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Community Participation in Watershed Programme of Tarun Bharat Sangh in Rajasthan: A Critical Analysis

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Title Community Participation in Watershed Programme of Tarun Bharat Sangh in Rajasthan: A Critical Analysis
 
Creator RAJU
 
Contributor J. P. Sharma
 
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Description T-8502
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.
 
Date 2016-11-29T11:44:16Z
2016-11-29T11:44:16Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/88063
 
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Publisher IARI, DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION