DHALAI DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION
ACTION PLAN OF
DHALAI DISTRICT ON
CONVERGENCE UNDER
MGNREGA DURING THE
FY 2015-16
[Year]
L
Government of Tripura
office of the District programme coordinator
(District Magistrate & Coilector)
Dha la i District, Jawa ha rnagar
Phone: 0382G-2O7 21_4, FAX: O3g 26_267
E-Ma il: dmdha la [email protected]
F. 3 ( 1_56-2 2) / DM(D)/ M G N RE;N/
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2I5
March 31,,2015
To
The Additional secretary to the Government of Tripura,
Rural Development Department,
Agartala
Subject:
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Submission of Modified Action Plan on Convergence lnitiatives
under MGNREGS during the Fy 201.5_1,6
Sir,
ln pursuance of the Dhalai District-level Meeting held by Shri V. K.
Bahuguna, Principal Secretary, Agriculture, Forest, Animal Resources Dev.
Departments, on 27 .03.2015 in respect of finalization of the Convergence plan
under MGNREGS, I would like to submit herewith a modified Action plan
specifying financial implications for the convergence initiatives to be
undertaken under MGNREGS during the FY 2OtS-1,6 in Dhalai district.
This Action Plan will substitute the provisional Action Plans submitted
earlier.
Yours
Enclosure : As stated above
/\iY"6\ \irely,
(Dr. Milind Ramte(e, tAS)
District Progra m me Coord inator
District Magistrate & Collector
Dhalai District, Jawaha rnagar
MGNREGS CONVERGENCE PLAN OF DHALAI DISTRICT
2015-16
1. Introduction :
1.1.
The convergence framework conceptualized in the MGNREGA
mandates creation of a synergistic framework for optimal and productive
utilization of resources available under various development schemes to
expand the economic base of rural livelihood opportunities on a sustainable
scale. Convergence evolves through pragmatic planning and implementation
processes that inevitably require continuous, focused engagement of
stakeholder agencies for creation of the requisite economic assets that can
eventually be leveraged to elevate household income earnings.
1.2.
In context of Dhalai District, convergence plan entails a conspicuous
emphasis on plantation and other gainful primary sector activities like
rearing poultry chicks that take into perspective local topographical features,
climatic conditions, extent of poverty and backwardness, workforce
characteristics and their skill, scope for capacity development, availability of
plantation materials and other essential inputs, marketing opportunities and
profitability, together with collateral ecological benefits to be accrued – so as
the outcome of such convergence activities eventually ensures a decent
income level and living standard for the stakeholder families. Instead of a
piecemeal approach, the convergence plan of the District seeks to unify and
direct the flow of resources of MGNREGS and other Departmental Schemes
to enduringly fasten the targeted beneficiary families with the contemplated
economic activities.
1.3.
The District is also poised to provide an ever more impetus to the
coveted goal of open defecation free (ODF) villages, with intensified efforts
being put in to construct household sanitation facilities coupled with built-in
provisions for water-storages, without which such toilet units would lapse
predictably into disuse and redundancy.
1.4.
The plan also aspires to convert the component of solid liquid waste
management into a veritable economic venture for self help groups by
setting up of vermi-compost units. Manure yields of such units would be
ploughed back as inputs for plantations – whether raised in convergence
mode or as standalone MGNREGS plantations.
2. Modalities for Convergence :
2.1.
All the convergence initiatives would be within the ambit and avowed
objectives of the MGNREGA.
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2.2.
Financial resources and wherever necessary, technical expertise of
Line Departments would be utilized
utilized.
2.3.
Line Departments would also be assigned as PIA in implementation of
the convergence initiatives.
3. Strategy and Approach :
3.1.
In the Dhalai Distr
District
ict Level Meeting held on 11.02.2015,
11.02.2015 presided over
by the Hon’ble Sabhadhipati of Dhalai Zilla Parishad and attended by all the
Hon’ble Chairpersons of Panchayat Samitis and BACs, BDOs, and Line
Department Officials, it was decided that various income generating
gen
plantations would be provided to about 2500 poor tribal and non-tribal
non
families having MGNREGA Job Cards.
