In most of the places, wells needed to be rebored as water table …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Watershed committee chairman Pralladram Gujjar and a farmer …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Water harvesting work in progress
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Sutapa Ghosh
A pit dug out for storing water during construction work
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Sutapa Ghosh
Pastoralism is the main livelihood of the people of Rajasthan. A …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Farmers use sprinklers to irrigate their fields. Government had …
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Sutapa Ghosh
The watershed committee chairman showing the site were future …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Horticulture plants were given to tubewell owners. In the picture …
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Sutapa Ghosh
People live in separate clusters, Dhanis in the village. This …
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Sutapa Ghosh
A woman showing a scar mark from monkey attack and justifies the …
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Sutapa Ghosh
A woman from the Balai community who related how she had run into …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Members of the Self Help Group, formed through the efforts of the …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Members of the Self Help Group, formed through the efforts of the …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Drainage course, small ephemeral streams flow as runoff for a few …
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Sutapa Ghosh
A dug out pit for storing water during construction work
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Sutapa Ghosh
Due to electricity problems many farmers have constructed tanks …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Women just collect Twigs and Strewn leaves from the forest for …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Reboring has been done in several places as the water table had …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Part of the field bund, sometimes the base gets weakened due to …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Haystack used for storing the farm harvest
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Sutapa Ghosh
Well which has been rebored
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Sutapa Ghosh
A fodder grown in this village caters to the beer factories in …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Swaroop Pal a worker at Ibtada -The Alwar based NGO. Worker …
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Sutapa Ghosh
The members of Self Help Groups in a mahila sabha meeting …
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Sutapa Ghosh
The members of Self Help Groups in a mahila sabha meeting …
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Sutapa Ghosh
The members of Self Help Groups in a mahila sabha meeting …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Head and member of the Self Help Group which is supported by Ibtada
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Sutapa Ghosh
Though direct lifting of water from the Anicut is banned in some …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Self regulations adopted by villagers for protection and …
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Sutapa Ghosh
Self regulations adopted by villagers for protection and …
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Sutapa Ghosh
In most of the places, wells needed to be rebored as water table went down drastically
Watershed committee chairman Pralladram Gujjar and a farmer posing for a pix
A pit dug out for storing water during construction work
Pastoralism is the main livelihood of the people of Rajasthan. A khejri tree in the pix
Farmers use sprinklers to irrigate their fields. Government had introduced sprinkler irrigation at subsidised rates for farmers after the Dhod Block in Sikar District was declared a dark zone.
The watershed committee chairman showing the site were future waterworks need to be carried out. In the picture a drainage channel
Horticulture plants were given to tubewell owners. In the picture a tubewell in the field of a farmer who owned 100 bighas of land
People live in separate clusters, Dhanis in the village. This women Belongs to the Balai community. The Locals from this Dhani did not partricipate in the waterworks of the village
A woman showing a scar mark from monkey attack and justifies the reason for villagers why villagers started moving out to Dhanis clusters just beside their farm plots
A woman from the Balai community who related how she had run into debts by borrowing money at high interest rates - usually More than 60% from money lenders. These communities were supposed to have benefitted from the watershed programme through the formation of Self Help Groups, but the project implementing agencies were unable to gain people's confidence
Members of the Self Help Group, formed through the efforts of the Alwar based NGO Ibtada
Members of the Self Help Group, formed through the efforts of the Alwar based NGO Ibtada
Drainage course, small ephemeral streams flow as runoff for a few hours after a heavy shower
A dug out pit for storing water during construction work
Due to electricity problems many farmers have constructed tanks to store the water lifted by pump sets from the well
Women just collect Twigs and Strewn leaves from the forest for firewood. Communities have set rules for not cutting trees in the forest land
Reboring has been done in several places as the water table had gone down
Part of the field bund, sometimes the base gets weakened due to burrowing animals like rats and worms
Haystack used for storing the farm harvest
A fodder grown in this village caters to the beer factories in the region
Swaroop Pal a worker at Ibtada -The Alwar based NGO. Worker explaining how they work with communities
The members of Self Help Groups in a mahila sabha meeting organized by the Alwar based NGO Ibtada
The members of Self Help Groups in a mahila sabha meeting organized by the Alwar based NGO Ibtada
The members of Self Help Groups in a mahila sabha meeting organized by the Alwar based NGO Ibtada
Head and member of the Self Help Group which is supported by Ibtada
Though direct lifting of water from the Anicut is banned in some places. Farmers have resorted to direct lifting through pump sets as benefits of water retentition in the structure have not percolated to the farmers due to the peculiarity of the topography in the village
Self regulations adopted by villagers for protection and conservation of Water, Forest and Land
