july 2013 - National Institute of Rural Development

When 'Self-Help' Proved to be Best HelpJULY 2013In Ipperu, remote village in got the income of more than ` c o n f i d e n c e b u i l d i n g . T h eAnantapur district, a group of 4000. With the sudden and participants have been undergoingseven members from different SHG surprising marketing, there was no training in various areas like HomeGroups of the same village have limit for their happiness. They are Based Products, Paper Bag Making,come forward to start phenyl and now very confident of making Handmade Soap Making, Vermisurf making collectively. Firstly they further product and extend the Compost and Leaf Plate Makingplanned to start phenyl making by marketing level for the product in etc. All these training programmescontributing ` 250/-per head as an nearby towns of Kudair and were being conducted by NIRD.initial investment. It was around Anantapur. The par ticipants of Ipperu` 1700 altogether. With this As part of NIRD-CHRD-Action Panchayat have also been engagedamount they bought some material Research Project on Self-Help in other training Programmesrequired and started the activity. Groups Convergence with Animal being conducted at district level byThey have made 101 bottles of Husbandry activities in Ipperu RDT and RUDSETI.phenyl. After finishing the product Gram Panchayat, Kudair Mandal, With the training, which was giventhe next step was how to sell or Anantapur district, AP, it has been to them, many of the participantsmarket it. They had this question in o r g a n i s i n g t h e t r a i n i n gtheir mind. Thinking that no onehave started some activity eitherprogrammes for Self-Help Groups'would buy their product at localindividually or collectively. Inmembers of Ipperu, Antaragangalevel, they decided to market itcontinuation of this, they haveand Nagireddypalle villages toeither at Kudair or Anantapur at thestarted activities such as Phenylstrengthen their skills andrate of ` 40 a bottle of one liter. But capacities for the betterment ofmaking, Hand Bag Making and Surfto their surprise all the bottles of their economic conditions and Making. Though they started few101, that were made initially, have livelihoods by way of providing activities, they are happy with thebeen sold out in Ipperu itself and them required inputs guidance and activity and the output.SnippetsCentre for Rural Infrastructure, and interact with the members of sanitation campaign: PanchayatiNIRD organised an International Mandal Samakhya or SHGs for Raj and Rural DevelopmentT r a i n i n g P r o g r a m m e o n upgrading knowledge and skills in Department; Kolkata ,West Bengal"Management of Rural Infra- the areas of IEC and women State has given a presentationstructure Projects on Drinking empowerment which play a pivotal followed by a discussion onWater and Sanitation" The role in drinking water and sanitation innovative experi-ments in drinkinginternational participants were on July 13 . water and sanitation. Shritaken to rural water supply andS.K.Behera, African - Asian RuralIndustrysanitation (RWS) Erramanzil,D e v e l o p m e n t O rg a n i s a t i o nHyderabad and were given practical The international participants were (AARDO), New Delhi delivered aexposure on testing of water quality taken to Ultra Tech Cement of presentation on Information,by different chemical methods, Aditya Birla Group, Kurnool to Education and Communicationwater quality testing mobile kits, provide exposure about the (IEC) in DW&SP in developingdetection of impurities in water by corporate social response activities countries on July 17.Gas liquid chromatography method (CSR) in the fields of health,(GLC) on July 11,2013.education, sustainable livelihood,RetirementMahila Mandalssocial causes and infrastructuredevelopment undertaken by theThe International Participants of the Aditya Birla group on July 14.Training Programme were taken tofield visit to Oorvakal MahilaPopdupu Lakshmi Ikya Sangam(OMPLIS), Oorvakal in Kurnooldistrict, Andhra Pradesh to studyInnovationAt the International ProgrammeShri Chandan Sengupta representingthe task force on totalConsequent upon attainment ofsuperannuation i.e., 60 years,Dr. D. Bidari, Professor & Head(RTD) retired from the services ofNIRD on the afternoon of31.07.2013.