WASTELAND DEVELOPMENT

There is nothing called waste in this God’s creation-UPNISHAD

NRM TERM PAPER PRESENTATION

STRUCTURE OF PRESENTATION

• DEFINITION OF WASTELAND• CAUSES OF LAND DEGRADATION• TYPES OF WASTELANDS• GOVT. POLICIES SO FAR• GOVT. SCHEMES SO FAR• REVIEW • IWDP SCHEME• SPWD• SUGGESTIONS ON LEARNING• REFERENCES

What is a wasteland???

According to Bhumbla &Khare……A) which are eco logically unstable B) Whose top soil has been nearly completely lostC) which have developed toxicity in root zones for growth of most plants, both annual crop and trees.

Source of photo-www.angio.net

NWDB Definition-

• degraded land which can be brought under vegetative cover with reasonable effort and which is currently under utilized and land which is deteriorating for lack of appropriate water and soil management or on account of natural causes

Source-www.mutantfrog.com

CAUSES OF LAND DEGRADATION

• OVER CULTIVATION

• DEFORESTATION

• OVERGRAZING

• IMPROPER IRRIGATION PRACTICES

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TYPES OF WASTELANDS

• ACCORDING TO NRSA & SOI-13 TYPES 1.Gullies and/or ravines 2. Upland with or without

scrub 3. Waterlogged and marshy land 4. Land affected by salinity /alkalinity in coastal and inland areas 5. Land under shifting cultivation 6. Under utilized / degraded notified forest land 7. Degraded pasture / grazing land 8. Degraded land under plantation crops 9. Shifting sands- inland /coastal 10. Mining / industrial wastelands 11. Barren rocky / stony waste/ sheet rock areas 12. Steep sloping area 13. Snow covered and/ or glacial area.

Categories of Wastelands in India

Category Area (in

sq.Kms.) Snow Covered/Glacial 55788.49

Barren Rocky/Sheet Rock 64584.77

Sands-inland/coastal 50021.65

Land affected by salinity/alkalinity 20477.38

Gullied/or ravenous land 20553.35

Upland with or without scrub 194014.29 Water logged & Marshy 16568.45

Steep sloping area 7656.29

Shifting cultivation land 35142.20

Mining/Industrial Wastelands 1252.13

Degraded/pastures/grazing land 25978.91

Under utilized/degraded notified forest land 140652.31

Degraded land under plantation crop 5828.09 TOTAL AREA-638518.31 sq.kms …..SOURCE-dolr.nic.in/iwdp1.htm

POLICIES SO FAR..

• GOVT. OF INDIA land use policy(1983)• National Land Resources Conservation and

Development Commission (NLRCDC) • National Land Board (NLB)• National Land Use and Wastelands Development

council (NLWC) • The National wasteland Development Board

(NWDB) • IWDP (Integrated wasteland development Project)

SCHEMES SO FAR..

• GRANTS IN AID TO NGOS

• DECENTRALISED PEOPLE’S NURSERIES

• SILVIPASTURE FARM• SEED

DEVELOPMENT• AREA ORIENTED

FUELWOOD & FODDER PROJECT

• ARIEL SEDING PROG.

• PLANTATION OF MINOR FOREST PRODUCE

• MARGIN MONEY SCHEME

• RURAL EMPLOYMENT SCHEME

REVIEW

• By March,2004-148 schemes sanctioned with total outlay- 143.23 cr.

• 63 projects completed/ foreclosed.

• It lacked addressing ecological crisis &people’s participation.

• It has failed to achieve the target of 5 mha/year.

• By over all it has failed.

IWDP SCHEME

• In effect since 1989-90 along with NWDB• Only non forest wastelands are taken up.• Its objective are based on village/ micro

watershed plans.

• Activities- In situ soil/ moisture conservation,

plantation, agro- forestry & horticulture, training, extension, awareness, capacity building, engineering structures etc.

• Success story- Sivganga district of Tamilnadu.

SPWD..An organisation with mission

• Activities- collaborative project with grass root organisation,Networking, policy advocacy

• Functional Area- Land, water, forest & natural resources.

• Programmes- Himalayan region, south region,westrn region, eastern region, JFM, small water harvesting

• Publications- Wasteland news, parti Bhoomi samachar,van sahayog.

Suggestions on learning

• Govt. should view a forestation as a support to agriculture.

• People’s involvement by mobilization.• Separate line of credit by banks/FI.• Transfer of available technology.

• Each dev. Project should involve reclamation cost of waste resources.

• Sufficient planning for raising of nursery. Etc.

Text references.

• RD.D.2 Rural Development programme, a magazine from Indira Gandhi National Open University school of continuing Education.

• Description and classification of wasteland, Ministry of environment and forests, New Delhi.

• Report of the National commission on agriculture Resource Development ,Part-V, ministry of agriculture , New Delhi.

• dolr.nic.in/iwdp1.htm• sivaganga.nic.in/wland_dev.htm• dolr.nic.in/wasteland_division.htm• rural.nic.in/annualrep0304/chapter21.pdf• angul.nic.in/iwdp.htm• Spwdindia.org.

THANK YOU

• Presented by-

RASHMI RANJAN PARIDA

ROLL NO-37

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