Project on
Rural Poor Children's
Access
to Education, Equity
& Liberation – 2006 - 07
Submitted to
ASHA
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PART- I
1)
Name and Address of the Organisation: SAHANIVASA,
#
22-977/1,
Morugani palli Raod,
Chittoor – 517 001 (A.P), INDIA
+91
8572 227475; Fax: 230804
E-Mail
: sahanivasa@sancharnet.in
2) Project Contact Person & Title: P.SURIA RAJINI,
Executive Director
3)
Amount Requested for the academic year 2006-07
S.No
|
Programme
|
Requested Amount
from ASHA for 2006-2007
|
Indian RS
|
USD
|
|
1.
|
Special Coaching for Dalits 10th
Std. Children
|
3,59,600
|
8267
|
|
2.
|
Dalit Primary School Supplementary Education
|
3,46,000
|
7954
|
|
3.
|
Special Coaching for Seventh Standard
Children:
|
5,24,000
|
12045
|
|
4.
|
Promote the livelihood Rights Through REGS
|
5,61,375
|
12905
|
|
|
Total
Budget
|
1790975
|
41171
|
While the one and two programmes are the
continuation of last year’s project with slight modifications, the third and
fourth programmes are new components included in this project. These two
programmes are included to address the problems of 7th standard
children, issue of migration, child rights and rural unemployment problems.
4) Can you accept for Foreign Contribution?
Yes,
SAHANIVASA is registered with Ministry of Home Affairs under FCRA.
FCRA Registered
No: 010140063.
5). Mission of the Organisation:
Provide
platform for the marginalized to discuss and understand the root causes of
deprivation, prepare them to combat the forces of oppression by protecting and
promoting the development which is combination of human values, human rights
and dignity as the central focus of development.
6). Aims of Rural Poor Children Access to
Education, Equity & Liberation:
We believe that,
it is the fundamental Right of every child without exception to receive free
and quality education, up to the age of 14 on the basis of equal opportunity,
without the discrimination on the basis of caste, class, gender or religion in
an environment of love and care and with appropriate facilities conducive to
joyful learning.
we initiate the
following to actualize the expressed aspiration .
F Provide education for Dalit children to
overcome the problems of illiteracy, socio- economic and cultural bondages.
F The teacher, parents and civil society have
responsibility to demand and pressurize the state to meet its obligation and a
duty to facilitate the process of realization of this Right by deprived and
bonded children.
F Provide special emphasize for Rural Poor
Children’s education in 7th and 10th std. in order to
make use of the available reservation spaces to go for better employment
opportunities and be accountable to the society.
F To stop the child labour and migration by
properly make use of the recently introduced REGS (Rural Employment Guarantee
Scheme) through the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
7) Location of project for which funding is
required:
G.D.Nellore,
Chittoor, and S.R.Puram mandals of Chittoor district.
8)
Projects; Target population:
Rural
poor children and their parents are our
target population. The Parents
predominantly being agricultural labourers sharecroppers, small and marginal
farmers from Dalit Bahujans communities, even the children are to go for work
at the cost of foregoing childhood and education to maintain the family
expenditure. The three categories of
children i.e. children up to 5th standard, 7th standard
& the 10th std students are the direct beneficiaries and entire
Dalit bahujans deprived community is the in direct beneficiaries of our
programmes in the project area.
9) Period the grant
will cover:
It is three years project for the period between July 2006 to June 2009 ,
but the budget is projected only for
first year- 2006-07 with the hope that
the 2nd and 3rd
years can be presented in the subsequent periods.
10) List any previous
support from ASHA:
|
Year
|
Support in dollars
|
Rs.
|
|
1999-2000
|
2000
|
85,660
|
|
2000-2001
|
11434
|
5,58,116
|
|
2001-2002
|
12168
|
5,38,598
|
|
2002-2003
|
12000
|
5,84,493
|
|
2003-2004
|
12800
|
5,74,740
|
|
2004-2005
|
14440
|
6,24,073
|
|
2005-2006
|
*
|
6,97,594
|
*since we have
received the grant I n Indian Rupees we are not sure of the dollars.
11) Please declare any religious or political affiliation and support receive
from them:
We are non-party developmental organization
believe and practice secular values and principles not only applicable to
institution and also for the individuals being attached to the work.
12) Please indicates whether the children education includes
religious teachings…?
We do not
advocate any religious teachings but inculcate the human values and basic
principles of Gandhi, Vivekananda, Phoole and Ambedkar to emphasize the
importance of simplicity, non-violence and social dignity.
13) Does your
organisation restrict services to any particular religion, caste, creed or sex?
·
Our services
are rendered to the most deprived communities of our society who do not have
access to educational facilities.
Basically, these people are from Dalit Bahujans communities.
·
We do give
special emphasis for girl children among the deprived communities because they
are most deprived section even among the subalterns.
·
In the
process of our interventions we have realized that the children of all castes
should not be discriminated when our vision is casteless society.
In other words,
however much the castism is prevailing in the villages, there is a better
degree of togetherness among the young children, which we want to
strengthen. Therefore we have been
rendered the services for all the underprivileged children irrespective of the
caste for the last three years.
PART – II
A. Organisation Profile:
1).
Brief Summary of Organization’s History, Goals and Key achievements:
SAHANIVASA has
initiated its activities among Dalits, agricultural workers, women and children
from the year 1985. The main goal of
this organisation is to educate the marginalized communities about the route
causes of poverty and prepare them to combat the forces of exploitation,
suppression and repression by preparing them with the necessary skills and
knowledge to build their own future in a more sustainable and equitable
manner.
The
key results of one and half decade journey has promoted viable Community Based
Organisations -
F For agriculture and rural
workers---Agricultural Laborer’s Union;
F For Women – Mahila Abhivrudhi Podupu Sangam
– MAPS,
F For farmers and sharecroppers -Marginal
Farmers Development Council.
While
the first one is to work for the livelihood Rights of deprived the other two
are to promote socio, economic alternative developments to strengthen the
economic base of these communities.
Achievements:
F Culture of negotiating for minimum wages is
evolved in the state.
