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SRDS  12AA REGISTRATION  

REGSTRATION  CERTIFICATE  OF  SOCIETIES XXI OF 1860

BOARD OF MANAGEMENT 

ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT2010  

SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY (SRDS)

4-135, Santha Bazar Street, ROMPICHERLA-517192

Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh

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ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF SRDS DURING THE YEAR ENDING 31-3-2010

INTRODUCTION:

Sustainable Rural Development Society popularly known as SRDS is a non-profitable Voluntary Agency established in the year 2004. The main objective of the society is to educate the rural poor to avail their basic needs to lead dignity and peaceful life in society by providing them timely information, knowledge, guidance and moral strength through uniting them into different groups like Mahila Mandals, Youth Societies, Farmers’ Associations, Parents Committees etc. to attain their rights for all round sustainable development. The target groups of SRDS are children, women, small and marginal farmers especially from SC, ST, BC and Minority Communities.

        The organisation implementing the following activities in 20 villages of Rompicherla and Chinnagottigallu Mandals of Chittoor District. 

ACTIVITIES OF SRDSSustainable Agriculture

1. Integrated Rural Development
2. Sanitation and Watershed Programme
3. SHG Training Programme
4. Environment Programme
5. Adult Literacy Programme
6. Medical & Health Camps
7. Pulse Polio Camps
8. HIV & AIDS awareness Camps
9. Cultural Activities

III. WORKING VILLAGES:

1. Guttakinda H.W Bommaiagaripalle               
2. Jandlavaripalle Nadimpalle                         
3. Kumaranayain H.W Bodipativaripalle                  
4. Nadimpalle Nadimpalle                        
5. Nagiri (G) HW Ganugachintha                    
6. Pathakuravapalle Bommaigaripalle                
7. Peddakuravapalle Bommaigaripalle               
8. Bodireddigaripalle Jandlavaripalle       
9. Billavandlapalle Chettevaripalle             
10. Chittecherla Chittecherla                       
11. Digavuru         Digavuru                          
12. Jandlavaripalle Jandlavaripalle                   
13. Pulakuntapalle Chettevaripalem                  
14. Palamakulapalle Egavuru                             
15. Rangannagarigadda Jandlavaripalle                         
16. Thummacheruvupalle Thennacheruvupalle            
17. Tanguturivaripalle Thippireddigaripalle  
18. Bandakindapalle Bandakindapalli          
19. Challavaripalle Bommiagaripalle                
20. Chencha Chenchamreddy

Everybody knows that Agriculture is the main source of livelihood in rural India.Nowadays Agricultural income decreased and the many farmers stopped the activity to cultivate their lands and migrated to the near towns and cities to find their livelihood.

The main reason is that the cost of cultivation of any crop increased likewise cost of seed, fertilizers, agriculture implements, labour, pesticides etc. and there are not bearable by the small and marginal farmers.

To minimize the cost low cost techniques are injected to the farmers in the regular visits and meetings and orientation camps. The Chairman of SRDS being hailed from middle class family has gone through lot of trainings and developmented enormous knowledge in The field of Agriculture through AME foundation, an NGO.

His resource services are utilized. and Field visits are conducted with some farmers where the farmers gained innovative methods in Agriculture. Farmer groups are formed by SRDS and in each group leaders are selected with capable qualities. They to diffuse the knowledge which they earned in the trainings and meetings to the other farmers.The following table shows the major crops of the area, problems faced by the farmers and the suggestions provided by the generous farmer friend the Chairman who well known the problem faced by the farmer. 

Problems facing the local farmers:- Decreasing the yield of groundnut year by year Germination of seed also decreasing Pest and diseases of paddy cases low yield Sugarcane yield minimized due lack of water scarcity Vegetable crops decreased due to regular attack of pests

Suggestions provided for their solution:-

Organic fertilizers introduced in the place of costly chemical manures. Seed treatment measures implemented in selection, cleaning and other methods of application of Jeevamrutham etc. Quality seed supplied in coordination of like mindeds NGOs cooperation. Pest control methods applied in application different leaves decoction SRI paddy cultivation developed DRIP system in sugarcane irrigation introduced with Govt. Subsidiary Scheme Intercrops, Boarder crops cultivated in vegetable crops to minimize pest problem. Impact Little increase in yield with organic system and low investment process minimized the cost of production. Density of plants increased with regular intraction of farmerin seed treatment. An impression cause in mind of farmer to avoid high cost chemical fertilizer

