annual progress report-ilsp

Annual Progress Report-ILSP 2020-2021

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Integrated Livelihood Support Project Loan No - 856-IN

Annual Progress Report

Financial Year 2020-21 (1st April 2020 – 31st March 2021)

Central Project Coordination Unit (CPCU),

Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas Samiti (UGVS),

Project Society Watershed Management Directorate (PSWMD),

Uttarakhand Parvatiya Aaajivika Sanvardhan Company (UPASaC)

216, Panditwari, Phase -2, Dehradun

Phone & Fax: 0135-2773800/2774800

Email: [email protected]


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Contents Equation 1

Executive Summary .......................................................................................................................................... 6

Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 6

Project at a Glance ........................................................................................................................................... 6

Background of the Project ........................................................................................................................... 6

Objectives .................................................................................................................................................... 6

Key Components of the Project ................................................................................................................... 7

Project Progress Summary ............................................................................................................................... 8

Project Coverage .......................................................................................................................................... 8

Financial Progress ...................................................................................................................................... 10

Special Achievement – ............................................................................................................................... 11

Mann Ki Baat .......................................................................................................................................... 11

Land Mark Project .................................................................................................................................. 12

Special Initiatives – ..................................................................................................................................... 12

Common Marketing Strategy ................................................................................................................. 12

Online Marketing ................................................................................................................................... 12

Convergence Platform ........................................................................................................................... 12

M&E and MIS ......................................................................................................................................... 12

Component 1- Food Security & Livelihood Enhancement: ............................................................................ 14

Project Area ............................................................................................................................................... 14

Value Chain Approach for Sustainable Livelihoods ................................................................................... 16

Food Security & Scaling up......................................................................................................................... 19

Table 10 Details of the demonstration of improved beekeeping practices are as follows: ...................... 31

Table 11 Key output of the project:- .......................................................................................................... 33

Table 12 Overview of trainings, exposure and demonstrations conducted for the honey PGs ................ 33

Access to Market ........................................................................................................................................ 35

Table 13 Financial Year Wise LC Turnover (Amt in INR Lakh) .................................................................... 42

Table 14 Agri Business Growth Centers ..................................................................................................... 46


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Table 15 status of Parsad Distribution ....................................................................................................... 50

Innovation Linkages ................................................................................................................................... 53

Innovative Project from District Administration .................................................................................... 57

Vocational Training .................................................................................................................................... 58

Table 16 Major Sector and Employment Status ....................................................................................... 59

Table 17 Short Duration Courses .............................................................................................................. 60

Table 18 Long Duration Courses ............................................................................................................... 61

Knowledge Management ........................................................................................................................... 61

Monitoring and Evaluation ........................................................................................................................ 62

Best practice of Data Management & Monitoring– .................................................................................. 63

Expected Outcome Indicators .................................................................................................................... 64

Gender and Institutions ............................................................................................................................. 64

Convergence .............................................................................................................................................. 66

Technical Agency (TA)-: .............................................................................................................................. 74

Table 19 Financial Progress (UGVS) ........................................................................................................... 75

Component 2- Participatory Watershed Management ................................................................................. 76

PROJECT DESCRIPTION ............................................................................................................................... 77

PROJECT OBJECTIVE .................................................................................................................................... 78

PROJECT BENEFICIARIES ............................................................................................................................ 78

PROJECT AREA ............................................................................................................................................. 79

PROJECT SUB-COMPONENTS (PARTICIPATORY WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT) ................................. 80

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS– COMMUNITY DRIVEN DECENTRALIZED DEVELOPMENT APPROACH ......... 81

TOTAL PROJECT COST FOR THE COMPONENT- 2 .................................................................................... 82

EXPECTED OUTCOME INDICATORS ........................................................................................................... 82

MONITORING IN THE PROJECT .................................................................................................................. 83

AUDIT ARRANGEMENTS IN THE PROJECT ................................................................................................ 83

STATUTORY COMMITTEES IN THE PROJECT ............................................................................................ 83

PROJECT PERIOD.......................................................................................................................................... 84

PROJECT PERFORMANCE ............................................................................................................................ 84

Table 20 PHYSICAL PROGRESS UNDER "WATERSHED AND VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT" ....................... 84

Table 21 PROGRESS UNDER NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES- INTER GP SPACE

(MWS) ........................................................................................................................................................... 87


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Table 22 PROGRESS UNDER PRODUCER GROUPS/VULNERABLE PRODUCER GROUPS ............................. 89

Table 23 Agribusiness Growth Centre (ILSP) Progress Report March,2021 .............................................. 89

Table 24 Value Addition Support (FY 2020-21) .......................................................................................... 91

Table 25 Details of Livelihood Collectives-: ............................................................................................... 93

Table 26 Total No. of Trainings for Community (WWMC/GP/PG/VPGs) upto March 2021 ...................... 94

Table 27 Unit Level Workshops ............................................................................................................... 94

Table 28 Division Level Workshops ........................................................................................................ 95

Table 29 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT COORDINATION- .................................................. 96

Table 30 DETAILS OF EXPENDITURE IN FY 2020-21 (1st April 2020–31st March 2021) ........................... 97

Table 31 STATUS OF REIMBURSEMENT ..................................................................................................... 98

Table 32 PROPOSED REVISED ANNUAL WORK PLAN FY-2020-21 (PS-WMD) ............................................ 99

Table 33 Results achieved so far (with reference to achievement of objectives)-: Component-2 ......... 100

Component 3- Livelihood finance – UPASaC ............................................................................................... 102

Product Literacy Training - Building financial capabilities ....................................................................... 102

Risk Insurance Workshops ....................................................................................................................... 102

Workshop State, District Level and Cluster level – on banking products project appraisal .................... 104

Interest subvention benefits .................................................................................................................... 104

Bank Finance ............................................................................................................................................ 105

Table 34 Key Activities and No of LC avail CCL ......................................................................................... 105

Convergence – ......................................................................................................................................... 105

Table 35 Financial Progress (UPASaC) ...................................................................................................... 107

Component 4- Project coordination and management ............................................................................... 108

Project Coordination and Management .................................................................................................. 108

Annual Outcome Survey .......................................................................................................................... 108

Supervision Mission (SM) ......................................................................................................................... 112

Tripartite Portfolio Review Meeting (TPRM) ........................................................................................... 114

ILSP & Sustainable Development Goal: ................................................................................................... 117

Logical framework: Progress against objectives, outcomes and outputs................................................ 119

Annual Work Plan & Budget 2020-21 ...................................................................................................... 122

INDIGENOUS INNOVATION TO SECURE LIVELIHOODS -CHAIN LINK FENCING INITIATIVE ...................... 126


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Images

Figure 1 Project Area........................................................................................................................................ 6

Figure 2 Monthly Meeting of Pratigya LC, Kaljikhal, Pauri ........................................................................ 21

Figure 3 Maa Agneri Producer Groups, Chaukhutiya, Almora ................................................................. 22

Figure 4 Maize fodder, Jaunpur, Tehri ........................................................................................................ 24

Figure 5 Plantation of Pomegranate on Fallow land, Dehradun............................................................... 24

Figure 6 Mulbery, Bheemal Plantation on Fallow Land, Pokhri, Chamoli ............................................... 25

Figure 7 Honey production, Augustmuni, Rudraprayag,.......................................................................... 26

Figure 8 Chain Link Fencing, Prathibha Sabji Utpadak Samuh, Ayartoli, Garur, Bageshwars ............... 27

Figure 9 Demonstrate of Soyabean (ver. VL Soya-63) at Chandomati LC, Bhatwari, Uttarkashi .......... 29

Figure 10 making of Ringal/Bamboo produces by beneficiary, Tharali , Chamoli ................................. 30

Figure 11 Training session of beekeepers in Bhatwari, Uttarkashi ......................................................... 31

Figure 12 Footwear making unit and its products, Tharali, Chamoli....................................................... 34

Figure 13 Collection Center & Cool Chamber ............................................................................................. 36

Figure 14 Small Collection Center ............................................................................................................... 37

Figure 15 Weekly haat bazar operated by different SRCs of Hawalbag on every Saturday to market the

fresh local vegetables to potential consumers of Officer Colony Almora and Cahukhutiya................... 38

Figure 16 Bakri Haat, Pithoragarh .............................................................................................................. 39

Figure 17 Nano Packaging Unit ................................................................................................................... 39

Figure 18 Saras Canteen Pithoragarh ......................................................................................................... 40

Figure 19 Participation in “Management Development Programme on Co-operative Business Management

of Livelihood Collectives” VAMNICOM Pune ................................................................................................. 45

Figure 20 Agribusiness Growth Center, Jilasu, Chamoli ................................................................................ 46

Figure 21 Muffler prepared by VPG Members .............................................................................................. 48

Figure 22 Vaccination by Pashu Sakhi, Bageswar ......................................................................................... 49

Figure 23 recycling of flower waste ............................................................................................................... 50

Figure 24 Local produce processed under THR by PG members, Almora .................................................... 52

Figure 25 Progeny born, Rupkund LC, Ghat, Chamoli ............................................................................... 54

Figure 25 Gladiolus cultivation in Dimau village, Kalsi, Dehradun .......................................................... 55

Figure 27 Gladiolus flowering in Dimau village, Kalsi, Dehradun ............................................................ 56

Figure 28 Perilla plantation field and Oil ....................................................................................................... 57

Figure 28 Use of FMB, Village Dunger, Chandan Ganga SRC, Augustyamuni, ............................................... 71

Figure 30 Poultry Unit, Pithoragarh ............................................................................................................... 72

Figure 31 IFAD SM team in farmers field, chamba, Tehri ............................................................................ 114


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Table Table 1 Financial Progress (Amt in INR Cr) ................................................................................................ 10

Table 2 Financial Progress (Amt in INR Cr) ..................................................................................................... 10

Table 3 Comparative Financial Progress (Amt in INR Cr) ............................................................................... 11

Table 4- Progress against the main KPIs of ILSP .................................................................................... 13

Table 5 Model applied for value chain development /strengthen approach – ............................................. 17

Table 6 A brief summary of sub sectors are –................................................................................................ 18

Table 7 Coverage at a glance (New Groups) .................................................................................................. 19

Table 8 Summary of LCs / Federations Shareholders .................................................................................... 22

Table 9 Details of Camp and beneficiaries benefitted in Goat husbandry camp organised by UGVS ....... 28

Table 10 Details of the demonstration of improved beekeeping practices are as follows: .......................... 31

Table 11 Key output of the project:- .............................................................................................................. 33

Table 12 Overview of trainings, exposure and demonstrations conducted for the honey PGs .................... 33

Table 13 Financial Year Wise LC Turnover (Amt in INR Lakh) ........................................................................ 42

Table 14 Agri Business Growth Centers ......................................................................................................... 46

Table 15 status of Parsad Distribution ........................................................................................................... 50

Table 16 Major Sector and Employment Status ........................................................................................... 59

Table 17 Short Duration Courses .................................................................................................................. 60

Table 18 Long Duration Courses ................................................................................................................... 61

Table 19 Financial Progress (UGVS) ............................................................................................................... 75

Table 20 PHYSICAL PROGRESS UNDER "WATERSHED AND VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT" ....................... 84

Table 21 PROGRESS UNDER NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES- INTER GP SPACE

(MWS) ........................................................................................................................................................... 87

Table 22 PROGRESS UNDER PRODUCER GROUPS/VULNERABLE PRODUCER GROUPS ................................. 89

Table 23 Agribusiness Growth Centre (ILSP) Progress Report March,2021 .................................................. 89

Table 24 Value Addition Support (FY 2020-21) .............................................................................................. 91

Table 25 Details of Livelihood Collectives-: ................................................................................................... 93

Table 26 Total No. of Trainings for Community (WWMC/GP/PG/VPGs) upto March 2021 .......................... 94

Table 27 Unit Level Workshops ................................................................................................................... 94

Table 28 Division Level Workshops ............................................................................................................ 95

Table 29 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT COORDINATION- ...................................................... 96

Table 30 DETAILS OF EXPENDITURE IN FY 2020-21 (1st April 2020–31st March 2021) ............................... 97

Table 31 STATUS OF REIMBURSEMENT ..................................................................................................... 98

Table 32 PROPOSED REVISED ANNUAL WORK PLAN FY-2020-21 (PS-WMD) ................................................ 99

Table 33 Results achieved so far (with reference to achievement of objectives)-: Component-2 ............. 100

Table 34 Key Activities and No of LC avail CCL ............................................................................................. 105

Table 35 Financial Progress (UPASaC) .......................................................................................................... 107


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Executive Summary

Introduction

Project at a Glance

Background of the Project

Government of Uttarakhand, with support from the International Fund for

Agriculture Development (IFAD), is implementing Integrated Livelihood

Support Project (ILSP) since July 2013. ILSP was scheduled to be completed on

31st March 2019 with loan closing on 31st March 2021. The project is being

implemented in 44 blocks of 11 hill districts of Uttarakhand i.e. Almora,

Bageshwar, Nainital, Champawat, Pithoragarh, Chamoli, Tehri, Uttarkashi, Pauri,

Dehradun, and Rudraprayag.

Figure 1 Project Area

Objectives

The overall objective (goal) of ILSP is to reduce poverty in hill districts of

Uttarakhand. This is being achieved via more immediate development objective

to “enable rural households to take up sustainable livelihood opportunities

integrated with the wider economy”.


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The strategy behind ILSP is to adopt a two-pronged approach to build

livelihoods in hill districts. The first of these is to support and develop the food

production systems, which remain the main means of support for most

households. The second main thrust of the project is to generate cash incomes

by supporting non-farm livelihoods, especially community involvement in rural

tourism, and vocational training.

Key Components of the Project

The project has four components. The three main components of the project are

– Food Security and Livelihood Enhancement; Participatory Watershed

Development; and Livelihood Financing. The fourth component of the Project is

Project Management. The first three components of the project are

implemented by three different institutions –

Component 1 – Food Security and Livelihood Enhancement (Implemented

through Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas Samiti - UGVS): Key focus areas of this

component are Food Security and livelihood; market infrastructure and

linkages; skill development; and innovative livelihood initiatives. The activities

under this component are taken up in 37 blocks of nine districts (Almora,

Bageshwar, Pithoragarh, Chamoli, Tehri, Uttarkashi, Pauri, Dehradun, and

Rudraprayag).

Component 2 – Participatory Watershed Development – (Implemented

through Project Society of Watershed Management Directorate - PSWMD): Key

focus areas of this component are watershed development through gram

panchayat watershed management. The component is being implemented in 22

Micro-Watersheds of 7 blocks of three districts (Nainital, Champawat and

PauriGarhwal).

Component 3 – Livelihood Financing (Implemented through Uttarakhand

Parvthiya Ajeevika Samvardhan Company - UPASAC) - Key focus areas of this


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component are financial literacy, risk management, bank linkages and rural

financing services. The component covers all the 44 blocks of 11 districts.

Component 4 – Project Management (Managed through Central Project

Coordination Unit - CPCU) - Key focus areas of this component are Project

Coordination, Knowledge Management, Monitoring and Evaluation. CPCU is

established within the Rural Development Department and is headed by the

Chief Project Director (CPD). CPCU coordinates with all the three Project

implementation agencies (PIAs) and takes up areas which are common to all

such as Project Management, Knowledge Management, Monitoring and

Evaluation etc.

Project Progress Summary

Project Coverage

The project (ILSP) is being implemented by three project implementation

agencies UGVS, PS-WMD and UPASaC. So far, project has supported 1,37,109

HHs of 14,228 Groups in 3,569, villages (including 1,052 villages, 3,617 SHGs

and 35,397 HHs from ULIPH Project) directly. Total 233 Livelihood Collectives

(LCs)/Federations have been formed and registered under the Self-Reliant

Cooperative Act. Under the Vocational Training program, 24,398 youths out of

targeted 29,000 have been trained. Under component 2, project is working in

22 Micro Watersheds covering 70,194 ha area of 190 Gram Panchayat. Key

highlights of the project are as under:

Component 1 – Food Security and Livelihood Enhancement

3568 numbers of LDPE tanks have been constructed under the Irrigation

Infrastructure development and increasing the irrigation area.

1425 ha area have been covered under fodder cultivation, 1420 ha area

under use of fallow land and 2145.8 ha area protected through chain

linked fencing.

161 collection centers have operationalized and they are pooling farm

produce.


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690 small collection centers have been constructed at village level and

functional as well.

Under HILANS brand 145 kisan outlets are functional in the 9 districts.

In the collaboration with Agriculture Department, 186 farm machinery

bank, 12 custom hiring centers have been operationalized by Livelihood

Collectives (LCs) under the Mission on Agriculture Mechanization

Scheme.

An opportunity for exchange of ideas/technologies/innovations and

experiences among various stakeholders more than 50,000 households

have participated in 3 Kisan fairs and 20 Buyer Seller Meet organized at

cluster level in each district.

Component 2 – Participatory Watershed Management

22420 farmers in 1949 producer groups / vulnerable producer groups

(61% female members).

75581.35 cubic meters terraces repaired / vegetative field boundary

under treatment of arable land;

881.23 ha homestead plantation, 162.43 ha orchard development;

625 poly houses, 211 poly tunnels and 2107 mangers have been

developed;

6416 Roof Water Harvesting Tanks, 90 Village Ponds, 105.034 KM

irrigation Channel;

343 Small Bridges (up to 5 mt. Span) constructed;

Component 3 – Livelihood Financing

4245 Term Loans of INR 43.08 Crore;

9633 Cash Credit Limit of INR 58.84 Crore;

26429 Kisan Credit Cards of INR 122.68 Crore;


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Financial Progress

The total expenditure of Rs. 146.74 Crore was made during 1st April 2020 to

31th March 2021.The component wise total expenditure summary is as under:

Table 1 Financial Progress (Amt in INR Cr)

Component

Upto March 2018

FY FY FY Cumulative

2018-19 2019-20 2020-21

(July 2013 - March 2018)

(Apr 2018– March 2019)

(Apr 2019– March 2020)

(Apr 2020– March 2021)

(July 2013 – March 2021)

1. Food Security & Livelihood Enhancement

178.79 96.47 64.95 38.88 379.1

2. Participatory Watershed Management

131.68 56.41 29.2 59.22 276.51

3. Livelihood Finance

68.41 54.06 48.67 62.16 233.3

4. Project Management

6.21 3.69 2.71 2.71 15.32

Total 385.09 210.6 145.5 162.83 904.02

Table 2 Financial Progress (Amt in INR Cr)

Financier 2016-17 Progress

2017-18 Progres

s

2018-19 Progres

s

2019-20 Progres

s

2020-21

Target

2020-21 Progres

s

%

IFAD loan 52.89 102.31 128.7 78.56 82.62 75.61 91.52

State Govt 11.01 16.37 20.34 15.60 19.97 22.81 114.22

Banks 11.15 34.65 52.04 46.00 40.00 59.17 147.92

Beneficiaries

3.59 8.1 9.57 5.34 4.15 52.32 126.07

Total 78.64 161.41 210.64 145.5 146.74 162.83 110.96


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Table 3 Comparative Financial Progress (Amt in INR Cr)

Period UGVS PSWMD UPASaC

From July 2013 up to 31st March 2017 109.41 82.08 31.75

1st April 2017 to 31st March 2018 73.75 50.75 36.67




Total 389.32 279.30 233.31

DEA-IFAD Tripartite Portfolio Review Meeting (TPRM) – January &

November 2020

As per DEA-IFAD-TPRM (13th January 2020) minutes, ILSP continues to be a high

performer in the India country portfolio. The project has mostly achieved its

physical targets and has been steady in boosting its disbursement from 22.5% at

MTR (May 2016) and 59% in Dec 2018.

The project has undertaken many innovative activities, which have been scaled up

during the project life cycle through convergence with Government schemes.

Most notable among them are promotion of chain link fencing, Prasad making,

promotion of mandua products and fallow land development. The large scale

production of Prasad has led to increase in demand for cholai (amaranthus) which

in turn has led to increase in price from Rs 6/ kg to Rs 40/kg.

There is a 100% adoption rate of chain link fencing which has led to protection of

2103.8 ha area from ungulates and grazing animals. It has benefitted 66,810 HHs,

leading to reduced workload, increase in cash income by 60 – 80 % and 50 – 58%

increase in cultivated area of vegetables, spices and fruits.

The LDPE Tanks have contributed to an overall increase in production by 25-50% and increase in income by 30-40%.

Special Achievement –

Mann Ki Baat

On 29th April 2018, in 43th episode of Mann ki Baat, Hon’ble Prime Minister

recognized the efforts of ILSP federations “Maa Chilta Swayatt Sahkarita”,

Munnar, Kapkot Block, Bageshwar district for mandua biscuits.


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Land Mark Project

“We feel that IFAD funded ILSP is a landmark project of Govt. of India and it

is the opportunity to showcase its success story to the people.” as per 12th

March 2019 email of Department of Economic Affairs.

Special Initiatives –

Common Marketing Strategy

ILSP project has developed HILANS brand. Since two-three years, all

community institutions are doing their business activities under the brand. A

well-established marketing system of ILSP encourages other projects to adopt a

similar system for the marketing of rural produce. Instead of creating new

infrastructures, other programmes i.e. Uttarakhand State Rural Livelihood

Mission (USRLM) has adopted the same strategy and using the same set-up.

Now a common marketing strategy has been adopted by all projects/

programmes under the umbrella brand HILANS.

Online Marketing

Under the HILANS brand project initiated online advertising & marketing

through Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and online sale through

Hilans.org, Suvidha Supermarket, Tribes India, Amazon etc.

Convergence Platform

District Implementation and Coordination Committee (DICC) under the

leadership of District Magistrate and co-chaired by Chief Development Officer,

build an effective synergy among all line departments, boards, institution, NGOs

and community institutions. Some of the results are benefit for needful, no

duplicity of efforts, result-oriented activity, integrated development, increase

farmers income, etc.

State level synergy among the line departments i.e. Department of Rural

Development, Agriculture and Horticulture Department, Animal husbandry

provide lots of benefits i.e. utilizing government infrastructures (Saras Center &

Others) and Farm Machinery Bank to community institutions.

M&E and MIS

Project has developed strong monitoring mechanisms that use multiple-

channels and analysis tools. The project has a robust 24x7 management


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information system for data and information maintenance. Regular field visits

of all staffs and top officials, IIIrd party consultants, Government officials etc.

have improved implementation and quality of information. The systematic

review, feedback mechanism and evidence-based decision-making improve the

project progress.

