Environment
Supported by the Mitsui & Co. Following are the key activities of the project to be implemented during a 3 years period (2 years activities have already been accomplished successfully).
- Formation of a Project Implementation and Monitoring Committee (PIMC) involving all the key stakeholders of the local target villages in order to take care of proper implementation and monitoring of the project activities.
- Recruitment and training 7 project staff personnel to implement the project activities.
- Training to 40 youth volunteers of the area and women members of SHG on relevant environmental issues and project activities.
- Conducting a baseline and project end survey in 20 target villages to get bench mark and project end data and evaluate the outcomes and achievements of the project.
- Raising awareness on various environmental issues among 2,000 community people including women and youth to disseminate the message among 40,000 people of the area.
- Construction and revival of 6 rain water harvesting structures including check dams and village ponds.
- Stabilizing 30 sand dunes and sandy slopes by planting shrubs and bushes in the contours, furrows and bench terraces erected over them.
- Plugging 50 deep gullies by erecting mud cum trench walls mulched with grasses and shrubs and bushes.
- Planting 100,000 trees of fuel, fodder and fruits species in the project area.
Gully plugging
A project for improving water management and checking soil erosion was implemented at Gandhivan, with support from HSHR and Daimler, Germany during 2016 – 2017.
Following were the key achievements:
- Sixty deep gullies were plugged with mud bunds and mulched with grasses
- Twenty thousand bushes/shrubs of indigenous species planted in the gullies
- Endangered species of several medicinal plants are being regenerated
- Problem of fuel and fodder of 100 community people will be solved after 1-2 years
- Level of underground water be raised in the wells of adjoining area
- Soil and moisture conserved at 1,000 hectare land will help growing vegetation
- Ten youth volunteers and women trained on environmental issues
- The land of the fields around the Gandhivan area protected from the rain water flowing from the Aravalli hills and the fertile surface soil of their land checked