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DWDU, Rajkot
6.1 Expected Outcomes
6.1.1 Employment
This programme also aims simultaneously to improve the living conditions of the abuttant user communities. Employment opportunities
will be created to the people living in the watershed through different soil and water conservation activities and livelihood activities. Self
employment would be created by providing the people with cash support in the form of direct livelihood activities like agriculture, animal
husbandry and micro-enterprise development.
Table no. 52: Employment in Project area
s. Names of Wage employment Employment Self employment
NO.
Villages No. of mandays No. of beneficiaries No. of beneficiaries
SC ST Others Wome Total SC ST Others Women Total SC ST Others Women Total
1 Kharachiya 375 28125 17265 34905 90 0 375 230 465 19 0 75 47 94
(Jam)
2 Panchavda 8124 0 19500 13812 27624 108 0 260 184 368 22 0 52 37 74
3 Jangavad 10677 0 4125 7401 15402 142 0 63 99 205 28 0 14 21 42
4 Jasapar 8253 0 35700 21526 43953 104 0 482 287 586 25 0 96 60 121
5 Total 27429 87450 60004 121884 444 0 1180 800 1624 94 0 237 165 331
6.1.2 Migration
WSD can open up new opportunities for households to both intensify and extensify production, for example through:
• Increasing the frequency of cultivation – new water harvesting structures often permits cultivation of a second crop, or ‘life-saving’
irrigation of a main crop.
• Adopting new technologies, such as improved varieties of staple crops, higher levels of input use and higher yields; shifts to the
cultivation of higher value crops in the project areas expected.
• Expansion of cultivated areas – soil and water conservation interventions can bring new land into production.
Detailed Project Report: IWMP-III 151