GANGADEVIPALLI VILLAGE (Warangal rural district)

A study using PRA technique

Group 18

Bidisha Kalita(GL)

Kumar Chintha(AGL)

Deepak Shukla

Rajeev Ranjan

Pate Poonam Vilas

Kumar Chintha

Time Progress

19th Century Traceable history of village

1982 100% Liquor Free Village

1995 First PRI Election

1995 to 2001 100% Mahila Panchayat

1996 Till Date 100% House Tax Collection

1999 100% Families Invested in small savings

2000 100% Construction of IHHL’s

2003 100% ODF Village

2003 100% Family Planning Operations with Two Children

2004 100% All People are using Purificated Water

2016 Construction of 16 ft. PCC road

Till 2017 Full Electrification achieved

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TRANSECT WALK

Passage- The roads are mostly motor able PCC roads in most parts of the village. Land: Almost half of the families in the village own land with average landholding in range of 2.5-3 acres. Rest of the families do not own any land and work as agricultural laborers. Water: The village has two big water tanks of capacity of around 2 lakh liter capacity to supply water for other household purpose to each house. A onetime amount of Rs. 6500/- collected for each taps connection. Water in these tanks is filled through a bore well by 7.5 HP pump set that totally run on Solar Power.

TRANSECT WALK

Infrastructural & Institutional resources: Almost all grass root level institutions are present in village such as Gram panchayat, Panchayat and rural development training center, Aanganwadi, PDS, School, Drinking water plant (ATW), Library, Bus shelter, Veterinary clinic.

There is a water treatment plant in the village with capacity of 4000 lts which is the source of drinking water for the village. Each household is provided 20 ltr of water at the price of Rs 1 per day.

Source of water for irrigation (other than monsoonal rains) are the borewells. Around 75 Farm Ponds are dug under MNREGA to creation irrigation ponds in the agricultural field.

Cropping pattern and Soil: The top soil primarily consists of black-red soil with patches of black soil. A variety of crops are grown such as cotton, Maize, green chillies, turmeric, paddy and horticulture crops.

COMMITTEE SYSTEM OF GANGADEVIPALLY VILLAGE GRAM PANCHAYAT

• Gangadevipally village Gram Panchayat is known for its Committee system

• The village Panchayat has almost 18 committees and each

committee consists of around 15-20 members • At least one member from each family will be part of any the

committees so that the decisions taken at that level will have easy acceptance from the members of the village

• One third of the members from each committee retire every 2 years and the retired members will join the other committees other than the ones they have retired.

Committees in the Gangadevipally Village are as follows

1. Clean Drinking Water Committee 2. Village Development Committee 3. Loans Recovery Committee 4. Health Committee 5. School Protection Committee 6. Cable Tv Committee 7. Alcohol Prohibition Committee 8. Environmental Protection Committee 9. Youth Committee 10.Women’s Problems Committee 11.Clean and Green Committee 12.Widows committee 13.Civic Amenities Committee 14.Internal Audit Committee 15.Caste Occupation Committee 16.Farmers Development Committee 17.Grievance Redressal Committee 18.Women’s Development Committee

Deepak Kumar Shukla

Resource Map

SOCIAL MAPPING

Social mapping exercise provided insights into the social aspects

and the social life of the village.

Social Map helped us to learn about social and economic differences between the households based on ethnicity, religion, caste, gender etc.

We observed the social structures and institutions found in village.

There are different social communities such as Backward Castes and Scheduled tribes.

Different Income groups are found and their housing pattern is as shown the figure

The main religions followed by the people in the village are Hindu and there is only one Muslim family.

• Gram sabha is working very well in

Gangadevipally village. • There was one Gram sabha meeting was

conducted when we were in the village and almost 120-150 people have participated in the meeting

• They have discussed various issues like Water logging problem due to New Road Construction, Solar Street Lights Maintenance, Drainage Problem, problems in constructing community hall, funds for training Centre etc.

There are 22 SHGs finctioning in the village invloving 290 village women. Individuals savings are upto Rs 22000 per annum and loans from linkage bank are in the tune of Rs 5 lakh

POVERTY

• There are around 406 families in the village of which 390 families are in BPL category.

• Rest of the family has one member in Government service. • All Central as well as State government schemes for BPL

families like PDS, Arogya Shree etc. are fully functional

• Around half of the family does not have any significant land holding

• These families work as agricultural laborer • There are 256 families who have MNREGA Job cards.

Old Age Pension 80

PHC 34

Widow 46

T.T. 1

Weavers 10

Single Women 6

Total 179

SC NIL

ST 5

BC 168

OC 4

MIN 2

Total 179

Assara Pension is provided to 179 people as social security measure. The category wise separation of pension distribution is shown in table below.

Rajeev Ranjan

EDUCATION • The village has achieved 100% literacy rate in 2004 • In village there is a government school having 123 students at

Higher Secondary level and 96 students at primary level. • In general there is more girl students in the school than boy

students. • The School is managed under the management of a committee

formed under the Gram Panchayat. • In the school KCR Sanitation Kit consisting of Sanitary napkin, Oil,

Comb, Shop and Powder has been provided to every girl student once every three months.