Integrated Rural Development Programme, IRDP       

Anti poverty programme implemented in the Chittoor District. The objective of the programme is to assist the poor families in urral areas in obtaining supplementary in come by providing assets and thereby making them to cross the poverty line once for all. The target groups include small farmers, marginal farmers, agricultural labourers, non agricultural labourers and rural artisans who annual income is than Rs.18000/- safeguards are provided for schedule castes, schedule tribes, physically handicapped and women in terms of physical and financial targets in the total beneficiaries. SRDS identified the beneficiaries in the working area of the organization and the list submitted the development officer and encouraged the leaders to assist the beneficiaries for sanction of loan in coordination of Bank and concerned officers.

Sanitation and watershed programme:      

  Watershed development programme has been implemented in the district since 1994-95 in the area of drought prone area programme. The principal objective of the programme is to restore ecological balance through an integrated development on watershed basis with a view to insulting drought prone areas from the effects of recurring droughts. The watershed programme has four components, viz. soil and moisture conservation, water harvesting structures and minor irrigation works, afforestation and social forestry and other related items such as horticulture sericulture, biogas, dairy etc. Apart from contributing to land development and agriculture the watersheds are expected to generate additional employment opportuninites directly and indirectly for the poor and contribute to poverty alleviation. SRDS awared the people in the working about the benefits under this programme through village meetings and made sincere efforts to gain the benefits from this scheme to the people of the SRDS working area. Employment and as well as asset formation to the poor for sustainable development gained through this scheme.

Sanitation

 A major activity of SRDS in this year to avail the sanction of Lavatries and bath rooms in the villages to more than 500 beneficiaries in the working villages with contribution of labour of the beneficiaries with rice and cash payment. People feel this will be the one of the useful programme of the Govt and this helps especially women and girl child not to walk a lot of distance for their early hour duties.

SHG TRAINING PROGRAMME:

Women in general, and the poor women in particular constitute our important disadvantaged group suffering from the double burden of being poor and women. As women, they are subject to two types of discrimination in labour market namely payment of low wages and increasing employment in petty production. At home women contribute to non wage labour by collecting fuel rearing domestic animals raising vegetable etc. In addition to routine house hold waste. The low level of literacy among women these groups and poor awanresses and orgnaising among then much more vulnerable to poverty unemployment and gender based discrimination. So SRDS worked hard in collecting data of the women and their family particular in working area with format to know the actual position to plan the programme by forcing them into self help groups and merged some to the already formed DWACRA Groups.

Environment Programme:

Our society has been carrying out program to promote environment and sanitation conditions to preserve the local ecological system. Tree plantation was implemented in the working villages of SRDS in Rompicherla and Chinnagottigallu Mandals. Awareness Training camps conducted on solid waste management and to construct vermin compost pits for their development. In addition to aware the public rally and competition test conducted in the Mandal Primary and upper primary school children carrying plycards to save Environment like plant of plenty plants, clean the surroundings, not store waste water and solid waste near hoiuses, use Biogas instead of forest wood etc.

Adult Literacy Programme:

The Govt. of India as well as the State Govt. and Union Territories shows the literacy level increased by showing percentages upto 70% taking the account that an adult became literate simply learning that the adult able to sign his name instead of left thumb impression. But SRDS with efficient scholar survey in area revealed that most of the adult even don’t know the alphabets or not able to read the small sentences. To improve their learning ability in writing, reading and teach the other to learn training camps are conducted at the village, panchayath and Mandal level.

Medical and Health Camps:

Three medical and health camps were arranged at Pathakuravapalli, Thummacheruvupalle and chittecherla villages for the physically challenged blind, aged and children in collaboration with Govt. and other NGOs of the working area. Free medicine distributed and certificates to the disabled granted by the concerned Govt. Doctors patients with chronicle diseases are referred to the TIRUPATI SVIMS and RUYA Hospitals Pulse Polio

The programme was conducted in different villages of Rompicherla and chinnagottigallu mandal area with the help of youth and Mahila Mnadals (SHG) leaders pulse polio conducts with 5 nurses with member staff. Polio drops were given to all 0-5 children in the area entering every door of the villages. HIV and AIDS Awareness Camps

HIV/AIDS awareness camp was organized at Bakarapeta Village with women of SHG Groups. 50 women of 5 SHG Groups participated in the camps. The women are educated on AID Syndrome, HIV transmission, preventive method and condom use. The lecture group discussion poster display and cultural media were adopted to create awareness in HIV/AIDS with sponsor of CORE organization Tirupati with necessary help.

