1. Chief Executive Officer Jharkhand Watershed Mission
TYMA watershed: A turning point in total village development in Jharkhand state
B.Nijalingappa
Chief Executive Officer
Jharkhand Watershed Mission
Ranchi.
Date:

2. About TYMA Watershed Project
Area: 1016 ha.
Households: 632
ST &SC Households: 61%
Av. Ann. Rainfall: 1180 mm.
Forests: 35%
Culturable waste: 21%
NSA: 43% of Tot. area
Cropping Intensity: 116%
Fam. with food security: 33%
Families under BPL: 64%
Gola
Dist: 9 Km.
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3. Project Implementation
Project Implementation Agency: PRADAN
Initiation of Capacity Building phase: 2001
Initiation of Final Implementation phase: 2002
Completion of Watershed Project: 2008
Total budgetary outlay: Rs. 80 lakh
NABARD’s Assistance: Rs lakh
People’s contribution: Rs lakh
Loan from Banks: Rs lakh

4. Intervention Processes
Capacity building Phase
Reconnaissance survey
Initiating Social mobilization processes:
Organize women SHGs
Formation of Hamlet level Watershed Committees
Promotion of Apex level Watershed Association
Exposure to Purulia, W.B.
Visioning exercise
Entry Point Activities and preparation for Planning

5. Full Programme Implementation
Training of Watershed committee members on:
Technical design and Layout,
Measurement of works and payments,
Maintenance of books of accounts,
Training of farmers to adopt improved technology for productivity enhancement,
Creating pool of Community Resource Persons for livelihood service delivery including marketing,
Training of Watershed Community on maintenance of assets

6. Involvement of women in Planning process
Preparation of various Maps:
Resource map
Current Land use map
Problem map
Interventions Map
Overlaying family based plan map
Prioritizing and budgeting works
Role division for Implementation & Supervision by community

7. Changes: Pre and Post watershed Treatment
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Particulars
Pre-Treatment
Post Treatment 1.
SHG Promotion
54 (782 Members) *
Net Owned fund
19.79 lakh
Total credit disbursed
48.27 lakh
Bank Linked SHGs 44
Bank Loan mobilized
23.08 lakh 2.
Crop Cultivation
Net Sown Area
ha.
ha.
Area under Double cropping
60 ha.
309 ha.
Cropping intensity
115%
160%
Orchards
10.57 ha. 3.
Physical Infrastructure
Water Harvesting Tanks 13 40
Renovation of old WHTs - 9
Land Husbandry
ha.
Plantations & pasture dev.
33.71 ha.

8. Satellite imagery of Treated Areas of Auradih

9. Watershed Treatments in Auradih

10. Impact: Village Auradih
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Particulars
Pre-watershed
Post- watershed 1.
Net Sown Area
101 ha.(42% of Total land area)
178 ha. (58% of Total land area) 2.
Area under Double Cropping
17 ha. (17% of NSA)
102 ha. (57% of NSA) 3.
Area under Triple cropping
6 ha. (6% of NSA)
43 ha. (24% of NSA) 4.
Families with year-round food security
33%
80% 5.
Av. Annual income from agriculture
Rs. 4,600
Rs. 18,000 6.
Families accessing credit from banks
17 families
138 SHG member- families 7.
Months of engagement in farming
4 months
10 months

11. Use of pond under TYMA
Had more than one meter water in last year in 24 ponds in spite of the scanty rainfall.
Avg coverage of low and medium land ponds ( 28 nos) are:
Rabi: ha
Summer: ha
Community does crop planning as per water availability in the pond.
Average earning from fishery:
No of pond in which fish reared: 24
One villager (entrepreneur)- Ritulal Manjhi reared fish in 7 pond (own 2)- average earning Rs /- from each pond .

12. Watershed committee fund
Main source:
Working as a Resource Persons.
Charges varies from Rs per exposure.
Service charges claimed for training as trainer.
Renting charge from impliments owned by WC.
Disciplinary fine collected from villagers.
Use of this fund:
Maintaining the various structures developed.
Support the financial gap in some innovative projects such as Drip in mango orchard.
Organizing training for the villages on new crop package etc.
Supporting poor farmers and SHGs as decided by the WC

13. Socio-economic impact
SHGs, Watershed Committees sustain development initiatives
82% increase in enrolment of students in the primary schools,
38% increase in retention of girls students in the middle level,
Jangal Bachao Samiti has protected & rejuvenated 80 ha. forest,
2 –SHGs have taken bank loan under SGSY to install 2-MLI schemes to irrigate 18 ha.
Today, Auradih has 10 television sets, 16 motorcycles, 20 mobile phones and 150 bicycles.

14. Way Forward
Support adoption of technologies that can increase water productivity,
Bring in more areas in existing W/S under similar treatments to improve overall hydrology of the area,
Investments in farm allied & off- farm enterprises for landless families,
Attending to well-being needs of the community such as drinking water and sanitation, electrification and better road connectivity,
A bigger area (5000 to ha.) around Tyma Watershed could be brought under watershed treatment,
At the macro-level, Tyma watershed project can serve as a demo. for the State to facilitate formulation of favourable policy framework for convergence and livelihoods.

15. Thank you