Project M&E and MIS system are recognized by IFAD, Govt of Uttarakhand and

Govt of India. The project facilitates other organisation to improve the systems

and management processes. The system has adopted by / replicated in the

other IFAD funded projects i.e. JTELP, OPELIP, MLAMP and Word Bank& IFAD

funded projects i.e. PPAP.

Table 4- Progress against the main KPIs of ILSP

Indicators Cumulative

Progress

Target by end of

the project

%

Achievement

Outreach in Households 137109 126000 109%

No. of PG and VPG established -

Number

14228 13307 107%

Federations & LC undertaking

inputs and output aggregations

214 150 143%

No. of collection centres pooling

farm produce

161 130 124%

No. youths completed vocational

training

24398 20000 122%

No. of micro-watershed -

Number

22 22 100%

Increased area under rainfed

crop and production (Ha)

5676.14 3800 149%

Fallow lands brought under

cultivation (Ha)

270.91 200 135%

No. of households facilitated for

availing institutional finance

54511 60150 91%

Households accessing loans from

financial institutions

57% 50% 114%

% increase in farm-gate prices

over baseline

70% 100% 70%


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Component 1- Food Security & Livelihood Enhancement:

This component is being implemented by Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas Samiti and

is mainly covering the following activities;

a) Organizing the producer groups (PGs/VPGs) which will be federated as

livelihood collectives (LCs)

b) Extend support in crop and livestock production for food security, and

develop high value cash crops and other products (such as rural tourism,

etc.) to provide cash incomes to PGs/ VPGs and LCs through various

institutions.

c) Technical services are being provided and physical infrastructures are being

developed for providing market access support to producers.

d) Innovation linkage with various institutions for testing and dissemination of

innovative technologies and approaches for improving food security,

livelihoods and access to markets.

e) The project is also improving access to employment in the non-farm sector

by supporting vocational training linked to job placement. A total of 20,000

youths will be trained covering around 60% women.

Project Area

A total of 1, 14,689 households were benefitted from 37 development blocks of

the nine districts. The details of the blocks are as under:

SN District Block Name (ILSP) Block Name (Ex-ULIPH)

1 Almora Syaldeh, Salt, Bhikiasain,

Chaukhutia, Hawalbagh,

Tarikhet, Dwarahat

Bhainsiyachhana, Lamgara,

Dhauladevi

2 Bageshwar Garur Bageshwar, Kapkot

3 Chamoli Tharali, Pokhri Ghat, Deval, Narayanbagad,

Dasholi


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4 Tehri Chamba, Jaunpur (common) Bhilangana, Jaunpur

(common), Devprayag,

Pratapnagar

5 Uttarkashi Bhatwari Naugaon, Mori, Purola, Dunda

6 Rudraprayag Jakholi, Augustmuni -

7 Pithoragarh Kanalichina, Pithoragarh

(Bin), Munakot

-

8 Pauri Kaljikhal -

9 Dehradun Kalsi, Chakarata -

Strategy of Implementation –

To support and develop the food production systems which remain the

main means of support for most households.

To generate cash incomes by supporting non-farm livelihoods, including

community involvement in rural tourism, and vocational training.


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ILSP : - Participatory Plans & Integrated Strategy

1. Food Security Improvement Plan

(FSIP) for PG/VPG

2. Irrigation Infrastructure Plan (IIP) for

PG/VPG

3. Agri-Business Up-scaling Plan for LC

4. Market Infrastructure & Promotion

5. Gram Panchayat Watershed

Development Plan for Micro-watershed

Core Focus - FOOD SECURITY & BASKET of LIVELIHOODs FOR RURAL POOR

Eco System Support

Vocational Training

(Skill Development)

Primary Support

Capacity Building,

Technical

Assistance &

Linkages,

Exposure & Fairs

Rural Finance &

Risk Mitigation

Government Linkages:

- Convergence

- Technical Know-How

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Value Chain Approach for Sustainable Livelihoods

Project has mapped prominent value chains in the project blocks and clusters

and has facilitated building up of community plans around it. All activities has

implemented towards strengthening the value chains and its sustainability.

Key Interventions for VC development and Production Support System

VC identification, mapping and intervention planning

Project link Irrigation Infrastructure Plan with the Food Security

Improvement Plan;

Village, Cluster Specific Planning and Interventions covering focused

convergence, bank linkage and technical know-how;

Technological tie-ups with line departments, GB Pant University of

Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, VCSG Uttarakhand University of

Horticulture and forestry, VPKAS, KVK and Dr. Y S Parmar University of

Horticulture & Forestry Nauni , Solan , Himachal Pradesh.


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Promoting Organic practices, Major Millets (nutria-cereals), inter-

cropping and crop diversification;

Project facilitate for converge necessary inputs, equipment’s and

infrastructures through its own resources, convergence, banks and

beneficiary contributions;

For the risk mitigation – special focus on Soil Health Management, IPM &

INM, Crop Insurance and standard package of practices have been

promoted;

Post-harvest management, marketing tie-ups;

Business development and market access.

Table 5 Model applied for value chain development /strengthen approach –

S.N. Business

Model Focused crops interventions

No of

Groups

involved

1. Soil to Market

(S2M)

Traditional crops , Pulses , vegetables,

MAPs, spices 6644

2. Farm to Fork Cash crops , & Fruits , European Vegetables 2574

3. Farm to Table Dairy products, Poultry products , Bakery

products , Prasad making, and culinary

herbs

2194

4. Seed to

Bazaar

Seed production – spices, traditional crops,

medicinal & aromatic plants 245

5. Market to

Farm

European vegetable colored capsicum,

Cherry tomato, Cabbage , Strawberry , Kiwi

& Papaya , walnut & stone fruits and Honey

987


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Table 6 A brief summary of sub sectors are –

SN Sub-

Sector Major Activities Groups HHs

1 OSV Potato, Cabbage, Capsicum, Tomato, Pea, Onion, French Bean, Arbi, European Vegetables, Mushroom

5018 48270

2 Dairy Fodder bank, Milk collection center, ILDC, Integrated dairy farming Model Milk value addition and fodder development on land

5865 48601

3 Goatry Goatry, Fodder & Feed Unit; Health and goat management services through Pashu sakhi & CLM and collective goat marketing on weight Basis.

921 8339

4 Poultry Mother unit, Kuroiler bada, Rearing unit, Fodder & Feed Unit, marketing support though outlets/Meat Shops and institutional linkages

433 4740

5 Spice Coriander, Chilly, Turmeric, Ginger, Garlic, onion. Leek, Tejpaat and Large Cardamom

3949 39179

6 Cereals Paddy, Manduwa, Ramdana, Red Rice, Foxtail Millet and Maize

6421 50863

7 Pulses Rajma, Soyabean, Masoor, Gahat, Tor ( Arhar) ,Naurangi , Urd and Black soya

2078 25713

8 Fruits Citrus, Stone Fruits, Mango, walnut , Apple, strawberry and Kiwi

3734 36639

9 MAP Mari Gold, Rose, Damask Rose, Scanted Rose, Koot, Kutaki

294 2909

10 Eco tourism

Home stay, base camp, trekking route 97 923

11 RNFS-Enterprise

Handicraft, Fodder & Feed Unit, Input-Output Center, Canteen, Restaurants , outlets , Flour mills, oil expeller unit, bakery unit and input dealership etc.

1719 6106

12 RNFS- Service Sector

THR, RUTF, Government Institutions, Hostels, Training, Survey, Insurance, Micro Finance 2406 17744


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Food Security & Scaling up

A total number of 79,292 HHs of 8,647 Producer Groups/Vulnerable

Producer Groups in 2,135 villages are supported as per their food security

and improvement plan from the beginning of the project.

Table 7 Coverage at a glance (New Groups)

SN Districts Villages Supported

PGs/VPGs

Supported

HHs LCs

1 Almora 767 2456 23062 40

2 Bageshwar 155 762 6708 11

3 Chamoli 151 978 7596 13

4 Dehradun 228 718 8024 13

5 Pauri 132 331 3256 6

6 Pithoragarh 255 1155 10126 16

7 Rudraprayag 203 1062 9115 15

8 Tehri 174 779 7601 11

9 Uttarkashi 70 406 3804 6

Total 2135 8647 79292 131

Cumulative 20,898 vulnerable households have been supported for 1st year

seed capital.

Cumulative 20,898 vulnerable households have been supported for 2nd year

seed capital.

Livelihood Collectives (LCs) are being graded in participatory manner; all

the 131 LCs have been graded and as a result 24, 96 and 11 LCs acquired

grade A, B and C respectively.

PGs/VPGs are being graded in a participatory manner; so far 8,647 groups

out of 8,647 have been graded and as a result 7073, 803 and 119 groups

acquired grade A, B and C respectively as under :


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District Block Name Total Graded

Grading Category

A B C

Almora

Bhikiasain 360 261 11 0 Chaukhutiya 331 313 0 0 Dwarahaat 339 279 52 2 Hawalbagh 333 251 42 4 Siyalde 385 301 46 1 Sult 359 297 14 0 Tarikhet 349 349 0 0

Total (Almora) 2456 2051 165 7

Bageshwar Garur 465 395 53 4

Garur-H 297 228 1 3 Total (Bageshwar) 762 623 54 7

Pithoraharh

Munakot 413 348 58 3

Kanalichhina 363 334 29 9 Pithoragarh (Bin)

379 325 36 10

Total (Pithoragarh) 1155 1007 123 22

Chamoli Tharali 349 221 101 21 Tharali H 206 170 29 5 Pokhri 423 361 41 0 Total (Chamoli) 978 752 171 26

Rudraprayag Augustmuni 440 341 66 3 Augustmuni-H 194 187 0 0 Jakholi 428 403 7 1

Total (Rudraprayag) 1062 931 73 4 Pauri Kaljikhal 331 250 39 2

Total (Pauri) 331 250 39 2

Tehri Chamba 425 320 74 0 New Jaunpur 354 266 13 9

Total (Tehri) 779 586 87 9 Uttarkashi Bhatwari 406 316 52 0

Total (Uttarkashi) 406 316 52 0

Dehradun Chakrata 382 298 44 24 Kalsi 336 259 22 18

Total (Dehradun) 718 557 66 42 Grand Total 8647 7073 830 119


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Figure 2 Monthly Meeting of Pratigya LC, Kaljikhal, Pauri

ILSP provided support for micro-irrigation activities (LDPE tanks) which

are being promoted for increasing the area under irrigation, enhance the

productivity of crops, and provide life-saving irrigation. The tanks with

capacity of 20 KL (6x3.5x1.25 meter) and 13.5 KL (5x3x1.25 meter) are

constructed. The project also provided a 150 meter HDPE pipe with each

tank to fill the tank from the water source and further irrigate the command

area. The project also supported shade-net to cover the tank and reduce the

evaporation of water. Till date, cumulative total of 23,169 HHs of 3,621

groups have been benefited by increasing 398.76 ha of land area under

spices, OSV, pulses, and fruits. 110 poly-houses (covered area 100 sqm)

established with LDPE tanks through convergence from Agriculture &

Horticulture Department are being used for the Hi-Tech farming of

Vegetables.

377 water-lifting pumps have been operationalised through livelihood

collectives in all nine districts. The groups are being benefited by lifting

water from seasonal water sources and they are irrigating their crops during

the summer season from Feb -Jun.


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Figure 3 Maa Agneri Producer Groups, Chaukhutiya, Almora

Annual General Body Meeting is being conducted in all LCs; during the

reporting period, 100% of AGMs have been conducted in all 131 Livelihood

Collectives. The regular monthly board meeting is being conducted in all LCs

to strengthen their governance system.

Table 8 Summary of LCs / Federations Shareholders

Division No of LCs No of Groups No of

Shareholders

Almora 40 2456 23062

Bageshwar 11 762 6708

Chamoli 13 978 7596

Tehri 11 779 7601

Uttarkashi 6 406 3804

Dehradun 13 718 8024

Pithoragarh 16 1155 9115

Rudraprayag 15 1062 9115

Pauri 6 331 3256


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Total (LCs) 131 8647 79292

Division No of

Federations No of SHGs

No of

Shareholders

Almora 11 793 6168

Bageshwar 12 641 8247

Chamoli 19 801 6461

Tehri 12 733 7452

Uttarkashi 17 649 7069

Total (Fed.) 71 3617 35397

LCs + Fed. 202 12264 114689

An online grading system, review mechanism, and dashboard have been

developed under ILSP-MIS for all LCs/federations. All livelihood collectives

and federations are regularly entering their progress data into ILSP-MIS as

login id and password have been given to them individually, and they are

entering their data and analyzing their performance with others.

Fodder Development – To cater the need for green fodder and to reduce

women drudgery project initiate fodder development activity in 5 ha land

under each collectives. Under fodder development, community are growing

various kind of grasses i.e. Hybrid Napier, Dolani, Guchhi, Broom, Fodder

Maize, Mulberry, Bhemal, Kachnar, etc. Cumulative 1420 ha community

wasteland has been brought under fodder cultivation. On average 90 to 110

Qtl fodder production has started in each LC. The green fodder is now

available during the lean period (3 to 5 months).


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Figure 4 Maize fodder, Jaunpur, Tehri

Use of Fallow Land – Cumulative 1425 ha fallow land brought under

cultivation, in which different fruit trees i.e. - Citrus (Malta, Kagji Lemon),

Mango, Lichi, Apple, Walnut, Pomegranate, Peach, Plum, Pear, Kiwi etc. and

medicinal plants i.e. Tejpat, Large Cardamom, Alovera, Damask Rose have

been planted.

Figure 5 Plantation of Pomegranate on Fallow land, Dehradun


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Figure 6 Mulbery, Bheemal Plantation on Fallow Land, Pokhri, Chamoli

Man –Animal Conflict and Crop Protection

Fencing – 131 livelihood collectives have procured chain-linked fencing

(specification - 3” x 3” GI Wire, Dia 3.15 mm, Height 1.5 meter). LCs are

providing fencing to their shareholders on rent basis (on an average Rs

2000 per 100 running meter per year) and total 2145.8 ha crop area has

been protected through chain link fencing. Fencing is being used for

protecting crops from the wild ungulates and grazing animals to ensure

the production of crops round the year. Households are also saving time

and spending that saved time into another income generating activities as

well.

Bee Keeping – Bee vibration disturbs monkey menace and keeps them

away that reduce the crop losses. It is also an additional source of income

for households. The project piloted the bee-keeping activity in

Rudraprayag district and after the preliminary results; it is being scaled-

up in Bhatwari block in Uttarkashi.

Households getting average 3.6 KG honey per season;

Average Rs. 1106 per season or 3,318/ year from 2 bee boxes

additional income from bee keeping;

Crop production has been increased mainly in Fruits & Vegetables,


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Beekeeping as a business identity for livelihood

Till date total 3234 HHs are engaged in Beekeeping activities under

the project area.

Figure 7 Honey production, Augustmuni, Rudraprayag,

Bio-Fencing – Medicinal & Aromatic Plants i.e. Scented Rose, Basil

Crop, etc. are not damaged by the animals and provide higher returns

to the households. The project piloted such crops through Livelihood

Collectives / Federations.

Un-irrigated / uncultivated land area converted in cultivated land;

Farmers started off-season vegetables with basil crops;

Average income Rs. 8000 per households per season through Basil

Crop;

Cropping intensity is higher due to a shorter period of Basil crop only

60 days than 3-4 vegetable crops easily can be grown after

harvesting of Basil Crop

The market is available for fresh and dried produces at the local

level.


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Figure 8 Chain Link Fencing, Prathibha Sabji Utpadak Samuh, Ayartoli, Garur, Bageshwars

A total cumulative 7925.52 ha cultivated land area has increased after project

initiatives; under which 1687.12 ha under spice crops, 2326.26 ha under off-

season vegetables, 692.45 ha under pulses, 315.63 ha under traditional cereal

crops, 11.0 ha under medicinal and aromatic plans, 48.06 ha under seed

productions, 1420 ha under fodder development and 1425 ha under fruit

plantation.

Innovative Activities through Livelihood Collectives –

Improvement of Goat Breed– There has been 42 Pashusakhi’s and 9

cluster livestock managers (CLM) of districts (Almora, Pithoragarh,

Uttarkashi, Chamoli, and Rudraprayag) trained through Central Institute for

Research on Goats, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Makhdoom,

Farah, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh and Govind Ballabh Pant University of

Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. These pashusakhi's and CLMs are

providing their service I.e. Artificial Insemination (AI), Castration,

Vaccination, and first aids to community livestock at their doorstep.


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Table 9 Details of Camp and beneficiaries benefitted in Goat husbandry camp organised by UGVS

S.

No.

District No. of

Camp

No. of

Participants

No of

Animal

/Goat

Vaccination No. of

kids

born

Revenue

Generated

as wealth

1 Pithoragrth 62 1590 4770 3975 795 238500

2 Rudraprayag 139 4256 6500 600 1165 325000

3 Almora 63 1954 4795 112 1297 239750

4 Uttarkashi 25 690 1300 1100 700 65000

5 Chamoli 45 1820 3650 405 115 182500

Total 334 10310 21015 6192 4072 1050750

Integrated Dairy Farming Model – Two models of integrated dairy farming

have undertaken in district Uttarkashi and Tehri. These units would be soon

providing produce milk as well as bi-products i.e. Ghee, Butter, Cheese,

Mawa etc.

Integrated Farming Model – 8 models have been functional in three

districts (Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Tehri, and Bageswar). After the establishment

of ployhouses, water tanks, shed-net, poly turner, and animal sheds and

showing of vegetables, spices, European vegetable and fish farming is being

done. Various crop produce are being sold in the local as well as through

private players.

Organic Farming – 150 HHs from 45 livelihood collectives covered under

the organic farming training conducted at State Organic Training Center

Majkhali, Almora from 9 project Districts (Almora, Bageshwar, Chamoli,

Tehri, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Pithoragarh, Dehradun and Pauri). Bio-

decomposer and light traps for the promotion of organic farming have been

procured and installed at the project site while bio- decomposer is being

used for organic manure.


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Seed Production - Under this activity by the showing of potato, finger

millets, spices, wheat, and onion the five districts i.e. Uttarkashi, Chamoli,

Bageshwar, Tehri, and Almora have undertaken seed production activity in 2

ha land areas each.

Figure 9 Demonstrate of Soyabean (ver. VL Soya-63) at Chandomati LC, Bhatwari, Uttarkashi

Nursery rising of vegetable, fruits, medicinal & aromatic plant and

fodder plants – All the 9 districts has undertaken nursery activity by the

establishment of a mother plan block of winter fruits. The mother plant

materials for the establishment of the nursery have procured from Dr. Y.S.

Parmar University of horticulture and forestry, Nouni, Sonal, Himachal

Pradesh. Now the procedure for the registration has been initiated according

to standers of the new nursery act issued by GoUK. The seedling of

vegetables and flowers are being sold in local market to cater the local

demand of seedlings by the farmer/Households.

Up-scaling of New activities

Up-scaling of Bamboo/ Ringal activities : Under the up-scaling project

“To Develop Model Villages through Creation of Sustainable Rural

Livelihoods (Ringal/Bamboo & Natural Fibre Based Handicraft) in Tharali

Block of District Chamoli” Empower Society conducted 10 Basic Trainings,

10 Advance Training cum orientation programmes and 10 tool kits


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distribution to develop model villages through the creation of sustainable

rural livelihoods by the processing of Ringal/bamboo/natural fibers into

value-added products (Lamp, Paper Dustbin, Sanitizer Sprinkler, Jewellery,

Bheemal Chappal, Bags: Purse, Hanging Ghanti Lamp, File Cover, Service

Basket, Double Layer Service Basket, Netted Flower Pot, Bamboo Bottles,

Bottleneck Flower Pot, Puja Basket, and Tray, etc) pricing, forward linkages,

market-driven products, mix match products, advance designing and

complex weaving patterns, pricing, master folder preparation, etc.

Figure 10 making of Ringal/Bamboo produces by beneficiary, Tharali , Chamoli

As of now, total 300 targeted beneficiaries from 10 villages of Tharali block

are covered under the project and around 35-40 per village who are

audience participants will be undertaken as a backup group in upcoming

adding up to the targeted number of artisans. . A work shed/CFC has been

established in Soledungri village adjoining with growth centre to carry out

the business activities. To support Ringal/Bamboo & Natural Fibre Based

Handicraft plantation of 500 bamboo ringal saplings done in 10 villages with

188 HHs. So far Rs. 7.50 Lakh business generated by the sale of ringal

natural fibers value-added products through marketing tie up with 8 clients/

buyers 1. Himalayas to Home, Rajpur road, Dehradun 2.Big Bees, pacific hills

, Dehardun 3.Dichang enterprise , Dehradun 4.HILANS Brand, 5. Unsung

Brand 6. Caleriya, Hyderabad 7. Kinikh, Dehradun and village ways


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Charitable trust, Faridabad. The sub-project has been completed successfully

with significant results.

Up-Scaling of Beekeeping Honey products: The Up-scaling sub-project

has been initiated in the Bhatwari block of Uttarakashi district with the key

objective of “Up-scaling of beekeeping enterprise through development of

Honey value chain”, is benefitting 300 HHs (88% BPL HHs) from 15 villages.

Table 10 Details of the demonstration of improved beekeeping practices are as

follows:

Type of Demo Total Achievement

Improved wall hive technology introduced in villages (No) 15

Bee Hives 16

Mud Hive 63

Bee boxes 512

Swarm catches 84

No. of colonies produced through division 17

Total Bee colonies available in the areas (No.) 664

No. of exposure visit 02

Figure 11 Training session of beekeepers in Bhatwari, Uttarkashi

In 15 project villages, a total of 8,23 kg honey has been produced from 2,56

colonies by 1,45 be keepers in two seasons. The total income earned by


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beekeepers is Rs. 3,29,200. So far 535 kg out of 823 kg honey has been

marketed through forwarded linkages.

