AMR APARD

LAB-to-LAND INITIATIVE AMR-APARD

PRESENTATION

 100 LAP-TOPS DONATED BY INTEL CORPORATION  9-POINT ACTION TAKEN REPORT  THIRD PARTY EVALUATION REPORT  ROAD AHEAD

BNVs presentation in the presence of Joint Secretary (Trng) ,MoRD,GoI,New Delhi on 05-01-2012 and 06-01-2012 in the presence of Hon’ble Minister for RD,MGNREGS,GoAP

DISTRIBUTION OF LAP TOPS TO BNV VILLAGES BY HoN’BLE MINISTER TO RURAL DEVELOPMENT ,GoAP

Visit of Hon’ble Minister for Local Governance & Regional Development Royal Kingdom of Norway on 11-01-2012

ACTION TAKEN ON 9-POINTS GIVEN BY SECRETARY,GoI,MoRD,New Delhi ITEM NO : 01 SCALING UP THE INITIATIVE Sl.

No Region 1 Andhra No.of Districts 09 No.of Mandals 400 No.of identified BNVs 11783 2 Rayalaseema 04 227 8273 3 Telangana Total 09 22 409 1036 11867 31923

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No 1 Category of training Module and material preparation Number of participants ------------ Total cost (In lakhs) 15.00

Per head per day cost -------- Master trainers ToT BNVs 129 2072 30,000 4.82490

65.97340

543.02871

1870 1592 603 5 Miscellaneous like travel to National Colloquium, Workshops etc Total -------------- 32201 5.00

633.82701

 D.O letters to all Collectors have already been sent on scaling up the initiative ITEM NO : 02 Direction to districts / blocks – use of administrative component for training volunteers Requests have been already been made to the line department heads for using the administrative component of their budgets like BRGF,RGSY,MGNREGS,IWMP,SGSY etc to be used for training BNVs

ITEM NO : 03 Organization of one-day State level orientation workshop for all District Collectors   Note file circulated to the Chief Secretary to Government of Andhra Pradesh to hold a meeting with all heads of the line departments to evlove a strategy to utilize administrative component of all on-going flagship programmes scheduled for Chief Secretary meeting.

for training volunteers.

Also for organization workshop for all District Collectors. 28 th of one-day Jan,2012 is Commissioner has held video conference on 28 12-2011 with District Level Officials and reviewed the performance of BNVs in their respective districts .

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No 1 ITEM NO : 04 Identify and develop resource persons/institutions for imparting training to volunteers in new panchayats Region Andhra Master Trainers No.of Districts 09 MPDOs 18 DTMs ETC 17 Faculty 09 CDs of DLRCs/ CLRCs 09 Total 53 2 Rayalaseema 04 08 07 04 04 23 3 Telangana Total 09 22 18 44 17 41 09 22 09 22 53 129

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No Region Distri cts ToTs (MPDOs/EO,PR&RD,NGOs) 1 2 Andhra Rayalasee ma 3 Telangana Total 09 04 09 22 801 454 818 2073 PLAN OF ACTION DETAILING THE RESOURCE PERSONS, TOTS AND INSTITUTIONS HAD ALREADY BEEN SUBMITTED TO MORD TRAINING MATERIAL INCLUDING MANUASL ARE READY

ITEM NO : 05 Depute concerned District and block level officials to participate in bi-monthly Nation Colloquium on Lab-to-Land Initiative   APARD has always various functionaries beginning.

been encouraging deputing to Colloquia from the Faculty of ETCs and Select BNVs are also encouraged to participate as APARD considers it an opportunity to enable to keep abreast of development across the country and also as incentive.

ITEM NO : 06 Upload profiles of BNVs on ruraldiksha.nic.in along with photographs So far , profiles of 2040 BNVs were uploaded in Diksha website.