3.2.
While selecting the prospective beneficiaries of such income generating
plantations, preference was intended to be given to the Jhumia families
famili in
bordering areas, in keeping with the direction issued by the Hon’ble Chief
Minister in the meeting conducted at Gandacherra on 27th and 28th
December, 2015. Instructions were accordingly issued to all the RD Blocks
for selection of beneficiaries and inclusion of the plantations into the
respective Shelf of Projects of MGNREGA for the FY 2015
2015-16.
16.
3.3.
Accordingly all the RD Blocks of Dhalai District have meanwhile
selected beneficiaries.
3.4.
The kinds and extent of plantations to be raised have been
conceptualized
ized taking into consideration the availability of saplings/plants,
capabilities of Line Departments, preferences of the prospective
beneficiaries, extent of water availability vis
vis-à-vis
vis plant endurance, and scope
of marketing linkages.
4. Convergence initiative with Horticulture Department Schemes :
4.1
Areca nut Plantation : The areca nut palm is the source of common chewing
nut, popularly known as betel nut or Supari. In India it
is extensively used by large sections of people and is
very much linked with religious practices. India is the
largest producer of areca nut and at the same time
largest consumer also. Areca nut is well-suited
well
for the
temperature and rainfall conditions of Dhalai District.
The plant is known for its adaptability to a varying soil
and rainfall conditions like in the areas receiving annual rainfall of 750 mm
in Maidan parts of Karnataka to 4,500 mm in Malnadareas of
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Karnataka. Being sturdy and enduring in nature, and with minimal
requirements of irrigation and nurturing, areca nut cultivation turns out to be
a natural and prudent choice for convergence activities in Dhalai District.
What makes it more economically rewarding is the existence of ready
markets in neighboring Assam, and as much marketability in other states too.
Areca nut plants form non-invasive canopy, paving way for other short-term
intercrops like papaya, etc. to be grown up alongside, exerting a multiplier
effect on income earnings of the households opting for areca nut plantations.
4.1.1. Composition of the planned convergence initiatives in Areca nut
Plantations:
Name of Block
Total Cost of
Plantations
100
100
40
20
Total Number of
Areca nut
plants/saplings
needed @ 1500
plants for each
beneficiary (to
be provided by
Horticulture
Department as
per the
decision)
(3)
1,50,000
1,50,000
60,000
30,000
Salema
DurgaChowmuhuni
Chawmanu
Dumbur-nagar
50
100
TOTAL
(1)
Manu
Ambassa
Raishyabari
Ganganagar
Number of
beneficiary
families already
selected by the
Blocks to provide
Areca nut
Plantation @ 0.5
ha of RoFR/Jote
land
Technical
Convergence
Capacity
Building
Convergence
(4)
Rs.60 lakh
Rs.60 lakh
Rs.24 lakh
Rs.12 lakh
Financial
Convergence
in the form of
cost of seedplants/
saplings and
fertilizers to be
borne by
Horticulture
Dept. as per
the decision
(5)
Rs.15 lakh
Rs.15 lakh
Rs.6 lakh
Rs.3 lakh
(6)
Technical
guidance to be
provided by
Horticulture
Dept.
(7)
Training of
beneficiary
households for
capacity
development to
be imparted by
Horticulture
Dept
75,000
1,50,000
Rs.30 lakh
Rs.60 lakh
Rs.7.50 lakh
Rs.15 lakh
Do
Do
50
50
75,000
75,000
Rs.30 lakh
Rs.30 lakh
Rs.7.50 lakh
Rs.7.50 lakh
510
7,65,000
Rs.426
lakh
Rs.76.50
lakh
(2)
4.2.
Pineapple plantation : Like areca nut, pineapple is also highly
remunerative cultivation, and is well-suited to the local climatic conditions of
Dhalai District. With assured market and consumer demands, pineapple
cultivation has always been considered to be a means of earning sustainable
income. With advent of technologies like staggering of plantations through
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application of growth stimulating hormones, people
are increasingly being drawn to staggered mode of
plantations for it affords them to reap unseasonal
harvests that would fetch them higher
high market price,
particularly during festive seasons.
