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JANAKALYAN
A Team Committed for Peoples Empowerment
Maruti Nagar, Jawalgera 584 143
Tq. Sindhanur, Raichur District, Karnatka State
Tel: (08535) 264488, 264160 Email: Jankalyana@sancharnet.in



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Annual Report
2003-04

INDEX

Chapter Particulars Page No

Index 1

An Introduction of Janakalyan & its area of operation 2

Developmental Journey of Janakalyan 3

I Financial Status of the Organization 4-5

II Achievement During the year 6
2.1 Ongoing Projects
2.1.1
Manavi Mata
2.1.1.1 Jana-Sanghatana 7
2.1.1.2 Jana-Udyog 8
2.1.1.3 Jana-Shiksha 9
2.1.1.4 Jana-Shakthi 10
2.1.2
Bhoo Mata
2.1.2.1 Jana-Krishi 11
2.1.3 Go Mata
2.1.3.1 Jana-Raksha 12
2.1.4
Ganga Mata
2.1.4.1 Jana-Jala 13


2.2
New Projects of the year
2.2.1 AME, GESCom, PEN, Exhi bition, Skill REDP 14-15


2.3
Non funded Project
2.3.1 IGA, Tailoring, Vermi Compost, Jana Shanthi
Dhaam, Samaj Kalyan Samitee, Refugee
issues
16-17

2.4
Unexpected Programs
Vriksha Mi tra, Organic Cotton 18

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Steps Towards Sustainability 19-20

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Steps Ahead 20

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Visitors 21

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An Introduction of Janakalyan

Objecti ves: J anakalyan is a team of
professionals committed for peoples
empowerment. The sole objectives of the
organization is to serve for four holy mothers
Manavi mata (women), Bhoo mata (Soil), Go
mata (Cow) and Ganga mata (Water) which
have unique dependency relationship with
each other. J anakalyans thrust area being
empowerment of the underprivileged sections
of the society, all the programs are being
implemented through Self Help Groups formed
by men & women.

Journey of Development: J anakalyan has
stepped into 8
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interventions, although it has a long history of
almost 17 years through educational
interventions in the forgotten areas of the
district.

Area of Operation: It started its
developmental interventions in the refugee-
colonies and gradually extended the service to
various places keeping the four mothers in
focal point. It is presently working in the
northern districts of Karnataka with various
activities.

Strategi es: It believes in empowerment
strategies and the programs are designed
keeping sustainability concept in mind.
J anakalyan never considers itself an
alternative to Government but a watchdog for
the community. It does believe itself as an
assisting agency for Government in
developing the nation and its citizens.

The target community: J anakalyan is
working with peasant communities belonging
to the small & marginal categories with 4-5
acres of land. The marginalized women from
the rural areas is another sections deserves
the services of J anakalyan along with her
children.

Its strength: The strength of the organization
lies in its dedicated set of well-qualified and
experienced human resources with
commitment. The set consists of veterinary
doctors, engineers, social specialists,
agricultural specialists, accounts specialists
and others.

Interventi ons: It has learnt through its
experience that making agriculture a profitable
enterprise is an important issue and is a cause
for Illiteracy, thus Unemployment and Poverty.
All these are interlinked and can be eradicated
if the root cause is uprooted. Presently it has
few major programs implemented through
SHGs to eradicate the root causes of poverty.

Jana-Sanghatan: There is a great need to
organize the rural masses, especially the
extinct community like the refugees, to
mainstream them in near future. With this
objective J anakalyan started (Women
Development & Empowerment Program) to
promote SHGs of men and women in the year
1997.

Jana-Krishi: Use of excess of fertilizers,
pesticides & irrigation water has converted the
land into saline & uncultivable. J anakalyan
started Participatory Technology Development
in Agriculture (PTDA) to promote organic
farming for soil health management. Farmers
Field School (FFS) is another program started
to demonstrate Integrated Pest Management
Systems and Poverty Alleviation Package for
Refugees (PAPR) is for Soil & Water
Conservation through Intensified Integrate
Farming Systems.

Jana-Raksha: It is observed that beside
agriculture, the peasant communities some
sort of subsidiary source of income because
the agriculture is becoming loss-making
enterprise, day by day. Dairy Development &
Cattle Breed Improvement Program (DDCBIP)
is started to earn adequate income.

Jana-Jala: Acute Drinking Water problem
exists in Sindhanur Rehabilitation Project.
The water is distributed through ration cards
during the last summer @ 1 pot for two
persons per day. Roof Water Harvesting
Program (RWHP) is introduced in the drought
prone areas to provide drinking water in the
summer months and also to get green
vegetables through kitchen gardening using
the surplus water.

Jana-Shakti: The burden on ecology is
increasing day by day, especially because of
the rural communities using the fuel wood for
cooking. Renewable Sources of Energy
Harnessing (RSEH) is a program of
J anakalyan aims at harnessing the renewable
energy sources like solar, biogas, etc.

Jana-Shi ksha: J anakalyan runs regular
schools for the education of poor people, who
cannot afford their childrens education in the
nearby cities. Despite the availability of the
Schools, the parents send their children to
fields to EARN instead of Schools to LEARN.
To this serious and hazardous issue,
J anakalyan responded by opening special
Schools for Child Labors.

Jana-Udyog: Rural Entrepreneurship
Development Program (REDP) is a program
targeted to the educated rural unemployed
youths of India. It identifies the potential
entrepreneurs and develops their skills and
entrepreneurial qualities in them. Finally they
set up their own ventures for self-employment.
It creates job creators and not job seekers.

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Developmental Journey of Janakalyan

Janakalyan took birth in July 1997 with an objective to assist the refugees & repatriates to raise their income level
through intervention in the field of agriculture. It started working with farming communities with its own resources. The
strategy adopted to work with these peasant communities was awareness generation among the mass about the
mistakes that they have already done and the ways to rectify it. Training & exposure were 2 tools adopted to convince
these farmers about the proposition that Janakalyan was propagating about organic farming.

Year 1998 began with new hopes. The concept of raising income level of the farmer was added with land reclamation
(soil fertility / health management and preserving it for the generations to come). It also worked out for subsidiary
sources of income for these communities and found animal husbandry as a viable option. Started promoting the same
along with agriculture. By the end of the year it realized that raising the income level through its different approaches
would not serve the purpose if proper mechanism is not adopted to save the earned income. Thus, started promoting
Self Help Groups of men and women. And thus the objective of Janakalyan was formulated as to serve 3 holy
mothers i.e. Manavi Mata, Bhoo Mata & Go Mata. It also started working with children, keeping education as the
focal point through ASHA & Child Labor Schools.

The year 1999-2000 could be termed as Capacity Building Year for Janakalyan. Maximum effort was put to train the
staff of Janakalyan at various NGOs and Institutions through training and exposure. Awareness generation, training
and exposure for the community (woman & farmers), relation building with local officers, etc. were the major activities
during the year. Fund flow also started from this year. Women Development & Empowerment Program, Mahila
Arthika Swavalambane Yojana, Participatory Technology Development in Cotton, Dairy Development Program, Child
Labor Elimination Program were the programs of the year. The important innovation of Janakalyan were Sansar
Pathshala, Kishori Vikash Program, Shree Shakthi Sabha and Sangha Darshini Samittee. The fourth mata i.e Ganga
Mata was added to the objective upon suggesting it by most of the distinguished visitors to Janakalyan.

The year 2000-2001 is an important year for Janakalyan wherein the top management of the organization undergone
various training at renown Institutes. Therefore, the same programs were continued during the year without much
difference. However, the major step initiated during the year was formation of a Cluster Level Federation of SHGs and
starting a Milk Marketing Center at Sindhanur through this Federation. Kitchen Garden Program was another
innovative program to recycle the water to grow vegetable in the house-yard. Most of the activities / programs got
hindered during this year due to improper management as the staff were deputed for higher studies. However, a
research study was undertaken during the year in the Rehabilitation Project by the staff. The area of operation got
extended to outside Rehabilitation Project.

