Keshavsrushti Gram Vikas Yojana Activity Report (Upto 30th September 2017) Prof. Sh. Arvind Mardikar Convener, KSGVY PRARAMBH- Keshavsrushti Gram Vikas Yojana Keshavsrushti Gram Vikas Yojana(KSGVY) was inaugurated on 1st May 2017 with the vision to undertake holistic Gram Vikas of Palghar district, Maharashtra. Recently,
various developmental activities have been started by KSGVY to involve Rural Yuva in the process of Gram-vikas. Water, Education, Agriculture, Sanskar, Environment, Govt. Schemes, cleanliness, Kitchen Gardening, Solar Energy, Health and Udyog are the main focus areas identified by KSGVY for Gram-vikas. Inauguration Ceremony: Mananiya Prantsanghachalak Sh. Satish Modh officially inaugurated Keshavsrushti Gram Vikas Yojana (KSGVY) Objectives: 1. Empowerment of Keshavsrushti Agriculture Polytechnic Alumni from the villages of Palghar area. 2. Through the empowered Alumni facilitate the empowerment of other village youth. 3. Development of the villages through empowered youth. 4. Youth Leaders will be working in teams with the help of Villagers to undertake welfare activities of the village. 5. They will work along with passionate Youth from Urban areas, under the Guidance and Support of Keshavsrushti team. Area of Work- Karyakshetra
Four Talukas have been chosen from the Palghar Area for the first phase of village development. Sr. No. Village Name Gram Karyakarta Urban Karyakarta 1 Kanchad Dipali Pundalik Madhavi Divya Dwivedi Sonal Arjun Wadekar Jayadeep Pansare Swapnil Katare 2 Pimplas Dhanesh Vaijanath Gavali Nishi Singhala Ashwin Karle 3 Palsai Prashant Pandhari Patil Gaurv Agarwal Manish Sinha 4 Kariwali Rakesh Sadanand Adhikari 5 Vasuri(Ghodmal) Ragini Pandit Sambre Vishal Tibtewala 6 Alman Jitendra Narendra Mokashi Saket Sanghaneriya 7 Pali Jayshri Balkrushna Madhavi Premji Goyal 8 Kambhare Nimesh Balkrushna Vishe Vikas Banka Jai Lakhama Pardhi 9 Ravachapada Lakshana Tukaram Karale Akshay Soni 10 Dinkarpada Yogini Chaudhary Rashmi Bhatkhalkar Suraj Dinkar Ravindra Dalvi 12 Devgaon Ashok Bhagawan Dhum Suchitra Ingle Nilesh Avatar
Santosh Gavali 13 Devghar Arvind Savar Aniket Havre 14 Chikhale Nayana Ashok Patil 15 Tilgaon Mayuri Shyam Jadhav 16 Shirsad Rakesh Gurunath Vehale Prashant Kandoi 17 Gale Sandip Dasharth Dongare Rajesh Chaudhary 18 Kapri Ghanshyam Mohan Tikhande Ashish Banka 19 Tilse Vijay Kashinath Dhapsi 20 Moj Priyanka Ramesh Shelar 21 Devali pooja Dinesh dandekar Rupa Raval 22 Dahe Yogesh Bhavar Rajendra Gavli 23 Umrothe Prashanki Ravindra Patil Krushna purohit 24 Gargaon Sadu Dhapte Ayush Shaha Sachin Parad 25 Sasane Vinod Balu Tare Samrath kedia Kumar Eknath Sutar 26 Sakhare Archna Gahala Animesh Kejriwal Parsuram Tabale 27 Talwada Madhuri Dode Rasula Karela 28 Karsud Ramdas Shanwar Siddharth Agicha 29 Jayram Kakad Vadpada 30 Mhadachapada Suresh Dhanaji Khanjode Lakshya Atha 31 Kasa bu. Sunil Wagh 32 Vasuri(Vikramgad ) Prabhavati Hadbal Mayank Podar 33 Hirave Devidas Chavan 34 Mokhada Shriram Batre 35 Dhapti Dilip Narayan Ghatal Gautam Mukharjee Murme sir
36 Velichapada Ramji Lahanu Wagh Ankit Nalotiya 37 Sarsun Mokashipada Gangaram Mokashi Anup Ramuka Ishwar Ragunath Mokashi 38 Ramkhind Vivek Gotrana Amrendra Mishra Karan Ashok Borkar 39 Dengachimet Suraj Mahadu Mahale Umesh Lohiya Badane Sir Naresh Marad 40 Chauk Nitin Raghu Gavanda Mayank Singhaniya 41 Nangarmoda Rajesh Korda Devesh Gupta 42 Vadpada Ramdas Shanwar Devvrat Jatiya Yuva karyakartas from forty villages are working as a representatives of KSGVY activities and implementing our activities at the ground level likewise thirty Yuva from Urban areas are individually associated with one village to help Gram karyakarta for Gram Vikas. KSGVY Office, Wada After having done all these preliminary activities of assigning villages to urban Yuvas and selection of Gram Karyakartas, we established a office in wada to undertake all the related planning and project activities that are currently going in a full fledged manner and a team of Six full-time karyakartas is facilitating the office work.