4.2.1. Composition of the planned convergence initiatives in Pineapple
Plantations:
Plantations:
Name of
Block
(1)
Manu
Ambassa
Raishyabari
Ganganagar
Salema
DurgaChowmuhuni
Chawmanu
Dumburnagar
TOTAL
Number of
beneficiary
families already
selected by the
Blocks to
provide Areca
nut Plantation
@ 0.5 to 1.0 ha
of RoFR/Jote
land
@ 25000 pine
apple plants
(2)
50
56
40
50
45
Total Number
of suckers
needed @
25000 pine
apple plants
for each
beneficiary
Total Cost
of
Plantations
Financial
Convergence
in the form of
cost of
suckers and
fertilizers to
be borne by
Horticulture
Dept. as per
the decision
Technical
Convergence
Capacity
Building
Convergence
(3)
12,50,000
14,000,00
10,00,000
12,50,000
11,25,000
22,50,000
(4)
Rs.50 lakh
Rs.56 lakh
Rs.40 lakh
Rs.50 lakh
Rs.45 lakh
Rs.90 lakh
(5)
Rs.12.50 lakh
Rs.14 lakh
Rs.10 lakh
Rs.12.50 lakh
Rs.11.25 lakh
Rs.22.50 lakh
(6)
Technical
guidance to be
provided by
Horticulture
Dept.
(7)
Training of
beneficiary
households for
capacity
development to be
imparted by
Horticulture Dept
75
150
18,75,000
37,50,000
Rs.75 lakh
Rs.150
lakh
Rs.18.75 lakh
Rs.37.50 lakh
556
139,00,000
Rs.556
lakh
Rs.139 lakh
90
5. Convergence initiative with Forest Department Schemes :
Following are enunciation of the convergence
activities that would be taken up in conjunction with
the Forest Department on a cost-sharing
sharing basis. The
convergence would be based on the premise that
expenditures on account of material inputs like
plants/saplings/suckers/fencing etc., would be borne
out of the corpus of forest department schemes, while
the attendant wage expenditures
enditures would be sourced to MGNREGS.
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5.1 Composition of the Convergence Initiatives with Forest Dept. :
Physical Target
Total
project cost
Forest
Departmental
Share
(Rs. in lakhs)
MGNREGA
Share
(Rs. in lakhs)
PIA
Item
Quant
um in
area
Creation and maintenance
of 2015 & 2014 bamboo
and other plantation like
jackfruit/pine-apple etc on
RoFR land & Forest land
203.5
53.02920
8.49120
44.53800
Creation and maintenance
of hill top plantation
20
10.65
2.20
8.45
Road side plantation
8
14.55600
0.26400
14.29200
River bank plantation
7
11.55000
0.52500
11.02500
90000
5.11200
0.26500
4.84700
1
5.55
0.55
5.00
100.44720
12.29520
88.15200
120
38.39280
5.94
32.45280
River bank plantation
4
3.82980
0.30
3.52980
Agro-forestry
10
6.74750
1.8475
4.90
Sub-total (DFO, Manu):
48.97010
8.08750
40.88260
Grand-total (Forest):
149.41730
20.38270
129.03460
DFO,
Ambassa
Raising of DCPN nursery
Development of
Longtharai Eco-park
Sub-total (DFO, Ambassa):
Bamboo plantation & SMC
6
DFO,
Manu
Quantum
in nos.
6. Convergence with Animal Resource Development Department for setting up of
Brooder Houses and other relevant activities :
Chick brooder houses are considered instrumental in augmenting production
of eggs and number of poultry birds. Chicks are housed until they are about six
weeks old, after which they no longer need the amiable heated environs maintained
in brooder houses. During their housing in brooder houses, chicks are administered
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all the required vaccinations, medicines and fed with balanced diet, which help
them grow up fast in healthy conditions. Poultry farms are generally inclined to
source their requirements from such brooder houses, since the birds are generally
found to be disease-free, and therefore mortality chances remain thin. In Dhalai
District, there is still a gap of availability of eggs as against per capita demand. In
terms of per capita availability of eggs, Dhalai District is still perched at a lower
position than that of the State Average.