F Untouchability practice has been attacked
in various methods peacefully involving both dalits and non-dalits to address
the issue. We have made the state government aware of 55 forms of
untouchability practices and our recommendations to Justice Punnaiah Commission
has became government policy recommendations to evict untouchability and also
implement the land reforms in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
F Gender sensitization has been evolved
within the community and women are beginning to understand and respond to the
gender related issues by drawing strength from the others. Women vigilance committees are promoted
through out the state in 14 districts.
These committees have been instrumental not only in monitoring the atrocities
against women and also involved in rehabilitation through the state intervention.
F Instrumental in the anti-arrack movement
and also continuing the watchdog role in the project area against the inflow of
elicit liquor.
F Promoted alternative leadership in
Panchayats and trained them to be uncorrupted leaders. Struggle against corruption is led by this
group and exposed the corrupted bureaucrats and politicians and local leaders
at local level.
F An extent of 16,700 acres has been
distributed for 8954 families to earn their livelihood in the project area and
approximately 1,62,000 acres have been distributed through out the state.
Around 80% of these are distributed in the names of women.
F Monitoring atrocities against dalits, women
through the vigilance committee
Specific
Achievements in Education of children
1.
Children's enrollment
in the primary schools is regular basis every year in the project area of 120
villages.
2.
Special
coaching for Dalit 10th standard students have been giving fruitful results in
the lives of young students for the last 6 years with the support of ASHA.
3.
Supplementary
education for Dalit primary school children in 15 villages have been helping
the children to equip them on par with other children in the school
4.
The 15 centers has the special focus for
Dropout children, gaining momentum to achieve the better results
5.
So far 10
centers became self-sufficiency in their functioning and we are expecting
another 5 centers will be independent during this year. That way we take
another new 10 centers.
2. Description of the type of people and
children:
Dalit Bahujans,
women, agricultural workers, share croppers, small and marginal farmers and the
children of these categories.
3. Over view of the
organization structure: Organizational
structure and staff structure is enclosed.
B. Project
Information:
Description of the project, broad, Goals and
specific objectives.
Goals:
The main goal of
“Dalit Children’s Education, Equity & Liberation ” is to achieve education
for all deprived communities to access and control over the resources,
information and knowledge that is needed for the holistic growth of each
individual and also become meaningful person in the community to work towards
meaningful development in this society.
1)
Specific Objectives:
1)
To achieve
100% children’s enrolment in primary school and to sustain their regularity in
schools.
2)
To provide
space for deprived children to access for school education and there by promote
children’s Rights- right to education and childhood.
3)
To provide
avenues for Dalit children to settle in their life by giving them education in
order to overcome the gaps exists in getting pass at 10th standard.
4)
Dalitisation
of Dalit educated youth by making them accountable for the development of
community in future.
5)
Provide
opportunities for dalit youth to develop leadership qualities and skills.
6)
To sensitize
the civil society to recognize the education as the main tool for liberation
and development and ensures the state responsible for the children primary
education.
2)
Community
or Regional needs and / or Challenges that this efforts will address:
1) Bonded child labor will
be reduced and no younger children will be sending for labour work at the cost
of depriving school education and childhood.
2) High School educated
dalit youth will secure 10th std. pass certificate to get into
higher education. This will pave the
way for dalits to use the existing reservation policy for their own
development. This way the benefited
dalit youth will be taking care of the community needs, including education of
younger children in future.
3) The Dalit youth
frustration in villages will be reduced as many of them get opportunity to get
out of the day-to-day social discriminations in the name of caste.
3) Community or Regional opportunities,
strengths and / or Assets this effort will drop on:
1) The state will be made
responsible for the school education and the teachers will be developing direct
contacts with the parents through the parents committees.
2) The existing Community
Based Organisations (Agricultural Laborer’s Union, Marginal Farmers Development
Council and Mahila Abhivrudhi Podupu Sangam – MAPS) will take the
responsibility to motivate the parents and also gain strength and confidence of
the community, which will help the program to success.
4.)
What is the current status of the project including the start date and
the number of people working on it:
|
Programme
|
Year
|
No. of students
|
No. of centers
|
% of Pass
|
No. of teachers employed
|
|
Special coaching education
programs for 10th students
Supplementary education for
primary school children
|
1999-00
|
190
|
3
|
35
|
9
|
|
2000-01
|
296
|
5
|
77
|
15
|
|
2001-02
|
284
|
6
|
79
|
18
|
|
2002-03
|
550
|
7
|
91.69
|
19
|
|
2003-04
|
669
|
8
|
79
|
25
|
|
2004-05
|
373
|
8
|
87
|
25
|
|
2005-06
|
495
|
8
|
82.78
|
24
|
|
2000-01
|
677
|
15
|
Not applicable
|
15
|
|
2001-02
|
629
|
15
|
Not applicable
|
15
|
|
2002-03
|
517
|
15
|
Not applicable
|
15
|
|
2003-04
|
460
|
15
|
Not applicable
|
15
|
|
2004-05
|
501
|
15
|
Not applicable
|
15
|
|
|
2005-06
|
525
|
15
|
Not applicable
|
15
|
6) Level
and Nature of involvement of the community at large, local residence and other
constituency:
Participation of parents: The
parents of primary school children have been formed as a committee at every
village level. These parents are
motivated to send their children to school on regular basis without assigning
the work on school days. This has
become useful attempt since the parents are convinced to send their children
regularly.
Constraint:
Due to severe drought accumulated
over 4 years failure of monsoons parents are migrating for employment to the
near by towns and cities which is affecting their regular attendance to the
schools. This is one major problem we are facing. Hope this season will get good rains to stop their migration.
Education Department: We believe the state should take the
responsibility of strengthening the primary school education system. Since the government has not taken adequate
steps to strengthen the process in rural area and also the increase of so
called English medium schools to the mandal headquarters, there is dis-interest
to send the children to school. Add to
the misery, the government teachers at primary school level have been totally
irresponsible in maintaining the school timings since they are staying in urban
centers. In order overcome these
problems we had to organize meetings with the formal school teachers and also
bring the block development officials to the primary schools. Our efforts during the last 2 years though
helped the schools to maintain the timings; it has developed animosity among
those teachers who are not regular to attend the schools earlier. It is out of
compulsion for them to attend the school on time.