S.N. Activities Units

1 Bee Producer (No) 300

2 Producers groups formed (No) 15

3 Trainings conducted (No) 7

4 Improved wall hive technology introduced in

villages (No)

15

5 No of bee boxes provided to the producers 35

6 No of colonies produced through division. 5

7 Total bee hive 191

8 Total colonies available in the areas (No) 65

9 Honey production (Kg) 823

10 Honey Marketing (Kg) 535

The project has successfully facilitated honey based enterprises for over 352 women in the project areas. These women producers are part of the PGs formed in the different project villages and are actively engaged in honey production. The women producers are seemingly have acquired the knowledge about beekeeping/ honey production indicative of their confidence in management of the their honey based enterprises and their ability to negotiate the prices at the most advantages terms. The women are quite adept now in handling the bees, equipment and harvesting honey without the support of male members. These women producers not only handle the swarm but know as to how the bees can be retained and nurtured even in the difficult conditions. The important outcome of this particular endeavour is economic rehabilitation of over 352 producers who had been by the during project pried average annual income was recorded as INR 7,171 per annum in 2019-20 while in 2020-21 the honey production increased by 6,311 KG and subsequently it kept on increasing. The increased production increases the income for the producers correspondingly.


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Table 11 Key output of the project:-

SN Activities Total

Targets

Achievement

(November ‘20 to

March ‘21

1 Development of Para Technician 4 4

2 Training to HH - 8 Trainings -

3 Capacity building of beekeepers / Honey

producer groups (HPGs)

8 12

3 Training on Bee Management 8 36

4 Bee Boxes Demonstration of improved

beekeeping / honey production.

1000 1105

5 Market development-Market campaign and

product promotion

1 1

6 Establishment of Two Bee Breeding Centers 2 4

7 Shed nett house /Bee Shed 1 1

Table 12 Overview of trainings, exposure and demonstrations conducted for the honey

PGs

S.N Key Activities Unit

Status (by end of

the project)

1 Orientation of Honey PGs on beekeeping/

honey production

Nos. 15

2 Technical training-bee management, risk

mitigation, disease preventions, swarm

catching, settlement, prevention form

absconding and honey extractions.

Nos. 36

3 Primary processing of honey and storage Nos. 12

4 Demonstration of different bee hives/ boxes Nos. 38

5 Training on manufacturing bio-agents to

prevent the diseases/ fungus in crops.

Nos. 7


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6 Exposure visits conducted to see the

improved/ commercial level honey practices*

Nos. 2

7 Developed honey village Nos. 1

8 Commercial Bee Keepers Nos. 14

9 Bee nursery Nos. 4

New Initiatives

Footwear Production Unit: Nanda Devi Ajeevika Swayatt Sahkarita is one

of the Livelihood Collective established at Sunla, Tharali in District Chamoli,

which have availed and utilized the CCL benefits for establishing their

Footwear making Unit through which they are growing their business.

Through CCL, Footwear making Unit of Rs. 2, 59,135 has been established by

this SRC. Within one month of established federation sold 1150 set of

Slippers in the local market with a business turnover of Rs 63,250/- and

earned a net profit of Rs 9,487.

Figure 12 Footwear making unit and its products, Tharali, Chamoli

Mushroom Production: Integrated efforts are being made to the doubling

of farmers’ income by the project. Mushroom production is one of the

additional activities for many households in this context. Many producer

groups are growing mushroom and are being sold by the ILSP LC after

grading, packing under the HILANS brand. With the efforts of the ILSP,

where households are getting good prices for their products, consumers are

getting pure and fresh produce. One of the example -


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In Bin (Pithoragarh) block under Gurang Ghati LC, 24 Households (including

8 Youths) from 7 producer groups are growing Mushroom with the technical

support of Horticulture Department and ILSP. In the last 3 months, total

production was around 800 kg. LC has sold 4000 mushroom packets worth

Rs 1,60,000. A 200-gram mushroom packet in poly-bag, the sale price is Rs

40 in which LC’s share is Rs 8 and in box packing, the sale price is Rs 50 in

which LC’s share is Rs 10. The net profit is around Rs 65,000.

COVID 19 and Lockdown: Extensive rural community-based network of the

Livelihood collectives have started providing support to households in far

flung areas of Uttarakhand. LCs helps in maintaining the supply of essential

items including food items, milk, and vegetables. PG members who received

skill training in sewing and tailoring are engaged in the manufacture and

sale of face masks.

Contract Farming: Farmers have been linked directly to the buyers for

contract farming of medicinal crops like Kutaki and Kut. The major

companies that are entering into the contract with the farmers growing

these two crops are M/s Dabur India Ltd. New Delhi with 398 farmers, M/s

Emami India Ltd. New Delhi with 276 farmers; and M/s Organic India Ltd.

Lucknow with 246 farmers; M/s HARC Alaknanda Sawaytt Sahkarita –

Kaleshwer , Chamoli for crop of Tulsi (holy basil) with 200 farmers; M/s

Rahul Prakash & Company, Kichha , U.S. Nagar for European vegetables like

Colored Capsicum, Red Cabbage , Broccoli, Yellow & Green Zucchini , Snow

pea etc with 2496 farmers; M/s Mother Dairy - New Delhi for Mango, Pear ,

Peach, Vegetable Pea, Plum & Apricot with1790 farmers; M/s HIMOARD Ltd.

Shimla , Himachal Pradesh for Finger Millet, Soybean & buck wheat crop

with 767 farmers.

Access to Market

Collection Center – An aggregation and value addition premises that are

used as LCs’ office and outlet at the cluster level. So far, 161 collection

centers have been operationalised and pooling farm produces. The project is


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upgrading existing collection centers through convergence from MNERGA.

The advantages/ usage, a collection center brings to a LC are summarized as

below:

The center is a fixed asset for cooperative and saves up on the routine

operational expenses.

Aggregation of produce enables collective marketing and price realization

to around 20-30%.

Save upon the time and transportation cost for the farmers at the cluster

level.

It is being used for sorting, grading, drying value addition and packaging

of produce at the cluster level.

It also acts as a resource center for farmers and contact points for private

players/buyers.

Figure 13 Collection Center & Cool Chamber

Village Level Storage Center –This is termed as a small collection center

that acts as a satellite center for the main cluster level collection center. 690

such centers have been operationalized so far and are being utilized as

storage of rural produce, milk-collection center, village meeting, etc.. It is a

primary market infrastructure at the village level that reduces wastage of

farmers produce. The advantages it brings to the farmers are as:


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It is established near villages and farmers’ field that reduces drudgery

and saved their time.

30-40% crop losses are reduced using these infrastructures.

It is also acting as social infrastructure and utilized by all households in

the village.

Figure 14 Small Collection Center

Haat Bazaar –Haat Bazaars are being organized under ILSP at district and

block level to provide better prices to the community for their perishable

commodity like fresh vegetables, pulses, etc.. The space for Haat Bazaar is

being provided to concern LCs by the district administration where,

LCs/Federations are buying local vegetables, rural farm and processed

produces from its members and are selling at the haat. At present 20 weekly

haat bazaars are being organized regularly and it is planned to upgrade the

place of haat bazaar through convergence from MNREGA. The key outcome

of this intervention are :

Perishable commodities are sold on a regular basis;


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Regular cash income is available at farmer/household level;

Buyers are getting fresh, local and natural vegetables;

The average sale of per haat is around Rs 6500 to Rs 13000;

Figure 15 Weekly haat bazar operated by different SRCs of Hawalbag on every Saturday to market the fresh local

vegetables to potential consumers of Officer Colony Almora and Cahukhutiya

Bakri Haat -To strengthen backward and forward linkages in Goatry value

chain, project organized Bakri Haat on a half-yearly basis. The Bakri Haat

covers backward integration through technical inputs from different

organisations / departments and forward integration through market

linkages as well as marketing tips with private players.

In the Bakri Haat, different departments provide information about their

schemes i.e. Goat shed from MNREGA, services from NLM and scientific

techniques of Goatry, Vaccination, Medicines, Bank Finance, Insurance, Feed

& Fodder, and marketing methods etc.

Animal Husbandry, Agriculture-Horticulture Dept, District Cooperative

Bank, RSETI, Rural Development, other line departments, 8 Meet buyers and

208 Goatry Households participate in the Bakri Haat.


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Figure 16 Bakri Haat, Pithoragarh

Nano – Packaging Unit – 129 Nano-packaging units have been established

at cluster, district and state level outlets. Commonly each unit includes –a

Bend Sealer, Weighing Machine, Foot Sealer, Manual Sealing Machine, Hot

Air Gun, Cap Sealing Machine, Box Stepping Machine, Bar Code Machine etc.

Project is also educating and encouraging its LCs/Federations to have nano-

packaging unit at their establishments for consistency in quality of

packaging and branding. The immediate output and outcome of the

intervention are :

Similar and standardize packaging as demanded in the market;

Value addition and better price realization for the producers;

Figure 17 Nano Packaging Unit


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Cool Chamber – To provide prolonged life and keep the perishable produce

fresh, cool chambers are being established under the project. So far, eight

cool-chambers of 4-5 ton capacity have been constructed at district levels,

which are now used by LCs for the preservation of seeds, pulp, fruits etc.

Government Infrastructure – There are more than 14 government

infrastructures i.e. Saras Centers which are being used by livelihood

collectives on lease/ rent basis. With the help of district administration,

project facilitates cooperatives to take advantage of these infrastructures for

their business and showcasing.

Saras center, Kausani, Bageshwar – Department of Rural Development

has allocated a Saras Center to ILSP Baijnath LC in Bageshwar for 30

years lease for running their business. The LCs running their outlet and

homestay in the center.

Saras center, Pithoragarh – Department of Rural Development has

allocated an outlet in the Saras Center to ILSP’ Chomubaba LC running

their business.

Figure 18 Saras Canteen Pithoragarh


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Agri Business Up-scaling Plan / Business Development Plan: LCs /

Federations have prepared their AUP/BDP based on available resources in

the cluster and FSIP of shareholder’s PGs & VPGs. All existing AUPs have

been reviewed and upgraded periodically for sustainability and are in sync

with the present market scenario. The plan includes cluster specifics

strategies, seed production, storage facilities, Nano-processing, Agri-

business growth centers, Outlets and backward-forward linkages,

convergence tie-ups for different schemes.

Business Turnover –The project is facilitating community institutions for

their sustainable business linkages. The cumulative turnover of all

PG/VPGs/LCs/Federations till 31st March 2021 was Rs. 596.31 Crore (in

which LCs/Feds. business is Rs. 142.91 Crore).

During the reporting period (1st April to 30st March 2021) around 131

livelihood collectives (LCs) of project, districts were engaged in various

business activities and earned a turnover of Rs. 35.19 Crore (in 2019-20,

turnover was Rs 22.68 Crore).

If we segregate the cumulative business of these LCs/federations, 5 are more

than 2 Cr, 18 are more than 1 Cr and 150 are more than 50 lakh category.

Through LCs/federations farmers are getting benefits such as –

LCs/Federations are supplying daily need items and inputs at the

doorstep at a lower price in comparison to direct purchasing.

LCs/Federations are purchasing farmers products from farmer’s fields at

reasonable prices and selling into the market.

In the profit of LCs/Federations, farmers are getting benefits in terms of

dividends against their shareholding and patronage as per norms.

Farmers’ time is also saved through transaction with LCs/Federations.


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Table 13 Financial Year Wise LC Turnover (Amt in INR Lakh)

Key Value Chains 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21

Dairy 0.2 32.9 122 289.15 336.23 342.41

Cereals, Pulses 4.1 108.5 249.4 310.08 907.20 967.71

OSV, Spices 21 108.1 203 328.57 385.56 978.54

RNFS 3.7 107.6 241.2 444.08 544.32 100.59

Poultry - 0.9 65.3 123.68 68.32 26.51

Brand Development – Brand development is the process of creating and

strengthening the professional services brand. ILSP is focusing on HILANS as

a community product/service brand through its association with specialized

firms/professionals. A pool of specialized firms/professionals is being

constituted for developing product promotion strategies as under:

Identity strategy: Commodity strategy, Branding strategy

Innovation strategies: Rural and Urban common

Customer value strategy: Brand positioning among the target audience,

Mass product strategy, premium product strategy

Quality strategies: Quality improvements strategy

Packaging strategies: Establish Nano packaging units for premium and

standard packaging with basic information like ingredients, nutritional

value, FSSAI license, Date of Manufacturing, Expiry Date, Packaging

Details, and Batch Number etc.

Brand strategies: Brand extension strategy, Multi-brand strategy, Brand

Image/ Equity Management

Logo and Product Story Line: Project has empanelled a marketing firm

for the redesigning of a logo, standard and quality packaging, develop

product stories, and other promotional activities.

HILANS which is an abbreviation for “Highland Innovative Livelihood

Ascending Nature Sustainability” is being used as a brand and is

registered under class 29, 30, 31, 32, 35 & 43 of Indian Trade Marks Act.


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Brand Promotion - In continuation of the promotion initiatives, a website

(www.hilans.org) has been developed with Trade India and is being

regularly updated. Other mediums i.e. social media (Facebook, Instagram,

Twitter, YouTube), print media (News Paper, magazine, mobile van, workshop,

fairs) are used for brand promotion. Promotional Literature like food habits,

culture of Uttarakhand, recipe book, product catalogue and others are being

developed and published to promote the product range.

A common strategy of marketing for different govt. departments / schemes

under the HILANS brand has developed and now other departments/

schemes i.e. USRLM, ICDS are also promoting their produce under HILANS

umbrella. In addition to this, livelihood collectives are also participating in

the fairs and exhibitions at the state and national levels for product

promotion and fetching orders.

HILANS Outlets - Under the supply chain management(SCM), a chain of

outlets (1 state-level outlet at Dehradun, 11 Kisan outlets at district

headquarter, 134 at cluster level) are operating successfully and all are

managed by livelihood collectives. These outlets are fetching an average sale

of Rs 8000 - 10000/day. It is resulting in :

Better price realization of produce/ value-added products;

Demonstrating rural products and creating awareness in a wider market;

Marketing Tie-ups

Online Marketing - Apart from the traditional marketing system, project

initiated online marketing through AMAZON, Government e Marketplace

(GeM), Trade India and through its e-commerce platform www.hilans.org

to promote rural produce at a global level.

Institutional Marketing - The LCs/federations are linked with ICDS and

other government schemes and are acting as a service provider.

Events – Buyer-Seller events, Buyer visits, fairs, exhibitions and other

promotional activities are being organized on a regular basis and during

crop harvesting.


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Marketing tie-ups– The project facilitated its Livelihood Collectives /

Federations to join hands and have formal or informal tie-ups with

private partners for supplying bulk/ furnished products. Inter-federation

linkages are also strengthened for the consumption and supply of

produce for whole selling and retailing. Some of the examples are listed

below:-

Vinayak Enterprise, Dehradun

M/s Ashok Anil Enterprises, Suvidha Supermarket Dehradun

A.S Associates, Urban Buy Dehradun

Grain Growers pvt ltd Delhi

Himadri outlet at Uttarakhand Sadan, New Delhi

Nature's Hive at Delhi

Just Comfort online portal

EBB and Flow Services Pvt ltd.

Praduman Nagpal and company

Entrepreneurship Development Program (EDP):- 17 and 4 batches

consisting around 490 and 120 participants includes Project staff and members of different livelihood collectives participated in 7 days program based on capacity building of BODs and LCs sustainability between Jan to March 2021 in collaboration with IIM Kashipur and Vaikunth Mehta institute of Co-operative Management, Pune respectively. The Program was focusing on : How to establish supply chain management in rural areas of Uttarakhand. Costing & financial management of farmer’s organization. Human resource management & development. Marketing Strategies for rural products of Uttarakhand. Interaction with startups & entrepreneurs of Uttarakhand. Eco-Tourism as a profitable business activity. Industrial visit and personality development activities.


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Figure 19 Participation in “Management Development Programme on Co-operative Business Management of Livelihood Collectives” VAMNICOM Pune

Agri Business Growth Center

Department of Industries has launched a Growth center scheme in the entire

State for identified economic activities at specified rural locations in order to

promote value addition and forward linkages and to ensure due recognition

for local products and services at national and international levels and to

generate employment opportunities locally.

The objectives of growth center is to increase growth of employment and

self-employment opportunities for local youth, checking migration from hilly

areas, to help promote local products which in turn will help traditional

farming and to cultivate lands which were lying barren. Aligning with

objectives of growth centers of State government, ILSP project has also set

up 25 growth centers related to Bakery, Prasad Making, Value addition –

Spices, Value additions fruits, European Vegetables, Bee Keeping, Recycling

of Waste flowers and aroma (Damask rose) based agri-business. These

growth centers are intended to ensure sustainability for Livelihood

Collectives formed under the project.


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Figure 20 Agribusiness Growth Center, Jilasu, Chamoli

Table 14 Agri Business Growth Centers

SN Types of ABGC No. Location

(Nayay Panchayat wise)

1 Bakery unit Activities 2 1- Hawalbag (Almora) 2- Loharkhet (Bageshwar)

2 Prasad Making 5

1 - Tharali (Chamoli), 2- Siso- Jakholi (Ruraprayag) 3-

Bandrani (Uttarkashi) 4- Satyu (Tehri) 5- Kotigad

(Tehri)

3 Value addition –Spices 4 1- Gaurihat (Pithoragrh) 2- Ghandiyal (Pauri) 3-

Machor-Sult (Almora) 4- Basot- Bhikyasain (Almora)

4 Value additions fruits 6

1- Bentandhar- Chaukhutiya (Almora) 2- Machkali –

Dwarahat (Almora) 3- Baijnath (Bageshwar) 4-

Visayalkhal-Pokhari (Chamoli) 5- Palkot

(Pithoragarh) 6- Kyark (Uttrakashi)

5 European Vegetables 2 1- Koti- Kalsi (Dehradun) 2- Unyora (Almora)

6 Bee Keeping 1 1- Baswara ( Rudraparyag)

7 Recycling of Flowers,

Waste Flowers 1 1- Jilasu (Pohari)

8 Medicinal & Aromatic

Plants 4

1- Bageshwar- Garur, 1- Chamoli, 1- Pithoragarh, 1-

Uttarakashi

Total 25


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Bakery Unit & “hO Daaju” Cafeteria

A Bakery Unit and a cafeteria established by Pragati LC, Hawalbagh, Almora.

LC preparing various value-added product i.e. Christmas Cookies, Manduwa

(Ragi) Christmas Tree Cookies, Chinchilla Muffin, Chocolate Marble Cake,

Subway Chocolate chip Cinnamon Cookies, Mandua Wheat Cookies etc. 30 to

35 members in Bakery Unit from different groups are regularly working

under the consultation of food Consultant and Chef. Other members are

supplying raw materials to LCs.

Agro Processing Unit

A fruit-processing unit has established by Vikash LC, Hawalbagh, Almora.

The LC processing fruits and preparing high value topping recipes - Kiwi

Jam, Apple Jam, Garlic - Ginger Chutney Pickle etc. 35 members in Processing

Unit from different groups are regularly working under the consultation of

food Consultant and Chef. Other members are supplying raw materials to

LCs.

Rice Mill

In July 2018, Maa Agneri Livelihood Collective, Betandhar, Chaukhutiya,

Almora established Rice Mill in Aapnu Bazar. Livelihood Collective has been

procuring paddy from farmers groups at the rate of Rs. 12 per Kg; thereafter

paddy is being processed into the rice and selling at the rate of Rs. 25 per Kg.

After deducting all expenses, a net profit of Rs. 4 per Kg is being fetched by

LC on Rice. In addition to this, the hay of paddy is being sold at the rate of Rs.

8 per Kg. The rice mill is functioning well manner.

Fruit Processing Unit

Dhwaj Livelihood Collectives, Kanalichina has establishment a Fruit

Processing Unit in Kanalichina block. The building for processing unit was

hand ended over by of District Horticulture Department. ILSP has provided

training to its LCs staff and PG/VPGs members and resumed the processing

unit by making of fruit juice, jam, jelly, and pickles etc. with the name of


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Hilans Fruit Processing Unit. Presently the production of Buransh and fruit

juice, jam, jelly, pickles and squash is being going on.

Tea Leaf

Farmers are cultivating Tea in Bageshwar, Chamoli and Champawat. In

Bageshwar, Garur block, with the support of Tea Board, 94 households from

38 Producer Groups in 18 villages growing Tea on 35.28 ha land area. These

farmers are selling through 4 livelihood collectives. They are earning Rs

35000 to Rs 40000 per household from the Tea leaf.

Muffler and Bag Making

14 shareholders of Pherinag federation, Kapkot, Bageshwar, are making

Woolen Muffler and Bag. All members belong to Schedule Tribe (ST). In the

local market, the wool price is Rs 450 per pound, federation purchase wool

from Ludhiyana on bulk at the rate of Rs 275 per pound. From August 2017

up to August 2018 they supply for a total of 1450 pieces worth Rs 329000. In

this making cost including raw material of muffler is Rs 165/- and sale price

Rs 210/-, similarly for Bag is Rs 225/- and sale price is Rs 310/-. Profit

distribution is 10% federation and 30% of households.

Figure 21 Muffler prepared by VPG Members

Goat Marketing through Body weight

Under the innovation linkage, The Goat Trust introduced Community

Livestock Manager (CLM) and Livestock Nurse (Pashu Sakhi) for providing


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primary health services and handholding support in marketing. They are

working under the livelihood collectives. They are also preparing to improve

feed and fodder for Goats.

At present, A Pashu Sakhi is earning Rs 3000 to Rs 4000 per month in a

village through service charges. She is involved in providing primary health

services, medicine, vaccinations, castration etc. under the guidance of CLM

and local veterinary doctor. A CLM is earning Rs 7000 to Rs 8000 per month.

Presently 84 Pashu Sakhi and 11 CLM have been working in Bageshwar

(Garur) and Dehradun (Chakrata).

Figure 22 Vaccination by Pashu Sakhi, Bageswar

Before project intervention, Goats was sold by auction/bidding or lump sum

basis. After project intervention under Innovation Linkage, now the price

depends upon the body weight of goat. Household are getting between 20 to

25% more income through LC and fair price of their Goats.

Lahurghati LC and Annapurna LC, Block- Garur, Bageshwar, purchase 226

Goats from 15 Goat Producer Groups PG and sold to local venders through

Goat Trust. Total turnover was Rs 5, 65,925 with a Profit of Rs 1, 42,509. The

rate decided based on body weight Rs 170 per Kg.

Prasad Making

Cooperatives are supplying Prasad made from Cholai (Amaranths) to the

different temples. Through the support of District Administration, 14 LCs of

ILSP prepare Cholai Laddu Prasad and supply in Kedarnath Dham. 828

women members of 94 Groups under 14 LCs prepared 40651 Packet of


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Prasad and the total sale was Rs 16.26 Lakh. Apart from this, 55 women

members of 7 groups prepared 27193 packets of Dhupbatti and the total

sale was Rs 3.26 Lakh. The activity provides an additional income source to

rural households and farmers are also getting good prices of their rural

produce used in Prasad making.