Therefore, Hon’ble Chief Minister had asked to lay greater emphasis on
setting up at least 4-5 Brooder houses in each block area, to increase productivity
of poultry-meat and eggs that constitute vital nutritional sources.
The estimated cost for construction of one brooder house (2000 chicks
capacity) works out to be Rs.12.00 lakh as per the standard estimate of ARD
Department. Out of Rs. 12.00 lakh, Rs. 04.00 lakh per brooder house can be drawn
from MGNREGA (@Rs.0.40 lakh per beneficiary) considering the brooder house to
be operated by a SHG comprised of 10 women members. The residual requirement
of Rs.08.00 lakh per brooder house will be pooled from ARD Department @Rs.1.00
lakh and @Rs.7.00 lakh from BADP/BRGF. Construction of brooder houses will be
carried out by RD Department. Initial chicks (2000 number) and their feed,
vaccinations/medicines will be provided by ARD Department free of cost for each
brooder house. Location of brooder houses and NRLM compliant women SHG
groups are being selected by the concerned RD Blocks as per their allocation.
Training for rearing chicks to the SHG group members will be imparted by ARD
Department under BADP/BRGF capacity building fund at the disposal of DM &
Collector, Dhalai, in the month of April, 2015 onwards. Efforts will also be made to
make available some seed money to all these SHG groups through DRDA, Dhalai,
so that they may be able to manage initial financial requirements.
6.1.
Composition of the Convergence
Convergence Activities to be undertaken along with
ARD Department during the FY 20152015-16 are as follows:follows:-
Total project
cost
ARDD
Departmental
Share
(Rs. in lakhs)
MGNREGA/BADP/
BRGF
/Interest-Fund
Share
(Rs. in lakhs)
1.15725
0.01500
1.14225
Physical Target
Item
Development of perennial
pasture plots in farmer's land
under JFMC
Quantum
in area
Quantum in
nos.
0.04
3
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Cultivation of perennial fodder
crop in farmer's land/RoFR
land
0.08
80
9.41200
0.80000
8.61200
Cultivation of perennial fodder
crop (cumbo napier) in
farmer's land
0.12
280
25.09400
2.00000
23.09400
0.24
103
12.61185
0.47700
12.13485
0.16
3
0.70395
0.06000
0.64395
150
5.37000
0.03750
5.33250
Cultivation of perennial tuber
crop (tapioca) for raising
cutting multipication centre in
farmer's land
Cultivation of perennial fodder
crop (cumbo napier) for raising
cutting multipication centre in
farmer's land
Cultivation of azolla(as animal
feed supplement) of
specification 2m x 2m x 0.2m
Non-RoFR total:
0.64
619
54.34905
3.3895
50.95955
Development of perennial
pasture plots in farmer's land
under JFMC
0.04
2
0.77105
0.01
0.76105
Cultivation of perennial fodder
crop in farmer's land/RoFR
land
0.08
20
2.173
0.02
2.153
Cultivation of perennial fodder
crop (cumbo napier) in
farmer's land
0.12
70
5.783
0.45
5.333
Cultivation of perennial tuber
crop (tapioca) for raising
cutting multipication centre in
farmer's land
0.24
102
12.3729
0.468
11.9049
0.16
2
0.4693
0.04
0.4293
20
0.0716
0.0005
0.0711
216
21.64085
0.9885
20.65235
Cultivation of perennial fodder
crop (cumbo napier) for raising
cutting multipication centre in
farmer's land
Cultivation of azolla(as animal
feed supplement) of
specification 2m x 2m x 0.2m
RoFR total:
0.64
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Construction of poultry shelter
(Block level brodder house)
0
25
328.50
18.75
309.75
Construction of cattle shelter
in farmer's house
0
11
13.77904
6.60000
7.17904
Construction of poultry shelter
in farmer's house
0
13
6.17838
0.31200
5.86638
Construction of piggery shelter
in farmer's house
0
13
9.03500
0.91000
8.12500
Construction of goat shelter in
farmer's house
0
13
6.12430
0.91000
5.21430
Non-RoFR total:
0
75
363.6167
27.482
336.1347
Construction of poultry shelter
(Block level brooder house)
0
1
13.14
0.75
12.39
Construction of cattle shelter
in farmer's house
0
10
12.52640
6.00
6.52640
Construction of poultry shelter
in farmer's house
0
65
30.98190
1.65
29.33190
Construction of piggery shelter
in farmer's house
0
65
45.17500
4.55
40.62500
Construction of goat shelter in
farmer's house
0
65
30.62150
4.55
26.07150
0
206
132.44480
17.50
114.94480
1.28
1116
572.05142
49.36
522.69142
RoFR total:
Grand Total :
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7. Convergence in Fishery Activities :
Fish are a renewable resource: if well managed they can
provide sustained benefits to society in the form of food,
f
nourishment, revenue and jobs.