The year 2001-2002 is the year of transformation. After proper training of the top management, it realized that till date
Janakalyan was functioning without proper planning. Planning Meeting was introduced for the first time in the
organization to organize the activities in a systematic way after assessing the needs of the community in a
participatory way. The organization also gave emphasis on professionalising the approach by recruiting the qualified
employees like B.V.Sc., M.Tech., MSW, M.Com., MA graduates. A detailed Service Rules for Janakalyan was also
adopted during the year. A few sets of innovative programs also got introduced during the year. The year is termed as
Mass Mobilization Year because lot of efforts was put to organize the community in demanding their rights from the
concerned authorities.

The year 2002-03 is the year for sustainability of the organization. Sustainability of an Organization is nothing but
having a dedicated professional team of Human Resource and a constant flow of Financial Resources. Towards this,
Janakalyan put all the effort to have a competent team by recruiting a set of fresh graduates because, they could be
tuned according to the vision and mission of Janakalyan. Many efforts were put to see that the programs as well as the
organization become sustainable. The year is also most Planned Year in the history of Janakalyan. Also received the
FCRA registration and exemption under section 12A of Income Tax Act, 1961. Received first foreign grant for the
Cotton Based Integrated Farming System development program. Janakalyan got lot of publicity during the year
through its program called Jana-Udyog. The area of operation was extended to outside the block as well as district.
The administrative Office was established at Jawalgera keeping the conveniences like Bank, Post, Transportation and
area of operation in mind.




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Chapter II
Financial Status of Organisation


The transactions in the year 2003-04 reached to Rs22.6 lakhs. The innovative and
creative projects drew the attention of different Government and Non-Government
agencies and J anakalyan team also got inspired to exhibit their excellence during the
year. We, at J anakalyan, are grateful to all those who have directly and indirectly
helped us in marching towards our goal.

The figure below gives the financial status of the organization for the last 7 years
since from its inception.

It is clear from the chart that the income has been constantly rising. In the year 1997,
the transaction is only Rs.13100/- because the activities were restricted to liaison
only. And also the organization started functioning only after 2
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registered on that day. But the source of income for the year was only promoters
contribution. During 1998 the income reached about Rs.60,000/- and the activities
restricted to awareness generation & training only. In 1999-00, the direct fund flow
started to J anakalyan and the income reached about Rs.6.0 lakhs. In the year 2000-
01, from the figure, it is clear that the income reduced to Rs.5.4 lakhs while in reality
it is not the case. It seems so only because the year 1999-2000 contains 15 months
(J anuary 1999 to March 2000) as the organizational year was changed from agrarian
to financial. The year 2001-02 saw a drastic change in financial position as the
income suddenly risen to Rs.15 lakhs from Rs.5.4 lakhs in the previous year. The
following year (2002-03) also saw an increase of Rs.5.0 lakhs as compared to
previous year. The transactions during the year under report increased by about
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Receipts & Payment Income & Expenditure Balance Sheet

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The program-wise sanctioned budget, released amount and the utilization status for
the year 2003-04 is furnished in the table below.

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No.
Programs Name of the Donor Sanctioned
Budget
Amount
released
Amount
Utili zed
Remarks
1
J ana-
Sanghatan
NABARD Mumbai
0 64790 70920
Sanctioned in
February 03
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J ana-Krishi
Sir Dorabji Tata Trust
AME Foundation
1090000
110235
600000
110235
574239
81851

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J ana-J ala
CAPART Regional
Committee, Dharwad
0 0 303255
Unutilized grant
was available
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NABARD R O
GESCom
250000
21360
203381
21360
284974
21360

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J ana-Shksha
Ministry of Labor, New
Delhi
469300 424861 345436

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J ana-Raksha
Sir Ratan Tata Trust,
Mumbai
0 0 4926

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UAS, Dharwad
22316 22316 22316


Total
1963211 1446943 1709277

The pie diagram shows the % allocation of funds for different program in the year 2003-04.
Maximum funds (39%) of the total budget have been utilized for J ana-Krishi program. J ana-
Krishi is implemented in 2 areas of dry and wet agriculture. J ana-krishi is the only program,
which serves all the four mothers of J anakalyan. It has a component for Manavi mata
(Community Organizing), Bhoo Mata (Agricultural & allied activities), Go Mata (Animal
Husbandry) and also Ganga Mata (Rainwater harvesting). Therefore, it does not mean that
all the efforts of J anakalyan was put for J ana-Krishi only, though agriculture is the major
program of J anakalyan. J ana-Shiksha ranked 2
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during the year consuming 20% of the total
funds while J ana-J ala & J ana-Udyog ranked 3
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in the hierarchy.
FUND UTILIZATION IN DIFFERENT PROGRAMS
J ana-Sanghatan
4%
J ana-Shakti
1%
J ana-Raksha
0%
J ana-Shksha
20%
J ana-Krishi
39%
J ana-Udyog
18%
J ana-J ala
18%
J ana-Sanghatan J ana-Krishi J ana-J ala J ana-Udyog J ana-Shksha J ana-Raksha J ana-Shakti
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Chapter II
Achievement During the Year

The year 2003-04 is a successful year of J anakalyan. All the 7 tools designed for
poverty alleviation and socio-economic empowerment of rural communities are
carried forward with true spirit to achieve the goal of J anakalyan. Receptiveness of
the community proved the appropriateness of the tools in the present context and
built the confidence of J anakalyan. It proved that the ground level needs of the
community and the tools designed to meet their needs synchronized.

It has to be remembered at this juncture that all the 7 tools designed by J anakalyan
are to serve four holy mothers Manavimata, Bhoomata, Gomata and Gangamata.
The number of tools in J anakalyan may increase or decrease based on the needs of
the community but the focus should be any of these mata.
The chapter Achievement During the Year deals with such tools of J anakalyan
used to achieve the goal of eradicating poverty by fulfilling the needs of the
community.

The chapter has four major parts
1. Ongoing Projects
2. New Projects of the year
3. Non-funded project of J anakalyan and
4. Unexpected Projects

In the first part, only the ongoing projects are dealt in brief. The tools like J ana-
Sanghatan, J ana-Udyog, J ana-Shiksha, J ana-Shakti, J ana-Krishi, J ana-Raksha and
J ana-J ala are described. These tools are again categorized into 4 parts called
Manavimata, Bhoomata, Gomata and Gangamata as below
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Mata Tools
1 Manavimata
(Woman)
1. J ana-Sanghatan (Women Development & Empowerment Program)
2. J ana-Udyog (Rural Entrepreneurship development Program)
3. J ana-Shiksha (Child Labor Elimination Program)
4. J ana-Shakti (Renewable Sources of Energy Harnessing)
2 Bhoomata
(Soil)
5. J ana-Krishi (Poverty Alleviation Package for Refugees)
3 Gomata
(Cows)
6. J ana-Raksha (Dairy Development & Cattle Breed Improvement
Program)
4 Gangamata
7. J ana-J ala (Roofwater Harvesting Program)

In the second part, the new projects like AME funded Cotton Based Integrated
Farming System, GESCom supported employment generation program, PEN,
Exhibition and Marketing Mela and skill based REDP are dealt in brief.

Efforts have been put to articulate such initiatives of J anakalyan, which are taken up
without any funding support in the third part of this chapter. And in the last part, the
activities, which are not expected but joined hands to achieve our goal, are
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II Achi evement Duri ng the Year
2.1 Ongoing Projects 2.1.1 Manavi Mata
JANA SANGHATAN
Women Development & Empowerment Program

J ana Sanghatan, as the name indicates, is to
bring the community, especially the
discriminated, disadvantageous,
underprivileged sections of the society under a
common an umbrella. Social, cultural,
educational, political and economic
empowerment of such sections is the aim of
the Women Development & Empowerment
Program of J anakalyan. It is by making the
community aware about their issues related
various aspects and the attached roles and
responsibilities.

The major activities taken up during the year
are
Developing awareness about the women
issues
Training programs
to build the
capacity of women
to deal with their
issues.
Bank linkage to
start self-
employment
ventures for
economic
sustainability.
Skill up-gradation
&
Entrepreneurship
development
training
Marketing
assistance to sale
their products at
various places.
Bio Intensive
Gardening (BIG)
training to develop
nutrition garden by
using house-yard
& wastewater from
bathroom.
Promoted Village levels steering committees
for SHGs viz. Sangha Darshini Samitee.

J anakalyan got a first grant from NABARD to
promote 100 SHGs in 52 villages of Sindhanur
taluk. The major constraints faced in achieving
the target are
1. Stree Shankti: The government has reached
each and every remote village of the State
through Stree Shakti Program. The incentive
package under the scheme has lured our
potential clients as well as existing groups also.
2. Swa-Shakti: KSWDC has promoted about 50
SHGs in Sindhanur block under Swashakti
scheme with lot of incentives and subsidies.
3. NGOs effort: Other than J anakalyan, there are
few NGOs who are also promoting SHGs in the
block.

Therefore,
J anakalyan has
taken a strategic
decision not to
form any more
SHGs but
strengthening
the existing ones
through
economic
activities. Such
economic
activities must
be backed up
with marketing
arrangement to
get sustainable
impact.

To this effect,
Smt. Tilottama
Mondal, Smt.
Pushpa Sarkar
and Smt.
Lalmathi Biswas
has ventured
into the sweet
marketing in
their own
villages. They
are earning
Rs.3000-6000
every month.

The Chairman of
Tungabhadra
Gramin Bank,
Sri P. Narasimha Murthy inaugurated the milk-
based REDP at Venkateshwar Camp while Sri
Hampanagouda Badarli, MLA of Sindhanur
delivered the valedictory address. About 65
women have been trained to set up their own
ventures in milk and food items. Efforts are on
to empower many more women from the rural
India through the various need-based
strategies designed from time to time.
Marketing of the products is the key issue for
year to come, learnt from the experiences.
Training Programs
Milk products
preparation to 25
women
Food Products
preparation training
to 15 women
Tailoring training to
110 women in 5
centers
Marketing Mela
2 days District Level
Exhibition cum Sale
at Sindhanur 33
stalls of women
Participated in 3
days District Level
Exhibition at Raichur
Sold Sweets on
Belore Declaration
program at Dharwad
Sonar Bangla Sweet
House at Sindhanur
to sale milk products
Smt Karimbi & her
drunkard husband

Smt. Karimbi experiences all
those of a drunkards wife with 2
boy and 3 girl children. She
had decided to migrate with the
children leaving her husband
behind.

Saraswati Mahila Sangha came
to know about it and brought to
the knowledge of Janakalyan
staff. Ms. Minakshi & Mr.
Pampapathi succeed to
convince them. Advised to hire
the defunct floor mill @Rs.1500
per month and engage Mr.
Hasansaab with the loan
assistance from SHG. Her son
now works in a garage after
undergoing the Rural
Entrepreneurship (skill)
Development Training at
Janakalyan. She has a chilly
pounding unit. Poverty is away
from her home. Husband has
shouldered the responsibility
what more is needed? says
Karimbi to the visitors.
Impact of involving the
representatives

The MLA promised in his
valedictory address to
provide 20 houses to the
trainees and within a week
he purchased 1 acre land
adjacent to the village and
distributed to them.
2.1.1.1
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II Achi evement Duri ng the Year
2.1 Ongoing Projects 2.1.1 Manavi Mata
JANA UDYOG
Rural Entrepreneurship Development Program

India should be proud of being the second
largest population in the world. If each Indian
take the responsibility of developing 5
individuals from the world, entire human-
kingdom could be developed. Such a vast
potential we have in terms of human
resources. Sadly, the reverse situation is
prevailing in India due to several reasons like
illiteracy, blind-belief, poverty &
unemployment.

It is the enterprise, which gives dignity to the
human being. Therefore, with an objective of
creating a cadre of J ob-creators and not job-
seekers, a program was introduced for the
rural Indians viz. Rural Entrepreneurship
Development Program.

The major activities under the
program are
Identifying the needy &
deserving youths from the rural
areas through effective tools.
Developing latent
entrepreneurial qualities of the
youths through behavioral and
motivational tools.
Imparting and / or up-grading
the skills for Entrepreneurship.
Supporting the entrepreneurs to
identify and select feasible
enterprises / ventures.
Assisting to source the
technology and machines /
equipment to start the ventures.
Linking up with the financial
institutes for credit facility.
Trouble-shooting service
throughout the stabilization
period.
Supporting to develop and / or
expand the enterprise.
About 30 days residential
training followed by industrial
exposure and placement for 15
days to gain hands-on
experience about the identified
venture.

Other than J anakalyans own human
resources, we also hired the renowned
experts in
the field for
entrepreneu
rship from
reputed
institutes
from within
as well as
outside the
district.
The trainees were taken for an exposure to
NDDB and NDRI at Bangalore. On demand,
they were taken to NABARD to meet the
CGM. CGM gave an appointment for 5
minutes but the discussion went up for 1 hour.

The following training programs were
conducted during the year-
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Valedictor
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Trainees
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1 Milk Based 24.11.03 25.12.03 0 25 25
2 Kustagi REDP 06.01.04 05.02.04 26 0 26
3 Bangla Camp 23.12.03 22.1.04 0 25 25

The Chief General Manager of NABARD
Bangalore in the presence of Sri G N Nayak
IAS
, Deputy Commissioner of Raichur, Sri
Narayanswami MN
IAS,
CEO of Zilla Panchayat,
Raichur and Md.Mehmood
KAS
, Assistant
Commissioner of Lingasugur
inaugurated the milk-based
REDP at Rehabilitation Colony
No.4 on 6.1.2004. The
Chairman of Tungabhadra
Gramin Bank, Sri P. Narasimha
Murthy inaugurated the milk-
based REDP at Venkateshwar
Camp while Sri
Hampanagouda Badarli, MLA
of Sindhanur delivered the
valedictory address.

Though, the program was
introduced in 2002-03 in
Raichur district, we could reach
neighboring district during the
year with the support of
NABARD. The bankers
response and involvement
during implementation was
very high. The major
constraints faced during the
year to achieve the target are
Though the bankers were
involved right from selection
till training, most of the
bankers denied the credit
facility while starting the ventures.
Few bankers supported but the procedural
delay caused unnecessary expenses and
also demotivated the charged first
generation entrepreneurs.
Poor but needy entrepreneurs could not
provide the collateral and the security,
although they had economically viable
enterprise.

The efforts are continued to sensitize the
bankers to support such initiative.
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Entrepreneurial lady changed
mindset of her husband
Smt. Vanishree, the wife a daily-basis
employee of CSF, Jawalgera lives in
hand to mouth situation with her 3
years old daughter in a rented house.

She attended the REDP training facing
difficulties for all the 30 days from her
husband. Finally conceived the idea of
putting a Photocopying Center at
Jawalgera. When approached
Syndicate Bank for the financial
assistance with the project proposal,
the manager refused the support for
the want of security, as they are not
residents of Jawalgera. With the
recommendation of Janakalyan, finally
the venture was started. Within 3
months her husband met Mr. Prasen
Raptan with a proposal to take VRS
from CSF but he was discouraged at
that stage. In the fifth month, the
manager of Syndicate Bank willingly
gave one more loan to him to start a
Telephone Booth. The couple is happy
in a better house & her child is studying
in a Church School. Today, I neednt
ask for the pocket money to my
parents, says the husband.
History for NABARD
NABARD going to the SHG is very
common while SHGs visiting
NABARD RO is first time in the
history of NABARD, said Mr. B. B.
Mohanty, CGM to the women in his
speech at NABARD, Bangalore


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JANA SHIKSHA
Child Labor Elimination Program

In the age of LEARNING, there are thousands
of children who are EARNING for satisfying
their parents needs. Efforts are on to educate
those who go regularly to schools. But, hardly
few initiatives could be seen for the child who
really deserves support to get access to the
education, though it is constitutionally
guaranteed.

J anakalyan runs 2 special schools for such
children since 1998 in Sindhanur taluk with the
support of Ministry of Labor, New Delhi
through District Child Labor Project Society.
Every year about 50 child labors are inducted
into each
school to
convert
them into
regular
students.
Each
school is
manned
with 5
persons.