Cultural activities:

Rural Sports like Kabadi, KhoKho and cultural activities Folk Dance, Harikathas are conducted in Bakarapeta Ranganagarigadda and Gangachitha village by the village contribution and this helped to the members to understand each other for the unity thereby development.

ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT2011  

SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY (SRDS)

4-135, Santha Bazar Street, ROMPICHERLA-517192

Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh

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ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT  FOR THE YER ENDING MARCH 2011 

I.INTRODUCTION:         

        Women, children and farmers are the target groups of SRDS. Sustainability of a rural agricultural family depend upon the development of these three groups. Development possible where

• Women should not be harassed
• Children should not be neglected
• Farmer should not think about suicide

With the above objectives SRDS tried its best with all the available efforts formulated the programmes. For women empowerment they were educated for equal rights, opportunities, power and status in the society.

For the children, to safe guard their rights, (a) education for all (b) good health and nutrition food and (c) healthy environment to develop their skills are some of the ideas implemented by the SRDS through the child based activities. For the farmer especially the small and marginal different activities  like trainings, exposure visits, supply of subsidiary seed and fertilizers are planned and implement during the year.

Overall awareness camps on Health, Pulse Polio, and Literary etc. are conducted with the cooperation of the people in the working area 

1. ACTIVITIES OF SRDS

1. Sustainable Agriculture
2. Sanitation and watershed programme
3. Integrated Rural Development Programme
4. SHG Training Programme
5. Environment Programme
6. Adult Literacy Programme
7. Medical and Health Camps
8. HIV & AIDS awareness camps
9. Pulse Polio Camps

10.Cultural Activities.

BRIEF REPORT ON EACH ACTIVITY

(a) Sustainable Agriculture:

Farmer is the backbone of country. But his bones became weak and his position becomes not able to feed his own family. His products becomes cheaper when they came to market. But the daily need cost becomes high and his bag not filled even with Rs.500/- for a week to a small family. Why this happens? Because of the intervention of mediators, business magnets, politicians and corrupted officials. How to save the farmer? What is the way to save him? The only solution is to

• Fight with Govt. for minimum price for his products
• Subsidory prices for the daily need Agriculture commodities in the market.

The producer have the right to get his own produced products for minimum prices.

• Storing the products till they get reasonable rates
• Marketing techniques to be awared.

This year SRDS conducted trainings on marketing system as the previous years programmes are continuing. Four training camps arranged on four different topics. 

Sl.No.    Place of Training         Topic                 Resource Persons

1. Mallela Integarted Farming      1. A.Nagaraja

                                    System                      2. E.Chalapathinaidu

1. Pulakuntapalle Bio-Fertiliser               1.A.Nagaraja

                                    Bio-pests                    2.Ramprasad, AME

1. Boreddigaripalle Fruits & Vegetable       1.A.Nagaraja

                                    Cultivation                    2.M.N.Lakshminarayana

1. Pathakuravapalle Strengthening the 1.A.Nagaraja

                                    farmer groups             2.K.Sudhakar 

Methodology

• Lecture Method
• Farmer participation
• Small Group discussion
• Group presentation
• NFE 

Objectives of trainings

• Minimise cost of agriculture
• Introduction of Bio-manures and pesticides
• Farmers society establishment
• Integrated farming system
• Vegetable & fruits farming
• Dryland horticulture and vegetable crops 

IMPACT

• Farmers realized the necessity of Bio-manure which are avail at low cost like vermin compost, neem cake etc and bio-pest also less cost as compared to chemical pests seeing this in the exposure trips and listening the real story of the farmers attended the trainings.
• Farmers also came forward to form farmers society to fight for the rights.
• Vegetables and fruits farming also insisted in the fields to gain immediate income
• Integrated farming system also encouraged and followed by the farmers. 

(b) Sanitation and watershed programme:

A model village is selected in the Rompicherla Mandal namely Guttakinda Harijanawada and regular village meetings are convened with leader of women and farmers. In this meeting  clean road, clear drainage, arranging pits away the village to put the wastage of Agriculture and livestock wastage has been discussing and making a habit to them.