Uploading 30000 more would be done as and when their foundation trainings are completed ITEM NO : 07 Build partnerships among line departments,PRIs and BNVs A workable model of the process involved in forging convergence of Line Departments, PRIs, ETCs, NGOs and BNVs with the community developed by AMR-APARD is found to be highly suitable for building partnerships

 L-2-L Initiative process model BNV Group of families Issues Ward member Gram Panchayat Village coordination Committee Different Committees Mandal Parishad Zilla Parishad

ITEM NO : 08 BNVs may act as motivators,facilitators and vigilante to activate Gram Sabhas

BNVs as Motivators and Facilitators

   Plantation programmes Kitchen gardens Special classes were conducted for 10 th class students  Open libraries started in villages  Food security to the poorest  Sale of liquor, Panparag and Gutkha prohibited  Shramadan works taken up on every 1 st 3 rd Sundays in a month and

 A team of village elders is constituted for creating awareness on the harmful consequences of intoxication  During cyclonic storms, damaged street lights were replaced by BNVs  Jungle clearance  Clean and Green programmes

 Taken over community hall which was under unauthorized occupation by a local leader for the last 23 years  Banned use of plastic items  Closed liquor vending shops  Organized health camps  Enrolled school dropouts  Distributed note books and slates to school children  Restored RTC bus services  Established R.O-based water treatment plants

 Supplied garbage bins  Cleared debris with the help of JCB machines  Children with congenital heart ailments identified through health camps and cost free surgeries facilitated under “Arogya Sree” programme  Avenue plantations  Construction of Individual Sanitary Toilets  Ensured Mid-day meal as per menu to school children

 Facilitated 100% family planning  Cleaned Over Head tanks every 15 days Water Supply  Wall writings on social responsibilities  Monitored local institutions like Anganwadi centres, schools, Nutrition centres, Gopal mitra centres , Health sub-centres, etc  Formation of approach roads to local grave yards

 Conducted quiz programmes among pregnant women to create awareness about mother and child health  Distributed Smokeless chulhas  Facilitated landless poor distribution of pattas to  Promoted enrollment in government schools discouraging admission in private schools  Facilitated bank tenant farmers loans to landless

 Reading daily news papers for the non literates in the village  Prohibited washing of clothes at public water bodies and drinking water taps  Established bio-gas plants with the help of NEDCAP  Facilitated loan waiver to weavers  Conducted weavers physiotherapy classes to

 Closed cesspools and prevented water logging  Campaigned against open defecation  Some BNVs opened e-mail addresses like : [email protected]

 Prevented garbage dump in drains

 Horticulture plantation  Ensured no police /court cases in the villages  Identified child labor and enrolled them into schools  Facilitated financial assistance from NGOs/ CBOs for completion of incomplete houses under IAY/INDIRAMMA housing  Identified eligible youth and referred them to Job Cell ,DRDA for Vocational training

 Trained farmers on Organic farming with the help of local “Adarsh Rythulu” for preparation of vermi compost, bio fertilizers and bio-pesticides  Suggested renaming BNVs as Nava Bharat Nirman Volunteers”  Engaging elderly through conversation and documenting their experiences

 Promoted the concept of making family members literate by one’s own family  Engaged in HIV/AIDS care  Campaigned with school children on water, sanitation and ethics. Slogans like RUPAYALU ICHINA VOTUNU “KOTI AMMUKOMU” used  Ensured “Challa Yanadi”- a nomadic tribe to lead settled life  Conducted games, elocution and essay writing competitions to school children

 Conducted trainings for skill up gradation in association with banks  Promoted community contributions to upgrade the existing institutional facilities  Started BNV reading rooms  Programmed reunion of all those once lived in the village and are now away under the banner “JANMASTHALA SAMYOJANAM”   Registration of birth and death Many and much more like this …..

1.MEE KOSAM MEMU = WE ARE FOR YOU •Identified 23 poorest families in the village. Selected families of single woman, Widow, destitute families.

On ration card, single headed family gets 4 kgs of rice per month which is not sufficient. Therefore, each person is given 6 kgs of rice per month. BNVs are supporting 23 poorest persons in the village.

2.PASUPU KUNKUMA (TURMERIC - Vermilion) Any woman from the identified poor families when gets married , is presented new clothes and utensils .

3.NEERAJANAM (Revered cremation ) Poor bereaved families are assisted to cremate their dead. Unclaimed dead bodies are cremated by BNVs by following all rituals.

