Community Participation in Watershed Programme of Tarun Bharat Sangh in Rajasthan: A Critical Analysis
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Community Participation in Watershed Programme of Tarun Bharat Sangh in Rajasthan: A Critical Analysis
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RAJU
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J. P. Sharma
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Water is essential not only for agricultural production and maintenance of biodiversity but also for existence of life. Climate change is likely to affect hydrological cycle led to spatial and temporal variability in precipitation. The community based participatory watershed management is the one way to cope up with threat of water scarcity and depleting biodiversity. The various approaches and methodologies of watershed development were tried in many parts of country, but the successful cases are very few and scattered. Therefore, it is necessary to document the approach and methodology of such successful cases and assess the impact of watershed. In context of community based participatory approach, Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS) is well known for its valuable work in Alwar district of Rajasthan. This study was undertaken to document the genesis and efforts of TBS in watershed management and it’s up-scaling, to analyze social processes, extent of community participation and to assess the socio-economic impact of watershed. The study was conducted in Thanagazi tehsil of Alwar district of Rajasthan. The ex-post facto research design and survey method was used to assess the information on various parameters. This study shows that TBS had constructed more than 10,000 rain water harvesting structures through community involvement and contribution. TBS had up scaled their work from micro watershed development to river basin management. The key factors for success were people’s participation in term of money, materials and labour; use of indigenous knowledge and the honest and selfless leadership provided by TBS. The existence of high extent of conjunctive social processes with CSPI of 83.90 (cooperation index, accommodation and index assimilation index were 88.07, 79.64 and 84.00, respectively) along with low extent of disjunctive social process with DSPI of 33.97 (competition index and conflict index was 39.35 and was 28.58, respectively). The nature of people’s participation was ‘interactive participation’ and the PI score of 84.53 represents the ‘high extent of participation’ in the watershed area. The respondents of watershed area have higher level of risk orientation, socio political participation and low extent of women’s perceived drudgery. It was found that there is higher level of income from agriculture, increased employment opportunities to the extent of 147 man days per ha per year, increased land value and productivity of wheat and mustard in watershed villages. The benefit-cost ratio was found to the extent of 1.7:1 and 1.9:1 for wheat and mustard respectively, which indicate that cultivation is economically viable in watershed villages. It is the need of hour that there should be encouragement for community based watershed development with ensured participation to address the concerns of sustainable development, natural resource depletion and erosion, preserving biodiversity and to supplement income on equitable basis in the water scare region. |
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2016-11-29T11:44:16Z
2016-11-29T11:44:16Z 2011 |
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Thesis
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http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/88063
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application/pdf
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IARI, DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
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