Report on Village Visit (Mamdapur Village, Bibipet Mandal, Kamareddy District)

Submitted by (Group – 02):

1. Abhishek Kumar Singh

2. Amogh Gopinath

3. Harshit Todi

4. Anupam Singh

5. Ankit Jaiswal

DISTRICT BRIEF – Infrastructure & Health

District: Kamareddy

Mandal: Bibipet

Village: Mohammadapur (Mamdapur)

Social Map of Mamdapur Village

Social Mapping in progress

Timeline from village elders

Timeline of Mamdapur Village

Infrastructure

The Village has the following infrastructure facilities

Primary School: 2 (1 in Harijanwada)

High School: 1

Gram Panchayat building

Anganwadi: 3

Cattle shed: 1

PDS ration shops: 2

Banking facilities: 1 (Andhra Bank Micro Financial Institution)

Healthcare: 1 PHC sub-centre, 1 veterinary hospital

Overhead tanks: 4 (1 under construction - Mission Bhagirath)

Village tank: 1 (reconstructed under Mission Kakatiya)

Places of worship: 4 temples, 1 masjid and 1 church

Graveyard: 2

Agricultural Marketing: 1 Paddy procurement centre and 1 dairy co-operative centre

Streetlights: 370

Community centre: 1, belonging to SC community

Roads: 2 concrete roads

Households RCC Mangalore tiles Asbestos Huts

462 93 263 25 83

Paddy procurement centre

Primary school

Resource Map

Healthcare

The village has three Anganwadi centres, one sub centre and three private doctors. Two Anganwadi centres are running

on rented premises and would be shifted to permanent buildings which are under construction

Sub centre:

The sub centre has one ANM and three ASHA workers. They are provided with essential medicines and cater to the

entire village. A doctor from the PHC in Domakonda visits the centre once a week.

The sub centre encourages institutional deliveries. 26 KCR Kits have been provided by the centre. This contains a

monetary assistance of Rs. 4000 for baby boy and Rs. 5000 for baby girl. Apart from this, Rs. 5000 is provided for

immunisation

Anganwadi:

There are three Anganwadis – one for every 100 population.

The activities include

1. Immunization – Under Mission Indradhanush, all eligible mothers and children have been immunized

2. Nutrition and Food

3. Health Checkup

4. Counselling and Feedback

5. Pre-school education

6. Arogya Lakshmi for pregnant and lactating women

For pregnant and lactating women, 200ml of milk, 150gm of rice and 16gm oil is provided per day. For children between

3 weeks and 6 months, 100ml of milk is provided. For children between 6 months to 3 years, Balamrutham and 4 eggs

per week are provided

Balamrutham and Anganwadi centre

Anganwadi teachers explaining the learning methodology

Health scenario and awareness

The village has no major health problems and overall, the scenario of health is good

Awareness regarding health and disease prevention among villagers is high

The ANM and Anganwadi workers are very enthusiastic and their impact is clearly visible

Private doctors are also practicing in the village

The knowledge about government schemes like KCR kit is good among villagers

Visual aids are available in sub centre to create awareness among illiterate people

Health infrastructure is decent and there are no major problems

Problems regarding health

Sanitation is a major problem in some localities – especially near Harijanwada and ST colonies. This leads to

drainage flowing on the road which causes diseases

The village has only one ANM and three ASHA workers who are usually overburdened. Better support and

infrastructure in sub centre is required.

The RMP doctors can help in providing preventive healthcare, first aid and basic medical facilities if they are

trained and equipped with medical infrastructure

There is a boy named Kartik with Intellectual disability who is not getting adequate care and medical

intervention. Any support regarding his condition from the district administration would be very useful

Demography & Education

DEMOGRAPHY

Demographic details of village Mohammadapur of District Kamareddy in TELANGANA State are as follows:-

Mandal name – Domakonda

Household Size – 863

Total Population – 3190

Male – 1560

Female – 1630

SC – 716

ST – 32

Sex Ratio – 1045

Literates – 1788

Grampanchayat area – 2315 acres

Education:

Primary school – 2

Boys – 34

Girls – 33

Zila Parishad High school (ZPHS) – 1

Boys – 105

Girls – 104

Anganwadi center – 3

Literacy rate – 52%

Ressons for non –enrolment

1. Health factors

2. Social attitude

3. Economy of the household

4. Teacher related factors

Reasons for drop out

1. Low number of teachers

2. No toilet facility

3. School infrastructure insufficient

4. Lack of employment opportunities

5. Lack of education after 10th in village

Girl child problems

1. Household chores

2. Looking after younger siblings

3. Parental attitude towards education

4. Scarce resources

Incentives

1. Free text books

2. Uniform

3. Scholarship

4. Mid-day meal

5. Cycle

6. High school

Observations on education:

Due to new division of district and hence village, few difficulties related to resources.

Government catered from primary till secondary school. Private schools were in Mandal of district

Few drop outs. Reasons have been mentioned above.

100% pass in 10std last year.

Caters to nearby 3-4 villages.

No ICT education- No infra. Similarly, no labs, library or extra circulars.

No hostel for SC/ST students and girls.

Satisfactory Infrastructure in high school but not in primary school.

Functional Toilets but no buckets and soaps (no swachch bharat abhiyan).

School had a well-kept playground. Volleyball, cricket and badminton very popular.

One-third of the teacher posts vacant.

Students did not have satisfactory knowledge of even their class syllabus.

In 2015-16, 6 students were selected for IIIT-Hyderabad. This says about quality of education in high school.

During interaction, girls were more active than boys in asking questions. This symbolize rising awareness for education.

No untouchability practiced. Though school near to SC colony had more students from SC community.

Educated parents were more active than uneducated ones in parent-teacher meetings, homework, etc.

EDUCATION SUGGESTIONS:

1. Recruit teachers on priority basis.

2. Awareness about sanitation to students.

3. Emphasis should be on the quality of education.

4. Funds for general maintenance were quite less and not released on time.

5. More Awareness

6. Introducing English as a medium

7. Better and healthy mid-day meal

8. Parents teacher committee more vigilant

9. Increase competition among schools

10. Counseling to parents

11. More infrastructure

12. Career counselling is needed.

Agriculture & Land Reforms

Majority of the soils are Black Soil

Major Crops –

o Kharif:

Maize – 534 acres

Paddy – 560 acres

Vegetables – 0

Soybeans – 25 acres

o Rabi

Maize – 210 acres

Paddy – 415 acres

Bengal gram – 5 acres

Sunflower – 0

Horticulture

o Micro irrigation - Number of sprinklers, drip irrigation units = 0

Animal Husbandry

o Live Stock population

White – 360

Black – 1686

Sheep – 4605

Goat – 156

Others – 0

Total = 6807

Land Records Purification Scheme is undergoing to correct all land holding cases with in a time bound period.

There are schemes of land purchase, crop assistance, water facility etc. for small and marginal farmers.

Main problems faced by farmers are:

o Lack of irrigation facilities because of which much of the land in village is lying as wasteland.

o Monkey menace – which forces them to cultivate only paddy crops (rest are destroyed by the monkeys).

Poverty, Livelihood & Financial LIteracy

POVERTY , UNEMPLOYMENT AND LIVELIHOOD OF PEOPLE

There were 462 houses in the village out of which 93 are Pakka houses and the rest are the Kuchcha houses and are

below poverty line. There are 669 job cards issued in the village and number of unskilled labourers are 1562 whop

indulge in unskilled manual labour under MGNREGA during off agricultural season. There are total 829 FSC cards and 52

antyodaya cards.

PERCEPTION OF POVERTY BY VILLAGERS

Villagers consider poverty as a curse as they are not able to lead a life they aspire and also they are not able to fulfill the

basic needs of their family members. Some of them hardly able to meet their daily needs. They consider water scarcity

in the region as a major cause of poverty because of which the agricultural productivity is very low.

CAUSES OF POVERTY

1. Water scarcity in the region

2. Unemployment

3. Absence of other sectors so as to shift the burden of primary sector

4. Monkey menace

5. Absence of awareness and consensus among SHG members to start a collective economic activity.

EMPLOYMENT PATTERN :-

A large proportion of village population is engaged in farming activities . The major crops sown by them are paddy ,

maize, soyabean etc. There were 4 Beedi making centres which employed around 410 women. They even get a pension

of 1000 rupees. A very small proportion of village population is engaged in self employment activities.

FOOD AVAILABILITY FOR POOR :-

The major crops sown in the village is paddy , maize and soyabean. As the majority of population is indulge in farming

hence the availabilty of food with them is good. And for those who are not indulged in farming the availability of ffod is

taken care by government through FAIR PRICE SHOP , PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (PDS). The number of FSC cards

alloted are 829 and number of Antyodaya FSC alloted are 52.

POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMMES IMPLEMENTED :-

1. MISSION KAKATIYA :- A flagship programme of government aimed at restoring around 46000 tanks in 5 years to

provide irrigation source to about 25 lakh acres. It is aimed at improving ground water table thereby improving

agricultural productivity . As a part of mission activities like desiltation , repairing damaged sluices and

wearsrepairing dilipidated tanks etc.

2. HARITHA HARAM:- The aim is to increase the green cover of the state from 25.16% to 33% and to provide other

employment avenues for people. A total of 230 crores seedlings will be raised in the coming week.

