1. WASTELAND DEVELOPMENT
NRM TERM PAPER PRESENTATION
WASTELAND DEVELOPMENT
There is nothing called waste in this God’s creation-UPNISHAD

2. STRUCTURE OF PRESENTATION
DEFINITION OF WASTELAND
CAUSES OF LAND DEGRADATION
TYPES OF WASTELANDS
GOVT. POLICIES SO FAR
GOVT. SCHEMES SO FAR
REVIEW
IWDP SCHEME
SPWD
SUGGESTIONS ON LEARNING
REFERENCES

3. What is a wasteland??? According to Bhumbla &Khare……
A) which are eco logically unstable
B) Whose top soil has been nearly completely lost
C) which have developed toxicity in root zones for growth of most plants, both annual crop and trees.
Source of photo-

4. NWDB Definition-
degraded land which can be brought under vegetative cover with reasonable effort and which is currently under utilized and land which is deteriorating for lack of appropriate water and soil management or on account of natural causes
Source-

5. CAUSES OF LAND DEGRADATION
OVER CULTIVATION
DEFORESTATION
OVERGRAZING
IMPROPER IRRIGATION PRACTICES
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6. TYPES OF WASTELANDS ACCORDING TO NRSA & SOI-13 TYPES
1.Gullies and/or ravines Upland with or without scrub Waterlogged and marshy land 4. Land affected by salinity /alkalinity in coastal and inland areas Land under shifting cultivation Under utilized / degraded notified forest land Degraded pasture / grazing land 8. Degraded land under plantation crops 9. Shifting sands- inland /coastal Mining / industrial wastelands Barren rocky / stony waste/ sheet rock areas Steep sloping area Snow covered and/ or glacial area.

7. TOTAL AREA-638518.31 sq.kms …..SOURCE-dolr.nic.in/iwdp1.htm

8. POLICIES SO FAR.. GOVT. OF INDIA land use policy(1983)
National Land Resources Conservation and Development Commission (NLRCDC)
National Land Board (NLB)
National Land Use and Wastelands Development council (NLWC)
The National wasteland Development Board (NWDB)
IWDP (Integrated wasteland development Project)

9. SCHEMES SO FAR.. GRANTS IN AID TO NGOS
DECENTRALISED PEOPLE’S NURSERIES
SILVIPASTURE FARM
SEED DEVELOPMENT
AREA ORIENTED FUELWOOD & FODDER PROJECT
ARIEL SEDING PROG.
PLANTATION OF MINOR FOREST PRODUCE
MARGIN MONEY SCHEME
RURAL EMPLOYMENT SCHEME

10. REVIEW
By March, schemes sanctioned with total outlay cr.
63 projects completed/ foreclosed.
It lacked addressing ecological crisis &people’s participation.
It has failed to achieve the target of 5 mha/year.
By over all it has failed.

11. IWDP SCHEME Success story- Sivganga district of Tamilnadu.
In effect since along with NWDB
Only non forest wastelands are taken up.
Its objective are based on village/ micro watershed plans.
Activities- In situ soil/ moisture conservation, plantation, agro- forestry & horticulture, training, extension, awareness, capacity building, engineering structures etc.
Success story- Sivganga district of Tamilnadu.

12. SPWD..An organisation with mission
Activities- collaborative project with grass root organisation,Networking, policy advocacy
Functional Area- Land, water, forest & natural resources.
Programmes- Himalayan region, south region,westrn region, eastern region, JFM, small water harvesting
Publications- Wasteland news, parti Bhoomi samachar,van sahayog.

13. Suggestions on learning
Govt. should view a forestation as a support to agriculture.
People’s involvement by mobilization.
Separate line of credit by banks/FI.
Transfer of available technology.
Each dev. Project should involve reclamation cost of waste resources.
Sufficient planning for raising of nursery. Etc.

14. Text references.
RD.D.2 Rural Development programme, a magazine from Indira Gandhi National Open University school of continuing Education.
Description and classification of wasteland, Ministry of environment and forests, New Delhi.
Report of the National commission on agriculture Resource Development ,Part-V, ministry of agriculture , New Delhi.
dolr.nic.in/iwdp1.htm
sivaganga.nic.in/wland_dev.htm
dolr.nic.in/wasteland_division.htm
rural.nic.in/annualrep0304/chapter21.pdf
angul.nic.in/iwdp.htm
Spwdindia.org.

15. THANK YOU
Presented by-
RASHMI RANJAN PARIDA
ROLL NO-37
PGPRM-1