This year we are
planning to make this as Grama Sabha issue so that every member in the panchayat
should feel responsible to watch the school functioning and also motivate the
teachers to run the primary schools effectively. This way they will not be anger on SAHANIVASA team.
Children’s clubs at every village level: All
the children in the village including dropouts have been formed into children’
s club and the dropouts and also the school going children are coming together
in the evenings to attend the primary school that we run. Further, the participation and motivation
meetings are helping to enhance the interest of dropout children to crave for
school education.
Women’s associations are also interacting with the children
both as part of parents committee and also as women association in order to
develop interest on school education for their own children and also generate
interest among the children in the school.
The union of
agricultural workers and small farmers, farmer’s cooperative and women’s
cooperative at mandal level has taken the decision to encourage the parents to
send children for the school. The collective decision in times of dropout prone months will help to
monitor the regularity of children in attending the schools regularly.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST CHILD
LABOUR AND MIGRATION:
Due to cumulate
impact of Drought lot of Migration is taking place in Rural area in search of
employment. While the family migrates for 6 months, they are going with
children. This is leading to child labour and also Children are dropping out of
the school. Therefore SAHANIVASA is planning to take up campaign against the
Child labour and migration. This campaign will be launched in the month of May
and the beginning of June. This is the time parents get ready for migration and
the children are supposed to go to school.
We feel it is the
responsibility of our students in 10th class to engage in the child
labour campaign. This is the time they will be free after their public
examinations. There fore we have planned for this campaign.
30 cycles will be
hired per day for 30 days. 60 volunteers from the 10th class
students will work in 2 batches to around the villages. The first batch of 30
students will go as 2 teams having 15 each between 7 am to 12.00 am –
afternoon. Similarly 2nd batch of 30 students will go as 2 groups
from 3.00Pm to 8.30 Pm.
The same Batch of
students will work for a week days and new batch will take over in the next
week. This way all the students will involve in motivating the parents in their
respective areas to enroll the children in the school.
While the parents migrate the children will be left in the village. In
each village old people will be identified and will be given responsibility to
take care of the food needs of the children. The parents intern will make
arrangements to take care of the old peoples basic needs. This arrangement
being successful in 2 of the villages of our area which will be replicated all
over with the involvement of students.
7)
Identify organizations, if any, that you collaborate within addressing
the regional needs and challenges.
a) Agricultural Workers union
b) Marginal Farmers Development Council
c) Mahila Abhivrudhi Podupu Sangam - MAPS
d) Village Grama Sabha
These
organizations have been involving to strengthen the school education process.
8)
Future plan for sustaining this effort and strategy for building your funding
base.
1) Dalits being most deprived community it is
very difficult to raise the resources when they themselves are in acute
poverty. However, their participation
at different levels of programme is one of the important contributions that
they have been rendering.
2) We have planned for each student will
contribute Rs.4/- per month. We have also expected 30 students will join in
each center which comes about Rs.4 X 10 months X 30=1,200/- per annum. It is also decided to list out all those
people working outside of the village and gets their financial support in order
to make addition to the contribution of the children. In about 5 years time we are hoping that Rs.20, 000/- can be pool
down in each center. This will earn
Rs.300 per month interest at the rate of 18%.
At the end of 5 years each student will be paying Rs.7/- which will
become Rs.210/-. This way the
instructor will be paid Rs.500/- from the resources earned during this five
years period.
Ever since the
project is initiated, there is acute drought in the project area where the
people of our concern have been finding very difficulty to lead their life in
their respective villages due to non-availability of work. Therefore they are making a life involving
in food for work scheme provided by the government of Andhra Pradesh. All our Community based organizations and
also teachers have been motivating people to participate in such process to
lead their life in villages, as there is no work even in towns. Hence we could not make our efforts fully
successful. However we are hoping that we can start during this year expecting
people will overcome the problem once the rain start during the monsoon.
3) The other sustainability character we find
in this effort is that the 10th class students attending the
coaching classes of SAHANIVASA will be able to earn through employment from the
outside. These people will be able to
further contribute for the education fund.
4) We hope we will able to motivate at least 3
to 5 dalit educated youth in every dalit village to gradually develop interest
and service attitude towards this school through which they will be able to
teach the children of the same village by voluntarily.
5) This project period we are planning to
initiate efforts to identify educated employees to be contacted to tap the
resources from them in two ways. One is
whenever they come to their native village they can spare one day to visit the
centers and share their experience outside being freed from so much dependency
at local level. This will encourage the
children to study well. Secondly, we
are slowly planning to tap the financial resource from these people since they
have already came up well in their life.
Hope by the end of the year we start this process.
9)
Brief assessment of how your efforts are
going to affect the lives of local people in the long run:
1) The cultures of enrolling every child in
school have already been visible.
2) 10th class studied children in
our center have already joining either in technical courses or in any other
employment after having the higher education with reservation policy. These students have developed the culture of
relating to the community in whatever the manner is possible to strengthen the
education process in the village.
3) Children’s education, elders life education
will go together to build the values of collective action, community sharing
for common purposes, culture of mobilizing state resources in rightful manner,
building leadership within the community will be evolved.
4) Simultaneously their participation in
strengthening the local Community Based Organisations along with equipping them
with the skills of dry land cultivation alternative agricultural practices,
alternative income generation schemes will be evolved to take care of the
economic base of the people.
5) Self-confidence, self-respect, reflecting
and reacting in pro-active way for the contextual changes in the society will
develop in the community.
C) Project Evaluation:
F
The success
behind all the initiatives of SAHANIVASA is the effective participation methods
that we adopted to monitor the program.
Right from the planning to evaluation people involves in decentralized
manner. Therefore, they own the
program.
F
Student’s
performance will be reviewed by regular tests conduct by teachers.
F
The teacher’s
performance and the school functioning will review by the parents committee
that meets once in three months.
F
The Community
Based Organisations promoted by SAHANIVASA will review the entire program once
in every six months along with the team of SAHANIVASA. Besides this every year ending over all
internal review will be carried on by the selective members from SAHANIVASA
team, Community Based Organisations and parents committees.