3. PENSION SCHEMES :- In order to support the poor abd destitutes government provide a number of pensions to

groups like beedi workers , old age , widow , weavers , disables etc. The number of total pensioners in the

village is 940. ASARA PENSION is the most effective pension scheme of all. It meant to protect the most

vulnerable sections of the society like old and infirm , HIV-AIDS patient , weavers , toddy tappers etc.

4. HOUSING FOR THE POOR :- The schemes like Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana- Grameen , Indira Awaas Yojana etc

are being properly implemented and along with these the state government has come up with the “2BHK flats

scheme”.

5. LAND DISTRIBUTION TO DALITS :- Under this 3 acres of agricultural land is provided to the landless SC women

along with the provision for creation of irrigation facilities , land development and other agricultural inputs for

their sustained livelihoods.

FINANCIAL LITERACY CAMPAIGN

Most of the viilagers are aware about the basics of financial literacy as they know how to get a bank account open , how

to withdraw money from bank account , how to deposit money in their account. They are also aware about the use of

ATM and know how to use it. Only a small proportion of village population comprising veterans and small children are

not aware about these issues.

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN THE CAMPAIGN AND ACTIVITIES ORGANISED

We have organised a financial literacy campaign so as to make the villagers aware about the fraud practices being used

by the criminlas for forgery , cyber theft etc by luring in exchange of money prizes, lucky draws. We advised them to

keep the card details and pin secret and not to tell anybody if any caller ask for it. We also told them the importance of

OTP ( one time password ). A large number of village population participated in the campaign.

People’s attitude towards banks and financial institutions like micro finance bank , bank mitra etc is good and they are

quite satisfied with their service. There was a branch of ANDHRA BANK operating as a micro financial institution serving

the whole village. The bank was using a digital machine which is linked with AADHAR for depositing and withdrawing

money to and from the bank accounts.

NUMBER OF BANK ACCOUNTS –

NUMBER OF FEMALE ACCOUNT HOLDERS-

IMPACT ON THE BORROWING TENDENCY FROM MONEY LENDERS

With the proper coverage of Andhra Bank and increased awareness among the villagers regarding financial literacy the

dependency of village community over money lenders for borrowing money has decreased to a large extent. As now

they are aware that government is providing monetary assistance to them at a very low interest rate as compared to

what private money lenders charge. And also earlier bank were reluctant to provide loans to SHG groups who were not

engaged in collective economic activity and productive assets as a result of which they had to depend over private

money lenders for borrowing. But now government has ordered these banks to support SHG even if they are carrying

out economic activity individually. Hence their dependence over money lenders has decreased.

SWACCH BHARAT ABHIYAN MISSION (SBM)

According to our training program we conducted SBM on 11/11/2017 in Mohammadapur village, dist- Kamareddy. It

started from Zilla Parishad High School from where we stayed during this duration. During campaign we observed the

following points:

1. Villagers are fully aware of this mission.

2. Though they are aware of this mission, they don’t know the whole aspects of this mission. For example they just

know about ODF part so they made toilets with the government aid but they are not aware of waste

management and cleanliness of drain. We didn’t found any dumping ground and public dustbin at any place even

in school where we stayed.

3. It is sad that in spite of our effort we could not gathered more than 50 people in this campaign but they are

seeing the rally from their houses.

4. Generally people keep their houses clean but backside and front side of their houses are not so clean.

5. After SBM the behaviour of the villagers changed but not drastically.

6. Activities organised under SBM in the village including village school during last one year-

Swachh Bharat Campaign

Street cleaning program

Drainage cleaning

No. of toilets constructed-169

7. Impact of the Program

Villagers are aware about construction of toilets only however they are not aware of other related aspects

as drainage, waste management, cleaning of streets etc. Attitudinal change among people is still remains

the biggest hurdle.

After SBM instances of communicable diseases have been reduced. General health of people has improved.

During interaction with villagers it was found that health attains lower priority in their eyes.

8. Pollution Control

Pollution has not been controlled and soil and air pollution has been prevalent due to either throwing of

garbage in open fields or burning of the same.

9. Disposal of solid and liquid waste

No specific arrangement for disposal of waste .The waste is dumped or burned and villagers cannot

differentiate between solid and liquid waste.

No recycling or reuse of waste material was seen.

10. Financial Aspects

During 2015-16, budget allocation for SBM was Rs.8, 15,855 and in 2016-17 it was Rs.11, 30,059

for water supply and sanitation.

11. Success Story

Only in the field of ODF, all households have functional toilets but mind set towards sanitation

and cleanliness has not changed.

12. Status of cleanliness and sanitation in the village

Roads were clean but roadsides were not.

Drainage were not clean.

People have constructed toilets and are using them.

13. Problems in implementation of program

Lack of active participation of villagers

Lack of knowledge about bio degradable and non-bio degradable waste.

Non availability of proper system for waste management.

No specific area earmarked for waste disposal.