The major activities undertaken in the schools
are
Survey and identification of the child labor.
Convince the parents and
induct the child.
Motivate & educate the child in
special school for a year.
Identify their areas of interest,
skills & needs
Upgrade the skills through
vocational class
Conduct parents meeting
regularly to keep the tempo on
Extra-curricular activities to
keep the child in school.
Taking the children for
exposure, picnic, etc
Conducting & participating
various competitions at school
and other levels.
Mainstream the child in regular
schools or help them to settle
with a venture after 14 years.
Follow up with them to see
that the child is in school, everyday.




During 2002-03, the data of the schools are
Schools
Admission mainstream
M F T M F T
Ma Sharada, R. H.
Colony No.2
16 34 50 16 27 43
Swami Vivekananda,
Diddigi
13 37 50 13 29 42

After 4 years of operation in R. H. Colony
No.2, we found no more child labors in
R.H. Colony No. 2. Similar was the
situation in Diddigi after 2 years and
therefore shifted these schools to
J awalgera & Turvihal in the month of J une
to assist more needy children. The
induction of the children into the schools
was as under-
Name of the Schools and
Village
Admission
M F T
Ma Sharada, Turvihal 0 50 50
Swami Vivekananda, J awalgera 06 44 50

Emphasis
is given
on to
teach the
importanc
e of
education and not the
education per se. The
objective is to assist the out-
of-school children to the
schools.

The parents are utilizing the
stipend given to the children
for their own purposes. To
avoid, a strategy was
adopted to provide Sewing
Machines to the trained child
with the stipend amount. This
year about 7 machines were
distributed in 2 schools.
More than education, we motivate the
child as well as their parents. We also
promote SHG among their parents.
2.1.1.3
What is special about these Schools?
Do not teach but motivate
Keep relation with parents
Not only the child but also the
parents are targeted
Stipend of Rs.100 per child
per month
Mid-day meals, everyday
Vocational courses
5 staff for 50 child
Regular health check up
Celebrations to create desire to continue
in school
Independence Day 15
th
Aug
Teachers Day 5
th
Sep
Hyderabad-Karnataka
Vimochana Day 17
th
Sep
Gandhi J ayanti 2
nd
Oct
Karnataka Rajyotsava 1
st
Nov
Children Day 14
th
Nov
Vivekananda J ayanti 12
th
J an
Netaji J ayanti 23
rd
J an
Republic Day 26
th
J an
Rajubegam and her Dream

Kasimsaab, father of Rajubegam,
migrated to Jawalgera with 3
children & his wife. Kasim is a
mason while his wife sells bangles
from door to door. The income
does not satisfy the family needs.

Kasim sends his son to
Government School to learn but
Rajubegam to field to earn. After
opening of Swami Vivekananda
Child Labor Special School, our
teachers convinced her parents
and inducted to the school. now
she is best girl in the school and
dreams to become a well educated
girl.

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JANA SHAKTHI
Renewable Sources of Energy Harnessing

Electricity has become life of the people, especially the
elite living in the city and towns of any country. Similar
are the situation of diesel, petrol and other forms of
energies. Right from the bathroom, kitchen till the
Factories, Offices, everywhere one form or the other
energy is very much essential. On the other hand the
rural communities disturb the ecology by putting
pressure on the tree-species for the want of fuel wood.
Although, this is must for the survival of the humankind
but it is our responsibility to preserve it for the
generations to come. Therefore, the efficient use of
these sources of energies is a must for both the urban
and rural communities. They should learn and make
use of renewable sources of energies, in whichever
form it is available and whatever quantity.
Raichur district has abundant renewable sources of
energies viz. solar, wind, etc. Animals excreta, which
are available in huge quantity,
are just dumped without making
its proper use. On the other
hand, the rural women are
suffering from many respiratory
diseases, as they are compelled
to use various kinds of woods for
cooking, which has become
scarce in the recent past.
To take care of the women health
and to make use of the energy
sources, J anakalyan introduced
J ANA-SHAKTHI program to
harness the renewable energies.
The major activities under the
program are
Identifying the needy women
from poor families
Making them aware about the
health problems caused by
smoke (cooking) & unsafe
disposal of the wastes
(excreta).
Assisting the interested women
to construct Smokeless Improved Chullah to avoid
respiratory problems.
Assisting the needy women having animals to
construct Biogas plant for safe-disposal of the
excreta in a productive manner. The gas is used for
cooking and lighting.
Promoting Solar Cooker to avoid respiratory
problems among women.
Promoting Solar Dryer to utilize sunlight and dry the
agriculture produces with better quality.

The following activities are completed during the year

Constructed two Gobargas plants in the project.
Constructed about 20 chullah for the women.
Oriented the beneficiaries about
solar cooker and solar dryer.
Studied the usage of the chullah
as well as biogas plant that was
constructed during the previous
years.

It was understood by the study that
the chullah are suitable for the small
families comprising of 3-4 members
and not for the joint families. Even
the biogas plant can satisfy the
energy needs of nuclear families.
The farmers demanded the solar
cooker as well as solar lights. A
solar dryer has moderate demand
while biogas plant can also be
constructed, as per the
experiences of Mr. Chittaranjan
Roy.
The other major constraint of
the rural communities is the
voltage problem. By
extending the electrical post to
the villages, Government has
declared that the villages are
electrified. Whereas, in reality
none of the child can study with
the illumination that we are
getting from a 100-watt electric
bulb in the villages. Those who
are using it for study purposes
are loosing their eyesight in the
tender age itself.

Therefore, J anakalyan is now
thinking if the solar lights can
be introduced in the villages.
Similarly if all energy needs
could be met out by the
renewable sources of energies,
available in the nature without putting
any pressure on the environment and
ecosystem.
2.1.1.4
Poorwomans LPG Gobargas Plant

Chittaranjan is a farmer of R. H. Colony
No.4 assisted under Jana-Krishi
Project. He has also constructed a
biogas plant under Jana-Shakti Project
of Janakalyan.

He has a small family comprising of his
father, wife and 3 children. He also has
about 6 cattle. The excreta he feeds to
the biogas plant and the gas he uses
regularly for cooking food whereas the
slurry from the biogas plant he reuses
for the Vermicompost pit for production
of manure.

His wife happily says that earlier she
had to walk miles together to fetch fuel
wood while today the same is available
in her kitchen. She says it is poor-
womans LPG. Although, she resides in
her farm without electricity, she says
she enjoys the facility of a city-woman
because of the gobargas plant.



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2.1 Ongoing Projects 2.1.2 Bhoo Mata

