 2021, a total
of 24,398 students have completed their training, out of which 6,768 students
have got employment after the training and 9,616 are opt self-employment. The
project has taken initiatives towards introducing short term vocational training
courses under the agri and allied activities including repair and maintenance of
Farm Machinery Bank.
Trades have been selected as per requirements of project area, direction from
State Govt & IFAD ICO and under following mandates:
To provide skill to develop clusters based on activities related to
agriculture / horticulture / animal husbandry / tourism.
To check migration of youths from Hills
To provide skill to encourage self-employment
To provide skill to gain wage-employment
Women Empowerment
Table 16 Major Sector and Employment Status
Sector/ Trade
No of
Students
Employment
Location of employment
Salary
Range
(INR)
Tourism and
Hospitality
2045
UAE, Lucknow, Ahmadabad,
Haridwar, Mussoorie, Ramnagar,
TehriGarhwal, Raipur-rani, Jirakpur,
Rajkot, Banglore, Jaipur, Rishikesh,
Dehradun, Ajmer, Chattisgarh,
Gandhinagar, Goa, Mumbai Nashik,
Faridabad etc
8000-45000
Information and
Communication
Technology 1492
Dehradun, Noida , New Delhi,
Chandigarh, Sarikhet, Mohali,
Uttarkashi, Vikas Nagar, Naugaon,
Barkot, Rudrapur, Almora, Haridwar
etc.
7500-14500
Mushroom
Cultivation 2453
Dehradun, Pauri, Tehri, Rudraprayag
etc (Self -Employment)
8000-12000
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Garment Making
Zardosi& Knitter –Flat
Knitting
975
Chamoli, Bageshwar, Dehradun 6000-11500
Medical and Nursing/
Healthcare 904
Corum Healthcare, Delhi, Max
hospital, Dehradun
8500-14000
Beekeeping 301
Chamoli, Tehri, Uttarakashi (Self -
Employment)
5500-15000
Retailers 168
Dehradun, Delhi, Mohali 12500-
20500
Cultivation of
Medicinal and
Aromatic Plants
300
Chamoli, Tehri, Pithoragarh,
Uttarakashi (Self -Employment)
12500-
20000
Horticulture
&KrishiUdyami 276
Chamoli, Tehri, Pithoragarh,
Uttarakashi (Self -Employment)
7000-14500
Table 17 Short Duration Courses
Sector/ Trades
No. of
students
trained
No. of
students
Certificati
on
No. of
students
placed/Self
employed
Salary Range
(INR)
Beauty Parlor Management 528 455 187 5500 - 18000
Bee Keeping 361 305 301 5500 - 15500
Cultivation Of Medicinal
And Aromatic Plants 309 307 300 12500 - 20500
Dairy Farming And Vermi
Compost Making 740 597 66 6,000 - 16800
Horticulture 207 150 141 7000 - 14000
Krishi Udyami 223 186 126 5500 - 7500
Mushroom Cultivation 3863 3562 2453 8000 - 12000
Papad, Pickle And Masala
Powder Entrepreneur 413 160 141 4000 - 7500
Soft Toys Maker 60 60 56 5000 - 7500
Tailoring 2808 2383 1244 7500 - 9000
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Table 18 Long Duration Courses
Sector/ Trades
No. of
students
trained
No. of
students
Certificati
on
No. of
students
placed
Salary Range
(INR)
Accounts Assistant 987 667 378 6500 - 13500
Assistant Electrician 354 272 239 5500 - 13000
Banking And Accounting 905 737 263 6000 - 12000
BPO 396 367 299 7000 - 13500
Cellular Phone Repair And
Service
115 80 29 6000 - 12000
E-Commerce 527 442 149 7000 - 9000
Electrical Winder 28 28 15 5500 - 13000
Electrician Domestic 303 165 135 6500 - 13000
Hospitality 2117 1377 904 7000 - 13500
Hotel Management 1350 1118 1195 8000 - 45000
House Wiring 150 150 71 6000 - 18000
Knitter –Flat Knitting 757 329 325 5500 - 7500
Retail 403 220 169 5500 - 20000
Zardosi (Embroidery) 1379 876 650 5500 – 10000
Auto Component Assembly
fitter
24 24 24 19000-20000
Knowledge Management
Following initiatives have been taken under KM during the first semester of FY
2020-21 (from 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021):
A. Following five documentary Films have been developed by the project
during last FY - ILSP - UGVS – Initiatives, Farm Machinery Bank
initiatives, Crop Protection using Fencing, HILANS Supply Chain and
Prasad making initiative
B. Ten documentary Films along with a TVC advertisement
(https://www.facebook.com/ilsphilansalmora/videos/hilans-the-purity-
you-deserve/1441904289491898/) of HILANS brand have been
developed by the project during last FY - ILSP – Successful
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Initiatives/Interventions like Farm Machinery Bank initiatives, Crop
Protection using Fencing, HILANS Supply Chain and Prasad making
initiative, Fallow and Fodder activities, Establishment of Marketing
enterprises etc.
C. Publication of Annual Report of ILSP FY 2019-20.
D. Publication of Annual Outcome Survey of ILSP 2019.
E. Publication of Poultry hand book for poultry farmer.
F. Studies – Cases and Impact Some Cases - Vol 2 Five Booklets (Five on
state level initiatives and one compilation of successful cases from field)
Farm Machinery Bank initiatives
Crop Protection using Fencing
HILANS Supply Chain
Prasad making initiative
Agribusiness Up-scaling Plan Study
G. Hilans Calendar 2021 - widely disseminated
H. Facebook Page for information dissemination -
https://www.facebook.com/hilansofficial/
I. Youtube page for information dissemination -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyJrsDNwFuZh1qqM3NIMHhg
J. Instagram page for information dissemination -
https://www.instagram.com/hilansofficial/
K. Twitter page for information dissemination -
https://twitter.com/hilansofficial/
Monitoring and Evaluation
UGVS has developed a monthly review tool for assessing the block-wise
progress based on the various sub-themes of the project i.e. Production and
marketing, saving and inter-loaning, infrastructure, business and governance,
services to members etc. The tool helps in monitoring the social & economic
aspects of PGs/VPGs and LCs.
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Management Committee meeting
Two Management Committee and one Annual General Body meetings were
organized during this financial year. The key agenda was approval of budget,
convergence, and implementation status.
Concurrent Monitoring Mechanism
The component has achieved tremendous performance due to its concurrent
monitoring mechanism. Regular field visits, feedback and sharing process and
regular follow-up of activities are not only improving the project progress but
also improve the staffs’ knowledge.
Review Mechanism of Livelihood Collectives
The project has developed review mechanisms for Livelihood Collectives based
on the TOR signed with activities indicators. Indicators are divided into two
types of institutions – PG/VPG and Livelihood Collectives as under:
PG/VPG Indicators – i.e. Production & Marketing, Saving & inter-loaning,
FSIP, IIP, repayment etc.
LCs Indicators – i.e. Business, Infrastructure, Service to PG/VPG etc.
Score and Rating directly calculate form System based upon data available.
Comment by Chairman of LC, DMU based on Score and Rating
The payment as per norms based upon score and rating.
Review indicators are directly linked with its physical achievement and making
score and rating through ILSP-MIS.
Best practice of Data Management & Monitoring–
Khat Shaily LC, Kalsi, Dehradun introduce data management passbook for their
shareholders especially for Chain Link Fencing and Farm Machinery Bank
activities. LC starts this mechanism from November 2018 under the guidance of
the Technical Agency. Initially, LC provided a passbook to 200 shareholders.
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LC Coordinator facilitates the data entry into the passbook. The data includes
the following fields duration, rent, assets, amount, utilization, benefits etc. After
the consolidation of data, every month it presented to BoD members. On a
random basis, BoD members reviewed the passbook and other records.
Expected Outcome Indicators
Food Security & Scaling Up-:
60% farmers reporting productivity increased
60% federations and livelihood collectives operating successfully
Access to Market-:
100% increase in farm-gate price over baseline
Gender and Institutions
a) Gender mainstreaming at organizational Level
i. Gender Strategy of ILSP: The gender strategy has been developed to
mainstream gender concerns in the project. ILSP is a gender-oriented
project, where project demands more women participation, women
empowerment and women-friendly activities/practices to be promoted to
facilitate the gender gap of the society. The strategy has covered most of the
aspects of the gender gap, how the issue will be addressed at all levels with a
crosscutting approach, in institutional building/staffing pattern, capacity
building & IEC activities, farm & off-farm activities, social and economic
empowerment of village women, women in lead role and active participation
in decision making at both professional (group/federation) and personal
(family) level and so on.
ii. Constitution of committee under the Vishakha Guidelines: Uttarakhand
Gramya Vikas Samiti (UGVS) formed a committee to resolve the issues
related to the exploitation of working women.
b) Women drudgery reduction interventions: Through Integrated
livelihood support projects major work on women drudgery reduction is
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being carried out by the federations. Federations are promoting such
business activities that are related to the reduction of women drudgery and
such federations are gaining profits from these activities. Federations are
involved in the business of agri-implements, lightweight water pitchers,
solar lamps and promotion of fodder nurseries etc.
After gone through the good result of drudgery reduction activities it has
been planned to divert a certain portion of budget towards drudgery
reduction activities and similarly in LCs to replicate these models.
Under the innovation project, the fodder development programme has
already been promoting in the project area. This effort contributes to the
reduction of women drudgery in the project area and it is making fodder
seeds available and also its replication into improved grasses. There are 38
varieties of fodder grasses are being developed in the Bahinswara farm at
Almora.
c) Gender & Social Inclusion: The cumulative data related to Gender & Social
Inclusion is being captured; so far the progress furnished as under :
No of Households (PG/VPG) [supported] 79,292
No of Households {female} (PG/VPG) [supported] 74,070
No of SC Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 16,094
No of ST Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 5,330
No of OBC Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 7,610
No of BPL Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 34,116
No of Antyodaya Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 2,697
No of households (female) provide seed capital [supported] 15,125
No of households (PwD) [supported] 44
d) Women Participation in Different programs
More than 75% of women have made their participation in capacity
building program, meeting and workshops
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Women majority in shareholding comprising more than 84.7% of total
shareholders.
No of participants in meetings (BOD, AGM) 1,06,069
No of female participants in meetings (BOD, AGM) 81,867
No of participants in meetings (Village / Block Level) 8,571
No of female participants in meetings (Village / Block Level) 6,843
No of participants in meetings (Convergence) 6,878
No of female participants in meetings (Convergence) 4,056
No of participants in monthly review meetings (Block / Division) 16,399
No of female participants in monthly review meetings (Block / Division) 5,703
No of participants in quarterly learning / sharing workshops (Block /
Division)
8,079
No of female participants in quarterly learning / sharing workshops
(Block / Division)
3,158
No of participants in Buyer-Seller Events 8,065
No of female participants in Buyer-Seller Events 5,472
e) Capacity Building
No of participants (business, governance and Marketing skills) 47,514
No of female participants (business, governance and Marketing skills) 40,818
No of participants (farmer exposure visits) 6,348
No of female participants (farmer exposure visits) 3,748
More than 84% of women have made their participation in capacity
building exercises which enriched their skills towards business,
governance and marketing of rural produce.
Convergence
With the support of district administration under the District Implementation
and Coordination Committee, an effective convergence has been initiated.
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The project has systematically mobilized other resources through convergence
with various government departments such as Agriculture, Horticulture,
Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Rural Development, Food and Civil Supplies. Over
past couple of years the benefits ploughed into communities through
convergence shows strong trends towards sustainability. Convergence efforts
by ILSP and LCs are adding confidence among the community to approach state
Government in the future for various schemes.
The project has strengthened its partnership with local administration which
has not only facilitated greater convergence but also enhanced the visibility of
the project and improved its monitoring through the District Magistrates (DM)
and Chief Development Officers (CDO). Additionally, the project has partnered
with a number of private sector players for better marketing, improved
agronomic practices, obtaining CSR support to fill funding gaps etc.
Federations/ LCs are now entering into a direct partnership with the private
sector. As of now, a convergence of more than INR 308 Cr has been mobilized
benefiting to about 219416 households of 26820 groups in 233 LC/Federations
Key summary of convergences –
A) The district team have linked 1,41,226 households of 11,674 producers
groups by provided them the convergence support of more than 13,293.06
lakhs for carry out different livelihood activities from various government
and private institutions during the reporting period financial year 2018-19
and 2019-20. The area where the convergence support are as under:
Crop Insurance – Crop of more than 1,493 beneficiaries are insured with
total of amount of 94.70 lakhs rupees under Crop insurance and PMFBY
(Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana) for paddy, mandua and wheat crop
through Agriculture department.
68,559 Beneficiaries of 7,140 groups are benefitted from various schemes of
govt. department mainly includes Farm Machinery Bank, Seed distribution,
Poly house, vermin-compost etc. consisting of around Rs. 1,321.554 lakhs,
Mainly from Rural Development, Animal Husbandry, Horticulture and
Agriculture department.