1)
How
much money does you required for the proposed specific project?
We have four
programs of this project requires Rs.1, 790,975 ($ 41171)
Main Programs:
1) Special
Coaching for Dalits 10th std. Children:
F
Number of centers: 8 centers
|
Center Name
|
|
1.
Bangareddi
Palli
|
|
2.
Thalambedu
|
|
3.
Mukkalthuru
|
|
4.
Gangamma Gudi
|
|
5.
Nelle Palli
|
|
6.
Menatam Palli
|
|
7.
Vapangeri
|
|
8.
Akkadevatal Kandiga
|
Students’ particulars will be
sent in a weekday’s time.
F
Young
graduates from Science and Mathematics and English graduates are appointed as
teachers in all the centers and their committed efforts gave the results up to
92% during the academic year 2002-03.
This indicates their commitment towards the cause and the effective
facilitating role of SAHANIVASA to run the centers.
F
Besides the
aiming for 10th class pass, they will be enlightened on day-to-day
issues of community, the root cause and the role of youth to address the
issues, and dalitism will be taught. So
that they will be the future potential leaders who carry on the struggles for
justice and peace.
F
As a result
of effective educational practices combined with human values and concern for
others, all the out going students have decided to go head with forming
separate group as old students association and meet once in 6 months for 2 days
to discuss and decide their strategies to respond to the problems faced by
their own communities in rural area.
This process will be strengthened during this year by organizing
programme for them.
Special Coaching for Dalits 10th
Std. Children: Budget for 2006-2007
|
Sen.
|
Particulars
|
Students contribution
|
June 2006 to March 2007
|
|
1.
|
Teachers honorarium
8 centers X 3 teachers X Rs.1, 200 per month X 10 months
|
|
2,88,000
|
|
2.
|
Education materials and stationery
Each center Rs.2, 500 X 8centers
|
|
20,000
|
|
3.
|
Teacher’s Monthly meetings, Travel and Food for the day
@ Rs.75X 24 X 12m months
|
|
21,600
|
|
4
|
Campaign against Child Labour
30 Cycles Hire X Rs. 25 per day for 30 days
Lunch & Night Food Arrangements Rs. 30 X 30 days X
30 Students
Meeting Arrangements Rs. 250 per day X 30 days
|
27,000
|
22,500
7,500
|
|
|
Total Rs.
As on today Rs. 43.5 per Dollar
|
27,000
|
3,59,600
$ 8267
|
Budget
explanation:
1) Teacher
honorariums @ 1200/- per month for 24 teachers in 8 centers is budgeted. There
has been request from the teachers to increase the salary but we have not able
to do it, as we have to cover the entire project cost without increase of the
previous years budget.
2) An educational
material includes question paper, stationary, Xerox material, teachers
stationery is budgeted @ 2500/- for the center and it will be same during this
year.
3) The Teachers need
once in every month at central place to
discuss review plan and exchange experiences to run the centers effectively.
Since their salaries are meager to propose to pay for their food and trave1
expenses for the meetings. All the 12 months the teachers will gather.
4) We hire 30 cycles
per day, which will cost Rs. 25/- for a period of one month costs Rs. 22,500/-.
The students will have to carry the food either from their houses or have to motivate
people to provide them food when they conduct meetings in villages. This is
their contribution.
Rs. 250/- per day
is budgeted for meeting expenses, which includes mike & Lighting
arrangements for the evening public meetings.
The existing government schools will be used for running 8
centers and one will be conducted in union training center. This way the local union and the education
department will feel that they are also contributing some way to this process.
This is the
fifth years project to ensure dalit children not to be frustrated just because
they could not over come the basic turning point in the future. Once they get pass from 10th
class they will be going to either higher education or for some technical
education where they get total scholarship from the government. Since they are also exposed to the problems
of the own community and the root causes of such vulnerable situation they will
not be forgetting support that extend by SAHANIVASA. As response to it they will relate to the community either by
taking up the leadership roles in mass movements that are emerging in the
project area or they will be directly link to the community in whatever the
work they settled.
We request ASHA
to support this project for this year which will strengthen the dalits
educational development and also promote the responsible leaders for the
development and liberation of the most marginalized community in our society.
2.Strengthening
Primary School Education Programme:
Target
Population:
F
Dalit
Children aged 6-11 years (1st-5th standards of primary
schools) who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out of school.
F
15 Dalit
villages in the SAHANIVASA Project area.
F
5 old
villages self-sufficient centers will also be monitored. Though we don’t pay
for the teachers.
Problems:
F
High drop out
rates at primary and upper levels of education.
F
High
incidence of child labour and child bonded labour
F
Inability to
see connection between education and well being of life.
F
Low
enrollment and high drop out of Dalit Girls.
F
Low levels of
employment outside of seasonal agricultural labour
F
Low self
esteem of Dalit children
F
High levels
of illiteracy
F
Inaccessibility
of education to the daily lives of Dalits.
Programme
1) Evening
schools will be run for 15
villages having 35 to 40 children in each village.
2) An
educated Dalit youth will
be selected from the village to work as teachers in the evening. He will be paid Rs.500/- per month.
3) These 15 teachers will be trained for 15
days to develop the skills in alternative educational models.
4) The children will be enrolled in the school after 3 months motivation for parents and
children.
5) Strengthen
the parents committees and
children’s clubs in order to maintain the regularity of regular school
functioning and to develop cardinal relationship with teachers and education
department, these two groups will continue to function. The same committee will also monitor the
night school education centers.
6) Motivation
meetings for parents. Day long motivation meetings to promote
enrolment and also to sustain the regularity of children’s attendance. Care will be taken in times of dropout prone months (June, July,
November, December and January) to help the school system to function
properly.
7) Curriculum: Dalits students often find that the
examples in the textbooks do not match the realities of their experiences. These alienate child and often dismiss their
reality as sub- standard. The cultural
component of the curriculum will build up the dalit perspective at the primary
level. Our students will learn about
their own lives and rural realities as part of their education. They will also
learn to value themselves and the important role that dalits in society.
