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topSince its inception, Mahiti has been organizing the marginalized
communities around land improvement, water
harvesting and other related natural
resource development activities. Mahiti has
so far organized the people to adopt
appropriate technologies to reduce the
salinity on individual farm as well as on
collective / common land. It has also been
involved in creating water harvesting
structures. Mahiti had to get involved in
advocacy campaign to change the policies of
government to grant watershed development
programs to Bhal region. |
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Finally, it succeeded,
now Mahiti is a recognized PIA. It has so
far implemented following activities: |
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No. |
Name of the
Activities |
Number |
Unit |
Beneficiaries |
Coverage of villages |
Remarks |
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BHAVNAGAR BLOCK
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1 |
Farm
Pond |
330 |
No |
330 |
10 |
5500 hactors of land |
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2 |
Ponds |
46 |
No |
368 |
10 |
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3 |
Bandharas |
1 |
No |
21 |
1 |
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4 |
Waste
weir |
20 |
No |
99 |
6 |
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5 |
Farm
Protection Bunds |
184813 |
SqM |
880 |
10 |
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6 |
Village
Protection
Bunds |
3 |
SqM |
45 |
3 |
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7 |
Social
Afforestration |
30000 |
No |
0 |
10 |
11 hectors |
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Total |
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1807 |
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DHANDHUKA BLOCK
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1 |
Farm
Pond |
36 |
No |
36 |
5 |
2100 hec |
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2 |
Ponds |
34 |
No |
272 |
5 |
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3 |
Check
dam / waste
weir |
3 |
No |
38 |
2 |
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4 |
Farm
Protection Bunds |
87500 |
Sq.M |
518 |
5 |
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5 |
Village
Protection
Bunds |
3 |
No |
43 |
3 |
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6 |
Social
Afforestration |
12000 |
No |
0 |
5 |
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7 |
Grazing
Land
Development |
1 |
No |
0 |
1 |
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Total |
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907 |
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DHOLKA BLOCK
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1 |
Farm
Pond |
14 |
No |
112 |
6 |
900 hec |
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2 |
Check
dam |
2 |
No |
36 |
2 |
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3 |
Farm
Protection Bunds |
20000 |
No |
180 |
2 |
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4 |
Recharge
Bore |
62 |
SqM |
62 |
2 |
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5 |
Social
Afforestration |
11000 |
SqM |
0 |
6 |
6 hec |
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6 |
Grazing
Land Plot |
1 |
No |
0 |
1 |
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Total |
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390 |
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The above activities
have covered 8500 hectors of land. It has
impacted as follows:
• The productivity of land increased due to
water availability – the production of wheat
increase to 300 to 350 Kg from 120 to 200
Kg per one bigha of land. 3104 families
benefited.
• Rs. 2,58,560/- workdays of employment
generated
• Soil erosion of about 3000 hectors
prevented |
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• Soil
moisture increased
• Other crops have been tried
• Land has been protected |
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