Table 15 status of Parsad Distribution

SN District Current status of Parsad

Distribution

Proposed temple for Parsad

Distribution

1 Almora Jageshwar Chittai

2 Bageshwar Baijnath Bagnath

3 Chamoli Badrinath Gopinath, karanprayag

4 Rudraprayag Kedarnath, Koteshwar Trijuginarayan, Dhari Devi

5 Uttarkasi Gangotri Yamunotri, Vishwanath

6 Pithoragarh Mustmano Thal Kedar

7 Dehradun Mahasu Lakha Mandal

8 Pauri Sidhbali Neel Kanth

9 Tehri Surkanda, Kunjapuri Chanderbadni

Figure 23 recycling of flower waste

Recycling of Flower Waste –


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The project adopted the technology of flower waste recycling from “Help Us

Green”, Kanpur based social enterprise and making Incense Cones, Incense

Sticks and other items from flower wastes. A team of five persons visited

Kanpur for exposure and training. After the visit, they provide further

training to 32 members of Ghandiyal Devta LC in Rudraprayag. During the

training, LC members collected 15 kg waste flowers, petals & leaves from the

Koteshwar Temple and prepared 300 boxes of Incense Cone. All boxes have

been sold at the rate of Rs. 20 per box in the Koteshwar Temple.

The activity is being up scaled through good quality machines & equipment

under the Agri-business Growth Center (ABGC) scheme of MSME. It will

create more value in terms of quality, quantity, climate, income and

employment. 5 ABGC has been already approved for Prasad making and

recycling of flower waste.

Ready to use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) -

Nari Ekta SRC, Almora has continuously supplying 1838.75 Kg Ready to

Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF-ऊर्जा) for 11 blocks of district Almora (under

the Chief Minister Child Malnutrition scheme). The federation is moving

towards self-sustainability and getting a turnover of more than 3.5 lakh per

month under this scheme and fetching profit of INR 40,000 to 45,000 per

month. Approx 106 producers groups are being indirectly benefitted with

this scheme as they sales their local produce i.e. Maduwa, Wheat and

Soybean to the federation. Apart from it, women of 53 PGs are engaged in

packaging of this Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF-ऊर्जा) material into

the poly package and are getting INR 0.75/packet on rotation based.

Makhlogi SRC, Tehri has continuously supplying processed local produces,

in which they are earning an average Rs 2,70,00 net profit per month and

providing employment to 8-10 women.


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Figure 24 Local produce processed under THR by PG members, Almora

Lashya SRC, Pauri has got an order for supplying THR processed local

produces to 35 Aaganwari Center of the block Kaljikhal, in which they are

earning an average Rs 12,000 net profit per month and providing

employment to 3-5 women.

Poultry – Livelihood Collective has continually moved forwards and scaling

up the opened Poultry input and output center in Pithoragarh City in the

Saras center as well as a meat shop called HILANS Chick Chop (H2C) which is

sourcing the chicks from the LC members but dressing it and selling it to

buyers as a business initiative. The District teams of UGVS worked with the

Chief Development Officer of the District to help in allotting this place to the

LCs. Farmers are getting Chicks, fodder, medicines, and equipment from this

center at a reasonable rate. They can avail a maximum of 45 days credit from

this center too. They are saving up to Rs. 6,000 per cycle and no longer get

trapped in the hands of money lenders and middlemen. This Centre also has

entered into an agreement with Godrej Agrovet Com for the dealership of

poultry feed that is making it available to them at a cheaper rate and poultry

farmers have saved more than Rs. 91 lakhs as the input cost in 2019-20. At

the same time, the poultry center is making a profit of more than Rs. 6 lakh

includes earnings of more than Rs. 60,000 by the young person from the

local area who is given employment by the LC to manage the Centre.


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Agriculture tool Manufacture Unit – agriculture tools have

many advantages as compared to humans. These tools have a high efficiency

and they perform the work faster and certain tasks at a faster rate

than humans’ beings. In view of the positive response of the people towards

the use of agri-tools in the mind; Lata Baba SRC, Sumari, Rudraprayag has

opened an Agriculture Tool and Equipment Unit under MSME scheme and is

engaged in making plough, hand hoe and favada etc.

Innovation Linkages

Under the innovation linkage, sub-components project promoting innovative

sub-projects from different Line Departments, Boards, KVKs, Universities, and

NGOs have been completed; whereas the 3rd party assessments of these

innovative projects are planned in the year of 2020-21.

One project Integrated Dairy Project (IDP) implemented by Uttarakhand

Livestock Development Board and Animal Husbandry Department is still going

on as under:

Integrated Dairy Project - Project implemented by Uttarakhand Livestock

Development Board and Animal Husbandry Department. Under this project,

100 AI & Milk collection centers has been established in all the 9 project

districts and 2500 fodder plots were developed. A brief summary of the

project is –

100 Paravet centers and 100 milk collection centers and sub centers

are established.

4000 - 4300 liters /day milk collection started from these centers


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Figure 25 Progeny born, Rupkund LC, Ghat, Chamoli

30,426 Artificial Insemination (AI), 40,981 Vaccination was done and

6,152 progeny have been born.

There are 18 women trained as paravet. The project has provided

mobility vehicles (scooter) to them from which they are providing

services i.e. AI, Castration, Vaccination, and first aids to community

livestock at their doorstep.

9 Fodder Nurseries of fodder plants established in 9 project districts

Fodder seeds like African Tall maize, Oats. Barseem (Trfolium

alexandrium) etc distributed to farmers for sowing.

Silage demonstrations units being established at dairy farmers field

Average Milk production has increased from 1.2 liters to 2.1

liters/animal/day.

1500 Training on fodder production (Scientific Farming Practices) has

conducted.

In the year of 2019-20 two more sub-projects were initiated under the under

the challenge fund Scheme:

Promoting Livelihood by flower cultivation and Marketing: - Project has

initiated by HARC in Kalsi block of Dehardun district with the key objective

of “promoting livelihood by flower cultivation and marketing with 200

Farmers”. The project has covered 200 progressive farmers (150 farmers-

Chrysanthemum, 25 farmers -Gladiolus and 25 Farmers - Lilium) in 5


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villages of block Kalsi, Dehradun. The implementing agency HARC has

imparted two training programs I.e. Harvesting, Grading, Sorting and

Packaging of harvested flowers. An exposure visit to 10 years old Gladiolus

commercial farm, Biharigarh with 25 farmers has conducted in February

2020 to gain the knowledge of packages and practices on Gladiolus

commercial cultivation. 25 farmers of two villages (Dimau and Kota) have

started showing of Gladiolus in 2.25 ha land. The harvesting of this crop will

be done in June 2020.

Figure 26 Gladiolus cultivation in Dimau village, Kalsi, Dehradun

Outcome

Capacities of 200 farmers are built in various production technology of

floriculture like post-harvest management, nursery management, Seed

production, harvest management, IPNM Management etc.

Despite of COVID-19 and lockdown situation average of Rs. 8,217 per farmer

income increased annually through flower production.

Now, Kalsi block are immersing as a flower production zone through

commercial cultivation of Lilium, Chrysanthemum and Gladiolus.

Flower Supply chain is developed at Kalsi through federation level and

linked to mandis of Vikasnagar, Dehradun, Gazipur and Delhi.

5 paratechs in gladiolus cultivation, 4 paretech in lilium cultivation and 5

paretech in Chrysanthemum cultivation are developed for knowledge

transfer of commercial cultivation of floriculture.


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Now farmers of Kalsi village are willing to form separate institutions with

prime objective of floriculture development at Kalsi block.

Germs plasma in terms of bulb, corms and mother plants are preserved

within farmers for future propagation under the project.

Figure 27 Gladiolus flowering in Dimau village, Kalsi, Dehradun

Establishment of organic value chain of Perilla : Under the challenge

fund sub project “Establishment of Value chain of Organic Perilla in remote

Uttarakhand’ SARG conducted orientation programme to provide cutting

edge technical inputs at field to increase the value chain of the agriculture

products to increase productivity as well in the post-harvest and on-farm

value addition of the neglected agriculture crops of Cluster through

demonstrating the possibilities of sustainable livelihood of the agriculture

based communities with the traditional diversified agriculture crops also

useful in mitigating Climate Change in Sult block of Almora. A total of 490

farmers on 344.4 nalis in 38 villages have been registered for Perilla project.

The seeds were sown by 490 farmers in the month of March 2020. Training

on Organic Farming & Perilla production were given in May/ June 2020

Weather conditions did not support the production of perilla in all villages

and 40 % success rate was found in areas where rain and moisture was

available.

Collection center established in Hanola, Salt

Cold Press Unit for extraction of Oil was established in Oct ‘20

Branding was done in Jan 21

Samples released in Jan 21


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Output

Farmers get a crop option ,

hardy and safe from wild life

Price of seed range from 100 - 150 per kg and production per ha is nearly 7 -

9 quintals per ha

Value chain of ‘Perilla oil’ bring an incremental value to 10 times (approx)

Outcome

Increased option for livelihoods for the community

Raw materials for pharma industry

Revival of a lost agro diversity vital which is climate resilient

Boundary crop support for the main crops like chilly etc as a pest repellant

/boundary crop

Figure 28 Perilla plantation field and Oil

Innovative Project from District Administration

District Administration has submitted some innovative projects. The summary

of approved projects is following –

SN District Activity Status

1 Almora

Endeavour towards Green

fuel- ETC

The project has been

completed , The third

party assessment was

also done


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2 Bageshwar

To develop model village

through holistic approach –

Empower society


completed. The third


also done

3 Dehradun

Commercial Production of

Vegetables under protected

cultivation – Horticulture

Department




also done

4

Pithoragarh

Livelihood improvement

through sustainable large

cardamom cultivation –

DHO




also done

5

Establishment of integrated

modal farm for capacity

building – CAO




also done

6 Uttarkashi

Protected Cultivation of

European vegetables

through vertical farming –

CHO




also done

7 Rudraprayag

Livelihood Project of

Mushroom Production -

Garmati organization




also done.

8 Tehri

Livelihood improvement

through sustainable kiwi

fruits cultivation – DHO




also done.

9 Pauri

Man Animal Conflict –

Unnayan

Project is completed.

The third party

assessment was also

done

Vocational Training


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In the directions of rural remunerative employment, project goal is to train

20,000 youth (with at least 60%women) for various trades and facilitate

employment generation for at least 80% of them. So far, till March 2021, a total

of 24,398 students have completed their training, out of which 6,768 students

have got employment after the training and 9,616 are opt self-employment. The

project has taken initiatives towards introducing short term vocational training

courses under the agri and allied activities including repair and maintenance of

Farm Machinery Bank.

Trades have been selected as per requirements of project area, direction from

State Govt & IFAD ICO and under following mandates:

To provide skill to develop clusters based on activities related to

agriculture / horticulture / animal husbandry / tourism.

To check migration of youths from Hills

To provide skill to encourage self-employment

To provide skill to gain wage-employment

Women Empowerment

Table 16 Major Sector and Employment Status

Sector/ Trade

No of

Students

Employment

Location of employment

Salary

Range

(INR)

Tourism and

Hospitality

2045

UAE, Lucknow, Ahmadabad,

Haridwar, Mussoorie, Ramnagar,

TehriGarhwal, Raipur-rani, Jirakpur,

Rajkot, Banglore, Jaipur, Rishikesh,

Dehradun, Ajmer, Chattisgarh,

Gandhinagar, Goa, Mumbai Nashik,

Faridabad etc

8000-45000

Information and

Communication

Technology 1492

Dehradun, Noida , New Delhi,

Chandigarh, Sarikhet, Mohali,

Uttarkashi, Vikas Nagar, Naugaon,

Barkot, Rudrapur, Almora, Haridwar

etc.

7500-14500

Mushroom

Cultivation 2453

Dehradun, Pauri, Tehri, Rudraprayag

etc (Self -Employment)

8000-12000


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Garment Making

Zardosi& Knitter –Flat

Knitting

975

Chamoli, Bageshwar, Dehradun 6000-11500

Medical and Nursing/

Healthcare 904

Corum Healthcare, Delhi, Max

hospital, Dehradun

8500-14000

Beekeeping 301

Chamoli, Tehri, Uttarakashi (Self -

Employment)

5500-15000

Retailers 168

Dehradun, Delhi, Mohali 12500-

20500

Cultivation of

Medicinal and

Aromatic Plants

300

Chamoli, Tehri, Pithoragarh,

Uttarakashi (Self -Employment)

12500-

20000

Horticulture

&KrishiUdyami 276

Chamoli, Tehri, Pithoragarh,

Uttarakashi (Self -Employment)

7000-14500

Table 17 Short Duration Courses

Sector/ Trades

No. of

students

trained

No. of

students

Certificati

on

No. of

students

placed/Self

employed

Salary Range

(INR)

Beauty Parlor Management 528 455 187 5500 - 18000

Bee Keeping 361 305 301 5500 - 15500

Cultivation Of Medicinal

And Aromatic Plants 309 307 300 12500 - 20500

Dairy Farming And Vermi

Compost Making 740 597 66 6,000 - 16800

Horticulture 207 150 141 7000 - 14000

Krishi Udyami 223 186 126 5500 - 7500

Mushroom Cultivation 3863 3562 2453 8000 - 12000

Papad, Pickle And Masala

Powder Entrepreneur 413 160 141 4000 - 7500

Soft Toys Maker 60 60 56 5000 - 7500

Tailoring 2808 2383 1244 7500 - 9000


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Table 18 Long Duration Courses

Sector/ Trades

No. of

students

trained

No. of

students

Certificati

on

No. of

students

placed

Salary Range

(INR)

Accounts Assistant 987 667 378 6500 - 13500

Assistant Electrician 354 272 239 5500 - 13000

Banking And Accounting 905 737 263 6000 - 12000

BPO 396 367 299 7000 - 13500

Cellular Phone Repair And

Service

115 80 29 6000 - 12000

E-Commerce 527 442 149 7000 - 9000

Electrical Winder 28 28 15 5500 - 13000

Electrician Domestic 303 165 135 6500 - 13000

Hospitality 2117 1377 904 7000 - 13500

Hotel Management 1350 1118 1195 8000 - 45000

House Wiring 150 150 71 6000 - 18000

Knitter –Flat Knitting 757 329 325 5500 - 7500

Retail 403 220 169 5500 - 20000

Zardosi (Embroidery) 1379 876 650 5500 – 10000

Auto Component Assembly

fitter

24 24 24 19000-20000

Knowledge Management

Following initiatives have been taken under KM during the first semester of FY

2020-21 (from 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021):

A. Following five documentary Films have been developed by the project

during last FY - ILSP - UGVS – Initiatives, Farm Machinery Bank

initiatives, Crop Protection using Fencing, HILANS Supply Chain and

Prasad making initiative

B. Ten documentary Films along with a TVC advertisement

(https://www.facebook.com/ilsphilansalmora/videos/hilans-the-purity-

you-deserve/1441904289491898/) of HILANS brand have been

developed by the project during last FY - ILSP – Successful


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Initiatives/Interventions like Farm Machinery Bank initiatives, Crop

Protection using Fencing, HILANS Supply Chain and Prasad making

initiative, Fallow and Fodder activities, Establishment of Marketing

enterprises etc.

C. Publication of Annual Report of ILSP FY 2019-20.

D. Publication of Annual Outcome Survey of ILSP 2019.

E. Publication of Poultry hand book for poultry farmer.

F. Studies – Cases and Impact Some Cases - Vol 2 Five Booklets (Five on

state level initiatives and one compilation of successful cases from field)

Farm Machinery Bank initiatives

Crop Protection using Fencing

HILANS Supply Chain

Prasad making initiative

Agribusiness Up-scaling Plan Study

G. Hilans Calendar 2021 - widely disseminated

H. Facebook Page for information dissemination -

https://www.facebook.com/hilansofficial/

I. Youtube page for information dissemination -

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyJrsDNwFuZh1qqM3NIMHhg

J. Instagram page for information dissemination -

https://www.instagram.com/hilansofficial/

K. Twitter page for information dissemination -

https://twitter.com/hilansofficial/

Monitoring and Evaluation

UGVS has developed a monthly review tool for assessing the block-wise

progress based on the various sub-themes of the project i.e. Production and

marketing, saving and inter-loaning, infrastructure, business and governance,

services to members etc. The tool helps in monitoring the social & economic

aspects of PGs/VPGs and LCs.

https://www.facebook.com/hilansofficial/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyJrsDNwFuZh1qqM3NIMHhg

https://www.instagram.com/hilansofficial/

https://twitter.com/hilansofficial/


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Management Committee meeting

Two Management Committee and one Annual General Body meetings were

organized during this financial year. The key agenda was approval of budget,

convergence, and implementation status.

Concurrent Monitoring Mechanism

The component has achieved tremendous performance due to its concurrent

monitoring mechanism. Regular field visits, feedback and sharing process and

regular follow-up of activities are not only improving the project progress but

also improve the staffs’ knowledge.

Review Mechanism of Livelihood Collectives

The project has developed review mechanisms for Livelihood Collectives based

on the TOR signed with activities indicators. Indicators are divided into two

types of institutions – PG/VPG and Livelihood Collectives as under:

PG/VPG Indicators – i.e. Production & Marketing, Saving & inter-loaning,

FSIP, IIP, repayment etc.

LCs Indicators – i.e. Business, Infrastructure, Service to PG/VPG etc.

Score and Rating directly calculate form System based upon data available.

Comment by Chairman of LC, DMU based on Score and Rating

The payment as per norms based upon score and rating.

Review indicators are directly linked with its physical achievement and making

score and rating through ILSP-MIS.

Best practice of Data Management & Monitoring–

Khat Shaily LC, Kalsi, Dehradun introduce data management passbook for their

shareholders especially for Chain Link Fencing and Farm Machinery Bank

activities. LC starts this mechanism from November 2018 under the guidance of

the Technical Agency. Initially, LC provided a passbook to 200 shareholders.


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LC Coordinator facilitates the data entry into the passbook. The data includes

the following fields duration, rent, assets, amount, utilization, benefits etc. After

the consolidation of data, every month it presented to BoD members. On a

random basis, BoD members reviewed the passbook and other records.

Expected Outcome Indicators

Food Security & Scaling Up-:

60% farmers reporting productivity increased

60% federations and livelihood collectives operating successfully

Access to Market-:

100% increase in farm-gate price over baseline

Gender and Institutions

a) Gender mainstreaming at organizational Level

i. Gender Strategy of ILSP: The gender strategy has been developed to

mainstream gender concerns in the project. ILSP is a gender-oriented

project, where project demands more women participation, women

empowerment and women-friendly activities/practices to be promoted to

facilitate the gender gap of the society. The strategy has covered most of the

aspects of the gender gap, how the issue will be addressed at all levels with a

crosscutting approach, in institutional building/staffing pattern, capacity

building & IEC activities, farm & off-farm activities, social and economic

empowerment of village women, women in lead role and active participation

in decision making at both professional (group/federation) and personal

(family) level and so on.

ii. Constitution of committee under the Vishakha Guidelines: Uttarakhand

Gramya Vikas Samiti (UGVS) formed a committee to resolve the issues

related to the exploitation of working women.

b) Women drudgery reduction interventions: Through Integrated

livelihood support projects major work on women drudgery reduction is


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being carried out by the federations. Federations are promoting such

business activities that are related to the reduction of women drudgery and

such federations are gaining profits from these activities. Federations are

involved in the business of agri-implements, lightweight water pitchers,

solar lamps and promotion of fodder nurseries etc.

After gone through the good result of drudgery reduction activities it has

been planned to divert a certain portion of budget towards drudgery

reduction activities and similarly in LCs to replicate these models.

Under the innovation project, the fodder development programme has

already been promoting in the project area. This effort contributes to the

reduction of women drudgery in the project area and it is making fodder

seeds available and also its replication into improved grasses. There are 38

varieties of fodder grasses are being developed in the Bahinswara farm at

Almora.

c) Gender & Social Inclusion: The cumulative data related to Gender & Social

Inclusion is being captured; so far the progress furnished as under :

No of Households (PG/VPG) [supported] 79,292

No of Households {female} (PG/VPG) [supported] 74,070

No of SC Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 16,094

No of ST Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 5,330

No of OBC Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 7,610

No of BPL Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 34,116

No of Antyodaya Households in Groups [PG/VPG] [supported] 2,697

No of households (female) provide seed capital [supported] 15,125

No of households (PwD) [supported] 44

d) Women Participation in Different programs

More than 75% of women have made their participation in capacity

building program, meeting and workshops


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Women majority in shareholding comprising more than 84.7% of total

shareholders.

No of participants in meetings (BOD, AGM) 1,06,069

No of female participants in meetings (BOD, AGM) 81,867

No of participants in meetings (Village / Block Level) 8,571

No of female participants in meetings (Village / Block Level) 6,843

No of participants in meetings (Convergence) 6,878

No of female participants in meetings (Convergence) 4,056

No of participants in monthly review meetings (Block / Division) 16,399

No of female participants in monthly review meetings (Block / Division) 5,703

No of participants in quarterly learning / sharing workshops (Block /

Division)

8,079

No of female participants in quarterly learning / sharing workshops

(Block / Division)

3,158

No of participants in Buyer-Seller Events 8,065

No of female participants in Buyer-Seller Events 5,472

e) Capacity Building

No of participants (business, governance and Marketing skills) 47,514

No of female participants (business, governance and Marketing skills) 40,818

No of participants (farmer exposure visits) 6,348

No of female participants (farmer exposure visits) 3,748

More than 84% of women have made their participation in capacity

building exercises which enriched their skills towards business,

governance and marketing of rural produce.

Convergence

With the support of district administration under the District Implementation

and Coordination Committee, an effective convergence has been initiated.


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The project has systematically mobilized other resources through convergence

with various government departments such as Agriculture, Horticulture,

Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Rural Development, Food and Civil Supplies. Over

past couple of years the benefits ploughed into communities through

convergence shows strong trends towards sustainability. Convergence efforts

by ILSP and LCs are adding confidence among the community to approach state

Government in the future for various schemes.