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28 Household of 13 PGs are benefited through Awas yojana consisting of
convergence of Rs. 21.29 lakhs with Rural Development.
40 Households of 15 groups are benefitted through Uttarakhand Pashudhan
Parishad consisting convergence of around 0.23 lakhs for chicks and goat.
2,133 Beneficiaries of 3,52 groups are benefitted through horticulture
department under various schemes include Fencing, Seed distribution,
Polyhouse and Technical inputs having convergence amount of Rs. 45.96
Lakhs.
20,547 Beneficiaries of 2,360 groups are benefitted through Rural
Development under various MNREGA schemes include convergence amount
of Rs. 1,942.73 Lakhs for CC road construction, Goshala construction etc.
1,670 Beneficiaries of 100 Groups are benefitted through UREDA and RD
department under solar scheme for Solar light and solar unit having
convergence amount of Rs. 30.74 Lakhs. .
9,62 Beneficiaries of 2,68 groups are benefitted for soil testing and fisheries
through Horticulture and fishery department having convergence amount of
Rs. 2.38 Lakhs.
1,469 Beneficiaries of 2,94 groups are benefitted for Compost Pit, Seed
distribution etc. under Rashtriya Khad suraksha, Aayushman Bharat scheme
etc. through Horticulture, Agriculture and RD department having
convergence amount of Rs. 16.54 Lakhs.
4,639 Beneficiaries of 9,52 groups are benefitted under Beej Gram Yojana,
NVI and Fodder development scheme etc. through Horticulture, Agriculture
and Animal Husbandry department having convergence amount of Rs. 43.39
Lakhs.
1,825 Beneficiaries of 2,00 groups are benefitted through the District
administration and Social welfare department having a convergence amount
of Rs. 1,02.58 Lakhs
Under the MANREGA Scheme project have made convergence by benefited
beneficiaries i.e. Vermi-compost, Cement Tanks, Cow-shed and construction
of Toilets.
With collaboration with the Agriculture Department; LCs/federation are
benefitting with 57 Farm Machinery Banks (FMB) under the All Mission on
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Agriculture Mechanization Scheme with 80% subsidy. (cumulative 186 FMB
and 12 custom hiring centers)
Animal Husbandry Department has made 3,05 cattle insurance of 2,69
project Households.
Through the CSR Uchadungi livelihood collectives, Rudraprayag, are doing
fund the production of the sanitary napkin.
B) Cumulative Summary of convergence from Agriculture Department is
made more than Rs 9,269 lakh as under :
Convergence for Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM): About 80% of the
land holdings are in the project area operated by small and marginal farmers
owning <1 and 1-2 ha holdings, respectively. These farmers cannot invest in
costly farm machinery and depend on hiring of implements to carryout
agricultural operations in their fields. Under the collaboration with
Agriculture Department; have underway Sub Mission on Agricultural
Mechanization (SMAM) Scheme. Under this scheme, there are 1,86 Farm
SN Department Type of inputs
1 Horticulture Seed, Poly house, Horticulture Mission for North East & Himalayan Status, Nursery Development, NVI Vegetable Production, Gherbaad, District Plan, SC area Development Crop Insurance, Capacity Building, Cement Tank, Plants etc.
2 Agriculture Seed, Compost Pits, Soil Testing, Power Tiller, HDPE Pipe, Thrasher, Spray Machine, Farm Machinery Bank, PMFBY, PM-KISAN, Tools etc.
3 Rural Development Compost Pit, Indra Awash, BakriBada, Toilet, MNREGA Scheme, Cow / Goat shed renovation, ponds, construction of Aganwari centers, Saras centers etc.
4 Animal Husbandry Cattle Insurance, Fodder, Medicine, Chicks, Capacity building, etc.
5 Organic Spray Machine, Compost Pit, Light Trap, Poly house etc.
6 Other Medicinal Plants, Car Sanitary Napkins Work, Tejpat , Pension, Large Cardamom, Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, Crop insurance, Solar Pressure Cooker, Fisheries, Street Light etc.
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Machinery Bank have been distributed to 1,86 Livelihood Collectives on 80%
subsidy through Agriculture Department upto Rs.10 lakhs. The entire Farm
machinery banks are operationalized and getting benefited in terms of
farming services, drudgery reduction, reduction in the cost of cultivation and
time-saving. Farmers of Livelihood Collectives may elect the Agricultural
Mechanizes as per their field requirement i.e. tractor, rotavator, roto-
puddler, Weed slasher, seed driller, power tillers, power spare, Brush Cutter
power wider, Grass-cutter drum cedar, Multi-Thresher, Multi crop
Threshers, Cultivator, Irrigation Pipe, pump set and net sec spare etc.
3,645 Individual Farmers benefitted from different Agri Tools i.e. Spray
Machine, Power Tiller, Threshers, Seed Drill, Mini Tractor, Water Lifting
Pumps, Irrigation Pipes etc. worth Rs. 3,32 Lakh
Soil testing & Soil Health Card was done for 4,50,00 farmers land
1,467+ Compost pits have been formed through Agriculture Department.
8,89 Qtl Seed has been distributed through Agriculture Department i.e. Kala
Bhatt, Maduwa, Gahat, Soybean, Urd, Wheat, Paddy, Maize, Lentil etc.
1,342+ Farmers have been benefitted by Irrigation tanks, wall protection,
distribution of fruit Plants and other agri-inputs through Agriculture
department.
Under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Beema Yojna, 3,75,22 farmers insured through
crop insurance while Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna covered 36,000
farmers for seed and commercial production.
Under PM- Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana is being benefitting to the farmers
a list of all beneficiaries has been shared with District administration (more
than 75% project households has been benefitted during the 2018-19 to
200-21).
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Figure 29 Use of FMB, Village Dunger, Chandan Ganga SRC, Augustyamuni,
C) Convergence for poultry initiative: Project has been motivating poultry
farmers to form PG/VPGs of Munakot block of district Pithoragarh in which
more than 35 youths have adopted poultry farming and earning a business
turnover around 1.5 cr. to 2 cr. each year. That was possible because poultry
farming is promoted under convergence by many line departments like
Irrigation, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, Horticulture
and Forest. This initiative has turned out to be a successful example to
develop complete value chain which has resulted in secure and sustainable
livelihood of 27 farmers households mostly. UGVS facilitated participation of
interested farmers in a Five days training at G.B. Pant University of
Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar which has developed the cross bred
variety of Kuroiler chickens, which combine the ruggedness and adaptability
of the desi chicken with the higher productivity of exotic breeds.
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Figure 30 Poultry Unit, Pithoragarh
Now entire youths of village Bhateri are involved in poultry farming; in
which more than 22 youths having 3,200-3,500 chicks in their own farm.
They are contributing 20% of share in chicken supply of the region and
moving towards sustainable livelihoods.
D) Pithoragarh has emerged as a role model for convergence where many
schemes of line departments have been aligned with the Project's schemes.
The Horticulture Department is preparing a cluster on a large land in the
grams sabha Badave under the Project to promote many fruits like stone
fruit, pears, apricot, plum and almond as the area has the conducive climate
to grow these fruits. This has motivated many group members to develop
nurseries of vegetable saplings and is preparing high-quality seeds this way
and is also using fertilizers like carbofuran, carbendazims and mancozeb etc.
and bio-manures like vermi compost that prevents diseases such as
Kurmula. Then, those farmers who are interested in traditional crops are
being provided an assistance of Rs. 300 per quintal to grow manduwa.
Taking a cue from the success of the ongoing convergence schemes, the
DPMU of ILSP is planning the following actions:
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Making vermin compost pits available to PG members under MNREGA
schemes.
Spreading the collection centres under the Project through Block Level
Development Programme.
Extending roads to the collection centres.
Constructing cold storages to store fruits and vegetables safely in
collection centres under special schemes.
E) Reverse Migration through poultry activity:
The Project aims to develop villages as a centre of excellence. The village
Bhatedi, Pithoragarh is one of the example as a centre of excellence of poultry
farming and indulge in sustained capacity building of these farmers, including
preparing smaller centres and organising these farmers and providing them
technical support, strengthening backward and forward linkages in outlets like
Saras Market and opening other outlets besides ensuring supply to the army
and para-military forces and aligning the poultry farmers with the MSME
scheme of the Industry Department. It is expected that as the poultry farming
touches new milestones of success, it will go a long way to hinder youths
migrating out from Pithoragarh and other hill districts, a trend that is already
visible.
F) Reverse Migration through Integrated Farming:
An example of reverse migration through an Integrated Farming model have
seen under the Soldungri SRC, vill-Ruisain, Tharali, Chamoli.
Mr. Shekhar Mishra (a PG member) having his own 12 Nali land and made
equipped it with 2 poly-houses (convergence through Horticulture
department), LDPE tank (ILSP), 2 Fish ponds (Fisheries department), Fencing
(ILSP on hiring), Power weeder (self) and water lifting pump (ILSP). He has
planted 250 plants of Apple. Earlier to this Mr. Shekhar was a driver (18 years)
now he has been diverted into farming and become a role model in the village
by growing off seasonal vegetables i.e. cabbage, cucumbers, bean, capsicum,
bottle gourd, varieties of chilly and fishing cultivation.
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Technical Agency (TA)-:
Project activities are being implemented by the technical agency. Block level
technical agencies and their allocated blocks are as under –
S.N. Technical Agency Block
1 Shri Bhuvneshwari Mahila Ashram
(SBMA)
Garur (Bageshwar), Tharali (Chamoli)
2 Himalayan Action Research Center
(HARC)
Kalsi (Dehradun), Chakrata (Dehradun)
3 Appropriate Technology India (ATI) Bhatwari (Uttarkashi), Chamba (Tehri)
4 Center for Business & Entrepreneurial
Development Society (CBED)
Jaunpur (Tehri), Munakot (Pithoragarh)
5 Grameen Samaj Kalyan Samiti (GRASS) Hawalbagh (Almora), Sult (Almora)
6 Action for Social Empowerment
&Economic Development (ASEED)
Augustmuni (Rudraprayag), Jakholi
(Rudraprayag)
7 Indian Farm Forestry Development
Cooperative Ltd (IFFDC)
Bhikiyasain (Almora), Chokhutiya
(Almora)
8 Himmothan Society Tharali (Chamoli), Garur (Bageshwar),
Augustmuni (Rudraprayag)
9 Society for Voluntary Approach in Rural
Development Action (VARDAN)
Kaljikhal (Pauri), Pokhri (Chamoli)
10 Society for upliftment of Villagers and
Development of Himalayan Areas
(SUVIDHA),
Dwarahat (Almora)
11 Gramin Kshetra Vikas Samiti (RADS) Tarikhet (Almora)
12 SWATI Gramodhyog Sansthan Kanalichina (Pithoragarh), Bin
(Pithoragarh)
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Table 19 Financial Progress (UGVS)
During the financial year 2020-21, UGVS achieves 99.77% of its approved target.
Sub- Component Financial
Target (INR Cr) Financial Progress
(INR Cr) Fin (%)
Food Security & Scaling Up 14.56 14.55 99.93
Access to market 10.32 10.32 100.00
Innovation Linkage 1.81 1.80 99.47
Vocational Training 1.50 1.47 98.03
Project Management Unit 10.69 10.65 99.57
Monitoring & Evaluation and
Knowledge Management
1.40 1.40 99.97
Total 40.28 40.19 99.77
Sub Component
From July
2013 up to
31st March
2017
1st April
2017 to
31st March
2018
1st April
2018 to
31st March
2019
1st April
2019 to
31st
March
2020
1st April
2020 to
31st
March
2021
Total
Achievement
Food Security &
Scaling Up 78.6 43.8 45.48 36.55 14.55 218.98
Access to Market 5.3 6.9 24.79 10.27 10.32 57.58
Innovation
Linkages 2.6 6.7 5.69 2.82 1.80 19.61
Vocational
Training 2.5 8.6 11.35 5.88 1.47 29.80
Project
Management 17.4 6.4 9.13 9.42 10.65 53.00
Monitoring &
Evaluation 3.1 1.3 2.73 1.83 1.40 10.36
Total 109.4 73.7 99.20 66.77 40.19 389.33
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Component 2- Participatory Watershed Management Watershed is a hydrological unit of an area draining to a common outlet point. It is
recognized as an ideal unit for planning and development of land, water and vegetation
resource. Watershed concept has been used extensively because of importance of water
balance in the study of ecosystems. Integrated watershed management covering an area
from the highest point (ridge line) to the outlet is, therefore, the process of formulating,
implementing and managing a course of actions involving natural and human resources in a
watershed. It takes into account all the factors operating within the watershed. With time the
watershed management concept has evolved into a decentralized and participatory approach
with financial autonomy to the Panchayati Raj Institution (PRIs), (legal institution under
73rd amendment) thereby improving and ensuring efficient process delivery system. In
watershed management the decision making regarding usage and modification of all
categories of lands and water within the watershed are made in an iterative process with
participation of all stakeholders in the Gram Panchayats (GPs). The repeated meetings and
discussions provides an opportunity to all stakeholders to balance diverse objectives for
enhancement of productivity not only of individually owned resources but also of common
property resources, and to consider how their cumulative actions may ensure long term
sustainable use of all the natural resources. Since the last decade, it has been realized that
ensuring livelihood opportunities and food security of the rural inhabitants is must for a
sustainable watershed management approach; thus, focus on increasing the productivity of
rainfed areas and ensuring livelihood opportunity for weaker section is the mandate of the
project.