JANA KRISHI
Poverty Alleviation Package for Refugees

Poverty Alleviation Package for Refugees is an ongoing
project of Janakalyan to experiemnt and develop a self-
sufficient model for the tail end farmers. The major
objective is to use the available resources viz. land,
water, crop-wastes, animal excreta and human
resources. Emphasis was also given on complete
recycling of the resources and intensified integrated
farming system development. It is Sir Dorabji Tata Trust,
Mumbai funded program.
This programis not merely for the targeted farmer.
Although the direct benefit of the program is for
participating farmers, the farmers should work with a
service motive so that other farmers can
see and get motivated for the package.
The package is for on-farm cultivation
and thus part of the family shifts to the
farm.
Preferably all the farmer having a pair of
bullock was selected.
Other than these, the emphasis were also
given to see that-
The farmers grow varieties of crops. This
is for risk distribution. If one crop fails the
other would compensate.
The risk distribution is on trees, which
conserve soil moisture, help in enriching
the soil, binds the farmers 365 days in
field. Otherwise, the farmer never turns
towards the farm in the summer months.
Fish, Animals, birds like poultry, ducks,
etc. are also grown as a source of
additional income.
The major objective of the program is to
enrich the soil fertility, improve soil health
and preserve it for generations to come.
The second major objective is to get 365
days work in their farm for all the family
members.
Land preparation plays important role in cultivation.
Farmers must do it in time.
Judicious utilization of water. Because the water is
scarce and need to be use effectively whatever
quantum available.
To adopt new crops with new package of practices,
technologies, etc.
Land available is only 5 acres but the family is
growing bigger and bigger every year. We need to
survive from this piece of land. Therefore, intensive
utilization of land.
On-farm cultivation is a must. This would help us to
use the morning and evening time productively.
Otherwise, the farmer goes to the farm at 10 a.m. and
comes back at 5 p.m. If he stays in the farm, the
morning and evening hours could be used effectively.
Regular meeting to learn fromeach other.
The najor activities under taken during the year are-
Continued service to all the 6 farmers to consolidate
the result in second year.
Selection of new farmers and excavation of pukur
for 1 farmer.
Introduction of drum kits with 4 farmers to
demonstrate effective water utilisation.
Preseason training to the farmers by the KVK,
Raichur for effective planning by the farmers in
advance.
Fish rearing in the pukur to intensify water use
effciency.
Efforts were also initiated to
market the agriculture
produces directly to the
consumer after value
addition.
Farm women were also
targeted to organize into
SHGs for their socio-
economic empowerment.
The major contraints faced during
the year are
Drought consecutive drought
for 3
rd
year caused lots of
inconveniences to the farmers
as well as to the program, as it
is a climate-sensistive
program.
Funds constraint the financial
support gap between close of
1
st
grant and commencement
of 2
nd
gap was nine months.
Janakalyan had to face lot of
difficulties to further the
program for these nine months.
Un-seasonal rain need of
shower caused drying up of all the existing crops while
there was a shower when it was not at all required
causing huge loss to the farmers.
Pests pest attack to almost all the crops caused
reduction in yield.
The major learning of the year are -
Apart from the training and exposure, monthly meeting
of the participating farmers should be made as a
compulsion for each farmer. This would help each
other to gain the experiences.
The Pukur should be of 0.75 acre size to save the
land. It should be deepen as much as possible to
reduce seepage. Further, the existing 6 pukurs must
also need to be deepened at least by 150 tractor-
hours.
At least 400 tractor-hours are to be used for a Pukur.
The topsoil must be distributed in the remaining 4
acres of land
2.1.2.1
About 10 guntas of vegetable helped
me to keep my family alive, said Mr.
Sunil Dey. I had lot of expectation
from paddy but the loss experienced
during the year is ever seen in the last
7 years. This is what compensation of
one crop by other the basic
principle of the project I understand,
he added.
The experiences of Sumanta Shil
The major changes in my life during
the year is that I need not go out for
labor migration as did in the previous
years, leaving behind my family &
children. Today I am with my family
and have some work in my farm
whereas last year I was in Goa by
now. Unlike previous years, my farm
is green today (20.3.2004 the result-
sharing workshop was held in his
farm). I could repay the previous
debts in these 2 years. I am with
mental peace, which I never had in my
life because of moneylenders, says
Sumanta Shil in workshop.
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2.1 Ongoing Projects 2.1.3 Go Mata

JANA RAKSHA
Dairy Development & Cattle Breed Improvement Program

Jana Raksha is a program of Janakalyan to provide
the backward and forward linkages to the women
entrepreneurs for smooth running of their agro-
enterprise, i.e. Dairy. Janakalyan appointed a
veterinary doctor to provide door services to cattle
of these S H G members round the
clock.
The major activities undertaken during
the year are
Veterinary services to the cattle for
first half of the year. Thereafter, we
failed on the account of non-
availability of veterinary doctor.
Conducted cattle health camps in
the villages with the cooperation of
the veterinary department.
Assisted the SHGs to purchase
milch animals through bank loans
as a subsidiary source of income.
Promoted private milk marketing by
individuals in order give additional
price to the producers.
Assisted the MPCS (Milk
Producers Cooperative Societies)
to reach out more beneficiaries.
Trained the women in milk
processing to produce Bengali
sweets out of milk and market
locally.
The major constraints faced by the
women are
Drought consecutive drought for
3
rd
year caused non-availability of
green fodder as well as water and
thus most of the women sold out their milch
animals at throwaway prices.
Migration the women are forced to go out of
the colonies for the want of employment as a
result of 3 consecutive drought. They had no
other go than to sell out their milch animals.
Funds after closure of the SRTT funds,
Janakalyan failed to mobilize funds to run the
program. Medicines and AI facilities are must
to run this program.
Halfway in the year the veterinary doctor left the job
and then onward we could not extend the services
to the communities. Many a times the communities
requested to provide the service.
The efforts to sale the milk with the Pousthik
brand took off very well in a short span of time at
Sindhanur. But, we had to stop it in between
because of the very bad road conditions, especially
in the rainy season.
This was the first attempt of the
Milan Teertha Federation of
SHGs with a loan of Rs.50,000/.
The setback has created a
negative impact in the mind of
all these women. Now they are
not ready to take any risk.
The old wine in a new bottle;
likewise Janakalyan changed its
strate
gies
and
starte
d
creati
ng
wome
n-
entrep
reneu
rs to
proce
ss the
milk into milk products,
especially the Bengali Sweets.
Trained the women calling the
trainer from Kolkata. Now the
milk is being processed and
marketed in the form of sweets
to avoid transportation problem.
The major learning of the year is
The veterinary service is an essential
component for animal husbandry and should
be available in the vicinity of the project.
The milk as such is not marketable, although it
has lot of demand, without having the
processing equipment and all-weather-road
Animal husbandry can be promoted only if
there is provision of direct marketing.
For women from the farming community, the
only viable income generation activity is animal
husbandry
2.1.3.1
Series deaths of sheep & goats

Sheep & goats rearing have become
a major subsidiary source of income
in the area after introduction of
Janakalyans Dairy Development &
Cattle Breed Improvement Program.
Every family, especially women,
have at least a ship or goat in
addition to their main occupation.
Milch animals are common in the
area as because they have both
backward & forward linkages through
Janakalyan.

Round the clock the veterinary
services are available at their
doorstep. But in the later part of the
year, it was difficult for the
community to get the similar facilities
from the Department of Animal
Husbandry & Veterinary Services.

Due to an epidemic a series of
deaths happened to the sheep &
goats. Even after regular efforts the
community failed to access the
services to save their investment.

This has de-motivated the
community to go for the ship & goat
rearing.

In seventh attempts
also I failed to bring
doctor home from
Sindhanur, says Mr.
Chittaranjan. And
finally I lost my 3
sheep without getting
veterinary services.
All because of
J anakalyan
withdrawing the
services. J anakalyan
must again start
providing the same
services, he demands


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2.1 Ongoing Projects 2.1.4 Ganga Mata

JANA JALA
Roof Water Harvesting Program

J ana J ala is a program to harvest rainwater for
drinking and greening the house-yard. During
the summer months, especially in the drought
years, the water becomes a commodity for
these refugees and is being distributed using
the printed cards through the Samaj Kalyan
Samitee (Village Development
Committee) promoted by
J anakalyan. The drinking water
falls in the women domain and
hence it is their headache to
fetch it from any source, however
distant and difficult it may be.

Each refugee-family was given a
tinned hut during their
resettlement. Every year it yields
about 17000 liters of water in
normal condition of 581mm of
rain. This quantum of water
floods their surroundings causing
growth of all kinds of nuisances
and useless shrubs.

To make its productive use, a
project was designed to harvest
rainwater to use for drinking and
making use for kitchen
gardening. CAPART assisted to
experiment it with 50 families.

The major activities under the
program are
Identification of needy
women and orienting her
about the importance of (rain)
water.
Construction of rainwater
harvesting structures in their
houses.
Putting them all in practice of
using rainwater.
Growing the vegetables in
the kitchen garden grown
using the harvested water.
The activities undertaken during
the year are
Identified 25 women and motivated them
to take up rainwater harvesting.
Constructed structures in their home.
Used the structure for storage of water.
Trained the women and developed kitchen
garden in their house-yard.

The major constraints faced during the year
are
The design was for
underground while AFPRO
suggested for
aboveground. This
demanded more
investment while CAPART
denied providing additional
funds.
The women filled up the
structure without proper
curing to store the canal
water for summer months.
The floor of the structures
failed.

The major learning from the
program is
Local knowledge is far
better than the expertise
from outside. AFPRO
engineers made the entire
program a failure.
Everything should be done
very systematically.
Unplanned activities cause
lots of penalties.
The community contributes
to any extent if it is worth
contributing.