Expected
Impacts of Program:
F
Reduced drop
out rates from primary school
F
Improved self
image of Dalit students/children
F
Better
performance of students in primary school
F
Reduction in
the incidence of Child Bonded Labor and child labour
F
Encourage
Dalit students to continue with their education – reduce drop out rates at higher
levels.
F
Reduce
illiteracy
F
Promote a
culture of education and educational success in Dalit villages.
Dalit Primary School Supplementary
Education: Budget for 2003-04 Academic year
|
S.no.
|
Particulars
|
People’s contribution
|
Request from ASHA
|
|
1
|
Educational Kits
2500X Rs. 3
|
|
7,500
|
|
2
|
Parents motivational meetings:
20 villages
X Rs.1500/- per meeting
|
10,000
|
20,000
|
|
3
|
Teachers Trainings: 20 teachers X Rs.2000 per head
|
10,000
|
30,000
|
|
4
|
Teachers Monthly Meetings, Travel and Food for the day
@ Rs. 75 X 15 X 12 months
|
|
13,500
|
|
4
|
Center arrangements- Electricity charges and maintenance
Rs.1,500/- per center X15 Centers
|
7,500
|
15,000
|
|
5
|
Strengthening of children’s club Rs.1,000 per center
(conduct competitions on skills, exposure and etc.,
|
|
15,000
|
|
6
|
Teachers honorarium 15 persons X Rs.500 X 12 months
|
|
90,000
|
|
7
|
Coordinator salary Rs.6000 X 12 months
|
|
72,000
|
|
8
|
Coordinators Travel to monitor all three projects
@ Rs.1,500 X 12
Months
|
|
18,000
|
|
8.
|
Stationary, Xerox, Fax, Phones and Communication for all
three Programs @ Rs.2,000 X 12 months
|
|
24,000
|
|
9.
|
Office Secretary cum Accountant, Rs.3,000 X 12 months
|
|
36,000
|
|
10.
|
Audit for all the four programmes
|
|
5,000
|
|
|
Total Rs.
USD
@ 43.5 Indian Rs per $ as on today
|
27,500
|
3,46,000
$ 7954
|
Budget explanation:
1. Educational
Kits
We will buy 3
more educational kits during the year, which can be given to all the
self-sufficient villages, and whatever we bought last year will be used by the
remaining schools.
2) Parents motivational meetings
In order to
carry forward towards the self-sufficiency process we need to engage parents
regularly in different methods. This parents motivational meetings conducted at
two level one is at village level every fortnight by the respective teacher and
another is mandal level meeting with the representatives of these 20 villages.
These representatives have already felt that they have the responsibility to
strengthen this process. Hence every meetings is spend in different villages so
that not only the leaders and also the entire people in that village
participate in such meeting where they can plan the collective actions for their
basic minimum needs.
We have budgeted
Rs.1500/- per such meeting expenses, since they spent for whole day. This
expenses cover for food for all the participants and also travels. Rs.1000/-
will be met from the educational fund of SAHANIVASA created out of the
contributions mobilized and rest of Rs.20000/- is requested from ASHA.
3) Teachers trainings
Teacher
trainings will be organised in three ways one is class room training inviting
the experts to impart the skills in using innovative methods of learning
Secondly,
monthly one full day review and action plan both for the school and also for
the parents & children’s club activities.
Thirdly, The
teachers will be sent for an exposure where innovative methods of educational
tools are apply.
Rs. 10000/- will
be met from the educational fund of SAHANIVASA and rest of Rs.30000/- is
requested from ASHA.
4) Electricity maintenance
Rs.1500/- per
centre is budgeted towards the electricity maintenance expenses for the period
of one year.
5) Strengthening of children’s clubs
Rs.15000/- is
budgeted towards organizing competitions, exposures among the children in order
to strengthen the village level children club.
6) Teachers honorarium
Teachers
honorarium of Rs. 500/- is covered for 15 centers and the remaining 5 self
sufficiency centers maintain by themselves sharing the resources from the
parents.
8)
Coordinator Salary and Travel
A full time coordinator is required to coordinating the Children’s
Education all the three Educational Programmes – 10th Class and
seventh class special coaching and Primary School supplementary programme. So
we budgeted Rs. 6,000/- per month towards salary. Since the geographical was vast –n 3 mandals Rs.1,500/- is
budgeted which includes the fuel and vehicle maintenance.
9)
Stationary Xerox, Fax, Phones and Postage
Expenses are budgeted Rs.2,000 per month for all the three projects
10)
Office Secretary cum Accountant is a full time staff
budgeted Rs.3,000 per month
11)
Audit Rs.5,000 is budgeted for the entire
proposal towards which includes filing of Income tax returns
3.) Special Coaching for Seventh Standard
Children:
Context:
The Project implementation period
of 2005 –06, SAHANIVASA has
Conducted a campaign against Child labour with 30youth, organizing
a cycle rally for five days. During the
cycle rally a questionnaire is prepared to collect the data on the child
labour.182 questionnaires are prepared based on the 182 individual Child
labour. The main findings for the
causes of Child labour are as follows:
There are three stages of Child
Dropouts:
|
The primary school level
|
59
|
32%
|
|
Seventh Standard level
|
82
|
45%
|
|
10th standard level
|
41
|
23%
|
1. The primary school level dropouts take
place is basically within the one year of the school enrollment. The reasons are,
F Children
are not able to cop up with the school environment where the teachers maintain
fearful situations in the school in the name of discipline.
F Parents
discourage the children as they find difficult to send the children school on
time and feed them in between etc., that way the mid meals schemes in the
school is additional benefit for the children and also parents to manage
F Children
are not able to match the study with too much discipline and their freedom out
of the school. When choice come what is the best, they prefer out of the school
rather than being inside with too much discipline.
F Other
children in the home are relatively influential factor in the dropouts. If other children going school there is a
less chances of dropouts.
F Due
to lack of educational materials like slate, slate pencil, books etc.,
F Dress
patterns are also influencing the children.
When all other children have better dress the comparison lead to
dropouts if the child do not have proper dress.