Number of School 2

Enrollment in Primary

School 96

Enrollment in High

Schools 123

Total Enrollment 219

Mid Day Meal Scheme in school is properly functioning and our team even had the Mid Day Meal

The school has more girl student than boy students, which on the face of it looks encouraging

Issues: There is lack of some of basic infrastructure such as not enough class rooms and poor condition of Girl’s toilet.

ANGANWADI • Village has one Anganwadi working in the campus of School. • Anganwadi caters to Kids, Pregnant and Lactating women. There are 25

Children registered which came to anganwadi every day. • Lactating and Pregnant women have been given 2 eggs on Wednesday

and Sunday. Every other day they get 1 egg. They also receive 200 ml of milk every day.

• BAL AMRUTHAM PACKET for Children <3 years

PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRE

• Village does not have a Primary Health Centre.

• But there is one PHC at the mandal level which caters to medical needs of the 42 nearby villages including Gangadevipally village with combined population of around 48000.

• The PHC has two doctors, 1 Pharmacist and 1 Nurse.

• At the time of visit the position of lab technician was vacant. • Every Friday PHC conduct anti-natal checkup.

• From time to time the PHC goes to schools of nearby village to conduct checkup.

• The PHC has the facility of conducting Normal Delivery. There is also facility of Conducting Vasectomy and Tubectomy.

PRIMARY AGRICULTURE CREDIT SOCIETY

• Number of shareholders in the society is 5985 farmers with cumulative deposit of 183.00 lakhs.

• The society caters to credit needs of 25 nearby village in which 9 are revenue villages.

• Three types of loans are provided by the society Crop loan, Agri gold loan, agri term loan.

• Interest rate is generally 7% and if loan is paid in time interest is waived off.

• Apart from that society also provide crop insurance facilities like Fasal Bima Yojana and Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme of central government.

• The credit society also provide Loan Eligibity Card for agriculture labourers for amount of upto Rs. 50000/-.

Particulars No. Of

Farmers

Amount (In

Lacs)

Crop Loan 2840 1800.00

Agri Gold Loan

(Interest

Subvention)

1500 900.00

Agri Gold Loan

(Non

Subvention)

150 70.00

Term Loans 60 42.00

The segment wise disbursement of farm loans by credit society is as shown in table below:

Cooperative society apart from loans also provide storage facilities, seeds, fertilisers and pesticides at subsidised price to the farmers.

The society also has taken of plantations of Teak, mango and eucalyptus in the vacant land of the society.

The Credit society provides Ginning facility to cotton farmers.

Pate Poonam Vilas

Inititiatives by ex-Sarpanch (Sri Koosam Rajamouli) • Banning alcohol in the

village • Two-child policy in family

planning • Electrification of the village

through solar energy • Drinking water storage and

purification facility, powered through solar panel

• Any time water kiosks • Committee system at the

Gram Panchayat level • Due to his efforts, the

Central govt has identified the village as model village for India.

Important observations & Action points

1. The need for a PHC (primary health center) was seriously felt

as the present Health sub-center was found to be inadequate and far away from the village

2. The need for a full-fledged bank with loan facility was also recognized as the present Credit Society didn’t cater to the complete financial need of the villagers

3. Compensation to households who lost some parts of their houses during road expansion

4. Creating awareness regarding gender equality

METHODOLOGY

• The data collected are on demography, social structure, infrastructure facilities, agro-climatic resources, village economy, village organizations and people’s institutions and the issues of development.

• Both Quantitative and Qualitative data were collected.

• The quantitative data were on demographic profile, land holding, literacy rate, employment status, income level, health parameters etc.

• The qualitative data were quality of drinking water, quality of the road, housing pattern, sanitation, food habits which were obtained from the village after the interaction with the villagers and with use of tools like PRAs, Focused Group discussion, informal meetings.

VENN DIAGRAM/CHAPATI MODEL • The Venn diagram exercise was done to gauge the perception of villagers

towards various institutional resources present in the village.

• The task was carried out in two stages keeping two dimensions in mind: The first dimension measured the importance of these institutions -

depicted by the size of the Chapati/Circles. The second dimension measured the accessibility & quality of service

delivery of these institutions – depicted by the relative distances of these Chapatis with respect to the villagers.

• In the first stage the participants (about 25 - a good mix of male, female &

children) were asked to name & rank the institutions which they perceived to be the most important for their welfare starting from the most important (depicted by largest Chapati) to the least important (depicted by the smallest Chapati).

Gram Panchayat => School => Health sub-center => [Anganwadi, Post Office] => All Time Water (ATW) booth => PACS => Bank => Police station

The villagers after significant deliberation arrived at the ranking shoed above:

RANKING AND SCORING EXERCISE

• This exercise was undertaken to understand the choice preference of the villagers in two situations.

• In the first situation BPL participants were asked to enumerate the reasons for their poverty and then rank the reasons according to their importance.

• In the second situation they were orally provided a set of choices from which they had to indicate their preference.

Reasons for poverty:

Landlessness > Disability > Migration > Disease > No House