Rainwater harvesting has got
priority in the national and
international agenda but not
reached the villages of India.
J anakalyan, for the first time,
brought it in rural India.
Although J anakalyan has a
responsibility to popularize, it is
up to the community to make
its effective use
2.1.4.1
Last is lasting

Mr. Bellaswami is an
entrepreneurial farmer from R.
H. Colony No.1 resides in his
farm at R. H. Colony No.3. He
has been associated with
Janakalyan activities since from
the beginning.

He learnt that Janakalyan is
constructing rainwater-
harvesting structures for the
community. He demanded for
one structure and got the
structure built by Janakalyan in
his farm with his partial
contribution. His structure was
the last structure among 25.

The mason, having constructed
24 structures, got an
experience about the structure
and could make his own
assessment by the time. The
last structure was built keeping
all these learning in mind and
became successful.

Today, Bellaswami is using it
for many purposes. He proudly
says that this kind of structure is
very much essential for the
communities of Sindhanur
Rehabilitation Project.

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2.2 New Projects of the year

JANA KRISHI
Cotton Based Integrated Farming System

Janakalyan is working with the farmers since 1998 to
develop technologies suitable for local climate using
Participatory Technology Development (PTD) approach,
especially on cotton crop in collaboration with AME. After
a gap of 2 years, it has started working with 25 farmers
in Diddigi village of Sindhanur taluk to improve the cotton
eco-system with program viz. Cotton Based Integrated
Farming System.

Use of excessive chemical fertilizers and pesticides has
caused soil degradation and pest immunization,
respectively. In turn it has also impact on health of the all
animals and climate. Therefore, organic cultivation with
emphasis on integrated farming is the objective this
program. This is an AME Foundation
supported project.

The major activities undertaken during the
year are
Diddigi village selected for the
experiment because it falls under dry
zone where Janakalyan is functioning
for last 3 years and already few SHGs
are operational.
About 25 interested farmers selected
for the experiment and are organized
into 2 SHGs.
Yearlong training conducted for the
farmers to make familiar with latest
technologies in the field of organic
cultivation.
Celebrated Independence Day in the
farm to build a sense of pride among
the farmers that they are Indians and
they must have the right to fix the price
for their produces.
Provided the critical agricultural inputs
to the farmers.
Conducted few exposure trips for the
farmers to learn by seeing.
Conducted Farmers Field School (FFS) on cotton eco-
system.

Field Day: A Field Day conducted in the experiment plot
inviting farmers from the village as well as neighboring
village to spread the result of the experiment. Agriculture
Scientists, Progressive Farmers and participating
farmers interface was created to exchange the ideas
and learn from the experiment.

Visioning Exercise is a new tool tried out with Bengali
farmers in Sindhanur Rehabilitation Project. The same
was also used with these 25 farmers to plan their
activities in advance. This helps the farmers to dream
how his farm should look like after certain period of time.

The major constraints faced during the year are
Wrong selection of seeds the farmers lost their
interest in taking
up the farming
activities as the
seeds selection
was wrong, which
was identified only
after the
germination.
Farmers
selection the farmers
selection process was done
without proper planning due to
urgency of the donor, which
resulted into induction of wrong
persons in to the program.
Revolving Fund - although, the
groups were not matured, there
was pressure from AMEF to
transfer the revolving fund to
their accounts. The farmers did
not repay it.
Manpower non-availability of
a suitable technical person for
implementation of the program
with the limited remuneration
effected the quality of the
program.
Technical Support AME did
not have required manpower
and thus we failed to get
necessary technical support in
FFS as well as implementation
of the program.

The major learning out of one years experience are
The farmers have learnt about the importance of organic
cultivation.
They have also learnt about group approach of farming.
FFS is a strong tool to learn by doing they learnt.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) extensively need to
be used for better crop and health management.
In-situ soil and water conservation plays important role in
dry cultivation.
If this approach is practiced, the farmers can come out of
the vicious cycle of the moneylenders.
Soil is the most important resource for human being.
Needs to conserve for the generations to come.
We must follow our ancestors to keep soil and
environment healthy but not the mark.
Role of AMEF, Raichur
Other than financial support
AMEF is supposed to provide
technical support in every step
of implementation of the
program. It should also equip
the field staff by way of training
and exposures.

Mounesh Badiger example
for a good leader

Mounesh Badiger is farmer from
Diddigi village having a joint family of 8
members with agriculture as the main
occupation. He is president of
Basaveshwar Krishi Sangh.

He says any good message needs
continuous efforts to percolate down
into the mind of the community. Cotton
based Integrated Farming System is
one among them. It is our luck that the
organization like Janakalyan has
selected Diddigi and us for the
experiment, he adds.

Today farmers have become lazy.
It is our duty to make themaware
about the fact and take themalong.

More than preaching, he does the
things and demonstrates others
how to do it. Before asking
anybody to repay the revolving
fund, he first repays it and then
asks other to follow.


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International Women Day
Exhibition cum Sales Mela for SHG Products

For years Janakalyan is promoting IGA (Income
Generating Activities) through SHGs (Jana
Sanghatan). Many rounds of training were
conducted for the women to impart various skills of
production. Similarly under Jana Udyog (REDP)
also few batches of women and youths have been
trained to create a cadre of job-creators and not
job-seekers.

But, at the end of the year it is felt that without
proper marketing facilities none of the
entrepreneurs can come up in their life.

With this understanding, a two-days Exhibition cum
Marketing Mela was conducted on the occasion of
International Women Day at Sindhanur. About 36
SHGs participated with their products for 2 days
and got a sales of Rs.25,000/-. The response was
very good. More than the sales, we could reach out
to the city-community and got a advertisement
about the efforts and initiatives of the SHG
members.

It was a NABARD supported program for the rural
youths and SHG women.
Participatory Employment Network
PEN is an attempt to provide employment to the
rural communities through chain approach.
Janakalyan tried to become part of the National
Network and conducted few rounds of talk with the
Network leaders and the youths. Got huge
response and had few rounds of workshops. But,
finally dropped as because the network did not
ensure the market for the produces.

Meter Reading - GESCom

Janakalyan signed an agreement with Gulbarga
Electricity Supply Company (GESCom) to provide the
services of meter reader in the rural areas.

The objective was to provide partial employment to many
educated rural youths. The contract was for 6 months
and completed successfully.

The company then made the meter reading
computerized and therefore the contract was then
awarded to some other company. But most of our meter
readers were inducted for the work. Many of them are
still continuing with GESCom.

About 20 youths got partial employment by this program.

Skill REDP
The Rural Entrepreneurship Development Program
(REDP) is a product of Janakalyan in Raichur district to
create a cadre of job-creators and not job-seekers.

So far Janakalyan provided only general REDPs while
during the year it has ventured into skill-based REDPs.
The various skill-based REDPs conducted during the
year are-


Tailoring
Fashion Designing
Milk Products
Screen printing

Unlike general REDPs, the skill-based REDPs are more
specific and the complete batch is trained about the
specific skill in addition to the general entrepreneurial
skill development and motivational package.
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2.3 Non-funded Projects

Jana Shanti Dhaam
A Platform of Senior Citizens of Rural India for Peace

The projects run by the NGOs are normally donor-
funded. But Janakalyan runs several project without any
aid from the external agencies. One such initiative is
Jana Shanti Dhaam. As the name itself indicates, this is
to create a platform for the senior citizens for peace.
Today, in rural India the aged are considered as burden
for the family. They find it extremely difficult to spend
their time in home. To avoid this Jana Shanti Dhaam is
created where all senior citizens of 60+ are members,
irrespective caste, creed and gender. In other words it is
known as Bhakta Sangha

What do they do?
Everyday afternoon they assemble in a house and
chant the great epics like Mahabharata, Ramayana,
Srimad Bhagavatgeeta, etc. for 2-3 hours.
Early morning all of them again assemble and walk
on every street with all musical instrument and
Sankeertan Hare Krishna, Hare Rama.
In all religious occasion they participate and take
lead to celebrate it.

Today, the Sangha has a status in the society and is
facing difficulties to allot the dates to the members for the
monthly celebration. Even the non-members are
requesting them to grace their marriages, religious
celebrations, etc. with presence of the Sangha.