2.The reasons for Dropouts at
Seventh Standard:
F Failed
in public exam is the main reason. The
policy in Andhra Pradesh is that the children do not have examinations from
primary to 6th standard. Since
they fact the first public exam in seventh standard and those of the children
who cannot have self-motivation will get tensed which lead to the fail in the
examinations.
F This is the age where children can go as a
labour to contribute the family. If
they fail in 7th standard, parents will send them for work and most
of the times children also do not show interest in go for schools to sit with
the juniors.
F The girl children are much vulnerable at
seventh standard as most of them get puberty and also have to go to the school
in risky situation – walking on the bunds of sugarcane fields, etc., so the
parents stop them at seventh standard or soon after puberty in order to
get assistance in the house hold work.
These are the children get married so early as the parents, later also
find vulnerable to leave them in houses when they go for work. We have also
noticed that the child marriages are more among the girls who stop the school
at seventh standard.
F When parents are migrating for work the
children at seventh standard, will be taken along with them, in order to get
the additional resource for the family.
In
the survey it is realized that 45% of the children are dropouts at 7th
standard for the above reasons.
Therefore, we feel the need of starting extra coaching in the similar
lines of 10th standard in the same schools were we have 10th
class coaching.
We
will appoint three teachers for every school.
The timings will be both morning and evenings in the same way of 10th
standard. Teachers are also come from
the local area.
Name
of the schools.
1. Bangareddi Palli
2. Thalambedu
3. Mukkalthuru
4. Gangamma Gudi
5. Nelle Palli
6. Menatam Palli
7. Vapangeri
8. Akkadevatal Kandiga
9. V.R.Kuppam
10. Palasamudram
Budget
for Special Coaching for 7th
Standard Children:-
|
S.no.
|
Particulars
|
People’s contribution
|
Request from ASHA
|
|
1
|
Teachers honorarium 10 schools X 3 Teachers X
Rs.1200X12months
|
|
4,32,000
|
|
2.
|
Teachers Trainings: 30 teachers X Rs.1000 per head
|
|
30,000
|
|
3.
|
Educational Materials : @ Rs.2,500 per school X10
schools
|
|
25,000
|
|
4.
|
Teacher’s Monthly Meetings: @ Rs.75 X 30
TeachersX12Months
|
|
27000
|
|
5
|
Parents Motivational meetings: @ Rs.2000 X 12
|
14000
|
10000
|
|
|
Total Rs.
USD @ 43.5 Indian Rs per $ as on today
|
14000
|
5,24,000
$ 12045
|
Teacher’s Honororium: Altogether 30 teachers will be working 10
schools sharing all the six subjects between three teachers – 2 subjects each person. Rs.1,200 is budgeted per head as all the
teachers will be from the back ground of graduation like 10th class
special coaching teachers.
Teacher’s Trainings:
These are the teachers will be
appointed freshly who intern deserve training to handle the classes in
innovative method, so that the children can enjoy the education. Since there are 30 teachers we can have
training in chittoor where the resource persons will be invited from other
places. We have budgeted Rs.1,000 per
head for the training. This includes
their food and accommodation resource person travel and fees.
Educational Materials includes printing of test papers and
Stationary materials. Rs.2,500 is
budgeted per center.
Teacher’s Monthly Meetings: This is one activity brigs teachers to
come together where there share plan and review the work as there salaries are
very low coming to the central place is financial burden for them. Therefore we have budgeted Rs.75 per meeting
for their travel and food for the day.
Parents Motivational Meetings: This is an important element of this
program because the parents always expect 7the standard is the deadline for the
girl’s and also boys education in order to engage them for household work and
also for child labour respectively.
Therefore, we have budgeted Rs.2,000 per meeting and we also expect them
to share for the meeting expenses as budget.
4.)Promote the livelihood Rights Through REGS (Rural Employment Guarantee scheme):
Duration: Three years from the date of sanction, however only
first year project
Budget is projected in the project.
Geographical Area:
To Promote the
Lively hood Rights of Dalit Bahujans Agricultural Workers in three Mandals of
chittoor district by successful implementation of REGS (Rural Employment
Guarantee Schemes )of National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act –2005
F G.D. Nellore
F Gudipala and
F S.R. Puram Mandals
Objectives of the project:
- Stop
the Child labour and dropouts in the school utilizing REGS for 100 days by
the rural poor landless workers.
- To
enhance livelihood security of landless unemployed rural workers and their
family members.
- To
convert uncultivable lands of Rural poor in to cultivable productive
assets of the rural poor through the better implementation of employment
guarantee schemes.
- Enhance
the capacities of the rural workers to make use of right to information
act and EGA to work towards transparent and corruption free societies.
- Develop
leadership skills among the youth to involve in better implementation of
REGS.
- To
build the collective skills of protest and dissent from among the
agricultural workers and dalits of local area against the corruption
non-implementation programmes.
STRATAGIES: -
- Take
up the REGS in campaign more to stop the child labour
- Strengthen
the Agricultural Workers Unions for better implementation of REGS
- Work
very closely with panchayats and Government Officials.
- Co-ordinate
between government and NGO’s to maintain the REGS program in transparent
manner.
BACK GROUND OF THE
PROJECT:
Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union-APVVU is one of the few
organizations long time demand for employment guarantee act is actualized as
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act -2005 (NREGA). Ever since Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya
Vruthidarula Union-APVVU has started releasing the bonded labour and demand for
minimum wages in late 80’s, the wider level demand has been the EGA. Some of
the milestones of two decades journey of the campaign for EGA are;
F Submitted ten million signatures to Dr.Kumud
Bhen Joshi, the then Governor of A.P., in 1989.
F District wide and statewide rallies,
consultations and protest programs for half decade.
F Submitted series of memorandums in the Public
Hearings organized by Second Labour Commission in 2003, demanding Employment
Guarantee Act.
F Organized State level consultations and National level collective
mass campaigns all
through the years by lobby with the
MLA’s and MP’s
F Negotiated with Congress the then opposition
parties and communists to include the EGA in their election manifesto in 2005.
