Saturday, February 14, 2009

My Step Towords Village

Village Stay: As a part of our course we Conducted PRA At Kamplikoppa:
First day we visited to Gram chetan at Surashettikoppa, it is greenery and covered by trees. Mr. Deepak Kshira Sagar introduced about Gram chetan & he has shared his experience about people participation. He said that Building participation of people is very important tuff job. It is not easy task. Initially they have countenanced more problems to work with people. While selecting the people they didn’t have any restriction. With support of community they built check dam at Harugera. He shared other examples also with us.
After completion of orientation by BIFE Project Coordinator our team stepped towards Kampalikoppa to conduct PRA. The villagers have welcomed us very different way, applying color turmeric powder & turmeric powder (Traditional way). We have divided our entire in to 5 groups. Each team got different activity like Resource mapping, Seasonality Mapping for income & migration, Venn diagram, FGD on milk production, Matrix ranking for composting. And conducted Time line on sanitation. Finally we got some 50% idea about PRA. After that I moved with my coworkers I have been in Resource mapping group. We did the resource map about natural resources of the village with support of villagers. The drawn map indicated that the village having enough NR.
Village Stay: As a part of our course we visited to Naganur Panchayat.
Introduction:
The Nagnur village is comes under Khalgatigi Taluk, Shurshetti Koppa Panchyath of Dharwad district. It is 25 KM away from Hubli city. Only road transportation available for this village. Four our team members and me visited this village on 11th and 12th of Feb 2009.
History of the village:
‘Nagnur’ means village of snakes. We got different stories from the people regarding village history. One of the elders said that the village was called Laxmipura after that it changed to Yalghatigi Nagnur and Nagnur. Other sources said that some body found Nagalinga in the village long back that is why villagers named Nagnur.
Team 5star conducted activities:

ž Transact walk
ž Anganvadi Visit
ž School Visit
ž Discussion with Director of Mahasangha
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Visited Fields
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Social Mapping

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Time
Line
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Resource
Mapping

Transect Walk at “Naganur"
On 11th Feb 2009 in the morning we went to Nagnur which is comes under Kalaghatagi Taluk, by walk it is 2km from Grama chetan, tar road is destroyed. On the way we saw ground nuts, cotton crop, and sugarcane & sunflower crops in field. When we entered in to the village Coconut trees welcomed us to village in front of every house. We met some youths & Key persons few of them helped us for transect walk. We observed that houses are built very systematically in proper way. In the entrance of the village we have seen the plat “Government Asharaya Yojana “Houses. Roads are very big and space able. Majority of the houses are Kachha houses.
When we entered in to the village people were busy with their works. They were waiting for bus at Basavan temple, some people were going to the field, and others are having tea at hotel & children were playing in front of community hall. We catch the one local person called Shivappa and we continued our TW. There are 5 temples in the village; Basavan , Devamamman , Hanuman Durgamman temple and one mosque. Education system concern there is a primary school, Anganwadi and institutions concern community hall, Milk Dairy, Panchayath office.
Village was hygienic. Everyone has drawn eye-catching rangoli in front of their houses. It shows their indigenous familiarity, local customs & practices. Rapport building was main challenge for us. As soon as we entered the village we make the first move for rapport building.
When we met people our team members were saying “ Namskara “ to villagers. We clearly explained them reason for entering to their village. Afternoon we visited one land which was very greenery we collected some information regarding soil and crops.
It was the late evening when we started our activities because people still returning from the fields. Later we gathered the people for social mapping and Time line map.
Secondary Data collection:
For collecting secondary data we have visited Anganwadi, Panchayt, Milk Dairy, and Mahasangha & Village Accountant. The total population of the village is 1390 in this 686 male & 704 female. The voters are 891. Village composed with 360 families. In this one house is Pakka remaining all houses are kachha. Big formers are 5, Medium formers are 132 & small formers are 172. The total land is 1982.2 Hectors. For detail information you can see below table

FGD: Our team has conducted focus discussion group in the evening. We have collected information about health & sanitation. But, gathering people was challenge for us. When we called people they have not responded us because they were busy with their work & they neglected us. So we have used one traditional tool for bring the people to apply kunkuma door to door & someone we met on road we applied them. We After gathering Mrs.Jayashree villager sang a welcome song. Later we started discusstion
Social Map

This social map has helped us to understand about Naganur village. This map is drawn by village people and which shows the social structures and institutions found in an area. It also helped us to learn who is living where & about where is a temple, school, Community hall, Anganwadi & other offices.

Time Line
Our team has decided to draw the time line map. Mainly our targeted group was women and we called them traditional way putting KUNKUM on their forehead. And we did time line comparative study between situations in 1970 periods and now. Before 1970 the cholera, pelage & T.B like that disease was there. But, now AIDS, Cancer & Chicken gunny. Everyone believed on Ayurvedic treatment. Before 1970 they didn’t have hospital facility, Toilets, Pure water facility, Transport facility & Schools. Now they have school so every child getting literacy, they are growing other crops like suppota trees & mango trees, everything has changed the ladies didn’t not know about bank but now they can easily do bank transaction. Like that there village has changed
Resource Mapping :

The Resource map has helped us to learn about community & its resource base. To learn the villagers perception of what natural resource are found in the community and how they are using. We started in the next day morning after gathering people we have introduced about resource map we have given rangoli powder to draw. We also took care about involving people. They have drawn water source, different type of soils, Hills, roads, lake, & grazing land.

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