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Background-: The Uttarakhand Watershed Development Unit (UWDU) through Govt. of
Uttarakhand has received a credit from IFAD (International Fund for Agriculture
Development) for implementation of Integrated Livelihoods Support Project, (ILSP). The
UWDU is PIA for Project Component -2, Participatory Watershed Development.
Location-: Uttarakhand is a hill state in the north-west of India, covering 53,483 km2 with a
population of about 10.08 million (2011 census). Nine of its 13 districts are classed as hill
districts, covering 77% of the area of the state, but with only 44% of the population.
Livelihoods are still predominantly rural, but most economic and population growth has also
been in the plains, which are becoming industrialized.
Rationale-: The justification for ILSP is the need to stop the deterioration of the productive
infrastructure, make farm labor more productive and farming more remunerative, and hence
provide incentives for people to invest their time and resources in agriculture. Despite the
disadvantages that agriculture faces in the hill areas, Uttarakhand does have the advantage of
cooler temperatures at higher altitudes, allowing production of off season vegetables and
temperate fruits. The horticultural sector is less developed than in the other hill states, so
there is considerable potential for growth, as there are other niche products such as spices,
medicinal and aromatic plants, and nuts.
Another area with growth potential is tourism. However more needs to be done to ensure
that local people fully participate in, and benefit from, this sector. The population is well
educated, but the level of youth unemployment is relatively high. Better vocational training
could help such people find good quality employment in the growth sectors of the country.
Strategy-: The strategy of the project is to adopt a two pronged approach for building
livelihoods in hill districts. The first of these is to support and develop the food production
systems which remain the main means of support for most households. The second main
thrust of the project is to generate cash incomes via the introduction and expansion of cash
crops. These would be grown on a significant scale for markets outside of the state. ILSP will
also support non-farm livelihoods, especially community involvement in rural tourism, and
vocational training.
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PROJECT OBJECTIVE
The objective of the Participatory Watershed Management component is the sustainable
utilization and management of natural resources like water, land and vegetation. It addresses
the issues of sustainable rural livelihood with the participation of local communities to
ensure long term ecological and economic security.
The overall objective (goal) of ILSP is to reduce poverty in hill districts of Uttarakhand. This
would be achieved via the more immediate development objective of “enable rural
households to take up sustainable livelihood opportunities integrated with the wider
economy”.
PROJECT BENEFICIARIES
The project is expected to benefit about 22420 households by enhancing the natural
resource base and improving sustainability, targeting a total of 190 GPs. The project is
providing support to GPs/ Producers Groups/VGs/VPGs/LCs formed under the ILSP to
ensure their sustainability, scale up their agribusiness development and support the
following beneficiary groups:-
Medium, small and marginal farmers: would benefit from: (a) watershed treatment, in
particular, rainwater conservation and water harvesting structures that would increase
water availability and efficiency; (b) improved support services in agriculture, horticulture,
and livestock, including rain fed agriculture development; and (c) agribusiness development
and market linkages. Vulnerable Producers groups (e.g., marginal landholders, landless,
women): would benefit from: (a) improved livelihoods, mainly in the livestock and services
sectors.
PRI institutions, such as GPs: would gain capacity in project management and social
accountability, in particular, in preparing and implementing Gram Panchayat Watershed
Development Plans (GPWDPs). ILSP would also engage Van Panchayats (VPs) in managing
interventions for inter-GP areas and reserve forests. The project would also promote the
formation of community-based organizations, such as Water and Watershed Management
committees, Revenue Village Committees, water user groups, Producer Groups and VGs.
Key institutional stakeholders in watershed development: would benefit under ILSP
through expanded knowledge outreach to Technical Agencies, three district headquarters,
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regional headquarters in each of the two regions of the State of Uttarakhand and the
Watershed Management Directorate (WMD).
PROJECT AREA
The project is spread over an area of around 70,194 Ha. In 22 selected MWS in Middle
Himalayas. About 1,90 Gram Panchayats in 7 Blocks of 3 Districts are identified in the project
area. An estimated 1,07,211 population of the project area is likely to benefit from the project
outcomes.
SN District Block No. of MWS
Micro watershed area
(ha.)
Forest Area (ha.)
Agriculture Area
(ha.)
Other Area (ha.)
No. of
GPs
No. of Villages
No. of HH
Population
1 Pauri Pabau, Ekeshwar
5 16470 11092 4019 1359 48 101 5388 21643
2 Champawat Pati, Champawat, Barakot
4 21011 12613 5678 2720 55 126 5986 30052
3 Nainital Betalghat, Ramgarh
13 32713 18902 8312 5499 87 154 11046 55516
Total 7 22 70194 42607 18009 9578 190 381 22420 107211
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PROJECT SUB-COMPONENTS (PARTICIPATORY WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT)
a) Participatory Watershed Management: The involvement of stakeholders at grass
root level is a vital element of watershed management. TAs has been hired for
technical assistance related to project activities, social awareness and participatory
planning for smooth running of project.
Watershed Development activities are being implemented on the basis of a budget
allocation provided at the GP level calculated based on watershed area and total
population. Within this allocation the communities prioritize, implement, operate and
maintain watershed and other priority investments of the village. The various
activities includesoil and moisture conservation Measures, water harvesting
structures, plantations, pasture development, livestock support and encourage use of
alternate energy sources.
b) Food security enhancement support: Producer Groups (PG) are formed to
introduce, promote and disseminate improved technologies and farming practices.
Technical agency has been hired to support the project subcomponent by forming
PGs, VPGs & LC and providing them technical support of agribusiness development,
financial support, new agriculture technologies, and value chain development.
c) Access to Market: Under this sub-component, the project will:
i. Identify the market potential for the agricultural produce.
ii. Develop collection centres and good storage facilities.
iii. Create centres for value addition of the raw produce.
iv. Identify market linkages, develop market information and logistic services. The
private sector (Technical Agencies) will be encouraged to play a major role in
supporting agribusiness development.
To up-scale production, develop markets for high value crops, and to leverage
producers’ access to production and marketing services, the project is supporting
farmers to organize their PG and VPG into Livelihood Collectives(LCs). The project is
providing input support to LCs. For financial support, PGs/LCs are being linked with
banks and other financial institutions.
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d) Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management: This will finance
organizational change management initiatives to realign the WMD to the new
implementation arrangements and the increased role of GPs. Under project
monitoring, links would be developed between the Management Information Systems,
Geographic Information Systems and impact evaluation. Participatory monitoring of
the project activities by the communities would be introduced in addition to the
tracking of physical and financial milestones.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS– COMMUNITY DRIVEN DECENTRALIZED DEVELOPMENT
APPROACH
Formulation of Gram Panchayat Watershed Development Plans (GPWDP) by the
community.
Involvement of beneficiary contribution in major activities.
Budget envelop for GPWDP is calculated on the basis of 35% population and 65% GP area
weightage with a minimum cap of Rs. 40.00 lakhs and a maximum cap of Rs. 100.00 Lakh.
The budget envelope is communicated to each Gram Panchayats of the Project area.
In compliance with the 73rd constitutional amendment, a true financial and
administration autonomy has been given to Gram Panchayats. The Project fund is being
operated by the joint signature of Gram Pradhan and MDT.
Appointment of Account Assistant by Gram Panchayat
Appointment of village level woman motivator
Procurement and financial system manuals for GPs
Provision of Women Aam Sabha and 50% women representation in RVCs
Community procurement
Involvement of Technical Agencies (TA) at various formulations and operating level of the
Project.
GIS based mapping of monitoring.
External monitoring on 10% random sample basis of the Project. .
Focus on Producers Group, Water User Groups, and Vulnerable Groups.
Formation of LCs for Agribusiness initiative
Market linkages through Technical Agencies (TA).
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Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation at GP level
Convergence at GP level with other development programmes/schemes.
TOTAL PROJECT COST FOR THE COMPONENT- 2 The total project cost of Participatory Watershed Management Sub- Project is estimated to be
INR 286.94 crores. The Project has financed by an IFAD loan of INR 211.81 crores (73.82%),
a contribution of State Govt. of INR 55.97 Cr (19.51%), and INR 19.16 Cr. (6.67%) from
beneficiaries. Significant additional funds to members of project groups through convergence
with other government programmes.
S.N Sub Component & Activities Amount in Crore (INR)
Percentage (%)
1 Participatory Watershed Management 235.73 82.15 2 Food Security and Livelihood Up
scaling 41.75 14.55
3 Access to Market 5.29 1.84
4 Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management
4.17 1.46
TOTAL 286.94 100
Similarly, IFAD, State and Beneficiary share in PS-WMD project is shown as under:
S.N Contribution Amount in Crore (INR)
Percentage (%)
1 IFAD 211.81 73.82 2 State Share 55.97 19.51
3 Beneficiary Share 19.16 6.67 TOTAL 286.94 100
EXPECTED OUTCOME INDICATORS
Participatory watershed development:
200 hac. Fallow lands brought under cultivation
3800 hac. Increased area under rainfed crop and production
Watershed management
22 micro-watershed planned and implemented
19,650 ha treated
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Food security & scaling up:
Farmers reporting increased productivity (End target 60%)
Sustainability of community organizations:
Federations and LCs livelihood collectives operating successfully (End Target 60%)
Market access:
Increases in farm-gate prices over baseline (End Target 100%)
MONITORING IN THE PROJECT Under the project the tools for monitoring of each activities has been distributed as under:
1. Internal Monitoring: By the WMD staff, through MIS/GIS and field visits.
2. External Monitoring: Baseline Survey, Annual outcome survey, mid-term review and
final impact evaluation.
3. Social Audit: Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) at GP level by the
Stakeholders.
4. Environmental and Social Safeguard Monitoring: Integrated with the development
and implementation of the GP/MWS plans.
5. Evidence based monitoring: Short studies and consultancies.
AUDIT ARRANGEMENTS IN THE PROJECT 1. External Audit: Annual statutory audit by an independent firm of chartered
accountants appointed by C.P.C.U
2. Internal Audit: Internal audit by the internal auditor and audit manager appointed
under the project for audit of project offices.
3. GP Audit: All the Gram Panchayats in the project will be subjected to the annual audit
by an independent firm of chartered accountants.
STATUTORY COMMITTEES IN THE PROJECT 1. At Gram Panchayat level– The statuary committee is Water and Watershed
Management Committee (WWMC) which functions under the Chairmanship of Gram
Pradhan.
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2. At District level– District Watershed Committee (DWC) is the statuary committee
which functions under the Chairmanship of Zila Panchayat Adhayaksh.
3. At State level – Project State Steering Committee under the Chairmanship of Additional
Chief Secretary and FRDC, Govt. of Uttarakhand is the statuary committee.
PROJECT PERIOD The project period will be for nine years i.e. from 2012 to 2021.
PROJECT PERFORMANCE
PHYSICAL PROGRESS REPORT DURING 1st APRIL 2020 – 31st March 2021
1. SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND PARTICIPATORY WATERSHED PLANNING
All190 GPs has completed works planned for Gram Panchayat in Gram Panchayat
Development Plan (GPWDPs).
Table 20 PHYSICAL PROGRESS UNDER "WATERSHED AND VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT"
S N Activity Unit Achiev. Till Last
31st March 2020
Achiev. (1st April 2020 – 31st March
2021)
Cumulative Achievement till 31st March
2021
PROGRESS UNDER "GPWDP"
1 Treatment of Arable Land/Agriculture
Terrace repair/vegetative field boundary
Cubic meter
65942.72 9638.63 75581.35
Agriculture Minikit Nos. 6116 752 6868 Agri/Horti Tools Nos. 1481 - 1481
2 Horticulture Bio/ vermi- compost Nos 577 - 577
Homestead plantation Hac. 817.68 63.55 881.23
Orchard Development Hac. 147.428 15 162.428
Poly house Nos 578 47 625
Poly tunnel Nos 211 - 211
3 Livestock Mangers Nos 1873 234 2107
Animal chari Nos 293 22 315
Napier Crop Border Plantation
Hac. 656 - 656
Chaff Cutter Nos 1581 107 1688
Fodder Minikit Nos. 1216 - 1216
4 Forestry Fuelwood (1600 plant /Hac.)
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Advance Soil Work Hac. 15 - 15
Plantation Hac. 15 - 15
Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 15 - 15
Maintenance-IInd year Hac. 15 - 15
Afforestation (1000 plant /Hac.)