Computer Classes for the residents of Wada Computer literacy is now a days considered as crucial skill for employment. Since March 2017 we are running Computer training- three months course in Marathi and English typing with minimum fees. Every day, students do practice the typing everyday in the KSGVY wada office with the help of guiding softwares and guidance from trainer. Till date forty-six students have finished the computer training programs.
Yoga Class: Health is a major aspect of women's life which usually gets neglected by them due to many factors. In order to help rural women we are coducting free yoga sessions in the KSGVY wada office since 14th Sept 2017. A batch of 20 women are taking sessions regularly. Physical & Mental Health, food habits and related practices of Yoga is a prime focus of this initiative. We are hopeful to improve their health through this innovative step. Weekly Meeting of the Core Team members Once in every week core team members conduct a meeting to discuss ongoing activities in detail and plan out future interventions. Core team members are Sh Bimal ji kedia, trustee Keshavsrushti & Guide KSGVY. Prof. Arvind Mardikar, Convener KSGVY, Sh. Santosh Gaikwad, CEO KSGVY, Sh. Sadashiv Kulkarni, Sh. Rajendra Sasane, Sh. Keshav Kajrekar, Supriya Patil, Sh Bharat Nipurte, Sh. Sandesh Borase, Amit Patil Masik Milan: To discuss the regular updates related to the KSGVY work happening on ground and to know the new initiatives all Gram Karyakartas from forty villages visit the
KSGVY office in Wada once in a month that is on first Saturday. Till date five Masik Milan meetings have been organised in the presence of core team members. Focus Area of the field-work Development has multiple aspects but in order to have a sustainable development it is required to focus on few sectors that are most basic which can facilitate the nurturing of other facets of life as well. Therefore, KSGVY has chosen the following areas for the interventions and the activities conducted so far are given below. 1. Education[Shikshan]: It was observed that students coming from tribal and economically backward areas do not have basic material to pursue their education such as school bags, notebooks etc. To help the genuinely needy student with these basic equipments KSGVY in collaboration with Sewa-Sahayog foundation distributed 4146 School kits in forty-two schools of Wada, Mokhada, Jawhar, Vikramgad Talukas. The ceremony was inaugurated by the Hon ble tribal minister Sh Vishnu Ji Savra Also Urban-karyakartas participated in the distribution in the schools from their villages.
2. Environment [Paryavaran]: KSGVY distributed 1700 plants into forty of its villages of wada, jawhar, mokhada talukas during the period 1st to 9th July 2017.Plants were of Sag, Chinch, Sitaphal, Hirada, Kadulimb, khaya, jambhul, arjun, kaju, bamboo. Agriculture Scientist Sh. Dada wadekar donated 100 plants for this initiative. 3. Agriculture [Krushi] - Farmers training: from 10th to 12th Sept 2017, a three days visit of two experts of Agriculture and Village Development was facilitated by KSGVY team, Dr Prasanna Patil, Dr. Hedgewar Hospital Aurangabad, Project Director Savitribai Phule Mahila Ekatma Vikas Mandal and Sh. Suhas Ajgaonkar, HoD Natural Resources Management interacted with the farmers of seven villages and analysed the level of intervention required in the farming. Also recommended few initiatives, Uttan Krushi Sanshodhan Sanstha will be assisting KSGVY to implement these recommendations in future and these two experts will be having a visit once in a three months to inspect the ongoing activities.