The project has strengthened its partnership with local administration which

has not only facilitated greater convergence but also enhanced the visibility of

the project and improved its monitoring through the District Magistrates (DM)

and Chief Development Officers (CDO). Additionally, the project has partnered

with a number of private sector players for better marketing, improved

agronomic practices, obtaining CSR support to fill funding gaps etc.

Federations/ LCs are now entering into a direct partnership with the private

sector. As of now, a convergence of more than INR 308 Cr has been mobilized

benefiting to about 219416 households of 26820 groups in 233 LC/Federations

Key summary of convergences –

A) The district team have linked 1,41,226 households of 11,674 producers

groups by provided them the convergence support of more than 13,293.06

lakhs for carry out different livelihood activities from various government

and private institutions during the reporting period financial year 2018-19

and 2019-20. The area where the convergence support are as under:

Crop Insurance – Crop of more than 1,493 beneficiaries are insured with

total of amount of 94.70 lakhs rupees under Crop insurance and PMFBY

(Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana) for paddy, mandua and wheat crop

through Agriculture department.

68,559 Beneficiaries of 7,140 groups are benefitted from various schemes of

govt. department mainly includes Farm Machinery Bank, Seed distribution,

Poly house, vermin-compost etc. consisting of around Rs. 1,321.554 lakhs,

Mainly from Rural Development, Animal Husbandry, Horticulture and

Agriculture department.


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28 Household of 13 PGs are benefited through Awas yojana consisting of

convergence of Rs. 21.29 lakhs with Rural Development.

40 Households of 15 groups are benefitted through Uttarakhand Pashudhan

Parishad consisting convergence of around 0.23 lakhs for chicks and goat.

2,133 Beneficiaries of 3,52 groups are benefitted through horticulture

department under various schemes include Fencing, Seed distribution,

Polyhouse and Technical inputs having convergence amount of Rs. 45.96

Lakhs.

20,547 Beneficiaries of 2,360 groups are benefitted through Rural

Development under various MNREGA schemes include convergence amount

of Rs. 1,942.73 Lakhs for CC road construction, Goshala construction etc.

1,670 Beneficiaries of 100 Groups are benefitted through UREDA and RD

department under solar scheme for Solar light and solar unit having

convergence amount of Rs. 30.74 Lakhs. .

9,62 Beneficiaries of 2,68 groups are benefitted for soil testing and fisheries

through Horticulture and fishery department having convergence amount of

Rs. 2.38 Lakhs.

1,469 Beneficiaries of 2,94 groups are benefitted for Compost Pit, Seed

distribution etc. under Rashtriya Khad suraksha, Aayushman Bharat scheme

etc. through Horticulture, Agriculture and RD department having

convergence amount of Rs. 16.54 Lakhs.

4,639 Beneficiaries of 9,52 groups are benefitted under Beej Gram Yojana,

NVI and Fodder development scheme etc. through Horticulture, Agriculture

and Animal Husbandry department having convergence amount of Rs. 43.39

Lakhs.

1,825 Beneficiaries of 2,00 groups are benefitted through the District

administration and Social welfare department having a convergence amount

of Rs. 1,02.58 Lakhs

Under the MANREGA Scheme project have made convergence by benefited

beneficiaries i.e. Vermi-compost, Cement Tanks, Cow-shed and construction

of Toilets.

With collaboration with the Agriculture Department; LCs/federation are

benefitting with 57 Farm Machinery Banks (FMB) under the All Mission on


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Agriculture Mechanization Scheme with 80% subsidy. (cumulative 186 FMB

and 12 custom hiring centers)

Animal Husbandry Department has made 3,05 cattle insurance of 2,69

project Households.

Through the CSR Uchadungi livelihood collectives, Rudraprayag, are doing

fund the production of the sanitary napkin.

B) Cumulative Summary of convergence from Agriculture Department is

made more than Rs 9,269 lakh as under :

Convergence for Agricultural Mechanization (SMAM): About 80% of the

land holdings are in the project area operated by small and marginal farmers

owning <1 and 1-2 ha holdings, respectively. These farmers cannot invest in

costly farm machinery and depend on hiring of implements to carryout

agricultural operations in their fields. Under the collaboration with

Agriculture Department; have underway Sub Mission on Agricultural

Mechanization (SMAM) Scheme. Under this scheme, there are 1,86 Farm

SN Department Type of inputs

1 Horticulture Seed, Poly house, Horticulture Mission for North East & Himalayan Status, Nursery Development, NVI Vegetable Production, Gherbaad, District Plan, SC area Development Crop Insurance, Capacity Building, Cement Tank, Plants etc.

2 Agriculture Seed, Compost Pits, Soil Testing, Power Tiller, HDPE Pipe, Thrasher, Spray Machine, Farm Machinery Bank, PMFBY, PM-KISAN, Tools etc.

3 Rural Development Compost Pit, Indra Awash, BakriBada, Toilet, MNREGA Scheme, Cow / Goat shed renovation, ponds, construction of Aganwari centers, Saras centers etc.

4 Animal Husbandry Cattle Insurance, Fodder, Medicine, Chicks, Capacity building, etc.

5 Organic Spray Machine, Compost Pit, Light Trap, Poly house etc.

6 Other Medicinal Plants, Car Sanitary Napkins Work, Tejpat , Pension, Large Cardamom, Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, Crop insurance, Solar Pressure Cooker, Fisheries, Street Light etc.


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Machinery Bank have been distributed to 1,86 Livelihood Collectives on 80%

subsidy through Agriculture Department upto Rs.10 lakhs. The entire Farm

machinery banks are operationalized and getting benefited in terms of

farming services, drudgery reduction, reduction in the cost of cultivation and

time-saving. Farmers of Livelihood Collectives may elect the Agricultural

Mechanizes as per their field requirement i.e. tractor, rotavator, roto-

puddler, Weed slasher, seed driller, power tillers, power spare, Brush Cutter

power wider, Grass-cutter drum cedar, Multi-Thresher, Multi crop

Threshers, Cultivator, Irrigation Pipe, pump set and net sec spare etc.

3,645 Individual Farmers benefitted from different Agri Tools i.e. Spray

Machine, Power Tiller, Threshers, Seed Drill, Mini Tractor, Water Lifting

Pumps, Irrigation Pipes etc. worth Rs. 3,32 Lakh

Soil testing & Soil Health Card was done for 4,50,00 farmers land

1,467+ Compost pits have been formed through Agriculture Department.

8,89 Qtl Seed has been distributed through Agriculture Department i.e. Kala

Bhatt, Maduwa, Gahat, Soybean, Urd, Wheat, Paddy, Maize, Lentil etc.

1,342+ Farmers have been benefitted by Irrigation tanks, wall protection,

distribution of fruit Plants and other agri-inputs through Agriculture

department.

Under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Beema Yojna, 3,75,22 farmers insured through

crop insurance while Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojna covered 36,000

farmers for seed and commercial production.

Under PM- Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana is being benefitting to the farmers

a list of all beneficiaries has been shared with District administration (more

than 75% project households has been benefitted during the 2018-19 to

200-21).


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Figure 29 Use of FMB, Village Dunger, Chandan Ganga SRC, Augustyamuni,

C) Convergence for poultry initiative: Project has been motivating poultry

farmers to form PG/VPGs of Munakot block of district Pithoragarh in which

more than 35 youths have adopted poultry farming and earning a business

turnover around 1.5 cr. to 2 cr. each year. That was possible because poultry

farming is promoted under convergence by many line departments like

Irrigation, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, Horticulture

and Forest. This initiative has turned out to be a successful example to

develop complete value chain which has resulted in secure and sustainable

livelihood of 27 farmers households mostly. UGVS facilitated participation of

interested farmers in a Five days training at G.B. Pant University of

Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar which has developed the cross bred

variety of Kuroiler chickens, which combine the ruggedness and adaptability

of the desi chicken with the higher productivity of exotic breeds.


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Figure 30 Poultry Unit, Pithoragarh

Now entire youths of village Bhateri are involved in poultry farming; in

which more than 22 youths having 3,200-3,500 chicks in their own farm.

They are contributing 20% of share in chicken supply of the region and

moving towards sustainable livelihoods.

D) Pithoragarh has emerged as a role model for convergence where many

schemes of line departments have been aligned with the Project's schemes.

The Horticulture Department is preparing a cluster on a large land in the

grams sabha Badave under the Project to promote many fruits like stone

fruit, pears, apricot, plum and almond as the area has the conducive climate

to grow these fruits. This has motivated many group members to develop

nurseries of vegetable saplings and is preparing high-quality seeds this way

and is also using fertilizers like carbofuran, carbendazims and mancozeb etc.

and bio-manures like vermi compost that prevents diseases such as

Kurmula. Then, those farmers who are interested in traditional crops are

being provided an assistance of Rs. 300 per quintal to grow manduwa.

Taking a cue from the success of the ongoing convergence schemes, the

DPMU of ILSP is planning the following actions:


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Making vermin compost pits available to PG members under MNREGA

schemes.

Spreading the collection centres under the Project through Block Level

Development Programme.

Extending roads to the collection centres.

Constructing cold storages to store fruits and vegetables safely in

collection centres under special schemes.

E) Reverse Migration through poultry activity:

The Project aims to develop villages as a centre of excellence. The village

Bhatedi, Pithoragarh is one of the example as a centre of excellence of poultry

farming and indulge in sustained capacity building of these farmers, including

preparing smaller centres and organising these farmers and providing them

technical support, strengthening backward and forward linkages in outlets like

Saras Market and opening other outlets besides ensuring supply to the army

and para-military forces and aligning the poultry farmers with the MSME

scheme of the Industry Department. It is expected that as the poultry farming

touches new milestones of success, it will go a long way to hinder youths

migrating out from Pithoragarh and other hill districts, a trend that is already

visible.

F) Reverse Migration through Integrated Farming:

An example of reverse migration through an Integrated Farming model have

seen under the Soldungri SRC, vill-Ruisain, Tharali, Chamoli.

Mr. Shekhar Mishra (a PG member) having his own 12 Nali land and made

equipped it with 2 poly-houses (convergence through Horticulture

department), LDPE tank (ILSP), 2 Fish ponds (Fisheries department), Fencing

(ILSP on hiring), Power weeder (self) and water lifting pump (ILSP). He has

planted 250 plants of Apple. Earlier to this Mr. Shekhar was a driver (18 years)

now he has been diverted into farming and become a role model in the village

by growing off seasonal vegetables i.e. cabbage, cucumbers, bean, capsicum,

bottle gourd, varieties of chilly and fishing cultivation.


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Technical Agency (TA)-:

Project activities are being implemented by the technical agency. Block level

technical agencies and their allocated blocks are as under –

S.N. Technical Agency Block

1 Shri Bhuvneshwari Mahila Ashram

(SBMA)

Garur (Bageshwar), Tharali (Chamoli)

2 Himalayan Action Research Center

(HARC)

Kalsi (Dehradun), Chakrata (Dehradun)

3 Appropriate Technology India (ATI) Bhatwari (Uttarkashi), Chamba (Tehri)

4 Center for Business & Entrepreneurial

Development Society (CBED)

Jaunpur (Tehri), Munakot (Pithoragarh)

5 Grameen Samaj Kalyan Samiti (GRASS) Hawalbagh (Almora), Sult (Almora)

6 Action for Social Empowerment

&Economic Development (ASEED)

Augustmuni (Rudraprayag), Jakholi

(Rudraprayag)

7 Indian Farm Forestry Development

Cooperative Ltd (IFFDC)

Bhikiyasain (Almora), Chokhutiya

(Almora)

8 Himmothan Society Tharali (Chamoli), Garur (Bageshwar),

Augustmuni (Rudraprayag)

9 Society for Voluntary Approach in Rural

Development Action (VARDAN)

Kaljikhal (Pauri), Pokhri (Chamoli)

10 Society for upliftment of Villagers and

Development of Himalayan Areas

(SUVIDHA),

Dwarahat (Almora)

11 Gramin Kshetra Vikas Samiti (RADS) Tarikhet (Almora)

12 SWATI Gramodhyog Sansthan Kanalichina (Pithoragarh), Bin

(Pithoragarh)


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Table 19 Financial Progress (UGVS)

During the financial year 2020-21, UGVS achieves 99.77% of its approved target.

Sub- Component Financial

Target (INR Cr) Financial Progress

(INR Cr) Fin (%)

Food Security & Scaling Up 14.56 14.55 99.93

Access to market 10.32 10.32 100.00

Innovation Linkage 1.81 1.80 99.47

Vocational Training 1.50 1.47 98.03

Project Management Unit 10.69 10.65 99.57

Monitoring & Evaluation and


1.40 1.40 99.97

Total 40.28 40.19 99.77

Sub Component

From July

2013 up to

31st March

2017

1st April

2017 to

31st March

2018

1st April

2018 to

31st March

2019

1st April

2019 to

31st

March

2020

1st April

2020 to

31st

March

2021

Total

Achievement

Food Security &

Scaling Up 78.6 43.8 45.48 36.55 14.55 218.98

Access to Market 5.3 6.9 24.79 10.27 10.32 57.58

Innovation

Linkages 2.6 6.7 5.69 2.82 1.80 19.61

Vocational

Training 2.5 8.6 11.35 5.88 1.47 29.80

Project

Management 17.4 6.4 9.13 9.42 10.65 53.00

Monitoring &

Evaluation 3.1 1.3 2.73 1.83 1.40 10.36

Total 109.4 73.7 99.20 66.77 40.19 389.33


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Component 2- Participatory Watershed Management Watershed is a hydrological unit of an area draining to a common outlet point. It is

recognized as an ideal unit for planning and development of land, water and vegetation

resource. Watershed concept has been used extensively because of importance of water

balance in the study of ecosystems. Integrated watershed management covering an area

from the highest point (ridge line) to the outlet is, therefore, the process of formulating,

implementing and managing a course of actions involving natural and human resources in a

watershed. It takes into account all the factors operating within the watershed. With time the

watershed management concept has evolved into a decentralized and participatory approach

with financial autonomy to the Panchayati Raj Institution (PRIs), (legal institution under

73rd amendment) thereby improving and ensuring efficient process delivery system. In

watershed management the decision making regarding usage and modification of all

categories of lands and water within the watershed are made in an iterative process with

participation of all stakeholders in the Gram Panchayats (GPs). The repeated meetings and

discussions provides an opportunity to all stakeholders to balance diverse objectives for

enhancement of productivity not only of individually owned resources but also of common

property resources, and to consider how their cumulative actions may ensure long term

sustainable use of all the natural resources. Since the last decade, it has been realized that

ensuring livelihood opportunities and food security of the rural inhabitants is must for a

sustainable watershed management approach; thus, focus on increasing the productivity of

rainfed areas and ensuring livelihood opportunity for weaker section is the mandate of the

project.


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PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Background-: The Uttarakhand Watershed Development Unit (UWDU) through Govt. of

Uttarakhand has received a credit from IFAD (International Fund for Agriculture

Development) for implementation of Integrated Livelihoods Support Project, (ILSP). The

UWDU is PIA for Project Component -2, Participatory Watershed Development.

Location-: Uttarakhand is a hill state in the north-west of India, covering 53,483 km2 with a

population of about 10.08 million (2011 census). Nine of its 13 districts are classed as hill

districts, covering 77% of the area of the state, but with only 44% of the population.

Livelihoods are still predominantly rural, but most economic and population growth has also

been in the plains, which are becoming industrialized.

Rationale-: The justification for ILSP is the need to stop the deterioration of the productive

infrastructure, make farm labor more productive and farming more remunerative, and hence

provide incentives for people to invest their time and resources in agriculture. Despite the

disadvantages that agriculture faces in the hill areas, Uttarakhand does have the advantage of

cooler temperatures at higher altitudes, allowing production of off season vegetables and

temperate fruits. The horticultural sector is less developed than in the other hill states, so

there is considerable potential for growth, as there are other niche products such as spices,

medicinal and aromatic plants, and nuts.

Another area with growth potential is tourism. However more needs to be done to ensure

that local people fully participate in, and benefit from, this sector. The population is well

educated, but the level of youth unemployment is relatively high. Better vocational training

could help such people find good quality employment in the growth sectors of the country.

Strategy-: The strategy of the project is to adopt a two pronged approach for building

livelihoods in hill districts. The first of these is to support and develop the food production

systems which remain the main means of support for most households. The second main

thrust of the project is to generate cash incomes via the introduction and expansion of cash

crops. These would be grown on a significant scale for markets outside of the state. ILSP will

also support non-farm livelihoods, especially community involvement in rural tourism, and

vocational training.


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PROJECT OBJECTIVE

The objective of the Participatory Watershed Management component is the sustainable

utilization and management of natural resources like water, land and vegetation. It addresses

the issues of sustainable rural livelihood with the participation of local communities to

ensure long term ecological and economic security.

The overall objective (goal) of ILSP is to reduce poverty in hill districts of Uttarakhand. This

would be achieved via the more immediate development objective of “enable rural

households to take up sustainable livelihood opportunities integrated with the wider

economy”.

PROJECT BENEFICIARIES

The project is expected to benefit about 22420 households by enhancing the natural

resource base and improving sustainability, targeting a total of 190 GPs. The project is

providing support to GPs/ Producers Groups/VGs/VPGs/LCs formed under the ILSP to

ensure their sustainability, scale up their agribusiness development and support the

following beneficiary groups:-

Medium, small and marginal farmers: would benefit from: (a) watershed treatment, in

particular, rainwater conservation and water harvesting structures that would increase

water availability and efficiency; (b) improved support services in agriculture, horticulture,

and livestock, including rain fed agriculture development; and (c) agribusiness development

and market linkages. Vulnerable Producers groups (e.g., marginal landholders, landless,

women): would benefit from: (a) improved livelihoods, mainly in the livestock and services

sectors.

PRI institutions, such as GPs: would gain capacity in project management and social

accountability, in particular, in preparing and implementing Gram Panchayat Watershed

Development Plans (GPWDPs). ILSP would also engage Van Panchayats (VPs) in managing

interventions for inter-GP areas and reserve forests. The project would also promote the

formation of community-based organizations, such as Water and Watershed Management

committees, Revenue Village Committees, water user groups, Producer Groups and VGs.

Key institutional stakeholders in watershed development: would benefit under ILSP

through expanded knowledge outreach to Technical Agencies, three district headquarters,


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regional headquarters in each of the two regions of the State of Uttarakhand and the

Watershed Management Directorate (WMD).

PROJECT AREA

The project is spread over an area of around 70,194 Ha. In 22 selected MWS in Middle

Himalayas. About 1,90 Gram Panchayats in 7 Blocks of 3 Districts are identified in the project

area. An estimated 1,07,211 population of the project area is likely to benefit from the project

outcomes.

SN District Block No. of MWS

Micro watershed area

(ha.)

Forest Area (ha.)

Agriculture Area

(ha.)

Other Area (ha.)

No. of

GPs

No. of Villages

No. of HH

Population

1 Pauri Pabau, Ekeshwar

5 16470 11092 4019 1359 48 101 5388 21643

2 Champawat Pati, Champawat, Barakot

4 21011 12613 5678 2720 55 126 5986 30052

3 Nainital Betalghat, Ramgarh

13 32713 18902 8312 5499 87 154 11046 55516

Total 7 22 70194 42607 18009 9578 190 381 22420 107211


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PROJECT SUB-COMPONENTS (PARTICIPATORY WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT)

a) Participatory Watershed Management: The involvement of stakeholders at grass

root level is a vital element of watershed management. TAs has been hired for

technical assistance related to project activities, social awareness and participatory

planning for smooth running of project.

Watershed Development activities are being implemented on the basis of a budget

allocation provided at the GP level calculated based on watershed area and total

population. Within this allocation the communities prioritize, implement, operate and

maintain watershed and other priority investments of the village. The various

activities includesoil and moisture conservation Measures, water harvesting

structures, plantations, pasture development, livestock support and encourage use of

alternate energy sources.

b) Food security enhancement support: Producer Groups (PG) are formed to

introduce, promote and disseminate improved technologies and farming practices.

Technical agency has been hired to support the project subcomponent by forming

PGs, VPGs & LC and providing them technical support of agribusiness development,

financial support, new agriculture technologies, and value chain development.

c) Access to Market: Under this sub-component, the project will:

i. Identify the market potential for the agricultural produce.

ii. Develop collection centres and good storage facilities.

iii. Create centres for value addition of the raw produce.

iv. Identify market linkages, develop market information and logistic services. The

private sector (Technical Agencies) will be encouraged to play a major role in

supporting agribusiness development.

To up-scale production, develop markets for high value crops, and to leverage

producers’ access to production and marketing services, the project is supporting

farmers to organize their PG and VPG into Livelihood Collectives(LCs). The project is

providing input support to LCs. For financial support, PGs/LCs are being linked with

banks and other financial institutions.


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d) Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management: This will finance

organizational change management initiatives to realign the WMD to the new

implementation arrangements and the increased role of GPs. Under project

monitoring, links would be developed between the Management Information Systems,

Geographic Information Systems and impact evaluation. Participatory monitoring of

the project activities by the communities would be introduced in addition to the

tracking of physical and financial milestones.

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS– COMMUNITY DRIVEN DECENTRALIZED DEVELOPMENT

APPROACH

Formulation of Gram Panchayat Watershed Development Plans (GPWDP) by the

community.

Involvement of beneficiary contribution in major activities.

Budget envelop for GPWDP is calculated on the basis of 35% population and 65% GP area

weightage with a minimum cap of Rs. 40.00 lakhs and a maximum cap of Rs. 100.00 Lakh.

The budget envelope is communicated to each Gram Panchayats of the Project area.

In compliance with the 73rd constitutional amendment, a true financial and

administration autonomy has been given to Gram Panchayats. The Project fund is being

operated by the joint signature of Gram Pradhan and MDT.

Appointment of Account Assistant by Gram Panchayat

Appointment of village level woman motivator

Procurement and financial system manuals for GPs

Provision of Women Aam Sabha and 50% women representation in RVCs

Community procurement

Involvement of Technical Agencies (TA) at various formulations and operating level of the

Project.

GIS based mapping of monitoring.

External monitoring on 10% random sample basis of the Project. .

Focus on Producers Group, Water User Groups, and Vulnerable Groups.

Formation of LCs for Agribusiness initiative

Market linkages through Technical Agencies (TA).


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Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation at GP level

Convergence at GP level with other development programmes/schemes.