Advance Soil Work Hac. 533.9 - 533.9
Plantation Hac. 533.9 - 533.9
Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 533.9 - 533.9
Maintenance-IInd year Hac. 513.5 20.4 533.9
Silvipasture (800 plant /Hac.)
Advance Soil Work Hac. 88 - 88
Plantation Hac. 88 - 88
Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 88 - 88
Maintenance-IInd year Hac. 88 - 88
Fodder/ Pasture Development (400 plant /Hac.)
Advance Soil Work Hac. 188 - 188
Plantation Hac. 188 - 188
Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 188 - 188
Maintenance-IInd year Hac. 188 - 188
Assisted Natural Regeneration of Oak Areas Advance Soil Work Hac. 379.5 - 379.5
Plantation Hac. 379.5 - 379.5
Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 379.5 - 379.5
Maintenance-IInd year Hac. 379.5 - 379.5
5 Drainage Line Treatment & Soil Conservation
Vegetative Treatment R.mtr 6009 - 6009
Construction of
Vegetative Check dam
Nos 388 148 536
Construction of Dry Stone
Check dam
Cum 100864.38
7755.35 108619.73
Construction of Crate
Wire Check dam
Cum 64034.63 2817.07 66851.7
Construction of Retaining
Wall(Gabion Structure)
Cum 64637.641
8837.457 73475.098
Construction of Diversion
Drain with Safe Disposal
Meter 2434 68 2502
Road side erosion control Cum 64759.1 4888.175 69647.275
River Bank Protection
Cum 26146.06 5680.92 31826.98
Construction of Cross
Barrier/ Spur
Cum 1415 - 1415
6 Water Irrigation channel Km 87.093 17.941 105.034
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Harvesting & Minor Irrigation
Irrigation tank Nos 438 46 484
Roof Water Harvesting
Tank
Nos 6081 335 6416
Village Pond Nos 74 16 90
Polythene Lined tank Nos 174 28 202
Naula/Dhara
Rejuvenation
Nos 187 34 221
Solar Water Pump Nos 13 4 17
7 Catchment area treatment
Digging of Contour
Trenches
Nos 45572 20850 66422
Recharge Pits Nos 6514 3790 10304
Construction of Dugout
Pond /Chalkhal
Nos 172 111 283
Rejuvenation of existing
Chal/Khal/ Naula (set of
activities )
Nos 394 4 398
8 Rural Access Construction of Small Bridges(up to 5 mt. Span)
Nos 338 5 343
9 Energy Conservation
Solar devices Nos 2609 86 2695
ADDITIONAL SAVING FUND-PROGRESS UNDER "WATERSHED AND VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT "-
1 WATER HARVESTING/
HOLDING STRUCTURES
Village Pond Nos - 25 25
2 GeoMembrane Lined Tank Nos 50 512 562
3 Irrigation Channel/ Pipeline
Km. 17.46 132.54 150.00
4 Irrigation Tank Nos 17 36 53
5 Polythene Lined tank Nos 5 38 43
6 Micro/Sprinkler System Nos 1 3 4
7 Solar Water Pump Nos 1 43 44
8 RCC Check Dam Cum. - 1 1
1 SPRINGSHED SOURCE
TREATMENT (SSP)
Assisted Natural Regeneration of Oak Areas
2 Advance Soil Work Hac. 20 - 20
3 Plantation Hac. - 20 20
4 Orchard Development Hac. 4 - 4
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5 Napier Crop Border Plantation
Hac. - 640.14 640.14
6 Drainage Line Treatment & Soil Conservation work
Cum. 860 22322 23182
7 Construction of Dugout
Pond /Chalkhal
Nos 30 680 710
8 Rejuvenation of existing
Chal/Khal/ Naula (set of
activities )
Nos - 83 83
9 Village Pond Nos - 16 16
10 Digging of Contour
Trenches
Nos 18737 212120 230857
11 Recharge Pits Nos 1043 28627 29670
Table 21 PROGRESS UNDER NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES- INTER
GP SPACE (MWS)
S. No.
Activity Unit Achiev. Till Last
31st March 2020
Achiev. (1st April 2020
– 31st March 2021)
Cumulative Achievement
till 31st March 2021
1 Forestry Bamboo
Advance Soil Work Hac. 6.5 - 6.5
Plantation Hac. 6.5 - 6.5
Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 6.5 - 6.5
Afforestation
Advance Soil Work Hac. 172.7 - 172.7
Plantation Hac. 172.7 - 172.7
Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 116.7 56 172.7
Assisted Natural Regeneration of Oak Areas Advance Soil Work Hac. 166.5 - 166.5
Plantation Hac. 166.5 - 166.5
Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 50.5 116 166.5
2 Drainage Line Treatment & Soil Conservation
Vegetative Treatment R.mtr 4304 204 4508
Construction of Dry
Stone Check dam
Cum 45005 13621 58625
Construction of Crate
Wire Check dam
Cum 39029 14864 53893
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Construction of
Retaining Wall(Gabion
Structure)
Cum 16149 9768 25917
River Bank Protection
Cum 1736.3 721.35 2457.65
3 Water Harvesting & Minor Irrigation and Catchment area treatment
Village Pond Nos 26 30 56
Digging of Contour
Trenches
Nos 49119 43849 92968
Recharge Pits Nos 10452 9361 19768
Construction of Dugout
Pond /Chalkhal
Nos 622 210 832
Rejuvenation of
existing Chal/Khal/
Naula (set of activities
)
Nos 136 149 285
2. ENHANCING FOOD SECURITY AND LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES
In the project document of Integrated Livelihood Support Project (ILSP), it is mentioned
on gender that “the flow of benefits directly to women would be ensured by having at
least 50% of female membership in producer groups". Under the project activities in
PS-WMD, equal and meaningful participation of both men and women is ensured at all
levels as per the guidelines of the project. There is 61% participation of females in
project activities.
S. No. Activity Unit Cumulative
Achievement till 31st March 2021
1 No. of GPs in which Producer Groups has been formed
No. 190
2 No. of Producer Groups has been formed
No. 1681
3 No. of Farmers in Producer Groups No. 15668
A- Male No. 6129
B- Female No. 9539 4 No. of Vulnerable Producer Groups has
been formed No 268
5 No. of Farmers in Vulnerable Producer Groups
No. 1621
A- Male No. 687
B- Female No. 934
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Table 22 PROGRESS UNDER PRODUCER GROUPS/VULNERABLE PRODUCER GROUPS
Activity Unit
Achiev. Till Last 31st
March 2020
Achiev. (1st April
2020– 31st March 2021)
Cumulative Achievement till 31st March 2021
Food Security Enhancement Support
Cereal and pulses-Rabi ( wheat,Lentil, Mustard,Pea,Toria,etc)
Ha. 1081.11 250.72 1331.83
Cereal and pulses-Kharif (Paddy,Soya,been,Arhar,Ragi,Millets,etc)
Ha. 1158.16 305.33 1463.49
Off season Vegetable (Tomato, capsicum, radish,bean, cauliflower, cabbage, onion,pumpkin,etc)
Ha. 1604.23 282.35 1886.58
Spices- Turmeric Ha. 149.41 57.97 207.38
Ginger Ha. 153.49 65.26 218.75
Garlic Ha. 97.15 37.90 135.05 Chilli Ha. 146.64 69.28 215.92
Coriander Ha. 90 30.19 120.19 Others Ha. 58.95 38 96.95
3. ACCESS TO MARKET
a) Establishment of Agribusiness Growth Centre-:
The Government of Uttarakhand has embarked upon a Growth Centre (GC) Scheme in
2018, for establishment of growth centres in specific rural areas to promote identified
economic activities and help specialized/niche local produce and services reach the
national and international market. In this regard ILSP WMD has established 7
Agribusiness Growth Centres in 3 Divisions (3 in Nainital, 2 in Champawat and 2 in
Pauri) to create income-generating opportunities and reduce out-migration of the
youth, which is currently a major challenge for the state.
Table 23 Agribusiness Growth Centre (ILSP) Progress Report March,2021
S.N
Growth Centers
(Approved)
Approved Budget (Rs
in Lakh)
Total Expense (Rs
In Lakh)
Name of LC Year of
operation of LC
PGs Linked to LCs
Members
Linked to
ABGC
Turnover of ABGC (Rs. In Lakh)
Profit of
ABGC (Rs. In
Lakh) 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11
1 Amel ABGC
50 47.06255
DevbhoomiAjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, Amel
24 Sep 2017
74 655 38.82 1.72
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2 Bohra ABGC
50 44.34855
DevbhoomiAjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, TallaRamgarh
16 Nov 2017
64 439 48.47 1.90
3 Mallakot ABGC
50 48.30758
Jai MaaAmbeAjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, Mallakot
28 Oct 2017
85 737 37.80 3.47
4 Kotli ABGC 50 50.00000
Bharadi Devi AjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, Kotli
11 Jan 2018
85 869 18.39 0.97
5 Pinani ABGC
50 50.00000
PinaniAjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, Pingad
7 Dec 2017
47 471 33.80 0.92
6 Goshani ABGC
50 49.97150
MahaUjjwalaAjeevikaSwayatt
Sehkarita, Goshani
1 Jan 2018 49 454 24.08 0.71
7 KaalchakraDevta ABGC
50 49.99786
KalchakraDevtaAjeevikaSway
attSehkarita, Naumana
26 Oct 2017
47 380 14.40 0.47
TOTAL 350 339.6 451 4005 215.76 10.16
b) Business Details carried out by Livelihood Collectives-:
Project is being promoting their LCs/Federation through collective efforts with a
sustainable business model. Presently around 30 LCs in the 3 Divisions (Nainital,
Champawat and Pauri) During the reporting period (1st April 2020 to 31st March
2021) around 30 livelihood collectives (LCs) of project districts were engaged in
various business activities and earned a turnover of Rs. 5.55 Cr. The business of all
LCs in comparison to last fiscal year has been doubled (LCs turnover for FY 2019-20
was Rs. 3.75 Cr).
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Aggregation of produce is being done in the Collection centres and small collection
centres of LCs. Till March 2021 a total of 90 small Collection centres at village level
and 29 Collection centres at LC level were functional to facilitate the backward and
forward linkages.
LCs are participating in Weekly Haat bazaar are regularly being organized in each
division; wherein all theLCs are participating and selling local vegetables, rural farm
and processed producesdirectly to consumers.
Market linkage creation-: The project team facilitated LCs to enhance the marketing of
the produce by following practices-:
a. Organisation of buyer-seller meets-27 (No.)
b. Organisation and setting up of Haats and Kisaan outlets.-3 in each division.
c. LC linked to supply of agriculture produce for midday meals to primary schools.-
99 schools
Table 24 Value Addition Support (FY 2020-21)
S.N Activities
Turnover FY
2019-20 (In Rs.
Lakhs)
Turnover FY 2020-21
(In Rs. Lakhs)
1 Traditional Crops (Grading, Packaging,
Processing (Flour Mill)
119.01 209.30972
2 Offseason Vegetables (Grading, Sorting,
Packaging)-
177.46 241.28754
1.04
3.74
5.55
0.07
0.20
0.30
2018-19
2019-20
2020-21
Yearly LC Business and Profit Details
Approx. Profit (Rs in Crore) Turn over/ Sale (Rs in Crore)
Comparison of business of LCs in FY 2018-19 (Rs 1.04 crore),and Last FY 2019-20 (Rs 3.74 Crore). FY 2020-21 Till the month of March 2021 (Rs 5.55 Crore).
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3 Dairy (Collection & Marketing)- 8.50 2.64483
4 Fruits (Grading-Sorting, Processing (Juice,
Squash, Pickles), Packaging (Carton
Boxes)-
19.98 29.44691
5 RNFS (Rural Non Farm Sector, Daily use
items)-:
47.70 68.10974
6 MAP (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants)-: 1.36 4.43408
7 Poultry (Eggs) 0.47 0
TOTAL 374.48 555.23
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Table 25 Details of Livelihood Collectives-:
S. N. Activity Unit Achiev. Till Last 31st
March 2020
Achiev. (1st April 2020 – 31st March
2021)
Cumulative Achievement till 31st March 2021
1 No. of LCs has been formed and registered
No. 30 0 30
2 No. of Gram Panchayats (GPs) in LC
No. 190 0 190
3 No. of Members in LC 16752 0 16752
4 No. of members who have deposited their share money
No. 16919 0 16919
5 No. of Agribusiness plan has been prepared
No. 30 0 30
6 No. of Agribusiness plan has been implemented
No. 30 0 30
4. CAPACITY BUILDING PRAGRAMMES( TRAINING/WORKSHOPS/EXPOSURE VISITS)
For smooth implementation of project activities, capacity building of all the stakeholders is
essential, to build their conceptual, managerial, technical and operational capabilities.
capacity building programmes has enhanced skills and competence of project staff to work
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with GPs. Training on different subjects like Procurement Rules, Orientation Workshop on
Agribusiness, Agriculture, Horticulture, Soil & water conservation, Entrepreneurship
development Integrated Pest Management and Post project Management were given to
stakeholder to ensure the smooth and sustainable implementation and management of the
project activities. Exposure visits have created awareness among the males and females and
enabled them to witness improved technology in agriculture, horticulture, livestock,
agribusiness and entrepreneurship development programme.