Following is an outline of the convergence activities planned
to be undertaken during the FY 2015
2015-16 along with the Fisheries
Department
Department.
Physical target
Item
Creation of new
water bodies
Reclamation of
water bodies
Total
Total project
cost
Fishery
Departmental
Share
(Rs. in lakhs)
MGNREGA
Share
(Rs. in lakhs)
Quantum in area
Quantum in
nos.
11.28
113
186.08159
13.33006
172.75153
16.34
164
143.97221
19.2815
124.69071
27.62
277
330.05380
32.61156
297.44224
8. Convergence in Agricultural Activities :
Agriculture constitutes the mainstay of an agrarian economy, and so is it in case
of Dhalai.
The convergence activities planned to be undertaken durin
duringg the FY 2015-16
2015
in
agriculture sector in conjunction with the Agriculture Department are delineated
below.
Physical target
Item
Land management including
levelling, clearing of
jungle/stubbles etc
Quantum in
area
Quantum
in nos.
1000
0
Total
project
cost
Agriculture
Departmental
Share
(Rs. in lakhs)
MGNREGA
Share
(Rs. in lakhs)
674.41
19.48
654.93
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Construction of water storage
structure on flat or tilla land
Total
2015-16
0
50
30.25400
2.59100
27.66300
1000
50
704.66400
22.07100
682.59300
9. Other Convergence Initiatives :
In addition, Horticulture Department will also be taking up other plantations
under MGNREGA convergence such as Orange, Lemon, Mausambi, Beetle-Nut etc.,
as per the number of beneficiaries selected by the various RD Blocks, with
provisions for gap filling. Operation and maintenance of all these Plantations will
also be undertaken with 10 percent operation and maintenance fund permissible
under MGNREGA in the next two-three years in order to ensure better survival rate
of the plants. All the plantations will be undertaken on cluster mode, with provision
built into estimate itself for proper fencing thereof.
The primary objective behind all the convergence initiatives outlined
above is to provide sustainable income generating
generating opportunities to more
or less 2500 poor families (mostly Jhumia families)
families) by raising plantations
on their RoFR/Jote
RoFR/Jote land during the course of the FY 20152015-16 by
leveraging the MGNREGA Convergence Initiatives under Dhalai District in
order to provide them sustainable income in future.
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10. Synopsis of the Financial Convergence between
between MGNREGS and Line
Department Schemes :
Sl.
No.
Name of
Department
Total project cost
1
2
4
Departmental
Share
(Rs. in lakhs)
5
1
Fisheries
330.05380
32.61156
297.44224
2
Agriculture
704.66400
22.07100
682.59300
3
ARDD
572.05142
49.36
522.69142
4
Horticulture
982.00
215.50
766.50
5
Forest
149.41730
20.38270
129.03460
2742.18652
344.92526
2404.26126
Grand-total :
MGNREGA Share
(Rs. in lakhs)
6
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