The Report - North 24 Parganas

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The NREGA program has sponsored projects like pond excavation, rebuilding ofthe river bank that has been destroyed by Aila and associated agricultural work.The job card was issued to Prabash in 2008. “With the help of the job card, I haveworked on land clearing and excavation efforts for about 15 days. I loved doingthe work but because new projects were not sanctioned, we did not receiveadditional work from NREGA.” The benefits of NREGA work is that it really payswell. “With a weeks work, I have been able to earn about Rs. 700 and this hasenabled me to buy all the food that is needed in the family.”A pond has been cleaned, Prabash says. “Due to the storm, we have many newfishes in the pond. So this has been really beneficial to the family. If we can reallyfind work for 100 days on the job card, it would be truly beneficial and we canuse some of the money for savings as well.”Prabash is still in pursuit of a stable family income. It is hard for him to bear theexpenses of his family at one hand and make investments for animal husbandryor fish rearing on the other for the future. Due to poor financial condition, thefamily can barely arrange for two square meals a day. Prabash heartilywelcomes the benefits of NREGA but feels that employment opportunities needto expand so that he can use his wage income to support some additionalinvestments in business.
24. BIMAL KRISHNA MONDOLNREGA has brought in job opportunities for womenBimal-krishna Mondol is 62 years old and farmer by occupation. Very recently hehas been practising animal husbandry with cows, hens and goats. After the Ailastorm, Bimal has stopped rearing hens as they are vulnerable at times of naturalcatastrophy. He admits that animal husbandry has helped him with substantialamount of earnings that he has utilised for buying land.Bimal has two sons. His elder son is studying in college and pursuing B.A. studiesand his younger son is in Class XI. My wife has been educated unto the Class Xstandard. The family is enthusiastic about studies because he has also been ableto educate some people around on animal husbandry having received sometraining on it himself.Of the 19 blocks in North and South 24 Parganas, about 10 of them have beenaffected due to the Aila storm. There has been considerable damage on Bimal’sproperty as well. Bimal says that only 10 kathas of cultivable land is left on whichBimal cultivates different varieties – ‘gobindobhog’, kaminishal’ etc. “Usually Ihave the opportunity to work on other fields in the other years. But this year,because of the saline water, I haven’t been able to do the same.” From thework of animal husbandry, usually I have returns of Rs. 150 to Rs. 200 per day asprofit.Bimal has several coconut trees on his property that were not growing well andyielding enough fruits for lack of sufficient water in the area. The work on pondexcavation has changed his way of life in many ways which he illustrates later.Bimal is very enthusiastic about the NREGA program. He has receivedemployment through NREGA for about 15 to 20 days and hopes to receive morecontracts in the future. He has been part of the Panchayat development boardcommittee and says that NREGA has administered several different kinds ofprojects in the villages such as pond excavation work, road building, bricklayering and river bank reconstruction, although there is more emphasis on pondexcavation work he says.The program has many advantages Bimal says. “Women never had theemployment opportunities that NREGA has brought along. They can work alongwith their husbands and with other men on mud cleaning and clearing andother kinds of jobs in their own village.” The women from the SHGs are generallyemployed. The concerned SHG in the area of operation is generally employedfor work. “Besides, “it is really beneficial to be paid all at the same time after thejob is completed in 15 to 20 days. That way we receive a lump sum amount. I
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pond. He also says that the people,
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3. LAXMAN SARDARNREGA has improved
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Page 23 and 24: give him and his wife food. They on
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