The trainings, exposure visits, capacity building and skill up gradation activities have led to a
change in the attitude and perceptions of the community.
Table 26 Total No. of Trainings for Community (WWMC/GP/PG/VPGs) upto March
2021
Type of
Participants Training Title
Total Nos. of
training
Total Participants
Male Female Total
PG/VPGs/LCs,
WWMC/RVC
Orientation, Project
Planning
212 4541 6271 10812
PG/VPGs Plant protection, IPM,
Best farm practices
58 1222 1272 2494
TOTAL 270 5763 7543 13306
After MTR, Funding for training component was excluded for PSWMD. Only funding for
workshops at GP/Divisional/Regional/State Level was provided.
Progress post MTR in Workshops
Table 27 Unit Level Workshops
Type of Participants
Workshop Title Total Nos. of training
Total Participants
Male Female Total
PG/VPGs/LCs Plant protection and IPM 631 13464 13997 27461
PG/VPGs/LCs Capacity building workshop for marketing of produce and PG/VPGs savings and inter loaning
386 8017 11552 19569
PG/VPGs/LCs Livestock Development and fodder cultivation
42 1060 1254 2314
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WWMC/RVC Soil & Moisture conservation 297 7543 4519 12062
Account assistants of WWMC
Workshop on Procurement Rules, LC financial Management
147 3475 4139 7614
Project Staff (Unit Staff, TA staff)
Capacity building and orientation
766 15039 18109 33148
PG/VPGs/LCs Man Animal Conflict 4 0 0 0
PG/VPGs/LCs Sustainability Planning and development (MIS and crop insurance)
584 13307 13764 27071
PG/VPGs/LCs Livelihood enhancement through agribusiness and income generation
253 4651 5867 10518
Total 3110 66556 73201 126396
Table 28 Division Level Workshops
Type of Participants Workshop Title Total Nos. of
training
Total Participants
Male Female Total
WWMC, RVC, TA, GP Account assistants, Village motivators, PG, VPGs
Agriculture and Horticulture best practices, capacity building and orientation
270 7972 4691 12663
PG/VPGs/LCs MIS, Tally Workshop 23 871 850 1721
Project staff Project Review By District administration
18 349 243 592
Total 311 9192 5784 14976
Exposure Visits-:
Funding has been provided for exposure visits within and outside the state as under
Type of Participants
Workshop Title Total Nos. of training
Total Participants
Male Female Total
PG/VPGs,Project Staff
Cross visits to UGVS areas, GRAMYA project areas, APMC Mandi's, GBPUA&T Pantnagar University, Solan H.P.
183 1311 466 1777
Total 183 1311 466 1777
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Therefore total Nos. of training, workshops and exposure visit in PSWMD is shown as
under-:
No. of Trainings/
workshop/ Exposure
visit
Total No. of
participants
Male
Participants
Female
Participants
Participation
% of female
participants
3874 169816 82822 86994 51%
This table shows that women participation in trainings and workshops for project activities
is 51%.
Table 29 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT COORDINATION-
S. No.
Activity Unit Cumulative Achievement till 31st March 2021
Trainings 1 Social Training at village level No. 1796
2 Technical Training at village level
No. 395
3 Training on production technology
No. 98
4 Training at Resource centers No. 77 Workshops
S. No.
Activity Unit Achiev. Till Last
31st March 2020
Achiev. (1st April 2020 – 31st March
2021)
Cumulative Achievement
till 31st March 2021
5 Unit level workshop No. 2739 371 3110
6 Divisional level workshop No. 265 46 311
Exposure Visits 7 Exposure visit with in /out
state No. 166 17 183
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Table 30 DETAILS OF EXPENDITURE IN FY 2020-21 (1st April 2020–31st March 2021)
Progress of FY 2020-21 Against Approved Annual Work Plan 2020-21 Under-ILSP (PSWMD)
Rs. In crore
Account Code
Project activities Exp. Upto 2019-20
AWPB 2020-21
Progress FY 2020-
21
Cumulative Expenditure
1 2 3 4 5 6
21000 Participatory Watershed Development
21100 A. Social Mobilization 15.28 2.90 2.72 17.99
21200 B. Watershed & Village Development
120.94 33.12 33.44 154.38
21300 C. Institutional Strengthening
5.92 0.88 0.69 6.62
21400 D. Project Management
38.20 8.48 6.05 44.25
22000 Food Security & Scaling Up
31.76 10.72 9.95 41.71
23000 Access to Market 5.12 4.15 3.95 9.07
42000 Monitoring Evaluation & Knowledge Management
2.26 1.21 0.40 2.66
GRAND TOTAL 219.50 61.46 57.19 276.69
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Table 31 STATUS OF REIMBURSEMENT
Statement of Use of Funds by Category
Expenditure up to 31-03-2020 During the year 2020-21 Cumulative from the beginning up to the Month
Rs. In"000"
Category Expenditure
IFAD Share
State Share
Benf Contribut
ion
Expenditure
IFAD Share
State Share
Beneficiary
Contribution
Expendit
ure
IFAD Share
State Share
Beneficiary
Contribution
Released Amount
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
1-Civil Works
57477 51418 5713 346 46704 36635 5066 5003 104181 88053 10779 5348 77115
II-Watershed Treatment
120942
9 994967 110552 103910 334407 258689 28743 46975 1543836 1253655 139295 150886 1205247
III-Vehicle, Equipment and Materials
14204 10653 3551 0 16737 11129 5608 0 30941 21782 9159 0 14519
IV- Capacity Building
272764 238352 15289 19123 37413 33006 4406 0 310177 271359 19695 19123 245135
V-Livelihood Financing
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
VI-Service Provider Contracts
309539 278585 30954 0 89250 75385 13865 0 398788 353970 44819 0 339438
VII- Incremental Salary and Operating Costs
331557 56125 275432 0 47392 9732 37660 0 378949 65857 313092 0 63144
TOTAL 2194969 1630101 441490 123379 571903 424576 95349 51978 2766872 2054676 536838 175358 1944598
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Table 32 PROPOSED REVISED ANNUAL WORK PLAN FY-2020-21 (PS-WMD) (Rs In 000)
Integrated Livelihood Support Project(ILSP)
Summary of Revised AWP&B 2020-21
Watershed Managment Directorate, Dehradun Account
Code Project Activity Total Annual Target GoUK IFAD Ben
21000 Participatory watershed Management
21100 a) Social Mobilization 28958 2895.8 26062.2 0
21200 b) Watershed & Village Development 331190 33119 264952 33119
21300 c) Institutional Strengthening 8750 875 7875 0
21400 d) Project Managment 84835 58078 26758 0
22000 Food Security & scaling Up* 107236 10724 91658 4855
23000 Access to Market 41511 4151.1 37359.9 0
42000 M & E and K. M. 12123 2997.55 9125.45 0
Total 614603 112840 463790 37974
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Table 33 Results achieved so far (with reference to achievement of objectives)-: Component-2
COMPONENT
OUTCOMES
Indicators Progress Remark
Food security & scaling up: households from hill communities benefited from increased crop and livestock production
-farmers reporting
increased productivity
(End target 60%)
Total farmer in the
project area –17609
11486 No. of farmers report
increase in farm productivity (i.e.
67.40 %)
Increase in productivity is reported for both Rabi and
Kharif crops due to introduction improved varieties,
change in cropping patterns and farming practices,.
Sustainability of community organizations: Sustainable community institutions
--Federations and LCs
livelihood collectives
operating successfully
(End Target 60%)
All 30 LCs are operating
successfully
Criteria's for evaluation of LCs operating successfully-:
Maintaining proper records and documentation.
Regular BOD meetings
Business operations
LC making profit in last two business cycles.
Market access: Improved market access for rural households
-increases in farm-gate
prices over baseline (End
Target 100%)
There has been an increase in
farmgate prices of almost all agri-
horti crops. (Average 33%
increase in farm gate prices of
major crops like Finger Millet,
Turmeric, Cabbage, Wheat, Green
Peas etc.)
66% HHs in the project area have reported increase in income from sales of agricultural produce (AOS 2018)
63% HHs are selling their farm produce through Cooperatives (LC) (AOS2018)
Participatory watershed development: 20,000 households with improved access to water and become less vulnerable to erosion
-200 hac. Fallow lands
brought under
cultivation;
Total 270.912 ha. Achievement
under fallow land/barren land.
146.8 ha. Orchard Development
26 ha. Homestead Plantation
50.08 ha. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
48.032 ha. Vegetable Production
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-3800 hac. Increased area
under rainfed crop and
production
Total 5676.14 ha. Area has been
cultivated under rainfed crop and
production.
1331.83 ha. Cereal and pulses- Rabi (Wheat, Lentil,
Mustard, Pea, Toria, etc.)
1463.49 ha. Cereal and pulses-Kharif (Paddy, Soya bean,
Arhar, Ragi, Millets, etc.)
1886.58 ha. Off season Vegetable (Tomato, capsicum,
radish, bean, cauliflower, cabbage, onion, pumpkin, etc.)
994.24 ha. Spices- (Turmeric, Ginger, Garlic, Chilli,
Coriander & Others)
Watershed management -22 micro-watershed
planned and
implemented
-19,650 ha treated
22 MWS plans prepared and
under implementation.
27150 hac. of area has been
treated with various Soil moisture
conservation interventions like
Afforestation ,DLT etc.
-
-
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Component 3- Livelihood finance – UPASaC
UPASaC has initiated multiple activities to facilitate the members of Producer
Groups and Livelihood Collectives. The component is being implemented in all
44 blocks of 9 hill districts. Some of the key initiatives and their results are as
under -
Product Literacy Training - Building financial capabilities
In the financial literacy training programs, UPASaC educated the participants
i.e. the SHGs/PGs/VPGs/ federations/ livelihood collectives about various
banks products like savings, bank accounts, fixed deposit accounts,
SukanyaSamriddhi accounts, Gold bonds and also about loan products like
KCC, CCL, Term Loan, Mudra Loan, Gold Loans and other Govt. schemes etc.
This has resulted in building financial capabilities of members. During the
financial year 2019-20, 89 training benefitted 3215 Beneficiaries of 971
PG/VPG from 202 Livelihood cooperatives in 44 blocks having 2493 female
participants.
Risk Insurance Workshops
UPASaC has conducted workshops on Life insurance, Crop insurance;
Livestock insurance schemes for benefit of the members of PGs/ VPGs and
LCs. Programmes on General insurance has also conducted to create
awareness about the risks in business and how to cover the risks. Various
companies fill up the application forms and collected premium fees in the
programmes. UPASaC played a facilitative role in this process and covering
Agriculture insurance (PMFBY) with the collaboration of AIC, Cattle Insurance
(ULDB) and health insurance (PMSBY & PMJJBY) with the help of banks. 1%
incentive is being paid to cooperatives on total premium. Livelihood
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Collectives are also benefited as they support in claim settlement. UPASaC
conducts special trainings for LCs on claim settlements.
S.N. Type of
Insurance
Covered
PG/VPG
Covered
LC
Insured
Value (INR
in Lakh)
Premium
Paid (INR
in Lakh)
UPASAC
SHARE (INR
in Lakh)
No of HH
Covered
1 Cattle
Insurance
03 01 16.800 0.39 0.000394 26
2 Crop
Insurance
1406 56 561.260 28.22 2.61874 8637
3 Health
Insurance
61 5 47.834 0.22 .000225 256
TOTAL 1470 62 625.894 28.83 2.6194 8919
Total 38 insurance workshops and 57 training on insurance claim
settlement have been organised in which 11367 project beneficiaries
from 157 LCs participated.
2629 project beneficiaries from 254 PGs/VPGs (33 LCs) got insurance
claim of INR 2.25 Cr. under crop insurance in five project districts –
Almora, Pauri, Pithoragarh, Tehri and Dehradun.
23 Project beneficiaries from 18 PGs/VPGs (9 LCs) got insurance claim
of INR 7.14 Lakh under Cattle Insurance Scheme (10 mules, 7 goats, 1
buffalo and 8 cow) in three districts during the year.
9,106 Project beneficiaries from 110 LCs have been insured under
Crop/Cattle/Health and as per the arrangement of paying 1% incentive
(1% of premium amount) to LCs an amount of INR 193,476 is paid.