F Advocacy and lobby with legislatures and
parliamentarians to include EGA Common Minimum Programme of the present UPA
Government
F Conducted series of programs and
demonstrations in front of State Assemblies and Parliament while the sessions
was going on.
ROLE OF SAHANIVASA IN EGA:
SAHANIVASA
is of the organizations strongly supported and promoted APVVU process in Andhra
Pradesh, when it is realized that NGO’s has limitations to take up genuine
rural poor problems in Rights based approach.
In
mid 80’s Sahanivasa has emerged as an NGO
to release the rehabilitate bonded labourers. Though the release of bonded labour is sanctioned by the law, it
is very difficult to handle as an NGO, since the same powerful landed lobby are
in power to violate the law. So in
order to take up as people’s response to the bonded labour situation, we had to
promote civil society organisations not only in Chittoor region where
SAHANIVASA works and also all over Andhra Pradesh. The civil society organisations were consciously promoted and
converted as registered Agricultural Workers Unions. SAHANIVASA has played key role in strengthening the State level
federation of Agricultural workers as APVVU, by deputing Mr. P. Chennaiah, the
founder Secretary of SAHANIVASA to work full time for the APVVU process
through out the state.
The context of NREGA-
The UPA Government has come out with the Act
in the context of agricultural economy is in
big Crisis where the agriculture is not in position to absorb any
employment beyond 70 days in a year. The cumulative impact of 9 years drought
led to migration of vast majority rural workers. Migration from rural area means displacement from their
homelands, traditions and cultures, which are equally important for rural
people to survive as a community. The community living has been in disturbance
due to wide spread unrest, hunger deaths of old people, frustrations, hungry
situations prevailing in Rural workers families. It is in this situation, EGA
is perceived as a tool to be applied to protect the rural mass from the hunger
and displacement. Despite of its limitations – hundred days employment in a
year and applicable only for 200 districts – this act has to be properly
implemented to achieve the objective of providing the employments for the most
needy.
The
government of India has allocated Rs. 140,000 millions during this year budget
to meet the employment requirements of workers of hundred days in 200 districts. The other important aspect of this
act is that the employment for rural workers has to be provided by the
government at the walk able distance of their habitation. By any reason if
the Government is failed to provide the
employment, the workers are eligible
for the compensation. of 25% to 45% of minimum wages per day Further they are allowed to work to improve
the rural infrastructures that include developing the uncultivated lands of the
poor families. The National minimum
wage is fixed as Rs. 80, which is almost three times more than what they are
getting today.
WHY SAHANIVASA TO
WORK FOR THIS:
The EGA program is
designed in such a way that every registered worker and their group should be
provided work within the fifteen days of request. Further the workers should be paid the wages on weekly basis
where lot of money in flow and transaction take place. Though the government has taken all
necessary steps to reach the amount to the actual beneficiary, the state cannot
be free from highly experienced corrupt bureaucrats and the political Maphia
loot the resources to diffuse the Act,.
Therefore the need of the hour is to ensure that every single rupee
allocated by the government to reach the genuine to rural worker. This will be possible only by way of
ensuring the people’s participation with all the knowledge and systems, rules
and regulations about the NREGA. So that people will be able to collectively
demand their due share without bending for bribe. The unions only can provide
confidence in the capacity of people’s power to withstand the threats of
Western interest groups.
.
PRESENT STATUS: -
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act is in force from January
-2006 onwards. This act provide scope
for every state Government to provide EGS for rural workers with in the six
months period of the enforcement, in other words from the first of July onwards
every state has to provide employment for the rural workers. So for role of
SAHANIVASA & APVVU has already involved and influencing the government and
also participate in the planning process. Therefore the need of the hour is to
participate at gross root level to sensitized and organize the masses and also
coordinate with the state authorities to maintain transparency and
accountability of the implementation, then only the fruits of the Act will
reach the needy.
So for the role of
APVVU has been:
1.
8.25 lakh
workers are enrolled for got job cards in 180 mandals of 8 districts where we
have base out of 13 districts.
2.
District
secretaries of APVVU have undergone Trainers training program engaged by the
government.
3.
The
Trained leaders are listed as State Monitoring committee of EGA
4.
The
Unions have been identifying the works and put up the application for
employment and many works has been in force.
5.
SAHANIVASA
has already enrolled 2,750 workers in 3 mandals for REGS and obtained job cards
for the workers.
PROPOSED ACTIVITIES: -
To actualize the objectives and strategies
into practice we plan the following immediate activities
1.
Education and building
people’s advocacy
2.
Building
linkages between the people NGO’s and the officials
3.
Capacity
building for the youth alternative leaders
4.
Education
through cultural actions.
5.
Strengthen
the village level associations.
6.
Translate
the Act into Telugu and distributed the booklets widely
7.
Propagate
about the act through educative pamphlets.
8.
Develop
women associations
9.
Develop
norms, in the collective actions
10.
Promote
monitoring committee and strengthen the activities
11.
Identify
the works in each village level and put up the applications with the government
12.
Public hearings at mandal level
13.
Social
audit
14.
Activate the gram Panchayat
1. Education
and building people’s advocacy:
EGA program is planned to
provide 100 days employment for the
most marginalized groups in rural areas. These are the people do not
have much literacy background and their resources can be easily manipulated by
the officials. This is the program can be successful if the needy are full
aware of the provisions and also the procedures of the Act. Further their
participation at all levels will ensure the
end of corruption. Therefore the
real needy people are to be united as pressure group to implement the program. The main core of the activities are :
F
Translate
the Act into Telugu and bring out the booklets to distribute widely among the
rural youth activists.
F
Bring out
the brief pamphlets on the rules and regulations to be followed on EGA schemes.
F
Conduct
village wise caravan /campaign in each mandal once in every 6 months to build
confidence and to raise their voice
against the bureaucrats non Co-operation, corruption and any discrepancies in
implementing EGA
F
Conduct a
district level training program for 4 days to the selective leaders of
different mandals, so that they can be able to train up the youth in the
villages to monitor and also implement the EGA.
Propagation through cultural Action:
Majority Labourers for whom the REGS is introduce or illiterates. While the pamphlets and other education
material address the literates and youth the education through the cultural
action will reach the majority labourers.
