Village visit presentation

Dr.MarriChanna Reddy Human

Resources Development Institute

The Arahatti Experience

Group members

• Sh. Amit Kumar, I.R.S.

• Sh. Nishant Narayan, I.R.T.S.

• Sh. Vamsidhar T.V., I.R.S.

• Sh. Narendra Babu S., I.F.S.

• Sh. Rajesh Kumar, I.E.S

The group consisted of the above five self-

motivated, dynamic Officer Trainees of the

MCR HRD IAP.

ARAHATTI

• Taluk Navalgund, District Dharwad, Karnataka.

• Population: 1201 (624 M and 577 F)

• 15 km from Taluk Headquarters at Navalgund.

• Nearest town : Nargund.

• Sex ratio:924

caste-wise distribution

households

Total No. of

households

Total No. of

BPL

households

ST SC General OBC

3 42 101 77 223 67

TRANSECT WALK

New settlement

• Built after 2009 devastating flood

• 269 houses

• Electricity & Sanitation problems

• Only few households have shifted

• Reasons for not shifting –Cattles,Electricity

Focus group interview

Meeting with

1.Shree Shakti

2.Unemployed youth

3.Panchayat members

4.Physically Challenged

5.Asha & Anganwadi

Venn diagram

VILLAGE *PRIMARY SCHOOL

*ANGANVADI

*ASHA

*PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRE

*POST OFFICE

Preference Ranking

• According to villagers

– Graveyard

– Road facilities to agricultural fields

– Place for their cattles in new village

– Electricity & sanitation to new shifting village

– Public toilets

– PHC

Agriculture

• Main occupation

• Rainfed irrigation

• Kharif: Maize, ground nut, green gram

• Rabi: wheat, Bengal gram, Jowar, Saff

flower. Cotton

• Horticulture crops: Onion, Chili

• Sericulture

Watershed

Education

• Primary school : till 7th class

• Kannada medium

• Awareness about RTI

• Adult literacy

Social arrangement

• Social stratification – Caste Layering of

society

• Position of SC & ST households in the new

and old village

• Social exclusion is not seen.

CULTURE

•Religion

•Festivals

•Costumes

•Food

•Marriage

•Treatment of guests/new

comers

Health & Sanitation

• Willingness towards

open defecation.

• No toilets in the old

village.

• Absence of

Community toilets.

• Immunization

status

• No severe

malnourishment

cases

• PHC

Awareness Programs

RTE

RTI

Agriculture Extensions

Health

Anganwadi