TOTAL PROJECT COST FOR THE COMPONENT- 2 The total project cost of Participatory Watershed Management Sub- Project is estimated to be

INR 286.94 crores. The Project has financed by an IFAD loan of INR 211.81 crores (73.82%),

a contribution of State Govt. of INR 55.97 Cr (19.51%), and INR 19.16 Cr. (6.67%) from

beneficiaries. Significant additional funds to members of project groups through convergence

with other government programmes.

S.N Sub Component & Activities Amount in Crore (INR)

Percentage (%)

1 Participatory Watershed Management 235.73 82.15 2 Food Security and Livelihood Up

scaling 41.75 14.55

3 Access to Market 5.29 1.84

4 Monitoring & Evaluation and Knowledge Management

4.17 1.46

TOTAL 286.94 100

Similarly, IFAD, State and Beneficiary share in PS-WMD project is shown as under:

S.N Contribution Amount in Crore (INR)

Percentage (%)

1 IFAD 211.81 73.82 2 State Share 55.97 19.51

3 Beneficiary Share 19.16 6.67 TOTAL 286.94 100

EXPECTED OUTCOME INDICATORS

Participatory watershed development:

200 hac. Fallow lands brought under cultivation

3800 hac. Increased area under rainfed crop and production

Watershed management

22 micro-watershed planned and implemented

19,650 ha treated


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Food security & scaling up:

Farmers reporting increased productivity (End target 60%)

Sustainability of community organizations:

Federations and LCs livelihood collectives operating successfully (End Target 60%)

Market access:

Increases in farm-gate prices over baseline (End Target 100%)

MONITORING IN THE PROJECT Under the project the tools for monitoring of each activities has been distributed as under:

1. Internal Monitoring: By the WMD staff, through MIS/GIS and field visits.

2. External Monitoring: Baseline Survey, Annual outcome survey, mid-term review and

final impact evaluation.

3. Social Audit: Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) at GP level by the

Stakeholders.

4. Environmental and Social Safeguard Monitoring: Integrated with the development

and implementation of the GP/MWS plans.

5. Evidence based monitoring: Short studies and consultancies.

AUDIT ARRANGEMENTS IN THE PROJECT 1. External Audit: Annual statutory audit by an independent firm of chartered

accountants appointed by C.P.C.U

2. Internal Audit: Internal audit by the internal auditor and audit manager appointed

under the project for audit of project offices.

3. GP Audit: All the Gram Panchayats in the project will be subjected to the annual audit

by an independent firm of chartered accountants.

STATUTORY COMMITTEES IN THE PROJECT 1. At Gram Panchayat level– The statuary committee is Water and Watershed

Management Committee (WWMC) which functions under the Chairmanship of Gram

Pradhan.


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2. At District level– District Watershed Committee (DWC) is the statuary committee

which functions under the Chairmanship of Zila Panchayat Adhayaksh.

3. At State level – Project State Steering Committee under the Chairmanship of Additional

Chief Secretary and FRDC, Govt. of Uttarakhand is the statuary committee.

PROJECT PERIOD The project period will be for nine years i.e. from 2012 to 2021.

PROJECT PERFORMANCE

PHYSICAL PROGRESS REPORT DURING 1st APRIL 2020 – 31st March 2021

1. SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND PARTICIPATORY WATERSHED PLANNING

All190 GPs has completed works planned for Gram Panchayat in Gram Panchayat

Development Plan (GPWDPs).

Table 20 PHYSICAL PROGRESS UNDER "WATERSHED AND VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT"

S N Activity Unit Achiev. Till Last

31st March 2020

Achiev. (1st April 2020 – 31st March

2021)

Cumulative Achievement till 31st March

2021

PROGRESS UNDER "GPWDP"

1 Treatment of Arable Land/Agriculture

Terrace repair/vegetative field boundary

Cubic meter

65942.72 9638.63 75581.35

Agriculture Minikit Nos. 6116 752 6868 Agri/Horti Tools Nos. 1481 - 1481

2 Horticulture Bio/ vermi- compost Nos 577 - 577

Homestead plantation Hac. 817.68 63.55 881.23

Orchard Development Hac. 147.428 15 162.428

Poly house Nos 578 47 625

Poly tunnel Nos 211 - 211

3 Livestock Mangers Nos 1873 234 2107

Animal chari Nos 293 22 315

Napier Crop Border Plantation

Hac. 656 - 656

Chaff Cutter Nos 1581 107 1688

Fodder Minikit Nos. 1216 - 1216

4 Forestry Fuelwood (1600 plant /Hac.)


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Advance Soil Work Hac. 15 - 15

Plantation Hac. 15 - 15

Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 15 - 15

Maintenance-IInd year Hac. 15 - 15

Afforestation (1000 plant /Hac.)

Advance Soil Work Hac. 533.9 - 533.9

Plantation Hac. 533.9 - 533.9

Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 533.9 - 533.9

Maintenance-IInd year Hac. 513.5 20.4 533.9

Silvipasture (800 plant /Hac.)





Fodder/ Pasture Development (400 plant /Hac.)





Assisted Natural Regeneration of Oak Areas Advance Soil Work Hac. 379.5 - 379.5



Maintenance-IInd year Hac. 379.5 - 379.5

5 Drainage Line Treatment & Soil Conservation

Vegetative Treatment R.mtr 6009 - 6009

Construction of

Vegetative Check dam

Nos 388 148 536

Construction of Dry Stone

Check dam

Cum 100864.38

7755.35 108619.73

Construction of Crate

Wire Check dam

Cum 64034.63 2817.07 66851.7

Construction of Retaining

Wall(Gabion Structure)

Cum 64637.641

8837.457 73475.098

Construction of Diversion

Drain with Safe Disposal

Meter 2434 68 2502

Road side erosion control Cum 64759.1 4888.175 69647.275

River Bank Protection

Cum 26146.06 5680.92 31826.98

Construction of Cross

Barrier/ Spur

Cum 1415 - 1415

6 Water Irrigation channel Km 87.093 17.941 105.034


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Harvesting & Minor Irrigation

Irrigation tank Nos 438 46 484

Roof Water Harvesting

Tank

Nos 6081 335 6416

Village Pond Nos 74 16 90

Polythene Lined tank Nos 174 28 202

Naula/Dhara

Rejuvenation

Nos 187 34 221

Solar Water Pump Nos 13 4 17

7 Catchment area treatment

Digging of Contour

Trenches

Nos 45572 20850 66422

Recharge Pits Nos 6514 3790 10304

Construction of Dugout

Pond /Chalkhal

Nos 172 111 283

Rejuvenation of existing

Chal/Khal/ Naula (set of

activities )

Nos 394 4 398

8 Rural Access Construction of Small Bridges(up to 5 mt. Span)

Nos 338 5 343

9 Energy Conservation

Solar devices Nos 2609 86 2695

ADDITIONAL SAVING FUND-PROGRESS UNDER "WATERSHED AND VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT "-

1 WATER HARVESTING/

HOLDING STRUCTURES

Village Pond Nos - 25 25

2 GeoMembrane Lined Tank Nos 50 512 562

3 Irrigation Channel/ Pipeline

Km. 17.46 132.54 150.00

4 Irrigation Tank Nos 17 36 53

5 Polythene Lined tank Nos 5 38 43

6 Micro/Sprinkler System Nos 1 3 4

7 Solar Water Pump Nos 1 43 44

8 RCC Check Dam Cum. - 1 1

1 SPRINGSHED SOURCE

TREATMENT (SSP)

Assisted Natural Regeneration of Oak Areas

2 Advance Soil Work Hac. 20 - 20

3 Plantation Hac. - 20 20

4 Orchard Development Hac. 4 - 4


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5 Napier Crop Border Plantation

Hac. - 640.14 640.14

6 Drainage Line Treatment & Soil Conservation work

Cum. 860 22322 23182

7 Construction of Dugout

Pond /Chalkhal

Nos 30 680 710

8 Rejuvenation of existing

Chal/Khal/ Naula (set of

activities )

Nos - 83 83

9 Village Pond Nos - 16 16

10 Digging of Contour

Trenches

Nos 18737 212120 230857

11 Recharge Pits Nos 1043 28627 29670

Table 21 PROGRESS UNDER NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES- INTER

GP SPACE (MWS)

S. No.

Activity Unit Achiev. Till Last

31st March 2020

Achiev. (1st April 2020

– 31st March 2021)

Cumulative Achievement

till 31st March 2021

1 Forestry Bamboo




Afforestation



Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 116.7 56 172.7

Assisted Natural Regeneration of Oak Areas Advance Soil Work Hac. 166.5 - 166.5


Maintenance-Ist year Hac. 50.5 116 166.5

2 Drainage Line Treatment & Soil Conservation

Vegetative Treatment R.mtr 4304 204 4508

Construction of Dry

Stone Check dam

Cum 45005 13621 58625

Construction of Crate

Wire Check dam

Cum 39029 14864 53893


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Construction of

Retaining Wall(Gabion

Structure)

Cum 16149 9768 25917

River Bank Protection

Cum 1736.3 721.35 2457.65

3 Water Harvesting & Minor Irrigation and Catchment area treatment

Village Pond Nos 26 30 56

Digging of Contour

Trenches

Nos 49119 43849 92968

Recharge Pits Nos 10452 9361 19768

Construction of Dugout

Pond /Chalkhal

Nos 622 210 832

Rejuvenation of

existing Chal/Khal/

Naula (set of activities

)

Nos 136 149 285

2. ENHANCING FOOD SECURITY AND LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES

In the project document of Integrated Livelihood Support Project (ILSP), it is mentioned

on gender that “the flow of benefits directly to women would be ensured by having at

least 50% of female membership in producer groups". Under the project activities in

PS-WMD, equal and meaningful participation of both men and women is ensured at all

levels as per the guidelines of the project. There is 61% participation of females in

project activities.

S. No. Activity Unit Cumulative

Achievement till 31st March 2021

1 No. of GPs in which Producer Groups has been formed

No. 190

2 No. of Producer Groups has been formed

No. 1681

3 No. of Farmers in Producer Groups No. 15668

A- Male No. 6129

B- Female No. 9539 4 No. of Vulnerable Producer Groups has

been formed No 268

5 No. of Farmers in Vulnerable Producer Groups

No. 1621

A- Male No. 687

B- Female No. 934


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Table 22 PROGRESS UNDER PRODUCER GROUPS/VULNERABLE PRODUCER GROUPS

Activity Unit

Achiev. Till Last 31st

March 2020

Achiev. (1st April

2020– 31st March 2021)

Cumulative Achievement till 31st March 2021

Food Security Enhancement Support

Cereal and pulses-Rabi ( wheat,Lentil, Mustard,Pea,Toria,etc)

Ha. 1081.11 250.72 1331.83

Cereal and pulses-Kharif (Paddy,Soya,been,Arhar,Ragi,Millets,etc)

Ha. 1158.16 305.33 1463.49

Off season Vegetable (Tomato, capsicum, radish,bean, cauliflower, cabbage, onion,pumpkin,etc)

Ha. 1604.23 282.35 1886.58

Spices- Turmeric Ha. 149.41 57.97 207.38

Ginger Ha. 153.49 65.26 218.75

Garlic Ha. 97.15 37.90 135.05 Chilli Ha. 146.64 69.28 215.92

Coriander Ha. 90 30.19 120.19 Others Ha. 58.95 38 96.95

3. ACCESS TO MARKET

a) Establishment of Agribusiness Growth Centre-:

The Government of Uttarakhand has embarked upon a Growth Centre (GC) Scheme in

2018, for establishment of growth centres in specific rural areas to promote identified

economic activities and help specialized/niche local produce and services reach the

national and international market. In this regard ILSP WMD has established 7

Agribusiness Growth Centres in 3 Divisions (3 in Nainital, 2 in Champawat and 2 in

Pauri) to create income-generating opportunities and reduce out-migration of the

youth, which is currently a major challenge for the state.

Table 23 Agribusiness Growth Centre (ILSP) Progress Report March,2021

S.N

Growth Centers

(Approved)

Approved Budget (Rs

in Lakh)

Total Expense (Rs

In Lakh)

Name of LC Year of

operation of LC

PGs Linked to LCs

Members

Linked to

ABGC

Turnover of ABGC (Rs. In Lakh)

Profit of

ABGC (Rs. In

Lakh) 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11

1 Amel ABGC

50 47.06255

DevbhoomiAjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, Amel

24 Sep 2017

74 655 38.82 1.72


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2 Bohra ABGC

50 44.34855

DevbhoomiAjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, TallaRamgarh

16 Nov 2017

64 439 48.47 1.90

3 Mallakot ABGC

50 48.30758

Jai MaaAmbeAjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, Mallakot

28 Oct 2017

85 737 37.80 3.47

4 Kotli ABGC 50 50.00000

Bharadi Devi AjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, Kotli

11 Jan 2018

85 869 18.39 0.97

5 Pinani ABGC

50 50.00000

PinaniAjeevikaSwayattSehkarita, Pingad

7 Dec 2017

47 471 33.80 0.92

6 Goshani ABGC

50 49.97150

MahaUjjwalaAjeevikaSwayatt

Sehkarita, Goshani

1 Jan 2018 49 454 24.08 0.71

7 KaalchakraDevta ABGC

50 49.99786

KalchakraDevtaAjeevikaSway

attSehkarita, Naumana

26 Oct 2017

47 380 14.40 0.47

TOTAL 350 339.6 451 4005 215.76 10.16

b) Business Details carried out by Livelihood Collectives-:

Project is being promoting their LCs/Federation through collective efforts with a

sustainable business model. Presently around 30 LCs in the 3 Divisions (Nainital,

Champawat and Pauri) During the reporting period (1st April 2020 to 31st March

2021) around 30 livelihood collectives (LCs) of project districts were engaged in

various business activities and earned a turnover of Rs. 5.55 Cr. The business of all

LCs in comparison to last fiscal year has been doubled (LCs turnover for FY 2019-20

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Aggregation of produce is being done in the Collection centres and small collection

centres of LCs. Till March 2021 a total of 90 small Collection centres at village level

and 29 Collection centres at LC level were functional to facilitate the backward and

forward linkages.

LCs are participating in Weekly Haat bazaar are regularly being organized in each

division; wherein all theLCs are participating and selling local vegetables, rural farm

and processed producesdirectly to consumers.

Market linkage creation-: The project team facilitated LCs to enhance the marketing of

the produce by following practices-:

a. Organisation of buyer-seller meets-27 (No.)

b. Organisation and setting up of Haats and Kisaan outlets.-3 in each division.

c. LC linked to supply of agriculture produce for midday meals to primary schools.-

99 schools

Table 24 Value Addition Support (FY 2020-21)

S.N Activities

Turnover FY

2019-20 (In Rs.

Lakhs)

Turnover FY 2020-21

(In Rs. Lakhs)

1 Traditional Crops (Grading, Packaging,

Processing (Flour Mill)

119.01 209.30972

2 Offseason Vegetables (Grading, Sorting,

Packaging)-

177.46 241.28754

1.04

3.74

5.55

0.07

0.20

0.30

2018-19

2019-20

2020-21

Yearly LC Business and Profit Details

Approx. Profit (Rs in Crore) Turn over/ Sale (Rs in Crore)

Comparison of business of LCs in FY 2018-19 (Rs 1.04 crore),and Last FY 2019-20 (Rs 3.74 Crore). FY 2020-21 Till the month of March 2021 (Rs 5.55 Crore).


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3 Dairy (Collection & Marketing)- 8.50 2.64483

4 Fruits (Grading-Sorting, Processing (Juice,

Squash, Pickles), Packaging (Carton

Boxes)-

19.98 29.44691

5 RNFS (Rural Non Farm Sector, Daily use

items)-:

47.70 68.10974

6 MAP (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants)-: 1.36 4.43408

7 Poultry (Eggs) 0.47 0

TOTAL 374.48 555.23


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Table 25 Details of Livelihood Collectives-:

S. N. Activity Unit Achiev. Till Last 31st

March 2020


2021)

Cumulative Achievement till 31st March 2021

1 No. of LCs has been formed and registered

No. 30 0 30

2 No. of Gram Panchayats (GPs) in LC

No. 190 0 190

3 No. of Members in LC 16752 0 16752

4 No. of members who have deposited their share money

No. 16919 0 16919

5 No. of Agribusiness plan has been prepared

No. 30 0 30

6 No. of Agribusiness plan has been implemented

No. 30 0 30

4. CAPACITY BUILDING PRAGRAMMES( TRAINING/WORKSHOPS/EXPOSURE VISITS)

For smooth implementation of project activities, capacity building of all the stakeholders is

essential, to build their conceptual, managerial, technical and operational capabilities.

capacity building programmes has enhanced skills and competence of project staff to work


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with GPs. Training on different subjects like Procurement Rules, Orientation Workshop on

Agribusiness, Agriculture, Horticulture, Soil & water conservation, Entrepreneurship

development Integrated Pest Management and Post project Management were given to

stakeholder to ensure the smooth and sustainable implementation and management of the

project activities. Exposure visits have created awareness among the males and females and

enabled them to witness improved technology in agriculture, horticulture, livestock,

agribusiness and entrepreneurship development programme.

The trainings, exposure visits, capacity building and skill up gradation activities have led to a

change in the attitude and perceptions of the community.

Table 26 Total No. of Trainings for Community (WWMC/GP/PG/VPGs) upto March

2021

Type of

Participants Training Title

Total Nos. of

training

Total Participants

Male Female Total

PG/VPGs/LCs,

WWMC/RVC

Orientation, Project

Planning

212 4541 6271 10812

PG/VPGs Plant protection, IPM,

Best farm practices

58 1222 1272 2494

TOTAL 270 5763 7543 13306

After MTR, Funding for training component was excluded for PSWMD. Only funding for

workshops at GP/Divisional/Regional/State Level was provided.

Progress post MTR in Workshops

Table 27 Unit Level Workshops

Type of Participants

Workshop Title Total Nos. of training

Total Participants

Male Female Total

PG/VPGs/LCs Plant protection and IPM 631 13464 13997 27461

PG/VPGs/LCs Capacity building workshop for marketing of produce and PG/VPGs savings and inter loaning

386 8017 11552 19569

PG/VPGs/LCs Livestock Development and fodder cultivation

42 1060 1254 2314


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WWMC/RVC Soil & Moisture conservation 297 7543 4519 12062

Account assistants of WWMC

Workshop on Procurement Rules, LC financial Management

147 3475 4139 7614

Project Staff (Unit Staff, TA staff)

Capacity building and orientation

766 15039 18109 33148

PG/VPGs/LCs Man Animal Conflict 4 0 0 0

PG/VPGs/LCs Sustainability Planning and development (MIS and crop insurance)

584 13307 13764 27071

PG/VPGs/LCs Livelihood enhancement through agribusiness and income generation

253 4651 5867 10518

Total 3110 66556 73201 126396

Table 28 Division Level Workshops

Type of Participants Workshop Title Total Nos. of

training

Total Participants

Male Female Total

WWMC, RVC, TA, GP Account assistants, Village motivators, PG, VPGs

Agriculture and Horticulture best practices, capacity building and orientation

270 7972 4691 12663

PG/VPGs/LCs MIS, Tally Workshop 23 871 850 1721

Project staff Project Review By District administration

18 349 243 592

Total 311 9192 5784 14976

Exposure Visits-:

Funding has been provided for exposure visits within and outside the state as under

Type of Participants

Workshop Title Total Nos. of training

Total Participants

Male Female Total

PG/VPGs,Project Staff

Cross visits to UGVS areas, GRAMYA project areas, APMC Mandi's, GBPUA&T Pantnagar University, Solan H.P.

183 1311 466 1777

Total 183 1311 466 1777


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Therefore total Nos. of training, workshops and exposure visit in PSWMD is shown as

under-:

No. of Trainings/

workshop/ Exposure

visit

Total No. of

participants

Male

Participants

Female

Participants

Participation

% of female

participants

3874 169816 82822 86994 51%

This table shows that women participation in trainings and workshops for project activities

is 51%.

Table 29 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT COORDINATION-

S. No.

Activity Unit Cumulative Achievement till 31st March 2021

Trainings 1 Social Training at village level No. 1796

2 Technical Training at village level

No. 395

3 Training on production technology

No. 98

4 Training at Resource centers No. 77 Workshops

S. No.

Activity Unit Achiev. Till Last

31st March 2020


2021)

Cumulative Achievement

till 31st March 2021

5 Unit level workshop No. 2739 371 3110

6 Divisional level workshop No. 265 46 311

Exposure Visits 7 Exposure visit with in /out

state No. 166 17 183


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Table 30 DETAILS OF EXPENDITURE IN FY 2020-21 (1st April 2020–31st March 2021)

Progress of FY 2020-21 Against Approved Annual Work Plan 2020-21 Under-ILSP (PSWMD)

Rs. In crore

Account Code

Project activities Exp. Upto 2019-20

AWPB 2020-21

Progress FY 2020-

21

Cumulative Expenditure

1 2 3 4 5 6

21000 Participatory Watershed Development

21100 A. Social Mobilization 15.28 2.90 2.72 17.99

21200 B. Watershed & Village Development

120.94 33.12 33.44 154.38

21300 C. Institutional Strengthening

5.92 0.88 0.69 6.62

21400 D. Project Management

38.20 8.48 6.05 44.25

22000 Food Security & Scaling Up

31.76 10.72 9.95 41.71

23000 Access to Market 5.12 4.15 3.95 9.07

42000 Monitoring Evaluation & Knowledge Management

2.26 1.21 0.40 2.66

GRAND TOTAL 219.50 61.46 57.19 276.69


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Table 31 STATUS OF REIMBURSEMENT

Statement of Use of Funds by Category

Expenditure up to 31-03-2020 During the year 2020-21 Cumulative from the beginning up to the Month

Rs. In"000"

Category Expenditure

IFAD Share

State Share

Benf Contribut

ion

Expenditure

IFAD Share

State Share

Beneficiary

Contribution

Expendit

ure

IFAD Share

State Share

Beneficiary

Contribution

Released Amount

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

1-Civil Works

57477 51418 5713 346 46704 36635 5066 5003 104181 88053 10779 5348 77115

II-Watershed Treatment

120942

9 994967 110552 103910 334407 258689 28743 46975 1543836 1253655 139295 150886 1205247

III-Vehicle, Equipment and Materials

14204 10653 3551 0 16737 11129 5608 0 30941 21782 9159 0 14519

IV- Capacity Building

272764 238352 15289 19123 37413 33006 4406 0 310177 271359 19695 19123 245135

V-Livelihood Financing

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

VI-Service Provider Contracts

309539 278585 30954 0 89250 75385 13865 0 398788 353970 44819 0 339438

VII- Incremental Salary and Operating Costs

331557 56125 275432 0 47392 9732 37660 0 378949 65857 313092 0 63144

TOTAL 2194969 1630101 441490 123379 571903 424576 95349 51978 2766872 2054676 536838 175358 1944598


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Table 32 PROPOSED REVISED ANNUAL WORK PLAN FY-2020-21 (PS-WMD) (Rs In 000)

Integrated Livelihood Support Project(ILSP)

Summary of Revised AWP&B 2020-21

Watershed Managment Directorate, Dehradun Account

Code Project Activity Total Annual Target GoUK IFAD Ben

21000 Participatory watershed Management

21100 a) Social Mobilization 28958 2895.8 26062.2 0

21200 b) Watershed & Village Development 331190 33119 264952 33119

21300 c) Institutional Strengthening 8750 875 7875 0

21400 d) Project Managment 84835 58078 26758 0

22000 Food Security & scaling Up* 107236 10724 91658 4855

23000 Access to Market 41511 4151.1 37359.9 0

42000 M & E and K. M. 12123 2997.55 9125.45 0

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Table 33 Results achieved so far (with reference to achievement of objectives)-: Component-2

COMPONENT

OUTCOMES

Indicators Progress Remark

Food security & scaling up: households from hill communities benefited from increased crop and livestock production

-farmers reporting

increased productivity

(End target 60%)

Total farmer in the

project area –17609

11486 No. of farmers report

increase in farm productivity (i.e.