Rural labour will be informed about the various positive provisions of
the act, rules and methods of implementing the REGS through the songs and
skits, so that they will be able to
understand it well. Youth from the
rural area will undergo seven days cultural training,so that they can perform
the programmes in villages at night times.
Building linkages
among the People, NGO’s and the Officials:
EGA is considered as
extra work to officials. Hence they do
not find time to pursue the matters on EGA.
As results the middlemen replace the role of Mandal Development Officer
(MDO) and the concern officials. Hence the need is to build the linkages among
the people, NGO’s and the government officials for proper implementation of the
Act. To achieve this, we propose the following activities.
F
Organize
District level consultation with NGO’s and the government to discuss about the
gaps exists in the implementation.
F
Plan for
coordinated activity through out the district where People will be reached by
way of padha yatra from different corners of the district.
F
Visit the
work spots by padha yatris to collect the data on status of each of the work.
F
Take up
capacity building programme for yatris before they go for padha yatra on the
Act and also its favorable spaces. so that they will communicate better with
the people in villages.
F
Final
concluding meeting can be organized where the consolidated report can be
submitted to the officials to follow up.
F
Media and
concern citizens will be encouraged to be part of the process.
Strengthen the Village Level Workers Associations:
The Act provides opportunity for all the registered
workers in each village can be formed into groups to apply for specific
works. In others words this act
provided space for collective work. It
is also important to note that the collective work and collective bargaining is
always benefit to the people in the manner of getting more work, demanding the
wages on time maintain the transparency etc., Hence, there is a great need to
strengthen the village level workers associations who in turn will play
creative role in successful implementation of the Act. The
the emphasis is to see that the workers meet regularly in the village to
plan for the work, file the application, follow up with the officials for
sanction, implementation, verification and measurement of the work by official,
payment of wages and maintains the records in transparent manner.
The Mandal Organiser will follow up all the activities in the mandal as :
F Develop women workers association
is another important activity. Though
men and women work collectively in the same work demand the equal wages is an
important issue.
F Secondly, women specific needs at
work spots can only be put forward strongly by women when they are in
collective.
F Sexual abuse at work place is an
issue everywhere, which will also be, take up by the women task force.
F Develop separate association for
women workers is benefit to the workers
Therefore, one of the main focuses of this project
is to see that women workers should have their own identity in every village,.
Identify the appropriate works for Employment:
The Act emphasizes to provide hundred days employment for the
workers in un-season. The government
has listed out 71 types of works under the EGA. Some of the listed are also to develop the infrastructure
facilities of the lands of small and marginal farmers of Dalits and Adivasi
communities. But the government
officials will not give priority to select the works which help the poor people
to develop their infrastructure facilities.
For example, in a village where there is a possibility for selecting the
works for reclamation of degraded lands, construction of field tanks, field
bundings the government officials give priority of de-silt of tanks and laying the roads, This way they avoid the development of the
infrastructure facilities of the vulnerable communities. Keeping this trends in view we have
plan to involve at every village level
to identify the appropriate works. So
that the labourers get dual benefits of employment and also strengthen the
livelihood resources.
Activate Gram Panchayat:
Gram
Panchayats has an important role in REGS.
This is the primary unit of the administration responsible for the
implementation of REGS. As per the Act,
Gram Sabha should play key role in identifying and approving the specific works,
open the single Bank account to transfer the grants, Payment of the wages, and maintain
the accounts. This is the programme
where Gram Panchayat cannot get any remuneration for the administration. Therefore they will not be showing interest
to take up the work if the workers in the village are well aware of the
provisions of the act. On the other
hand the panchayats will loot the REGS funds if the people are not active. Therefore while sensitizing the people for
better utilization of the scheme we do have to activate panchayats
simultaneously, So that the Panchayat
leaders will not swallow the funds of REGS.
Public Hearings at Mandal Level:
Yearly Once we have plan to conduct public
hearings at every mandal on the implementation of REGS. So that the people involved in
implementation will be careful to get out of the public exposes. The reports will be submitted to the
government in order to rectify the discrepancies.
Social Audit:
The act provides space for transparency and
accountability of the funds allotted for REGS.
Further every work can be made available for public scrutiny and social
audit. The basic objective of the
Social Audit is to ensure the public accountability in the implementation of
the
REGS. The
innovative aspect of the NREGA is incorporating Social Audit as part of the
Act. Our fear in this is that this also becomes a paper tiger if people are not
vigilant in conducting Social Audit,
Which should be a continuous process right from the registration of
families, distribution of job cards, receipt of work applications, selection of
the work, development and approval of technical estimates, sanction of the work
order, allotment of work to individual and youth, supervision of works, payment
of unemployment allowances, payment of wages and evaluation of work.
At every stage there is scope for corruption. Therefore social audit is mandatory which
can be implemented only against the demand.
Unless this is conducted it is difficult to stop the corruption. Therefore we have plan to conduct the social
audit. APVVU district secretaries are
selected as State Vigilance committee members who are empowered to conduct the
Social Audit in cooperation with the government officials.
A caravan for Propagation,
Implementation and Monitoring:
To carry on all the above mentioned activities there
is great need to conduct a caravan for a week days to ten days, all over the
area through which we reach the unreachable communities to propagate about the
Act, and take up all the listed activities that are mentioned above. The caravan can be concluded with public
hearing at every mandal in which the officials can also be part of it.
Personnel Required:
Organizers – Three:
We propose one organizer for each mandal. Role of
this person is to take up all the above tasks that are mentioned in the Social
Audit, in addition to organize, educate, Identify the works , advocate for
approve the works and implement REGS
projects. This organizer will be the
key player for all these programmes.
Generally, we select the person from the same mandal so that the person
knows everything about the mandal.
1.Project Coordinator : We need project coordinator to coordinate the activities in all
the mandals will be lot of coordination activities between he village level
schemes to the people’s organisations
and between the bureaucrats form mandal to district and necessary at state
level. This person is the full timer
devote completely to coordinate the activity in three mandals and also liaison
with other NGO’s in the district as and when required to put up the pressure on
the government for allocation of the funds and also cooperation to implement
the project.