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Workshop State, District Level and Cluster level – on banking products
project appraisal
Workshops are conducted at State, District and Cluster level to educate the
SHGs /PGs/VPGs and LCs about the financial literacy so as to create demand
for financial products & services which can be availed through banks. This
helps in decision making about the potential and useful deposits and
investment option and credit facilities of banks for sustainable livelihoods.
Members of PGS/VPGs and LCs are provided with the knowledge of banking
products and services i.e. savings accounts, fix deposit accounts and other
deposits schemes of the banks. They are also educated about the different
credit schemes i.e. KCC, CCL, Term Loan, Mudra Loan and other govt schemes.
Workshops/trainings are also organised on credit/loan proposals acceptable
to banks. Training on EDP and personality development, Marketing and
running business professionally and timely repayment of loan etc. is also
given.
15 trainings on banking products & appraisal skills and 23 workshops
at districts level has been organized, in which 1858 members from 116
LCs have benefitted.
Interest subvention benefits
UPASaC is also providing Interest Subvention Benefits to Producer Groups. If
banks extend credit @ 12% per annum UPASaC gives 5% interest subvention
benefit. Thus the borrower gets credit at 7% instead of 12%.
Overall, UPASaC has been playing a facilitative role by working with
Livelihood collectives, PGs/ VPGs and the banks and other financial
institutions. Mainly financial capabilities are enhanced, interest subvention
benefits are provided. LCs are strengthened economically with the help of
UPASaC.
74 LCs, 70 PGs/VPGs benefitted from interest subvention of Rs 12.73
Lakh.
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Bank Finance
Under the bank finance UPASAC is facilitating Cash Credit Limit, Term Loan
and Kisan credit card. So far during reporting period, Rs 34.85 Crore KCC has
been done for 7122 households, Rs 10.79 Crore CCL has been done for 49
cooperatives and 1059 groups, and Rs 11.32 Crore TL has been done for 32
cooperatives and 1086 individuals. These cooperatives are doing micro
financing to the community. 10 LCs have done around Rs 75 lakhs micro
financing.
Cumulative progress of bank finance is, 3140 Term Loans of INR 33.36 Crore,
4148 Cash Credit Limit of INR 30.30 Crore and 21172 Kisan Credit Cards of
INR 100.56 Crore.
Table 34 Key Activities and No of LC avail CCL
S.N. Name of Activity No of LC
1 Micro Finance 12 2 Agri up- Scaling (AUP) 12 3 THR 5 4 café on Wave 1 5 Vehicle 25 6 Farm Machinery Bank 55 7 Spice & Oil Unit 3 8 Local Product (Pulses , Rice Purchase and Sell
Out) 36
9 Masala Chakki 1 10 Pickle Unit 1 11 Rice Seller 3 12 Genset 1
Convergence –
Total 07 loans (04 male and 03 female) disbursed under Pandit Deen Dayal
Upadhaya Cattle Scheme.(convergence with dept. & Co-Operative Bank) at
Uttarkashi.
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Total 27 loans (26 female & 01 male ) disbursed under DEDS scheme of
NABARD (convergence with NABARD) Almora & Pauri
04 trainings (10days) conducted on dairy development with Veterinary
dept. and RSETI, total 124 participants are benefited.(Convergence with
Veterinary Dept and RSETI Pithoragarh & Bageshwar.
02 trainings (10days) conducted on dairy development with Goatry
development with Animal Husbandry dept. and RSETI, total 77 participants
are benefited.(Convergence with Veterinary Dept and RSETI Pithoragarh &
Bageshwar.
Organized 01 Cattle vaccination camp with Animal Husbandry dept. total
74 participants from 23 PG/VPG are benefited.(Convergence with A.H Dept
(Almora)
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Table 35 Financial Progress (UPASaC)
During the financial year 2020-21, UPASaC achieved 122% of its approved
target.
SN Sub- Component
Financial
Target
(INR
Lakh)
Financial
Progress
(INR
Lakh)
% Remarks
1 Financial Initiatives 15.00 14.91 99.40
3215 Participants
from 202 LCs (M-
724 & F-2493)
2 Risk Management 32.00 31.68 99.07
14553 Beneficiaries
from 168 LC (1%
Incentive paid to LC
on premium)
3 Banking Initiatives 91.78 88..26 96.16 2057 members from
172 LCs/fed.
4
Fund support to LCs
(INTEREST
SUBVENTION)
15.00 12.73 83.53
74 LC and 70 PG
Interest Subvention
is being paid as
difference of
applicable rate and
7%
5 UPASaC and Bank
Finance 4600.00 5697.12 123.85
7122 KCC,1059 CCL,
1420TL
6 UPASaC Management 138.28 118.55 85.73 Administrative
Expenses
Total 4892.06 5963.2 122
From July 2013 upto 31st March 2017, UPASaC financial progress was INR
31.75 Cr and from 1st April 2017 upto 31st March 2018 financial progress is
INR 36.66 Cr and from 1st April 2018 upto 31st March 2019 financial progress
is INR 54.89 Cr and from 1st April 2020 upto 31st March 2021 financial
progress is INR 59.63 Cr .
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Component 4- Project coordination and management
Project Coordination and Management
Each executing agency including UGVS has its own Project Management Units
headed by a Project Director or Managing Director. Central Project
Coordination Unit (CPCU) headed by Chief Project Director (CPD), has been
set up to provide overall coordination between the executing agencies.
A State level Project Steering Committee (PSC) has been setup under the
chairmanship of Chief Secretary. The PSC has established a Project
Management Committee (PMC) chaired by APC.
District Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DCMC) - Each district
organized DCMC meetings during the reporting period FY 2020-21. The
district level committee in each district covers ILSP activities and monitor and
coordinate project implementation at the district level and ensure linkages
between the project, line agencies/ departments and other government
agencies.
District Implementation and Coordination Committee (DICC) - A District
Implementation and Coordination Committee (DICC) has been constituted
under Chairmanship of District Magistrate and Co-chaired by Chief
Development Officer. Each district organized DICC meetings during the
reporting period FY 2020-21, therefore an effective convergence/dovetailing
benefits the community.
Annual Outcome Survey
Annual Outcome Survey is conducted every year for monitoring the outcome
level result and effectiveness of project implementation. As per MTR
recommendation this time Central Project Coordination Unit (CPCU) has
conducted Annual Outcome Survey 2019 through an external consultant.
The following are the main findings of the Annual Outcome Survey-2018 in
the form of key performance indicators:
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Integrated Livelihood Support Project has proved to be a holistic and
sustainable model for the livelihoods of rural households in Uttarakhand as it
has multiple services available for rural households through one or the other
component.
Results of all the three components of the project reveal the fact that all
the three components are complementary to each other and makes the
project – A holistic project on Livelihood
One of the important fact that has emerged from the AOS 2019 that
project worked like a „single window’ solution for the problems of the
farmers as they were able to get support in getting the appropriate
inputs, technical guidance for cultivation, Chain linked fencing, Farm
Machinery and tools from Farm Machinery Banks, storage facility in
collection centers and finally support in marketing their produce.
The adoption of strategy to register LCs in cooperative Act has proved to
be appropriate because– LCs as Self-reliant Cooperatives are able to
undertake financial as well as Non-Financial business activities. LCs are
proving to be a multipurpose institution for livelihood promotion in
mountain districts of Uttarakhand.
Providing Share capital grant by IFAD has proved to be useful for the
LCs as LCs are able to get Loans from the banks based on some
Collaterals. Fixed deposits of LCs are used as collaterals to get loans
from the banks. UPASaC play facilitating the whole process of providing
loans to LCs through banks.
Project was successful to cover the target Households and also covered
SECC Households desired by the State Government for coverage.
Vulnerable people were covered through Vulnerable Producer Groups.
AOS survey validates this as 86% households interviewed were
belonging to BPL and Antyodaya.
Project has impacted the living conditions of project households in a
positive manner. The benefits availed by the Households were in
different form such as - enhancement of knowledge, time saving,
realization of good prices for products, reduction in costs of inputs and
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more return on produce by applying collective approach in the whole
value chain.
Water conservation activities under component -2 and also in
component -1 has been recognized by the Households very much in
2019 and they are highly benefited from these activities.
Project has fulfilled its objective as around 98% of project households
reported that they have more than one source of income/ Livelihood.
While majority of the households still depend upon Farm sector (62% -
Agriculture and Agri. allied), they have new options in Non-farm sector
including service sector.
The project has shown proven impact on the incomes of the project
households. AOS 2019 reveals that percentage of Households shifted
from less than Rs.10,000 per month income is quite high. It was 84% of
in 2016 and now in 2019 it is reduced to 28%. Similarly, percentage of
HHs earning Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 20,000 per month is 58% in 2019 shows
that a large number of person from lower slot of less than Rs. 10,000
have shifted to this group. This is also confirmed from the fact that 48%
HHs have average monthly expenditure of more than Rs.5000 per
month. Further, 31% households have improved their houses in the last
12 months shows that they were having surplus to do expenditure in
their houses.
The project has almost completed the objective of providing food
security to the project households as 98% of Households faced no food
shortage in last one year. Only 2% households reported minor food
shortage for less than 1 week. Improvement in quality and type of food
by 79% project households also indicates that living conditions of the
households are improving. 94% project households are having their
own livestock. This also validates improvement in income as the
households were able to enhance livestock assets.
Project has successfully supported the households in marketing their
produce. LCs/Federations have established Nano-packaging units for
consistency of packaging and branding. These packed products are
marketed through multiple methods including own outlets of the Project
in different projects districts.
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Collection centers are also proving to be very supportive to the farmers.
Value addition at the village level (i.e. Grading, Sorting, Packaging, and
Processing) is happening – Out of the total households, 69% project
households adopt value addition practices before sale of their produce.
Role of UPASaC has been proactive in the year 2019 as 100% of project
households are having their individual savings bank (SB) accounts in
banks or post offices. 98% of HHs doing mandatory savings in
PGs/VPGs/SHGs. 45% households have taken loans for livelihood or
income generating activities is a good indication.
Project has also initiated well in the area of insurance as 62% of project
households reported to have availed one or the other insurance
services. Households have also done livestock and crop insurance. There
were examples of crop insurance claims provided to the Households.
11% of project households got claims for the failure of crop.
Project has good results in non-farm sector and self-employment as
14% in Component-1 and 15% in Component -2 area households have
established SMEs. Nonfarm enterprises like small shops, floor mill
(chakki), driver, Weaving (Silai-Bunai), Stitching, Tent houses and
others are taken up by the Households. 20% of project households
received vocational training and 11% of project households became
selfemployed.
Project is also working well on the issue of Migration and there have
been examples of reverse migration. In AOS 2019, 5% of project
households informed that their family members especially youth are
leaving private jobs and coming back to villages. They have opted for
self-employment i.e. farming, OSV, Dairy, Poultry etc. There are several
successful cases of poultry in different districts wherein reverse
migration has happened.
One of the good successes of the project has been its efforts for
providing benefits of various government schemes through
convergence. Around 79% got benefit from MGNREGA, 61% from
Agriculture department schemes, 54% from Horticulture department,
50% from Animal Husbandry, 22% from Dairy development, and 30%
from Co-operative department. 63% of project households were
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benefitted from new Aug-20 Page 19 technologies promoted by Govt.
Agencies, various Boards, Line Departments, KVKs, Technical
Institutions and Agriculture Universities due to project facilitation.
One of the activities that household also felt useful was LDPE Tanks as
100% project households reported increase in production due to LDPE
tanks. On an average 5.5 Nali cultivated land area is irrigated through
LDPE tanks.
Drudgery Reduction initiatives were also done successfully in the year
2019 with full utilization of Farm Machinery Bank scheme of Agriculture
department. Through Livelihood Collectives project implemented the
scheme well and provided benefits to the project households. About
81% component-1 and 79% component -2 Project households received
Power Weeder, Power Tiller, and Spray Machine from farm machinery
bank of agriculture department. These tools have reduced the drudgery
of the people to a large extent.
Another successful initiative of the project was Chain linked fencing.
This was provided by LCs to the farmers on rent and farmers could save
their fields from wild animals. As per AOS 2019, 42% project
households have used chain linked fencing. There were good economic
benefits to farmers that varied from field to field. Vegetables, Peas,
potato, wheat and paddy are some of the crops that were protected
through chain linked fencing.
Project has also successfully initiated Fodder Development activity.
Households are able to get fodder in time; they save time in collection of
fodder and some are able to get some income from it. 67% of project
households saved time in fodder collection, 64% of project households
reported better availability of fodder and 10% got additional income
from the sale of fodder. The green fodder is now available for an average
period of 5 months.