4.SUBAMASTHU(Let it prosper) 7-month pregnancy of women in poor families celebrated at Ramachandrapuram for 10 women on 12-01-2012 5.VELUGU (Light ) BNVs maintain regulation of street lights including Replacement of fused bulbs in coordination with the Gram Panchayats

6.CHEYUTA (Hand-holding support) BNVs identify families and facilitate sanction of > Aadhar cards  Ration cards  IAY /INDIRAMMA Houses   Pensions House site, etc.,  and resolve land and water related disputes

7. AKSHARA MALA (Supporting students slow at learning)  For 1 st  to 10 th standard students BNVs identify such slow learners with the help of school teachers  Conduct special classes for them from 6p.m to 8 p.m every day  Opened reading rooms  Manage wall news papers on day-to-day basis

8. ARCHANA Reviving local festivals and performing arts 9. ARADHANA  Piligrimage to 50 aged, poor and diversely challenged persons was organized on 23-12-2012

10.SPURTHI (INSPIRATION)  BNVs are visiting neighboring villages to spread the concept of the lab-to-land.

 Issues relating to health, education, sanitation drinking water, etc., are discussed  Mainly happening in tribal habitations

THIRD PARTY EVALUATION

 Sundarayya Vignan Kendram,Hyderabad  KPMG,Gurgaon FINDINGS OF SVK,HYDERABAD 1. Arranged cremation of two unclaimed dead bodies 2. Arranged rickshaws for collection and transportation of waste generated to the dumping yard 3. Motivated liquor vendors to close 10 shops 4. Motivated farmers to give up crop holiday, an agitation against government

 Mobilized around 300 women and purchased vanitha cards @ Rs 200 per card from APSRTC and obtained signatures of around 500 persons and got bus services  BNVs motivated the family members of a dalit woman just before she passed away to donate her eyes to EYE BANK  BNVs have formed into 3 teams and cleared scrub jungle in the premises of veterinary hospital, community hall, primary school, high school, office of a cooperative society  With the help of lions club , health camp was conducted by Mediciti Corporate Hospital for 480 people.

Identified 20 persons ailing from heart ailments. Among 20, 4 are school children.All the 20 were treated in the MEDICITI CORPORATE HOSPITAL under “Arogya Sree” scheme  Obtained plant species of teak, neem and amla from Forest Department and supplied @ 3 plants of teak,neem and amla per household for all households  Enrolled 1 school drop out into the primary and 2 drop outs into high school

 BNVs have associated with SHGs and constituted committees.

into Every street sanitation Sunday and Thursday they sanitation activity.

carry out street  Campaigns are conducted for adult literacy  This is an excellent initiative in which trained BNVs are sparing their leisure time in taking up voluntary activities and also facilitating better implementation of welfare and development activities

KPMG

 KPMG has taken up Social Return On Investment (SROI) analysis of Volunteerism of BNVs.

 Report is yet to be furnished to APARD by KPMG

ROAD AHEAD

 Proposals for establishing Project Monitoring Unit (PMU) at AMR-APARD sent to MoRD /NIRD  Proposed PMU will have two ex- sarpanch turned-BNVs  There will be four Officers (one of whom will be a Statistician  Two vehicles are provided for mobility  The documentation unit of APARD will be merged with PMU  PMU will directly report to the Commissioner, AMR-APARD through CNRM

      As there are no elected representatives of PRIs in AP currently, L-2-L concept is incorporated in the training schedule of all categories of training of Special Officers of PRIs.First phase of training to all of them is completed. The same will also continue in the next phase also with reference to sectoral flagship programmes and planning Special Officers of Mandals /Gram Panchayats would be requested to monitor and review BNVs activities during visits to their mandals /GPs District Collectors would review the progress of training to the newly enrolled BNVs Sensitize Chief Planning Officers of Districts to the concept of L-2-L Trainings to all the newly enrolled BNVs to be completed before 31-03-2012.

Bala BNVs model to be upscaled in all BNV GPs

 After foundation course , phase –ii training is being given to BNVs at ETCs.This activity would continue  BNVs to be prepared as Chief Facilitators of village level development plan

SUSTAINABILITY OF L-2-L

 Bi-monthly video conferences  Post cards  Sthanika Palana  Friday visits  Exposure visits  Face book of AMR-APARD WEBSITE  Participation of BNVs in the National Level Colloquia  Visits to L-2-L villages by APARD team