67.40 %)

Increase in productivity is reported for both Rabi and

Kharif crops due to introduction improved varieties,

change in cropping patterns and farming practices,.

Sustainability of community organizations: Sustainable community institutions

--Federations and LCs

livelihood collectives

operating successfully

(End Target 60%)

All 30 LCs are operating

successfully

Criteria's for evaluation of LCs operating successfully-:

Maintaining proper records and documentation.

Regular BOD meetings

Business operations

LC making profit in last two business cycles.

Market access: Improved market access for rural households

-increases in farm-gate

prices over baseline (End

Target 100%)

There has been an increase in

farmgate prices of almost all agri-

horti crops. (Average 33%

increase in farm gate prices of

major crops like Finger Millet,

Turmeric, Cabbage, Wheat, Green

Peas etc.)

66% HHs in the project area have reported increase in income from sales of agricultural produce (AOS 2018)

63% HHs are selling their farm produce through Cooperatives (LC) (AOS2018)

Participatory watershed development: 20,000 households with improved access to water and become less vulnerable to erosion

-200 hac. Fallow lands

brought under

cultivation;

Total 270.912 ha. Achievement

under fallow land/barren land.

146.8 ha. Orchard Development

26 ha. Homestead Plantation

50.08 ha. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

48.032 ha. Vegetable Production


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-3800 hac. Increased area

under rainfed crop and

production

Total 5676.14 ha. Area has been

cultivated under rainfed crop and

production.

1331.83 ha. Cereal and pulses- Rabi (Wheat, Lentil,

Mustard, Pea, Toria, etc.)

1463.49 ha. Cereal and pulses-Kharif (Paddy, Soya bean,

Arhar, Ragi, Millets, etc.)

1886.58 ha. Off season Vegetable (Tomato, capsicum,

radish, bean, cauliflower, cabbage, onion, pumpkin, etc.)

994.24 ha. Spices- (Turmeric, Ginger, Garlic, Chilli,

Coriander & Others)

Watershed management -22 micro-watershed

planned and

implemented

-19,650 ha treated

22 MWS plans prepared and

under implementation.

27150 hac. of area has been

treated with various Soil moisture

conservation interventions like

Afforestation ,DLT etc.

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Component 3- Livelihood finance – UPASaC

UPASaC has initiated multiple activities to facilitate the members of Producer

Groups and Livelihood Collectives. The component is being implemented in all

44 blocks of 9 hill districts. Some of the key initiatives and their results are as

under -

Product Literacy Training - Building financial capabilities

In the financial literacy training programs, UPASaC educated the participants

i.e. the SHGs/PGs/VPGs/ federations/ livelihood collectives about various

banks products like savings, bank accounts, fixed deposit accounts,

SukanyaSamriddhi accounts, Gold bonds and also about loan products like

KCC, CCL, Term Loan, Mudra Loan, Gold Loans and other Govt. schemes etc.

This has resulted in building financial capabilities of members. During the

financial year 2019-20, 89 training benefitted 3215 Beneficiaries of 971

PG/VPG from 202 Livelihood cooperatives in 44 blocks having 2493 female

participants.

Risk Insurance Workshops

UPASaC has conducted workshops on Life insurance, Crop insurance;

Livestock insurance schemes for benefit of the members of PGs/ VPGs and

LCs. Programmes on General insurance has also conducted to create

awareness about the risks in business and how to cover the risks. Various

companies fill up the application forms and collected premium fees in the

programmes. UPASaC played a facilitative role in this process and covering

Agriculture insurance (PMFBY) with the collaboration of AIC, Cattle Insurance

(ULDB) and health insurance (PMSBY & PMJJBY) with the help of banks. 1%

incentive is being paid to cooperatives on total premium. Livelihood


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Collectives are also benefited as they support in claim settlement. UPASaC

conducts special trainings for LCs on claim settlements.

S.N. Type of

Insurance

Covered

PG/VPG

Covered

LC

Insured

Value (INR

in Lakh)

Premium

Paid (INR

in Lakh)

UPASAC

SHARE (INR

in Lakh)

No of HH

Covered

1 Cattle

Insurance

03 01 16.800 0.39 0.000394 26

2 Crop

Insurance

1406 56 561.260 28.22 2.61874 8637

3 Health

Insurance

61 5 47.834 0.22 .000225 256

TOTAL 1470 62 625.894 28.83 2.6194 8919

Total 38 insurance workshops and 57 training on insurance claim

settlement have been organised in which 11367 project beneficiaries

from 157 LCs participated.

2629 project beneficiaries from 254 PGs/VPGs (33 LCs) got insurance

claim of INR 2.25 Cr. under crop insurance in five project districts –

Almora, Pauri, Pithoragarh, Tehri and Dehradun.

23 Project beneficiaries from 18 PGs/VPGs (9 LCs) got insurance claim

of INR 7.14 Lakh under Cattle Insurance Scheme (10 mules, 7 goats, 1

buffalo and 8 cow) in three districts during the year.

9,106 Project beneficiaries from 110 LCs have been insured under

Crop/Cattle/Health and as per the arrangement of paying 1% incentive

(1% of premium amount) to LCs an amount of INR 193,476 is paid.


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Workshop State, District Level and Cluster level – on banking products

project appraisal

Workshops are conducted at State, District and Cluster level to educate the

SHGs /PGs/VPGs and LCs about the financial literacy so as to create demand

for financial products & services which can be availed through banks. This

helps in decision making about the potential and useful deposits and

investment option and credit facilities of banks for sustainable livelihoods.

Members of PGS/VPGs and LCs are provided with the knowledge of banking

products and services i.e. savings accounts, fix deposit accounts and other

deposits schemes of the banks. They are also educated about the different

credit schemes i.e. KCC, CCL, Term Loan, Mudra Loan and other govt schemes.

Workshops/trainings are also organised on credit/loan proposals acceptable

to banks. Training on EDP and personality development, Marketing and

running business professionally and timely repayment of loan etc. is also

given.

15 trainings on banking products & appraisal skills and 23 workshops

at districts level has been organized, in which 1858 members from 116

LCs have benefitted.

Interest subvention benefits

UPASaC is also providing Interest Subvention Benefits to Producer Groups. If

banks extend credit @ 12% per annum UPASaC gives 5% interest subvention

benefit. Thus the borrower gets credit at 7% instead of 12%.

Overall, UPASaC has been playing a facilitative role by working with

Livelihood collectives, PGs/ VPGs and the banks and other financial

institutions. Mainly financial capabilities are enhanced, interest subvention

benefits are provided. LCs are strengthened economically with the help of

UPASaC.

74 LCs, 70 PGs/VPGs benefitted from interest subvention of Rs 12.73

Lakh.


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Bank Finance

Under the bank finance UPASAC is facilitating Cash Credit Limit, Term Loan

and Kisan credit card. So far during reporting period, Rs 34.85 Crore KCC has

been done for 7122 households, Rs 10.79 Crore CCL has been done for 49

cooperatives and 1059 groups, and Rs 11.32 Crore TL has been done for 32

cooperatives and 1086 individuals. These cooperatives are doing micro

financing to the community. 10 LCs have done around Rs 75 lakhs micro

financing.

Cumulative progress of bank finance is, 3140 Term Loans of INR 33.36 Crore,

4148 Cash Credit Limit of INR 30.30 Crore and 21172 Kisan Credit Cards of

INR 100.56 Crore.

Table 34 Key Activities and No of LC avail CCL

S.N. Name of Activity No of LC

1 Micro Finance 12 2 Agri up- Scaling (AUP) 12 3 THR 5 4 café on Wave 1 5 Vehicle 25 6 Farm Machinery Bank 55 7 Spice & Oil Unit 3 8 Local Product (Pulses , Rice Purchase and Sell

Out) 36

9 Masala Chakki 1 10 Pickle Unit 1 11 Rice Seller 3 12 Genset 1

Convergence –

Total 07 loans (04 male and 03 female) disbursed under Pandit Deen Dayal

Upadhaya Cattle Scheme.(convergence with dept. & Co-Operative Bank) at

Uttarkashi.


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Total 27 loans (26 female & 01 male ) disbursed under DEDS scheme of

NABARD (convergence with NABARD) Almora & Pauri

04 trainings (10days) conducted on dairy development with Veterinary

dept. and RSETI, total 124 participants are benefited.(Convergence with

Veterinary Dept and RSETI Pithoragarh & Bageshwar.

02 trainings (10days) conducted on dairy development with Goatry

development with Animal Husbandry dept. and RSETI, total 77 participants

are benefited.(Convergence with Veterinary Dept and RSETI Pithoragarh &

Bageshwar.

Organized 01 Cattle vaccination camp with Animal Husbandry dept. total

74 participants from 23 PG/VPG are benefited.(Convergence with A.H Dept

(Almora)


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Table 35 Financial Progress (UPASaC)

During the financial year 2020-21, UPASaC achieved 122% of its approved

target.

SN Sub- Component

Financial

Target

(INR

Lakh)

Financial

Progress

(INR

Lakh)

% Remarks

1 Financial Initiatives 15.00 14.91 99.40

3215 Participants

from 202 LCs (M-

724 & F-2493)

2 Risk Management 32.00 31.68 99.07

14553 Beneficiaries

from 168 LC (1%

Incentive paid to LC

on premium)

3 Banking Initiatives 91.78 88..26 96.16 2057 members from

172 LCs/fed.

4

Fund support to LCs

(INTEREST

SUBVENTION)

15.00 12.73 83.53

74 LC and 70 PG

Interest Subvention

is being paid as

difference of

applicable rate and

7%

5 UPASaC and Bank

Finance 4600.00 5697.12 123.85

7122 KCC,1059 CCL,

1420TL

6 UPASaC Management 138.28 118.55 85.73 Administrative

Expenses

Total 4892.06 5963.2 122

From July 2013 upto 31st March 2017, UPASaC financial progress was INR

31.75 Cr and from 1st April 2017 upto 31st March 2018 financial progress is

INR 36.66 Cr and from 1st April 2018 upto 31st March 2019 financial progress

is INR 54.89 Cr and from 1st April 2020 upto 31st March 2021 financial

progress is INR 59.63 Cr .


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Component 4- Project coordination and management

Project Coordination and Management

Each executing agency including UGVS has its own Project Management Units

headed by a Project Director or Managing Director. Central Project

Coordination Unit (CPCU) headed by Chief Project Director (CPD), has been

set up to provide overall coordination between the executing agencies.

A State level Project Steering Committee (PSC) has been setup under the

chairmanship of Chief Secretary. The PSC has established a Project

Management Committee (PMC) chaired by APC.

District Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DCMC) - Each district

organized DCMC meetings during the reporting period FY 2020-21. The

district level committee in each district covers ILSP activities and monitor and

coordinate project implementation at the district level and ensure linkages

between the project, line agencies/ departments and other government

agencies.

District Implementation and Coordination Committee (DICC) - A District

Implementation and Coordination Committee (DICC) has been constituted

under Chairmanship of District Magistrate and Co-chaired by Chief

Development Officer. Each district organized DICC meetings during the

reporting period FY 2020-21, therefore an effective convergence/dovetailing

benefits the community.

Annual Outcome Survey

Annual Outcome Survey is conducted every year for monitoring the outcome

level result and effectiveness of project implementation. As per MTR

recommendation this time Central Project Coordination Unit (CPCU) has

conducted Annual Outcome Survey 2019 through an external consultant.

The following are the main findings of the Annual Outcome Survey-2018 in

the form of key performance indicators:


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Integrated Livelihood Support Project has proved to be a holistic and

sustainable model for the livelihoods of rural households in Uttarakhand as it

has multiple services available for rural households through one or the other

component.

Results of all the three components of the project reveal the fact that all

the three components are complementary to each other and makes the

project – A holistic project on Livelihood

One of the important fact that has emerged from the AOS 2019 that

project worked like a „single window’ solution for the problems of the

farmers as they were able to get support in getting the appropriate

inputs, technical guidance for cultivation, Chain linked fencing, Farm

Machinery and tools from Farm Machinery Banks, storage facility in

collection centers and finally support in marketing their produce.

The adoption of strategy to register LCs in cooperative Act has proved to

be appropriate because– LCs as Self-reliant Cooperatives are able to

undertake financial as well as Non-Financial business activities. LCs are

proving to be a multipurpose institution for livelihood promotion in

mountain districts of Uttarakhand.

Providing Share capital grant by IFAD has proved to be useful for the

LCs as LCs are able to get Loans from the banks based on some

Collaterals. Fixed deposits of LCs are used as collaterals to get loans

from the banks. UPASaC play facilitating the whole process of providing

loans to LCs through banks.

Project was successful to cover the target Households and also covered

SECC Households desired by the State Government for coverage.

Vulnerable people were covered through Vulnerable Producer Groups.

AOS survey validates this as 86% households interviewed were

belonging to BPL and Antyodaya.

Project has impacted the living conditions of project households in a

positive manner. The benefits availed by the Households were in

different form such as - enhancement of knowledge, time saving,

realization of good prices for products, reduction in costs of inputs and


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more return on produce by applying collective approach in the whole

value chain.

Water conservation activities under component -2 and also in

component -1 has been recognized by the Households very much in

2019 and they are highly benefited from these activities.

Project has fulfilled its objective as around 98% of project households

reported that they have more than one source of income/ Livelihood.

While majority of the households still depend upon Farm sector (62% -

Agriculture and Agri. allied), they have new options in Non-farm sector

including service sector.

The project has shown proven impact on the incomes of the project

households. AOS 2019 reveals that percentage of Households shifted

from less than Rs.10,000 per month income is quite high. It was 84% of

in 2016 and now in 2019 it is reduced to 28%. Similarly, percentage of

HHs earning Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 20,000 per month is 58% in 2019 shows

that a large number of person from lower slot of less than Rs. 10,000

have shifted to this group. This is also confirmed from the fact that 48%

HHs have average monthly expenditure of more than Rs.5000 per

month. Further, 31% households have improved their houses in the last

12 months shows that they were having surplus to do expenditure in

their houses.

The project has almost completed the objective of providing food

security to the project households as 98% of Households faced no food

shortage in last one year. Only 2% households reported minor food

shortage for less than 1 week. Improvement in quality and type of food

by 79% project households also indicates that living conditions of the

households are improving. 94% project households are having their

own livestock. This also validates improvement in income as the

households were able to enhance livestock assets.

Project has successfully supported the households in marketing their

produce. LCs/Federations have established Nano-packaging units for

consistency of packaging and branding. These packed products are

marketed through multiple methods including own outlets of the Project

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Collection centers are also proving to be very supportive to the farmers.

Value addition at the village level (i.e. Grading, Sorting, Packaging, and

Processing) is happening – Out of the total households, 69% project

households adopt value addition practices before sale of their produce.

Role of UPASaC has been proactive in the year 2019 as 100% of project

households are having their individual savings bank (SB) accounts in

banks or post offices. 98% of HHs doing mandatory savings in

PGs/VPGs/SHGs. 45% households have taken loans for livelihood or

income generating activities is a good indication.

Project has also initiated well in the area of insurance as 62% of project

households reported to have availed one or the other insurance

services. Households have also done livestock and crop insurance. There

were examples of crop insurance claims provided to the Households.

11% of project households got claims for the failure of crop.

Project has good results in non-farm sector and self-employment as

14% in Component-1 and 15% in Component -2 area households have

established SMEs. Nonfarm enterprises like small shops, floor mill

(chakki), driver, Weaving (Silai-Bunai), Stitching, Tent houses and

others are taken up by the Households. 20% of project households

received vocational training and 11% of project households became

selfemployed.

Project is also working well on the issue of Migration and there have

been examples of reverse migration. In AOS 2019, 5% of project

households informed that their family members especially youth are

leaving private jobs and coming back to villages. They have opted for

self-employment i.e. farming, OSV, Dairy, Poultry etc. There are several

successful cases of poultry in different districts wherein reverse

migration has happened.

One of the good successes of the project has been its efforts for

providing benefits of various government schemes through

convergence. Around 79% got benefit from MGNREGA, 61% from

Agriculture department schemes, 54% from Horticulture department,

50% from Animal Husbandry, 22% from Dairy development, and 30%

from Co-operative department. 63% of project households were


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benefitted from new Aug-20 Page 19 technologies promoted by Govt.

Agencies, various Boards, Line Departments, KVKs, Technical

Institutions and Agriculture Universities due to project facilitation.

One of the activities that household also felt useful was LDPE Tanks as

100% project households reported increase in production due to LDPE

tanks. On an average 5.5 Nali cultivated land area is irrigated through

LDPE tanks.

Drudgery Reduction initiatives were also done successfully in the year

2019 with full utilization of Farm Machinery Bank scheme of Agriculture

department. Through Livelihood Collectives project implemented the

scheme well and provided benefits to the project households. About

81% component-1 and 79% component -2 Project households received

Power Weeder, Power Tiller, and Spray Machine from farm machinery

bank of agriculture department. These tools have reduced the drudgery

of the people to a large extent.

Another successful initiative of the project was Chain linked fencing.

This was provided by LCs to the farmers on rent and farmers could save

their fields from wild animals. As per AOS 2019, 42% project

households have used chain linked fencing. There were good economic

benefits to farmers that varied from field to field. Vegetables, Peas,

potato, wheat and paddy are some of the crops that were protected

through chain linked fencing.

Project has also successfully initiated Fodder Development activity.

Households are able to get fodder in time; they save time in collection of

fodder and some are able to get some income from it. 67% of project

households saved time in fodder collection, 64% of project households

reported better availability of fodder and 10% got additional income

from the sale of fodder. The green fodder is now available for an average

period of 5 months.

Supervision Mission (SM)

An IFAD mission completed annual Support supervision 2020 of the

Integrated Livelihood Support Project (ILSP) from 23rd -03rd April 2021 in

Uttarakhand with the following objective:


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Review project relevance, effectiveness and efficiency. Review Project targeting effectiveness, gender equality, social

inclusion and youth participation. Review project responsiveness to disaster following the

restructuring done in 2013; Review Project exit strategy and sustainability. Make recommendations to implement closure activities. To discuss scope of new Project-REAP Project.

The mission went for field visit after a day-long review meeting in Dehradun

on 23rd and 24th March participated by Chief Project Director (CPD),

Additional Project Director (APD), UGVS, Project Director (PSWMD), former

APD and Rural Development Commissioner, senior officials of CPCU and

senior officials of three Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs). The mission

split into two groups to visit project activities in Garhwal region (Tehri and

Dehradun districts). The mission has reviewed progress status and plans, and

agreed upon strategy to implement project activities during ongoing FY 2020-

21 as well as discuss on closure activities to be implemented in project closure

duration, which ends in September 2021.

The a wrap-up meeting held at the Secretariat, GoUK on 03rd April 2021, chaired by Mr Om Prakash, Additional Chief Secretary to the Chief Minister, GoUK. The mission's main findings and recommendations, and agreements reached, are recorded in this Aide Memoire were discussed. It was also discussed and agreed upon at a pre-wrap meeting chaired by Mr. R Meenakshi Sundram, CPD, ILSP with the participation of all senior officials of PIAs. The mission expresses appreciation for the collaboration and hospitality extended by GoUK.


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Figure 31 IFAD SM team in farmers field, chamba, Tehri

Tripartite Portfolio Review Meeting (TPRM)

The Tripartite Portfolio Review Meeting (TPRM) for IFAD assisted projects in

India was held in New Delhi on 18th November, 2020. The meeting was jointly

chaired by Dr. C S Mohpatra, Additional Secretary, DEA and Ms Rasha Omar,

Country Representative, IFAD, India. The meeting was attended by

representatives of all currently operational and pipeline projects in the

country, as well as representatives from DEA, CAAA, the Ministry of

Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, and Ministry of Animal Husbandry,

Dairying & Fisheries.

The major highlights related to ILSP are followings:

The project remains a high performer in the India country portfolio and is

on track to achieve its physical and financial targets with overall 94%

achievement against target. The project is scheduled to complete in March

2021 and close in Sept 2021.

The project has undertaken many innovative activities, which have been

scaled up during the project life cycle through convergence with

Government schemes.


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ILSP has revitalised the primary sector in the state and undertaken many

innovations on an ongoing basis including chain linked fencing to address

man animal conflict, Prasad making which led to increase in sale price of

Amaranthus for farmers; promotion of Growth Centres in partnership with

MSMEs; etc.

During the current lockdown two of the major innovations by the project

include – (i) addressing problems of floriculture farmers (ii) introduction

of Rural Business Incubator to support enterprises at local level. The

project has successfully created strong community institutions and

marketing outlets.