Supervision Mission (SM)
An IFAD mission completed annual Support supervision 2020 of the
Integrated Livelihood Support Project (ILSP) from 23rd -03rd April 2021 in
Uttarakhand with the following objective:
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Review project relevance, effectiveness and efficiency. Review Project targeting effectiveness, gender equality, social
inclusion and youth participation. Review project responsiveness to disaster following the
restructuring done in 2013; Review Project exit strategy and sustainability. Make recommendations to implement closure activities. To discuss scope of new Project-REAP Project.
The mission went for field visit after a day-long review meeting in Dehradun
on 23rd and 24th March participated by Chief Project Director (CPD),
Additional Project Director (APD), UGVS, Project Director (PSWMD), former
APD and Rural Development Commissioner, senior officials of CPCU and
senior officials of three Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs). The mission
split into two groups to visit project activities in Garhwal region (Tehri and
Dehradun districts). The mission has reviewed progress status and plans, and
agreed upon strategy to implement project activities during ongoing FY 2020-
21 as well as discuss on closure activities to be implemented in project closure
duration, which ends in September 2021.
The a wrap-up meeting held at the Secretariat, GoUK on 03rd April 2021, chaired by Mr Om Prakash, Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister, GoUK. The mission's main findings and recommendations, and agreements reached, are recorded in this Aide Memoire were discussed. It was also discussed and agreed upon at a pre-wrap meeting chaired by Mr. R Meenakshi Sundram, CPD, ILSP with the participation of all senior officials of PIAs. The mission expresses appreciation for the collaboration and hospitality extended by GoUK.
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Figure 31 IFAD SM team in farmers field, chamba, Tehri
Tripartite Portfolio Review Meeting (TPRM)
The Tripartite Portfolio Review Meeting (TPRM) for IFAD assisted projects in
India was held in New Delhi on 18th November, 2020. The meeting was jointly
chaired by Dr. C S Mohpatra, Additional Secretary, DEA and Ms Rasha Omar,
Country Representative, IFAD, India. The meeting was attended by
representatives of all currently operational and pipeline projects in the
country, as well as representatives from DEA, CAAA, the Ministry of
Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, and Ministry of Animal Husbandry,
Dairying & Fisheries.
The major highlights related to ILSP are followings:
The project remains a high performer in the India country portfolio and is
on track to achieve its physical and financial targets with overall 94%
achievement against target. The project is scheduled to complete in March
2021 and close in Sept 2021.
The project has undertaken many innovative activities, which have been
scaled up during the project life cycle through convergence with
Government schemes.
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ILSP has revitalised the primary sector in the state and undertaken many
innovations on an ongoing basis including chain linked fencing to address
man animal conflict, Prasad making which led to increase in sale price of
Amaranthus for farmers; promotion of Growth Centres in partnership with
MSMEs; etc.
During the current lockdown two of the major innovations by the project
include – (i) addressing problems of floriculture farmers (ii) introduction
of Rural Business Incubator to support enterprises at local level. The
project has successfully created strong community institutions and
marketing outlets.
Covid-19 Recovery response:
The project had a robust and comprehensive response. In addition to the
strategic investments in (i) Growth centres (ii) Rural Business Incubators
and (iii) Crisis resolution of Floriculture farmers, the project undertook
many other initiatives such as: - Supply of Dry Ration and essential items to
13000 HHs ( through 60 LCs) - Manufacture of 201,500 cloth Masks by 300
PGs - Supply of seed and other inputs (fertilizers, pesticides etc) to 14,140
HHs ( through 40 LCs) - Supply of Take home Ration(THR) & Ready to Use
Therapeutic Food to 100 individual /day (by 2 LCs) - Supply of Hot Cooked
meals to 197 HHs ( by 2 LCs) - 415 Awareness and sanitization drives
covering 75000 HHs - Distribution of Hilans Wheat Flour at the door step
to 904 HHs - Procurement and Sale of Fresh Farm Produce from 5125 HHs
- GoUK has registered returnee migrants on HOPE portal of Skill
Development Dept. The data is being used by ILSP to assess the
employment /Self employment needs of the returnee migrants. Efforts are
being made to link them with the MSME, Chief Minister Self employment
Scheme etc.
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Update on implementation of last TPRM recommendations:
The Proposal ‘Rural Enterprise Acceleration Project’ (REAP) has been
sanctioned during the 115th Screening Committee meeting of DEA held on
February, 26, 2021; with the comments as :
“After detailed deliberations, the Committee decided to grant "in-principle"
approval on the request of the State Government subject to PIA submitting
the revised PPR and ensuring that both NITI Aayog and M/o RD
recommends the proposal. The Committee also decided that subject to the
recommendations of NITI Aayog and MoRD, the proposal may be posed to
IFAD”.
In continuation to the same, the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA)
posed the project "Rural Enterprise Acceleration Project (REAP)" to the
IFAD for an assistance of USD 104.85 million and requests IFAD to consider
it favorably by their letter No. 10/12/2020-IFAD dated 7th April 2021.
Innovation as National Interest
Multi-functional LDPE Tanks enhancing productivity and income: The
project has built 3,568 LDPE Tanks with the purpose of providing
protective irrigation. The project organised Mulching Sheet and Poly house
from Horticulture Department and Drip and Sprinkler from PMKSY
through convergence. The impact of these tanks has been very positive.
Irrigation per crop increased almost 3-4 times providing lifesaving
irrigation during water scarcity period; this helped farmers introduce new
crops especially off-season vegetables, spice, fruits, as well as seed
production (158.00 ha under spices; 259 ha under vegetables; 45.24 ha
under seed production; 5.06 Ha under floriculture). Additionally, the
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project has helped farmers start cold water fish farming in the LDPE tanks.
Currently, there is Trout Farming in 150 tanks (Cold water fishery) and
Common Carp, Silver Carp, Grass Carp in 750 tanks. The LDPE Tanks have
contributed to an overall increase in production by 25-50% and increase in
income by 30-40%.
ILSP & Sustainable Development Goal:
Goal
No.
Goals Project Intervention Project Target Project
Achievement
1 End poverty
in all its
forms
everywhere
Food security and scaling
up through community
institutions and promote
farm / non-farm activities.
Improved market access
for rural households
Vocational training for
youths
Watershed Treatment
Improved Access to bank
finance
Households
benefitted 126000
Significant number
of households
assets
Incremental
household’s
incomes from
project
interventions
137109
Households
benefitted
-
Rs. 37790 /-
(Rs/hh)
incremental
household incomes
from project
interventions over
baseline.
2 End hunger,
achieve food
security and
improved
nutrition and
promote
sustainable
agriculture
and decent
work for all
Promote Agriculture
Activities including Micro
irrigation
Awareness through
Knowledge Management
Increase food self-
sufficiency
Increase farm yield
Incomes from sale
of farm and non-
farm produce
-
70% households
reporting increase
farm yield
72 % households
reporting incomes
from sale of farm
and non-farm
produce
3 Ensure
healthy lives
and promote
well-being for
all at all ages
Ensuring Availability of
quality food to all
Prevalence of child
malnutrition
-
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5 Achieve
gender
equality and
empower all
women and
girls
Ensuring women
participants
Gender policy
Knowledge Management
Minimum 50%
women
participation
87 % women
participation
8 Promote
sustained,
inclusive and
sustainable
economic
growth, full
and
productive
employment.
Developing and nurturing
Community institution
(PGs/VPGs
LCs/Federations)
Vocational Training to
rural youth
Over 10000
institutions
10000 youth
trained under
vocational training
with 60% women
80% gain
employment
14228 institutions
have formed
24398 youths
trained under
vocational with 61
% women
78% gain
employment
13 Take urgent
action to
combat
climate
change
and its
impacts
Watershed treatment Increase of 10% in
vegetative
biomass.
Increase of 10% in
water availability.
200 Ha. of Fallow
lands/barren land
to be brought
under cultivation.
Increase 3800 Ha.
area under rainfed
crop and
production.
10% in vegetative
biomass Increased.
-
270.912 Ha. of
Fallow
lands/barren land
to be brought
under cultivation.
5676.14 Ha. Area
covered under
rainfed crop and
production.
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Logical framework: Progress against objectives, outcomes and outputs
Results
Hierarchy
Indicators Baseline MTR Till
March
2021
End target
Goal: Reducing
poverty in hill
districts of
Uttarakhand
-Average number of
assets of 126,000
households
0 -* significant
-Prevalence of child
malnutrition
39% 39% -* 33%
-% of households
reporting food
shortages
13% 5% 2% 2%
Development Objective
Rural
households
enabled to take
up sustainable
livelihood
opportunities
integrated with
the wider
economy
-Households
reporting incomes
from sale of farm and
non-farm produce
(%)
46% 50% 72% 60%
-Incremental
household incomes
from project
interventions (Rs/hh)
over baseline
0% Rs
20,000
Rs
33400
Rs
47,000
COMPONENT OUTCOMES
Food security &
scaling up:
106,000
households
from hill
communities
benefited from
increased crop
-farmers reporting
increased
productivity
0% 20% 70% 60%
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and livestock
production
Sustainability of
community
organizations:
Sustainable
community
institutions
--Federations and LCs
livelihood collectives
operating successfully
30% 35% 98% 60%
Market access:
Improved
market access
for rural
households
-increases in farm-
gate prices over
baseline
0% 50% 70% 100%
Participatory
watershed
development:
20,000
households with
improved access
to water and
become less
vulnerable to
erosion
Fallow lands brought
under cultivation;
Increased area under
rainfed crop and
production
0 ha
0 ha
0 ha
1,520
ha
270.912
5676.14
200 ha
3,800 ha
Livelihoods
Financing:
Improved access
to bankfinance
to 60150
households
Households accessing
loans from financial
institutions
0% 20% 57% 50%
COMPONENT OUTPUTS
Component 1:
Food security &
scaling up
-PG & VPG established
-Federations, LCs
supported
-Federations & LC
0
0
0
4,750
126
126
12144
233
214
8,800
214
150
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undertaking inputs
and output
aggregations
-collection centres
pooling farm produce
-action research
subprojects initiated
-10,000 youth
completed vocational
training
- % women
participation
0
0
0
0
0
15
688
80%
131
15
18619
61%
130
15
9,988
80%
Component-2:
Watershed
management
-22 micro-watershed
planned and
implemented
-19,650 ha treated
0
0
22
8,930
22
27150
22
19,650
Component 3:
Livelihoods
financing
-60,150 households
facilitated for
availing institutional
finance
0 12,000 38067 60,150
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Annual Work Plan & Budget 2020-21
For FY 2020-21 ILSP has provisioned a budget of INR 141.79 Crore. A brief
summary of AWPB is -
SN Sub – Components (major activities)
Annual Targets
(INR Crore)
IFAD Share (INR
Crore)
Observations
1. Food Security & Scaling
Up (sustainability of
Livelihood
Collectives/Federations)
18.97 17.07 For the sake of the sustainability of
Livelihood Collectives/Federations,
43 Capacity building programmes
are proposed and 24 Institutional
development training programmes
are planned for PGs/VPGs
strengthening. For exploring and
up-scaling of activities, 07 up-
scaling projects are introduced and
to be implemented in various
sectors includes 1) Integrated Dairy
Farming Model, 2) Goat Breeding, 3)
Integrated Farming Model, 4) Seed
Production, 5) Nursery raising of
vegetable, fruits, medicinal &
aromatic plant and fodder plants, 6)
Establishment of complete papaya
value chain in cluster approach., 7)
Organic Farming
2. Access to Market
(Market Promotion,
Hilans Barnd
Development, Product
Development)
20.15 18.03 Common facilities at LC level (4
collection centers) and 25
Agribusiness growth centers
(ABGCs) are to be operationalized
under the MSME scheme of the Govt
with the convergence of MSME and
other line dept and IFAD. Promotion
of Rural product under Hilans
Brand- 9 Hilans Fairs, 42 Buyer
Seller Meets, 4 Exposure visits to the
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market, 69 Post-harvest
Management Training, 54 Training
on Aggregation are proposed. Under
Product Development and market
support- 21 Nano Packaging Units
are planned to maintain symmetry
in the packaging of rural produce.
3. Innovation Linkage
(Innovative project
through Line depts.,
NGOs, DM project &
others)
0.71 0.64 Replication of innovative
technologies towards sustainable
livelihoods
4. Vocational Training
(skill enhancement &
employment)
2.00 1.8 Under the bidding contract(s) of 500
youths will be trained on agri/horti
and allied activities, facilitate for
employment/self-employment.
5. Project management
UGVS
12.45 8.37 Salary and operating expenses &
office equipment.
6. Watershed Treatment
(Watershed and village
Development)
38.18 26.51 Major works (Treatment of Arable
Land, agriculture, horticulture,
livestock, forestry, Drainage line
treatment & Soil conservation,
water harvesting & minor irrigation,
rural access & other activities) in
190 GPs under 22 micro watershed,
7 Capacity building programmes
with 10 exposure visit within state,
60 units (11455 rm) are proposed
under additional support to Chain
link fencing activity and 164 units
for additional support for vulnerable
household support. For Promotion
of Rural product under Hilans
Brand- 3 Buyer Seller Meets and 3
Exposure visits to market are
proposed.