The members of the Bhakta Sangha are really with
peace. They are equally happy.


Samaj Kalyan Samitee
A Village Development Committee to maintain peace & harmony in the society

This is a platform of villagers to implement all
developmental activities for the village. It consists of the
elected and non-elected representatives and village well-
wishers inclusive SHG members. The objective of the
samitee is to maintain peace & harmony in the society.

During the year it has successfully completed several
projects like -
Food for Work Janakalyan mobilized a grant of
Rs.1.0 lakh for food for work which was given to
Samaj Kalyan Samitee and was successfully
completed.
Mobilized about Rs.2.0 lakhs from Taluka
Panchayat and was used for deepening of the
Community Pond.
Mobilized Rs1.6 lakhs contribution from villagers
and applied for Swajaldhara to have a Drinking
Water System for R. H. Colony No.4.

Many other developmental activities are being planned
and implemented through SKS. Even beneficiaries for
various projects of Janakalyan are identified in
consultation with SKS. Summarily, it is a very good
instrument for implementing developmental activities.

Vermiculture Pomotion
A technology to convert wastes into manure for soil health management

Excess utilization of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides
have damaged the soil structure making it infertile. On
the other hand, the available biomass is being burnt for
no use.
To avoid this situation Janakalyan has promoted a
technology to convert the wastes (biomass) into
productive manure for soil health improvement.

It has 4 methods to convert the wastes into manure
1. Dig a pit (10x3x2.5) in the earth and fill the wastes
and cow dung layer by layer.
2. Create a structure (10x3x2.5) with M.S. slab and
fill the wastes and cow dung layer by layer.
3. Create a permanent brick structure (10x3x2.5) and
fill the wastes and cow dung layer by layer.
4. Put one layer of cement block (10x3x0.5) and
make heap of the wastes and cow-dung layer by
layer.

The 4
th
method is more scientific because it provides
more aeration and light to the worms thus the process
becomes faster & easier.



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Advocacy for Refugee Issues
The Prime Concern of Janakalyan

The refugees of Sindhanur Rehabilitation Project have
two kinds of issues
1. Issues of specific nature issues, which have
aroused specifically due to their migration and
rehabilitation. Such issues are not seen in the any
other localities except these kinds of resettlement
places. They are 1) Withdrawal of Caste Certificate
from the Namasudra Community, 2) No ownership
over the Housing Plot and land allotted to the
refugees & repatriates, 3) Inhabitants of Colonies
and not revenue villages still after three decades, 4)
Withdrawal of Mother tongue from the primary level,
5) No Citizenship for many families even after 3
decades, 6) Power to Gram Panchayat and 7)
Minority

2. Issues of general nature - issues that can be
found in any Indian villages but the intensity of
problem may differ from village to village. They are
1) Accessibility to Rehabilitation Project, 2)
Accessibility to Agricultural Land, 3) Drinking Water,
4) Health care, 5) Housing, 6) Unemployment, 7)
Hygiene & Sanitation 8) Irrigation water, 9) Public
Transport Facility, 10) Post & Telecom Services 11)
Internal Roads, 12) Saline Land, 13) Veterinary
Services, 14) Temple, 15) Play ground, 16)
Expanding Village Boundary, 18) Market at
Rehabilitation Project, 19) Cremation Center, 20)
Grazing Land, 21) Library and reading room

Janakalyan, through the community based institutions at
the ground level taking up the advocacy at appropriate
level besides its developmental activities. Some of the
issues are taken up at local, district, state and national
levels as the case may be.

Income Generation Activities
To broaden the economic base of the community

To sustain developmental interventions is to broaden
economic base of the community. Rural India is
completely based on agriculture, directly or indirectly.
Agriculture completely depends upon the climate and
monsoon, which is not certain. Therefore, the livelihood
of rural communities is uncertain.
To create a situation of sustainable livelihood,
Janakalyan is putting emphasis to create a cadre of job-
creators through its unique entrepreneur creation
program. It believes that the entrepreneurs are not born
but created. In other words, it is trying to provide gainful
employment to each and every members of the family
thus reducing the burden on agriculture.
The efforts are through the SHG members, their children
and also their husbands. The enterprises may be
anything for s/he is competent to manage.

Tailoring Centers for SHG Members
Skill up-gradation to increase home-based employment

Most of the SHG members are wage-laborers. They get
an employment for maximum 200 days in a good year.
For rest of the year, they are idle and it becomes
extremely difficult for themto manage the family affairs.
To provide some source of income for this period is a
concern of Janakalyan and thus started the income
generating activities as stated above. But there are some
other women who are interested to start the service
industries like tailoring and embroidery.

Janakalyan started about 4 centers for these categories
of women in four villages to train the women in tailoring
and embroidery. These centers run for 12 months in a
year in batches. This year about 125 women / girls have
been trained from these centers. Many of them are
earning Rs.200-500 per month after attaining their
routine works. Further the amount that they used to
spend for stitching their own clothes is saved now. Some
of them are also getting very good orders from the
schools for uniform.

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2.1 Unexpected Projects

Vrikshamitra Market Launch
The Programs for Employment Generation through Organic Approach


To launch its new organic product called
Virkshamitra, Shubodita Agro Services,
Bangalore wanted an agency. Sri P.N.
Murthy, the Chairman of Tungabhadra
Gramina Bank advised the proprietor to
appoint Mr. Prasen Raptan for the
assignment, in his individual capacity. But
finally J anakalyan took up the assignment
of launching the new product i.e. Vriksha
Mitra, a bio-fertilizer in Raichur & Koppal
districts to fulfil its objectives like -
Promotion of organic farming for which
it is already putting efforts. This would
also be a complementary effort to its
Jana-Kri shi Program.
Few youths would get employment
that would again be a complementary
effort to the program called Jana-
Udyog.

To initiate the program was taken up for 3
months and appointed 2 persons for the
assignment having little marketing
experience. They could launch the product
successfully. About 125 tons of
Vrikshamitra was sold in the off-season of
J anuary March. But the impact of
Vrikshamitra on the yield was not
measurable. Although, the Company did
not renew the agreement with J anakalyan
but these 2 persons were absorb in the
company.



Organic Cotton Program
A Chain approach from Production to Marketing of Cotton

Netherlands based institute called
Solidaridad wanted to take up a project in
Raichur district viz. Organic Cotton
Growing and Marketing. After studying the
NGOs of the district shortlisted
J anakalyan and two other NGOs.

The program aims at production of organic
cotton with assured irrigation in the cotton
growing areas of Raichur district. Such
organically grown cotton would then be
ginned and purchased at premium price
through OCGrA (Organic Cotton Growers
Association).

J anakalyan wanted to take up this project
for few reasons like
The project will help the farmers to get
their soil reclaimed in the process. The
farmers will be interested to go for
organic cultivation because they will
get a premium price, which otherwise
would have been difficult.
The soil of the district is known as BC
(Black Cotton) soil. Therefore, cotton
growing deserves reviving.
Organic cultivation is need of the hour.
But the farmers do not understand it.
Through this project it would be
possible to make them aware about
the practices.
It is also assumed that the farmers will
definitely start growing other crops,
especially vegetables and food grains
organically after getting the taste of it.

The workshop on implementation
strategies and signing the MoU was held
at Nrupatunga Hotel, Raichur, wherein the
NGOs from 3 states (Karnataka,
Maharastra & Andhra Pradesh)
participated.

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Chapter III
Steps Towards Sustainability

Sustainability of the programs as well as the
organization is important for long term benefit
of the community as well as employees of the
organization. Although, all the NGOs have
started institutionalizing the activities by
forming SHGs, Farmers Groups and other
such techniques, the scope and impact has
been very limited. J anakalyan has also
followed the same practices and found some
of the lacuna in the approach. Therefore it has
initiated few innovative steps during the year
to sustain the impact of the programs as well
as organization. These are illustrated in this
section in brief.

Sangha Darshini Samitee: To make the
peoples institutions stronger, a village level
steering committee called Sangha Darshini
Samitee (SDS) is formed with the SHGs. The
long-term goal is that the SDS must manage
the SHGs of a particular village.