Covid-19 Recovery response:

The project had a robust and comprehensive response. In addition to the

strategic investments in (i) Growth centres (ii) Rural Business Incubators

and (iii) Crisis resolution of Floriculture farmers, the project undertook

many other initiatives such as: - Supply of Dry Ration and essential items to

13000 HHs ( through 60 LCs) - Manufacture of 201,500 cloth Masks by 300

PGs - Supply of seed and other inputs (fertilizers, pesticides etc) to 14,140

HHs ( through 40 LCs) - Supply of Take home Ration(THR) & Ready to Use

Therapeutic Food to 100 individual /day (by 2 LCs) - Supply of Hot Cooked

meals to 197 HHs ( by 2 LCs) - 415 Awareness and sanitization drives

covering 75000 HHs - Distribution of Hilans Wheat Flour at the door step

to 904 HHs - Procurement and Sale of Fresh Farm Produce from 5125 HHs

- GoUK has registered returnee migrants on HOPE portal of Skill

Development Dept. The data is being used by ILSP to assess the

employment /Self employment needs of the returnee migrants. Efforts are

being made to link them with the MSME, Chief Minister Self employment

Scheme etc.


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Update on implementation of last TPRM recommendations:

The Proposal ‘Rural Enterprise Acceleration Project’ (REAP) has been

sanctioned during the 115th Screening Committee meeting of DEA held on

February, 26, 2021; with the comments as :

“After detailed deliberations, the Committee decided to grant "in-principle"

approval on the request of the State Government subject to PIA submitting

the revised PPR and ensuring that both NITI Aayog and M/o RD

recommends the proposal. The Committee also decided that subject to the

recommendations of NITI Aayog and MoRD, the proposal may be posed to

IFAD”.

In continuation to the same, the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA)

posed the project "Rural Enterprise Acceleration Project (REAP)" to the

IFAD for an assistance of USD 104.85 million and requests IFAD to consider

it favorably by their letter No. 10/12/2020-IFAD dated 7th April 2021.

Innovation as National Interest

Multi-functional LDPE Tanks enhancing productivity and income: The

project has built 3,568 LDPE Tanks with the purpose of providing

protective irrigation. The project organised Mulching Sheet and Poly house

from Horticulture Department and Drip and Sprinkler from PMKSY

through convergence. The impact of these tanks has been very positive.

Irrigation per crop increased almost 3-4 times providing lifesaving

irrigation during water scarcity period; this helped farmers introduce new

crops especially off-season vegetables, spice, fruits, as well as seed

production (158.00 ha under spices; 259 ha under vegetables; 45.24 ha

under seed production; 5.06 Ha under floriculture). Additionally, the


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project has helped farmers start cold water fish farming in the LDPE tanks.

Currently, there is Trout Farming in 150 tanks (Cold water fishery) and

Common Carp, Silver Carp, Grass Carp in 750 tanks. The LDPE Tanks have

contributed to an overall increase in production by 25-50% and increase in

income by 30-40%.

ILSP & Sustainable Development Goal:

Goal

No.

Goals Project Intervention Project Target Project

Achievement

1 End poverty

in all its

forms

everywhere

Food security and scaling

up through community

institutions and promote

farm / non-farm activities.

Improved market access

for rural households

Vocational training for

youths

Watershed Treatment

Improved Access to bank

finance

Households

benefitted 126000

Significant number

of households

assets

Incremental

household’s

incomes from

project

interventions

137109

Households

benefitted

-

Rs. 37790 /-

(Rs/hh)

incremental

household incomes

from project

interventions over

baseline.

2 End hunger,

achieve food

security and

improved

nutrition and

promote

sustainable

agriculture

and decent

work for all

Promote Agriculture

Activities including Micro

irrigation

Awareness through


Increase food self-

sufficiency

Increase farm yield

Incomes from sale

of farm and non-

farm produce

-

70% households

reporting increase

farm yield

72 % households

reporting incomes

from sale of farm

and non-farm

produce

3 Ensure

healthy lives

and promote

well-being for

all at all ages

Ensuring Availability of

quality food to all

Prevalence of child

malnutrition

-


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5 Achieve

gender

equality and

empower all

women and

girls

Ensuring women

participants

Gender policy


Minimum 50%

women

participation

87 % women

participation

8 Promote

sustained,

inclusive and

sustainable

economic

growth, full

and

productive

employment.

Developing and nurturing

Community institution

(PGs/VPGs

LCs/Federations)

Vocational Training to

rural youth

Over 10000

institutions

10000 youth

trained under

vocational training

with 60% women

80% gain

employment

14228 institutions

have formed

24398 youths

trained under

vocational with 61

% women

78% gain

employment

13 Take urgent

action to

combat

climate

change

and its

impacts

Watershed treatment Increase of 10% in

vegetative

biomass.

Increase of 10% in

water availability.

200 Ha. of Fallow

lands/barren land

to be brought

under cultivation.

Increase 3800 Ha.

area under rainfed

crop and

production.

10% in vegetative

biomass Increased.

-

270.912 Ha. of

Fallow

lands/barren land

to be brought

under cultivation.

5676.14 Ha. Area

covered under

rainfed crop and

production.


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Logical framework: Progress against objectives, outcomes and outputs

Results

Hierarchy

Indicators Baseline MTR Till

March

2021

End target

Goal: Reducing

poverty in hill

districts of

Uttarakhand

-Average number of

assets of 126,000

households

0 -* significant

-Prevalence of child

malnutrition

39% 39% -* 33%

-% of households

reporting food

shortages

13% 5% 2% 2%

Development Objective

Rural

households

enabled to take

up sustainable

livelihood

opportunities

integrated with

the wider

economy

-Households

reporting incomes

from sale of farm and

non-farm produce

(%)

46% 50% 72% 60%

-Incremental

household incomes

from project

interventions (Rs/hh)

over baseline

0% Rs

20,000

Rs

33400

Rs

47,000

COMPONENT OUTCOMES

Food security &

scaling up:

106,000

households

from hill

communities

benefited from

increased crop

-farmers reporting

increased

productivity

0% 20% 70% 60%


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and livestock

production

Sustainability of

community

organizations:

Sustainable

community

institutions

--Federations and LCs

livelihood collectives

operating successfully

30% 35% 98% 60%

Market access:

Improved

market access

for rural

households

-increases in farm-

gate prices over

baseline

0% 50% 70% 100%

Participatory

watershed

development:

20,000

households with

improved access

to water and

become less

vulnerable to

erosion

Fallow lands brought

under cultivation;

Increased area under

rainfed crop and

production

0 ha

0 ha

0 ha

1,520

ha

270.912

5676.14

200 ha

3,800 ha

Livelihoods

Financing:

Improved access

to bankfinance

to 60150

households

Households accessing

loans from financial

institutions

0% 20% 57% 50%

COMPONENT OUTPUTS

Component 1:

Food security &

scaling up

-PG & VPG established

-Federations, LCs

supported

-Federations & LC

0

0

0

4,750

126

126

12144

233

214

8,800

214

150


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undertaking inputs

and output

aggregations

-collection centres

pooling farm produce

-action research

subprojects initiated

-10,000 youth

completed vocational

training

- % women

participation

0

0

0

0

0

15

688

80%

131

15

18619

61%

130

15

9,988

80%

Component-2:

Watershed

management

-22 micro-watershed

planned and

implemented

-19,650 ha treated

0

0

22

8,930

22

27150

22

19,650

Component 3:

Livelihoods

financing

-60,150 households

facilitated for

availing institutional

finance

0 12,000 38067 60,150


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Annual Work Plan & Budget 2020-21

For FY 2020-21 ILSP has provisioned a budget of INR 141.79 Crore. A brief

summary of AWPB is -

SN Sub – Components (major activities)

Annual Targets

(INR Crore)

IFAD Share (INR

Crore)

Observations

1. Food Security & Scaling

Up (sustainability of

Livelihood

Collectives/Federations)

18.97 17.07 For the sake of the sustainability of

Livelihood Collectives/Federations,

43 Capacity building programmes

are proposed and 24 Institutional

development training programmes

are planned for PGs/VPGs

strengthening. For exploring and

up-scaling of activities, 07 up-

scaling projects are introduced and

to be implemented in various

sectors includes 1) Integrated Dairy

Farming Model, 2) Goat Breeding, 3)

Integrated Farming Model, 4) Seed

Production, 5) Nursery raising of

vegetable, fruits, medicinal &

aromatic plant and fodder plants, 6)

Establishment of complete papaya

value chain in cluster approach., 7)

Organic Farming

2. Access to Market

(Market Promotion,

Hilans Barnd

Development, Product

Development)

20.15 18.03 Common facilities at LC level (4

collection centers) and 25

Agribusiness growth centers

(ABGCs) are to be operationalized

under the MSME scheme of the Govt

with the convergence of MSME and

other line dept and IFAD. Promotion

of Rural product under Hilans

Brand- 9 Hilans Fairs, 42 Buyer

Seller Meets, 4 Exposure visits to the


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market, 69 Post-harvest

Management Training, 54 Training

on Aggregation are proposed. Under

Product Development and market

support- 21 Nano Packaging Units

are planned to maintain symmetry

in the packaging of rural produce.

3. Innovation Linkage

(Innovative project

through Line depts.,

NGOs, DM project &

others)

0.71 0.64 Replication of innovative

technologies towards sustainable

livelihoods

4. Vocational Training

(skill enhancement &

employment)

2.00 1.8 Under the bidding contract(s) of 500

youths will be trained on agri/horti

and allied activities, facilitate for

employment/self-employment.

5. Project management

UGVS

12.45 8.37 Salary and operating expenses &

office equipment.

6. Watershed Treatment

(Watershed and village

Development)

38.18 26.51 Major works (Treatment of Arable

Land, agriculture, horticulture,

livestock, forestry, Drainage line

treatment & Soil conservation,

water harvesting & minor irrigation,

rural access & other activities) in

190 GPs under 22 micro watershed,

7 Capacity building programmes

with 10 exposure visit within state,

60 units (11455 rm) are proposed

under additional support to Chain

link fencing activity and 164 units

for additional support for vulnerable

household support. For Promotion

of Rural product under Hilans

Brand- 3 Buyer Seller Meets and 3

Exposure visits to market are

proposed.


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7. Livelihood Finance 43.98 2.87 CCL, TL, KCC and Development

Finance, Insurance, Financial

Literary.

8. Monitoring &

Evaluation, Knowledge

Management, CPCU

5.35 4.31 Block, Division & State level meeting

(i.e. knowledge sharing, periodic

review), AOS, End- Term Survey and

other surveys, Documentary movies

of success cases, Audit and IIIrd

party concurrent monitoring,

Knowledge Sharing workshop, ICT

materials etc.

Planned Budget for

2020-21

141.79 79.59

Component Wise AWPB 2020-21

Code Component

AWPB 2020-2021 Financing Plan (000)

Units Amount

(000) GoUK IFAD Banks

B.

Contrib

ution

G1 Food Security & Livelihood Enhancement

24323 5,42,807 81,712 4,59,094

2,000

G2 Participatory Watershed Management

4263 3,81,818 96,612 2,65,064

20,142

G3 Livelihood Finance – UPASAC

396 4,39,802 11,072 28,730 400,000

G4 Project Management

985 53,501 10,419 43,083

Total 29,967 1,417,928 199,815 7,95,970 400,000 22,142


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Category Wise AWPB 2020-21

Category Wise

AWPB 2020-21- Amount (‘000)

Amount GoUK IFAD Banks

B.

Contributio

n

Inves

tmen

t

Cost

I Civil Works 28,407.50 2,840.75 22,758.75 2,808.00

II Watershed

Treatment

171,700.00 17,170.00 137,360.00 17,170.00

III Vehicle,

Equipment

and Materials

8,850.00 2,212.50 6,637.50

IV Capacity

Building

427,726.61 40,608.66 384,953.95 2,164.00

V Livelihood

Financing

403,750.00 3,750.00 400,000.00

VI Service

Provider

Contracts

198,158.00 19,815.80 178,342.20

Sub Total 1,238,592.11 19,815.8 733,802.4 400,000.00 22,142.00

Recu

rring

Cost

VII

Incremental

Salary and

Operating

Costs

179,335.94 117,167.97 62,167.97

Total 1,417,928.05 199,815.68 795,970.37 400,000.00 22,142.00


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BEST PRACTICE

INDIGENOUS INNOVATION TO SECURE LIVELIHOODS -CHAIN LINK

FENCING INITIATIVE

One of the many chronic challenges faced by the farmers involved with

Integrated Livelihood Support Project (ILSP) of Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas

Samiti (UGVS) was animal conflict in the farm field. International, national and

local expertise failed to address the problem. In the thirteenth year of

operation UGVS took up a pilot and discovered the Chain Linked Fence is an

irrefutable solution to keep the wild animals out of farm. Now the solution is

adapted by many farmers and crop yields are nearly getting doubled. Demand

of the fence has grown manifold and some farmers who have abandoned there

fields are returning.

Villagers in Chamba district said,”we were least interested in farming as wild

animals destroyed our hard work .Whatever little we sow was destroyed by wild

boars, porcupines or monkeys ”.One of the villager said that ‘We had no option

but to leave our village and migrate to cities in search of work so that we can

feed our families .But our situation took a U-turn since we have started

using FENCE provided by ILSP-UGVS to protect our fields from wild

animals” .

Uttarakhand is subject to many harsh realities for its inhabitants who struggle

on a daily basis to meet their ends .Its farmers have always been exposed to

various external risks like weather dependence, market prices, inputs

availability etc .Another potent risk for farming is damage to crops by stray or

wild animals like Wild Boar, Beer, Deer, Porcupine, Saul, Wild Rabbit and

Monkeys etc .These animals cause significant loss either by simply feeding on

crop, running over the field, trampling over the crops or tilling the soil and

thus provoking additional financial problems .

Dealing with the man-animal conflict situation becomes even more difficult as

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As a result of crop destruction by wild animals, farmers had gradually lost

interest in farming and are quitting agriculture .

In Uttarakhand most of the farming activities are carried out by women

making it even more difficult to guard the fields .On top of that financial

insecurities makes it even difficult for the farmers to tackle the problem .With

an average household of four to six members surviving on an average monthly

income of a meager Rs 5,000 to 6,000, farmers have no means to fight to these

intruders.

Destruction Statistics A survey conducted by Akhil Bhartiya Kisan

Mahasabha in 2016-17 showed that only 20 %of agricultural land in the hills

is being cultivated while the remaining 80 %is either lying barren or is sold

for commercial purpose to outsiders .

The Census data from 11 hill districts showed the maximum number of 36,401

farmers migrated from Almora, 35,654 from Pauri, 33,689 from Tehri, 22,936

from Pithoragarh, 18,536 from Chamoli, 15,075 from Nainital, 11710 from

Uttarkashi, 11,281 from Champawat, 10970 from Rudraprayag, and 10,073

from Bageshwar. The figures will be more gruesome if collected on a year on

year basis.

According to the 2011 Census data, as many as 2, 26,949 farmers left farming

and migrated from their birth places .Migrated farmers were reduced to

manual labourers in various cities for survival of their families .Women of

these migrated men were left behind in villages to manage household work,

animal husbandry and agriculture needs.

Historical Overview: The farmers since decades have been either manually

guarding the fields or using tricks and methods like use of scare crow,

crackers, fire to keep the wild animals away from their fields .Some also used

dry fallen trees to make boundaries around the farm .These methods resulted

only in restricted protection of crops due to human limitations of functioning

in difficult terrain, inclement weather and night hours.


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Integrated Livelihood Support Project )association with the farmers has been

long, directly working at the village level it has closely seen the situation of the

farmers worsening due to man-animal conflict in the state .The long

partnerships of ILSP with the farmers proved that it was not a touch and go

kind of an organisation .It has stayed for long, has helped, guided farmers in

various activities, over the years it has build reputation and trust amongst its

beneficiaries .

ILSP is implemented by Uttarakhand Gramya Vikas Samiti) in association with

Government of Uttarakhand and International Fund for Agricultural

Development (IFAD) with a goal to enable rural households to take up

sustainable livelihood opportunities integrated with the wider economy. It is

being implemented in 41 Blocks and 11 hill Districts of the state.

To end the menace of wild animals ILSP sought suggestions from various

Universities /Research Institutions in the hills .The advices received were use

of shinning tapes like video tapes or audio tapes, beating of bell, use of animal

excreta, use of forate insecticide granule, electric fencing, keeping Honey Bees

etc .After research and exploring practicable viabilities, these methods

appeared to be either practically in viable, ineffective or too costly.

Indigenous Solution While numbers of alternatives were practiced by farmers

to protect the crops from damage by wild animals; none assured 100 %

success in crop protection .A simple technique of fencing called Chain Link

Fence1 was seen as ultimate solution .ILSP came across a pilot done by its

Watershed Management Development team in a small farm land in

Uttarakhand . Seeing its success in April 2017, UGVS proposed to use this

Fencing technique as a solution to curb man-animal conflict in its projection

areas.

Pilot Chain Link Fencing as a solution to save the crops from wild animals was

discussed with farmers associated with ILSP Livelihood Cooperatives .It was

1The fences used are made of metal wires woven together to form a physical barrier .These

fences are effective, long lasting and require relatively little maintenance( .add specification from

slide.)Specification –3”*3 ”GI Wire, Dia 3.15 mm, Height 1.5 meter, 1170 running meter 3 ha)


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assessed that the average land holding per Livelihood Collectives was 40-45

Ha out of which 30-35 Ha was exploited by wild animals .It was decided to

pilot the project initially in 7.5 Ha which was about one third of the total

affected .

Under the Chain Link Fence Pilot, 85 %cost i.e, the cost of fence was provided

by UGVS .The remaining 15 %i.e, cost of installation was beneficiaries

contribution .The fence would be stored at each Livelihood Collective Center

from where the interest member can rent out the required bundle of fence .

The rent rate was decided by the LC stakeholders unanimously .On an average

the rent is Rs 100 to Rs 1000 per running meter based on area or duration .

LCs also rent out the fences to non-member farmers for 20 %extra rental cost .

UGVS procured 2340.00 running meter with 1.5 meter height of fence per

Livelihood Collective .From April 2017 till March 2020, Chain Link Fence

method has been used by 131 Livelihood Collectives reaching an average of

500 households .A total of 2145.8 ha area has been covered using the fence .

Files to Field stories : Rekha Devi lives with her husband, two children and old

in-laws in Jujrali village, Pithoragarh .She is relieved after having fenced her

farmland .Earlier they had to guard the fields at night, light fire to scare away

the Wild Boar with limited success .They could not afford fencing .Chain link

fence has successfully kept the wild animal at bay .Now she and her family

are able to sleep peacefully at night .This season she harvested twice the

amount of cabbage .

Mazhaarchola is a small village of 6 families surrounded by Pine and Oak

forest in Garud, Bageshwar .The village is 1km away from the road .In the

village New Jyoti Utpadak Samoh has been growing vegetables since year

2015 .Often their crops were destroyed by wild animals .Bhopal Singh,

president of the group reiterates that they used to suffer loss of around Rs

90000 every season because of wild animal invasion .When they heard about

the Chain Link Fence initiative, they contacted ILSP representative and got

their farm fenced .The groups spend Rs 12000 in renting 1170 running meter


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fence and procuring 330 pillar .Earlier they had to be awake at night, at times

shout, beat drums or lit fire using wood to keep the wild animals away .Now

they are relaxed and hopeful .They have gathered courage to start growing

off-season vegetables.

Advantages of Chain Link Fencing:

Crop Safety :The fence provided a physical barrier to control the sabotage of

field from wild animals .It kept wild animals away from entering the fields and

damaging the crops .It also controlled the movement of domestic animals in

and around the fields thus saving crops from grazing.

Human-Animal Safety : The fence does not have electric current it does not

physically harm the humans or animals.

Animal safety :As the fence is like a closely spaced woven wire, it has a lower

risk of animals getting entrapped or injured .

Easy to install :The installation process is simple with use of wooden pillars.

Long Life : The fence can last upto at least 10 years as it is made of good

quality components and materials

Assurance of Protection: It assured 100 %protection from wild animals.

Outcome of the Pilot:

Productivity Enhancement : It was observed by ILSP team that in the crop

production increased in the fields which were protected by fences .An average

income from farm produce rose upto Rs.1.25 to Rs .0.65 Lakh from 10-20

Nalis of farm land, nearly doubling the income.

Re-cultivation of Cash crops :Farmers started cultivating cash crops as they

could believe in the safety provided by using fences.

Time Saver: The farmers were not required to manually guard the fields at

day and during nights, thus resulting in saving their times .


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Reduction in Women Drudgery : Women farmers could utilize their time in

other household activities not worrying about the crop.

Recreating Interest in Farming :Enhanced production and respite from

destruction from wild animals recreated the interest in farming among locals.

Increased farming :Good cultivation, better profits, increase household

income resulted in more farmers restoring to farming activities.

Crop Diversification :Good harvest, good results from fencing resulted in

building the trust and boosted farmers morale .Farmers started diversifying

in crops.

Increased Demand: Seeing the benefits of fencing the farms, more farmers

are demanding Fence from the federation .

Increase in Livelihood Collective’s Corpus: Rentals earned from letting the

fence increased LC corpus .It is estimated that the project would re payback

the initial input cost in three years .


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Table -1 Year wise and activity wise summary (Target Vs Achievement)

Year Name

Micro-Irrigation & Tanks

(NO.)

Fencing (Unit)

Fodder Cultivation

(Ha)

Use of Fallow Land (Ha)

Collection Centres

(No.)

Small Collection

Centres (No.)

Vocational Training to Youths

(No.)

KCC (No.)

CCL (No.)

Term Loan (No.)

2020-21 Target 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 5000 6000 1000

Achievement 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 5081 2567 929

2019-20 Target 768 128 585 680 25 247 3500 8100 1050 550

Achievement 768 128 585 680 25 247 2753 7122 1072 1423

2018-19 Target 948 302 595 495 75 164 17000 6500 800 800

Achievement 948 302 595 495 75 164 10991 6560 899 857

2017-18 Target 1047 86 230 250 17 279 7700 4500 600 300

Achievement 1047 86 230 250 18 279 4880 4561 761 360

2016-17 Target 371 0 10 0 5 0 800 51 41 8

Achievement 371 0 10 0 5 0 2416 1541 474 192

2015-16 Target 433 0 0 0 3 0 0 500 800 1200

Achievement 433 0 0 0 2 0 0 290 218 150

2014-15 Target 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Achievement 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

2013-14 Target 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1331 755 240

Achievement 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1082 735 147

Total Target 3568 516 1420 1425 131 690 29000 25982 10046 4098

Achievement 3568 516 1420 1425 131 690 21040 26237 6726 4058


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