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7. Livelihood Finance 43.98 2.87 CCL, TL, KCC and Development
Finance, Insurance, Financial
Literary.
8. Monitoring &
Evaluation, Knowledge
Management, CPCU
5.35 4.31 Block, Division & State level meeting
(i.e. knowledge sharing, periodic
review), AOS, End- Term Survey and
other surveys, Documentary movies
of success cases, Audit and IIIrd
party concurrent monitoring,
Knowledge Sharing workshop, ICT
materials etc.
Planned Budget for
2020-21
141.79 79.59
Component Wise AWPB 2020-21
Code Component
AWPB 2020-2021 Financing Plan (000)
Units Amount
(000) GoUK IFAD Banks
B.
Contrib
ution
G1 Food Security & Livelihood Enhancement
24323 5,42,807 81,712 4,59,094
2,000
G2 Participatory Watershed Management
4263 3,81,818 96,612 2,65,064
20,142
G3 Livelihood Finance – UPASAC
396 4,39,802 11,072 28,730 400,000
G4 Project Management
985 53,501 10,419 43,083
Total 29,967 1,417,928 199,815 7,95,970 400,000 22,142
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Category Wise AWPB 2020-21
Category Wise
AWPB 2020-21- Amount (‘000)
Amount GoUK IFAD Banks
B.
Contributio
n
Inves
tmen
t
Cost
I Civil Works 28,407.50 2,840.75 22,758.75 2,808.00
II Watershed
Treatment
171,700.00 17,170.00 137,360.00 17,170.00
III Vehicle,
Equipment
and Materials
8,850.00 2,212.50 6,637.50
IV Capacity
Building
427,726.61 40,608.66 384,953.95 2,164.00
V Livelihood
Financing
403,750.00 3,750.00 400,000.00
VI Service
Provider
Contracts
198,158.00 19,815.80 178,342.20
Sub Total 1,238,592.11 19,815.8 733,802.4 400,000.00 22,142.00
Recu
rring
Cost
VII
Incremental
Salary and
Operating
Costs
179,335.94 117,167.97 62,167.97
Total 1,417,928.05 199,815.68 795,970.37 400,000.00 22,142.00
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BEST PRACTICE
INDIGENOUS INNOVATION TO SECURE LIVELIHOODS -CHAIN LINK
FENCING INITIATIVE
One of the many chronic challenges faced by the farmers involved with
Integrated Livelihood Support Project (ILSP) of Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas
Samiti (UGVS) was animal conflict in the farm field. International, national and
local expertise failed to address the problem. In the thirteenth year of
operation UGVS took up a pilot and discovered the Chain Linked Fence is an
irrefutable solution to keep the wild animals out of farm. Now the solution is
adapted by many farmers and crop yields are nearly getting doubled. Demand
of the fence has grown manifold and some farmers who have abandoned there
fields are returning.
Villagers in Chamba district said,”we were least interested in farming as wild
animals destroyed our hard work .Whatever little we sow was destroyed by wild
boars, porcupines or monkeys ”.One of the villager said that ‘We had no option
but to leave our village and migrate to cities in search of work so that we can
feed our families .But our situation took a U-turn since we have started
using FENCE provided by ILSP-UGVS to protect our fields from wild
animals” .
Uttarakhand is subject to many harsh realities for its inhabitants who struggle
on a daily basis to meet their ends .Its farmers have always been exposed to
various external risks like weather dependence, market prices, inputs
availability etc .Another potent risk for farming is damage to crops by stray or
wild animals like Wild Boar, Beer, Deer, Porcupine, Saul, Wild Rabbit and
Monkeys etc .These animals cause significant loss either by simply feeding on
crop, running over the field, trampling over the crops or tilling the soil and
thus provoking additional financial problems .
Dealing with the man-animal conflict situation becomes even more difficult as
most of these animals are protected by the law, making it illegal to kill them.
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As a result of crop destruction by wild animals, farmers had gradually lost
interest in farming and are quitting agriculture .
In Uttarakhand most of the farming activities are carried out by women
making it even more difficult to guard the fields .On top of that financial
insecurities makes it even difficult for the farmers to tackle the problem .With
an average household of four to six members surviving on an average monthly
income of a meager Rs 5,000 to 6,000, farmers have no means to fight to these
intruders.
Destruction Statistics A survey conducted by Akhil Bhartiya Kisan
Mahasabha in 2016-17 showed that only 20 %of agricultural land in the hills
is being cultivated while the remaining 80 %is either lying barren or is sold
for commercial purpose to outsiders .
The Census data from 11 hill districts showed the maximum number of 36,401
farmers migrated from Almora, 35,654 from Pauri, 33,689 from Tehri, 22,936
from Pithoragarh, 18,536 from Chamoli, 15,075 from Nainital, 11710 from
Uttarkashi, 11,281 from Champawat, 10970 from Rudraprayag, and 10,073
from Bageshwar. The figures will be more gruesome if collected on a year on
year basis.
According to the 2011 Census data, as many as 2, 26,949 farmers left farming
and migrated from their birth places .Migrated farmers were reduced to
manual labourers in various cities for survival of their families .Women of
these migrated men were left behind in villages to manage household work,
animal husbandry and agriculture needs.
Historical Overview: The farmers since decades have been either manually
guarding the fields or using tricks and methods like use of scare crow,
crackers, fire to keep the wild animals away from their fields .Some also used
dry fallen trees to make boundaries around the farm .These methods resulted
only in restricted protection of crops due to human limitations of functioning
in difficult terrain, inclement weather and night hours.
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Integrated Livelihood Support Project )association with the farmers has been
long, directly working at the village level it has closely seen the situation of the
farmers worsening due to man-animal conflict in the state .The long
partnerships of ILSP with the farmers proved that it was not a touch and go
kind of an organisation .It has stayed for long, has helped, guided farmers in
various activities, over the years it has build reputation and trust amongst its
beneficiaries .
ILSP is implemented by Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas Samiti) in association with
Government of Uttarakhand and International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD) with a goal to enable rural households to take up
sustainable livelihood opportunities integrated with the wider economy. It is
being implemented in 41 Blocks and 11 hill Districts of the state.
To end the menace of wild animals ILSP sought suggestions from various
Universities /Research Institutions in the hills .The advices received were use
of shinning tapes like video tapes or audio tapes, beating of bell, use of animal
excreta, use of forate insecticide granule, electric fencing, keeping Honey Bees
etc .After research and exploring practicable viabilities, these methods
appeared to be either practically in viable, ineffective or too costly.
Indigenous Solution While numbers of alternatives were practiced by farmers
to protect the crops from damage by wild animals; none assured 100 %
success in crop protection .A simple technique of fencing called Chain Link
Fence1 was seen as ultimate solution .ILSP came across a pilot done by its
Watershed Management Development team in a small farm land in
Uttarakhand . Seeing its success in April 2017, UGVS proposed to use this
Fencing technique as a solution to curb man-animal conflict in its projection
areas.
Pilot Chain Link Fencing as a solution to save the crops from wild animals was
discussed with farmers associated with ILSP Livelihood Cooperatives .It was
1The fences used are made of metal wires woven together to form a physical barrier .These
fences are effective, long lasting and require relatively little maintenance( .add specification from
slide.)Specification –3”*3 ”GI Wire, Dia 3.15 mm, Height 1.5 meter, 1170 running meter 3 ha)
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assessed that the average land holding per Livelihood Collectives was 40-45
Ha out of which 30-35 Ha was exploited by wild animals .It was decided to
pilot the project initially in 7.5 Ha which was about one third of the total
affected .
Under the Chain Link Fence Pilot, 85 %cost i.e, the cost of fence was provided
by UGVS .The remaining 15 %i.e, cost of installation was beneficiaries
contribution .The fence would be stored at each Livelihood Collective Center
from where the interest member can rent out the required bundle of fence .
The rent rate was decided by the LC stakeholders unanimously .On an average
the rent is Rs 100 to Rs 1000 per running meter based on area or duration .
LCs also rent out the fences to non-member farmers for 20 %extra rental cost .
UGVS procured 2340.00 running meter with 1.5 meter height of fence per
Livelihood Collective .From April 2017 till March 2020, Chain Link Fence
method has been used by 131 Livelihood Collectives reaching an average of
500 households .A total of 2145.8 ha area has been covered using the fence .
Files to Field stories : Rekha Devi lives with her husband, two children and old
in-laws in Jujrali village, Pithoragarh .She is relieved after having fenced her
farmland .Earlier they had to guard the fields at night, light fire to scare away
the Wild Boar with limited success .They could not afford fencing .Chain link
fence has successfully kept the wild animal at bay .Now she and her family
are able to sleep peacefully at night .This season she harvested twice the
amount of cabbage .
Mazhaarchola is a small village of 6 families surrounded by Pine and Oak
forest in Garud, Bageshwar .The village is 1km away from the road .In the
village New Jyoti Utpadak Samoh has been growing vegetables since year
2015 .Often their crops were destroyed by wild animals .Bhopal Singh,
president of the group reiterates that they used to suffer loss of around Rs
90000 every season because of wild animal invasion .When they heard about
the Chain Link Fence initiative, they contacted ILSP representative and got
their farm fenced .The groups spend Rs 12000 in renting 1170 running meter
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fence and procuring 330 pillar .Earlier they had to be awake at night, at times
shout, beat drums or lit fire using wood to keep the wild animals away .Now
they are relaxed and hopeful .They have gathered courage to start growing
off-season vegetables.
Advantages of Chain Link Fencing:
Crop Safety :The fence provided a physical barrier to control the sabotage of
field from wild animals .It kept wild animals away from entering the fields and
damaging the crops .It also controlled the movement of domestic animals in
and around the fields thus saving crops from grazing.
Human-Animal Safety : The fence does not have electric current it does not
physically harm the humans or animals.
Animal safety :As the fence is like a closely spaced woven wire, it has a lower
risk of animals getting entrapped or injured .
Easy to install :The installation process is simple with use of wooden pillars.
Long Life : The fence can last upto at least 10 years as it is made of good
quality components and materials
Assurance of Protection: It assured 100 %protection from wild animals.
Outcome of the Pilot:
Productivity Enhancement : It was observed by ILSP team that in the crop
production increased in the fields which were protected by fences .An average
income from farm produce rose upto Rs.1.25 to Rs .0.65 Lakh from 10-20
Nalis of farm land, nearly doubling the income.
Re-cultivation of Cash crops :Farmers started cultivating cash crops as they
could believe in the safety provided by using fences.
Time Saver: The farmers were not required to manually guard the fields at
day and during nights, thus resulting in saving their times .
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Reduction in Women Drudgery : Women farmers could utilize their time in
other household activities not worrying about the crop.
Recreating Interest in Farming :Enhanced production and respite from
destruction from wild animals recreated the interest in farming among locals.
Increased farming :Good cultivation, better profits, increase household
income resulted in more farmers restoring to farming activities.
Crop Diversification :Good harvest, good results from fencing resulted in
building the trust and boosted farmers morale .Farmers started diversifying
in crops.
Increased Demand: Seeing the benefits of fencing the farms, more farmers
are demanding Fence from the federation .
Increase in Livelihood Collective’s Corpus: Rentals earned from letting the
fence increased LC corpus .It is estimated that the project would re payback
the initial input cost in three years .
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Table -1 Year wise and activity wise summary (Target Vs Achievement)
Year Name
Micro-Irrigation & Tanks
(NO.)
Fencing (Unit)
Fodder Cultivation
(Ha)
Use of Fallow Land (Ha)
Collection Centres
(No.)
Small Collection
Centres (No.)
Vocational Training to Youths
(No.)
KCC (No.)
CCL (No.)
Term Loan (No.)
2020-21 Target 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 5000 6000 1000
Achievement 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 5081 2567 929
2019-20 Target 768 128 585 680 25 247 3500 8100 1050 550
Achievement 768 128 585 680 25 247 2753 7122 1072 1423
2018-19 Target 948 302 595 495 75 164 17000 6500 800 800
Achievement 948 302 595 495 75 164 10991 6560 899 857
2017-18 Target 1047 86 230 250 17 279 7700 4500 600 300
Achievement 1047 86 230 250 18 279 4880 4561 761 360
2016-17 Target 371 0 10 0 5 0 800 51 41 8
Achievement 371 0 10 0 5 0 2416 1541 474 192
2015-16 Target 433 0 0 0 3 0 0 500 800 1200
Achievement 433 0 0 0 2 0 0 290 218 150
2014-15 Target 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Achievement 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2013-14 Target 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1331 755 240
Achievement 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1082 735 147
Total Target 3568 516 1420 1425 131 690 29000 25982 10046 4098
Achievement 3568 516 1420 1425 131 690 21040 26237 6726 4058
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