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DWDU, Rajkot
6.1.5 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. 57: 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 Women Total SC ST Others Women Total SC ST Others Women Total
1
Kanpar 9550 0 54672 32000 289 0 1678 972
40 192 116
2939
348
2 Junapiplya 3230 0 40034 23120 96222 114 0 1483 812 2409 13 175 97 285
3 Jivapar 5075 0 54165 30319 66384 190 0 2044 1135 3369 22 240 136 398
4 Dolatpar 1505 0 16472 8900 89559 91 0 955 562 1608 10 114 67 191
Sanathali 14474 0 154437 85000 26877 506 0 3010 5399 8915 61 648 361 1070
5 Total 33834 0 319780 179339 532953 1190 0 9170 8880 19240 146 0 1369 777 2292
6.1.6 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 ‘lifesaving’
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-11 166