Milan Teertha Federati on: As an apex body
of al the SHGs of Sindhanur Rehabilitation
Project and the SDS mentioned above, a
cluster level Federation is formed viz. Milan
Teertha Federation. Its functions would be to
bring oneness among all the SHGs of
Sindhanur Rehabilitation Project.

Samaj Kal yan Samitee: To maintain the
peace & harmony and Law & Order in the
villages, a village level institution called Samaj
Kalyan Samitee (Villae Development
Committee) concept is introduced during the
year. Its function is to implement all the
government sponsored schemes and other
developmental programs systematically
without any leakage.

Jana-Shanti Dhaam: To preserve the culture
of the community and also to protect the rights
of the age-old persons (both men & women) a
forum called J ana-Shanti Dhaam is
introduced during the year. All the wo/man
above 60 years of the village is member of the
body and assemble everyday in one persons
house to chat the religious scripts.

Jana Smparka Sabha: Another tool called
J ana Samparka Sabha is introduced during
the year to resolve the refugee issues. In this
Sabha the entire administrative body is
brought in front of the gathering to respond to
the demands of the public.
The above efforts are to sustain the impacts of
the programs of J anakalyan while the efforts
for organizational sustainability is dealt in
below.

Professional approach: Sustainability of an
Organization is nothing but having a dedicated
professional team of Human Resource and a
constant flow of Financial Resources. Towards
this, J anakalyan put all the effort to have a
competent team by recruiting a set of fresh
graduates because, they could be tuned
according to the vision and mission of
J anakalyan. The team that we have during the
year consists of the following professionals.
1. Shanti Ranjan Das, PUC
2. Prasen Raptan, B.Tech. , PGDMN
3. Dr. Mallikarjuna G, BVSc
4. Vijaya Prakash, B.Sc. (Ag)
5. Ku. Meenakshi T A G, PUC
6. Shishir Ranjan Roy, BA
7. Pampapati Palled, BA
8. Saibabu U<MSW
9. Aravinda R Page, MSW
10. Narayan Raptan, MCom
11. Ku. Sreedevi, BA
12. Ramakrishna Kulkarni, B.Com
13. Ku. Shivaleela, J ODC
14. Ku. Basavarajeshwari, BA
15. Abhijit Sarkar, SSLC
16. Smt. Shobha Roy
17. Smt. J ayamma
18.
Formation of Core Team: To develop a
sense of ownership among the employees in
the organization, a core team consisting of 9
employees was constituted in the beginning of
the year.

Human Resource Development: To enhance
the working capacity of the employees, various
training cum exposures were organized for the
employees at different parts of the country in
various disciplines. Also, some of the in-house
training programs were organized at
J anakalyan by hiring the resource persons
from different organizations.

In addition to these, a series of training was
conducted at J anakalyan with the resource
persons like Sri Basavaraj from J aycees, Sri
S.H. Somashekhar, etc. on different aspects of
development interventions.

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Chapter IV
Steps Ahead
Path to be covered to reach the goal

Whatever has been done in the past is
very little if compared to the tasks to be
completed to empower the people of the
rural India. There are many hardcore
issues concerning the rural
disadvantageous communities, which
need immediate actions. But, due various
reasons and constraints J anakalyan had
to set back for a while. Efforts are still
going on to organize the resources to
address these issues. Some of the major
issues are enlisted below-
The major issue today is Drought in
Raichur Disitrict and thus migration of
able-bodied persons leaving behind the
age-old parents without anybody to care
them. Is there any way to mitigate the
issue? Is it possible to take up some
disaster management activities? Need
immediate reactions.
The only disadvantageous group today
in Sindhanur block is the wage-laborers.
With the TBP coming in, lot of labor-
class community forced into the block as
the crops grown then were labor-
intensive. But today the cropping pattern
has changed with change in quantum of
water availability thus reducing the labor
requirement in agricultural operations.
Also mechanization of agricultural
operations has taken away the
employment opportunity for these
groups. Thus, these groups today
neither have an opportunity to engage
themselves in wages nor they have any
other options for their livelihood. Could
anything be done for these groups? Can
the cotton be revived in the area?
The small & marginal farmers of TBP
command, especially the tail enders, are
the victims of irrigation today. In the
beginning, with the fertile soil they used
to get high yield from the land and thus
family management was never an issue
for them. But, today with the manifold
polarization of families, the per capita
land has reduced and the same time the
yield has reduced to any extent. Further,
the irrigation facility is restricted for one
crop only. Therefore, it has literally
become difficult for the small and
marginal farmers to sustain. Can the
yield be intensified? Can the soil fertility
be improved / retained with organic
farming?
Salinity and alkalinity is a major problem
in the low land of TBP command, which
generally belongs to small and marginal
farmers. Neither they can go for
reclamation of such land nor can they
sell and buy another piece of land at
some other places. Further, they also
dont have any other option for their
income generation. How can they
survive? Could the command area
development program be initiated?
There is vast potential to lift the water for
irrigation from the nearby nala/streams
while rarely the farmers are able to take
advantages of the resources. Could this
be a program of J anakalyan to meet the
needs of the community? With rising
scarcity of irrigation water, it is wise to
think about drip irrigation practices in the
TBP command.
Although, it is under an irrigated belt, an
equal number of farmers are practicing
dry land agriculture. It is necessary for
them to adopt some sort of low cost soil
& water conservation practices. Can the
farm pond be an alternative for the dry
land farmers also?
With all this practices also, it is never
possible to absorb the entire workforce,
especially the educated youths, in to
agriculture. Therefore, the
entrepreneurship development must get
priority in the agenda of Government
and Non-Government Organizations.
There are some other issues, which
need immediate attention like Woman
Health, HIV/AIDS, Education, rural
infrastructures, marketing network, etc.

These issues are in the agenda of
J anakalyan and would be taken up in the
years to come with the availability of
resource.

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Chapter V
Important Visitors to Janakalyan

Few eminent visitors to the organization on various occasions are listed here.

Sri B B Mohanty, Chief General Manager, NABARD, Bangalore, Visited on 6
th

J anuary 2004 to inaugurate the REDP function in Bangla camp
Sri G N Nayak, Deputy Commissioner, Raichur Visited on 6
th
J anuary 2004 for
inaugurate the REDP function in Bangla Camp No. 4.
Sri Narayanaswami M N, IAS, Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Panchayat, Raichur
Visited on 6
th
J anuary 2004 for inaugurate the REDP function
Sri P Narasimha Murthy, TGB Chairman, Bellary, Visited on 24
th
November 2003
to inaugurate the Skill based REDP in Venkateshwar camp
Sri L K Havanur, General Manager, TGB, Bellary, Visited on 24
th
November 2003
to inaugurate the REDP function in Venkateshwar camp
Sri N Narasimlu, Lead District Manager, Raichur, Visited for three times to our
Organization
Sri K N J nanendra, District Development Manager, NABARD, Raichur Visited
Many times
Sri Hampanagouda Badarli, MLA, Sindhanur, Visited on Valedictory function of
REDP at Venkateshwar camp
Sri G U Huded, Deputy Resource Person, District Industries Center, Raichur,
Visited at Once to our Organization
Sri D B Puranik, Resource Person,
Sri G R Venugopal, Resource Person, Mysore
Sri M Doddabasavaraj, (Ex) President, Taluka Panchayat, Sindhanur Visited on
5
th
February 2004 for Valedictory function of REDP at J awalagera
Sri J agannath Das, Lead District Manager, SBH, Koppal, Visited on 5
th
February
2004 for Valedictory function of REDP at J awalagera
Sri J anardhan Rao, Branch Manager SBH, Hutti, Visited on 5
th
February 2004 for
Valedictory function of REDP at J awalagera
Sri Pramod Kulkarni, Secretary Prerana, Raichur, Visited Many times
Sri Gijs Spoor, Solidaridad, Holand from Neatherland Visited to our Organization
Sri K Sharanabasava, Secretary SPRED, Visited twice
Sri C Somashekher, Samuha, Tavaragera, Visited at Once
Sri S E Nataraj, Associate Director, SIRD, Bellary Visited at Once
Sri Suresh Kustagi, Samuha, Tavaragera, Visited at Once