Uttan Krishi Sanshodhan Sanstha(UKSS) has appointed the agriculture expert who will be working fulltime from 1st November 2017 for the KSGVY s agriculture activities also he will be visiting the villages to guide farmers on a regular basis. Drumstick Project: - The importance of drumstick is well known, its leafs, flowers does have a medicinal benefits and it can cure various diseases. We are working towards having its processing unit to create variety of medicines. Related research and meetings with drumstick expert Dr Sh. Dhuri is being planned. Preliminary meeting was held with Dr. Dhuri. We are collaborating with local farmers to increase drumstick cultivation in near future. 4. Water [Jal] - In palghar area there is ample amount of rainfall but due to geographical conditions the soil and land cannot hold the water hence farmers every year faces a water scarcity for their agricultural use. - We are planning to have few initiatives to retain this natural water for that a Jal committee has been formed Dr.Umesh Mundale who is currently advisor to the Chief Minister, Govt. of Maharashtra and few other water experts are the members of the team who have done successful experiments to conserve the water and also currently a survey is being conducted to know the village wise water conditions. 5. Madhav Sanskar Kendras:
- In order to imbibe our cultural and traditional values in our children we are designing a sanskar kendra module combined with the Abhyasika concept of Sewa Sahayog Foundation. Interested karyakartas of the villages submitted their applications, after the completion of training they will be conducting a sanskar sessions for village kids. First training session was conducted on 12th Oct which was attended by twenty-eight karyakartas. Sh Kishor Moghe from Sewa Sahayog Foundation and Sh. Khandekar, a retired Professor conducted a training program. Storytelling, activities, songs, games and knowledge will be the part of these sessions which would be initiated on 1st November 2017. 6. Solar Energy [Sour Oorja]: A Survey was conducted in Devgaon, Gargaon, Nandani, Ghaypatpada, Sagpada, Akhada, Tadmal, sasane(dongripada) villages in wada taluka by the Gram Oorja NGO and KSGVY to know the requirements of the solar instruments. The work has been initiated in Ghaypatpada and Tadmal and work will be started soon in the remaining villages. Preliminary Work 7. Cleanliness[Swachhata] Toilet Construction in collaboration with HPCL
- KSGVY had conducted a survey to know the ground level requirement of villages of toilets. We received 23 applications for the construction of 334 toilets. - A project proposal has been sent to the CSR Manager of the HPCL company and we are expecting to start toilet construction in near future. 8. Kitchen Gardening(Poshan-Vatika): - Meeting was held with the UPL United Ltd company regarding the interventions to be made along-with six Yuva Karyakartas from village Yuva. Few other activities are being planned out in this direction. 9. Government Schemes: - Govt. has framed various schemes for the rural development but people are not able to gain benefits due to lack of knowledge and many other factors. KSGVY office of wada is preparing to become a voluntary centre to provide all necessary guidance and assistance to local people. - Recently applications of [ ] Yuva were submitted for Gram Vikas Fellowship offered by the Chief Minister of maharashtra. Similarly office would assist people to gain benefits of these Govt Schemes.. 10. Health (Arogya): - Apart from Yoga classes few other innovative awareness programs are being designed especially for children and youth. 11. Udyog Empowerment of SHGs and small scale business for women
- As a step to empower local women, we conducted a full day visit in Devgaon and Dinkarpada and interacted with local women. Issues of local SHGs were discussed in collaboration with other NGOs we are planning a small scale business for local women in near future. Village Survey: KSGVY is in the last phase of survey initiated on 2nd Sept, its purpose is to collect complete information regarding the current status of the villages in all aspects. This data would be analysed later to decide the future course of action related to all fields mentioned above. Connecting Urban Yuva with Rural Area: Connecting urban and rural youth is one of the major objectives of KSGVY. Hence Every urban yuva karyakarta has taken one village and they are coordinating rural development activities with the villagers. Every month KSGVY office sends a letter of monthly updates to all Urban Yuva Karyakartas. Vanyatra: KSGVY hosted a two days travel program where twenty-two participants from Mumbai visited around fifteen unique places belonging to the Palghar district. Vanyatris enjoyed being in the serene atmosphere in the laps of mountains & waterfalls. Also, various activities were conducted to understand the village system. Two new Vanyatra modules are being worked out. Village youth will be involved in the frequently organised Vanyatras. We have received overwhelming response from both the sides and Urban Yuva has showed immense enthusiasm to work for the Gram vikas. Many of them have started
visiting their villages and they are planning new initiatives for the development of village. Different modules of the Vanyatra - KSGVY is offering one and two days vanyatras for all those enthusiasts and especially urban people willing to know the villages and unique tribal culture in the company of soothing environment. Gram karyakartas will be involved in the execution of these frequently hosted Vanyatras. - Best NGO projects, Historical, Religious places,pilgrimage, geographically beautiful locations and few important villages would be visited by the Vanyatris during this period of time. Diwali-Sneh Milan: has been planned for this diwali, Yuva Urban Karyakartas have scheduled their visits to their respective villages in coordination with Gram Karyakarta. They will celebrate Diwali in the village and will understand the village culture by visiting few places and interacting with them. KSGVY is facilitating cohesive work of the NGOs NGO Meeting: KSGVY has taken this initiative to bring multiple NGOs on one platform to enable them to collaborate & work together with cooperation. Once in three months all NGO representatives come together and share updates regarding the recent initiatives and work done by their organisation, this has helped to connect NGOs working in various different fields. Recently, on 12th Sept 2017, NGOs that are working in the various areas of the Palghar district attended the meeting. Also, Dr Prasanna Patil conducted a session on Corporate Social Responsibility - Landscape & Opportunity to educate NGO representatives about how to get benefit of CSR funds in their activities.
The Way Forward We have received a overwhelming response while conducting our activities, which is beyond our expectations. Our work is solely inspired by
the principles of mutual trust, cooperation, team-work and sustainable development. KSGVY wada office would be instrumental in all the future developmental interventions. Urban Yuva and Rural Yuva are key elements in our Gram-Vikas Movement and their collaborative activities would definitely empower the rural Yuva and association of Urban Yuva with villages would connect the Urban and Rural area forever. Also, there are many NGOs working in the palghar district in the various sectors of the development. We will be going one step ahead to motivate them to collaborate and work together with mutual trust and we are sure that their expertise of the multiple sectors would help a lot in the direction of achieving sustainable development. We believe, together we will be able to make our villages a much much better place.