Construction of lavatories and bathrooms with the assistance of Mandal Development team through the Govt. Scheme. It is monitored by SRDS team regularly. Financial assistance has been provided in the initial stage to the poorest families still they get benefit from the concerned department. 

Tree plantation has been taken major place during this year in the watershed implementing area of the SRDS consulting the nursery units in the District. Good quality of fruits and other plantations supplied to the farmers. Mobilising the farmer to the watershed committee meetings of the PIA implementing watershed development area and discussed with the team leader to benefit the poor in the programme, providing wage days to the workers of the local area in the National Employment Generation Programme are some of the activities done during the year. 

(c) Free Medical & Health Camps:

Two medical and health camps have been arranged at Rompicherla and Chinnagottigallu Mandal Headquarters. The local Medical Practitioners are invited to the camp. Patients suffering from different diseases are treated and some of them who are eligible for the state govt. implementing Rajiv Arogyashree Scheme are referred to the SVIMS Hospital, Tirupati. General Medicine supplied to the patients fee of cost with cooperation of Medical representation of Tirupati. 

(d) Environment Programme:

A rally has been convened with students of all Educational Institutions in Rompicherla with plycards. Pamplets have been distributed to the public to safe guard the environment. Prizes were distributed to the students who have written best articles on protection of Environment in the Z.P. High School, Rompicherla. Awareness has also created through the women and farmer leaders of the society in the working area to avoid plastic use, protection of environment through plantation in the area etc.

(e) Integrated Rural Development Programme:

By negotiating with the Community Coordinators of the District Rural Development Agency and the concerned officials in the District Office. SRDS successfully involved the farmer and women to get benefit from the Govt. Schemes.

(f) AIDS Awareness Camps

Two orientation camps have been conducted at Rompicherla and Bakarapaeta of the society working area to the women and youth associations. Precaution not to attack this dreadful diseases has been awared the public through the leaders. Safe sex with life partner, condom using methods, avoiding unknown sex relations have been awared through the pamplets and wall writing etc. during the year. 

(g) Pulse Polio Programme:

The importance of two drops given to the infants of 0-5 age children compulsory in the pulse polio programme which the Govt. has been conducting regularly is awared to the people through posters, pamplets and this topic has been included in the agenda of the village meeting conducting regularly in the SRDS working villages. 

(h) Adult Literacy Programme:

It is observed that almost all the people now days are known to write their names practicing in the centres. SRDS made sincere efforts to make them read the small words and write through distribution Note books to the women SHG Group Members. News Papers also supplied to the Group Leaders to circulate them to read and write the head lines etc. A strategy has been evolved with the High School students to conduct small tests to the elders with small questions by giving prizes to the best marks obtained adults. Farmers feel this happy that the children became teachers to them. 

(i) SHG Training Programme:

A training programme has been conducted to the women SHG Groups formed in the area. To utilize the Loans received from the Banks through Groups. Book Keeping, Minute wirting also agenda wise discussion methods are employed in the women leaders. 

Income generation methods are also explained in the Training involving all the participants to discuss the local market system, Tailoring, servicing units, agriculture based products, business, Garments making, paper plate making, embroidery making etc. are some of the units came in the discussion. Petty shop, fruit and vegetable selling are also profitable to the people at Mandal Headquareters, Rompicherla Women leaders intiated in the training. 

60 Members trained in the training programme inviting the resource persons from the NGO sector who are having thorough knowledge in Income generation programmes. 

(j) Cultural Programme:

Indian traiditional culture has been disappearing gradually by the intervention of foreign culture in people with the effect of Globilization.Indian village culture activities is not encouraged. SRDS formed a committee of members endorsing the responsibility to convene the cultural activities.

This team oftenely visiting the villages of SRDS working area and met with village elders and convened the cultural activities in the villages.

ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT2012  

SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY (SRDS)

4-135, Santha Bazar Street, ROMPICHERLA-517192

Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh

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Organic Farming System                       Chemical Farming System

* Fertilisers like Vermi Compost,           * UREA, DAP etc. chemicals

Neem cake, cow drug manure               fertilizers are more cost when

are cheaper and healthy to the soil.               Compared to the organic manure

* Farmer can prepare manure at           * Farmer have stand in “Que” in

his own place using waste of green        front of shops for chemical

around his fields                                  fertilizers.

* Botanical leaves extraction                 * Chemicals are sprayed to the

is sprayed for pest control                    fields poisoning environment

without any cost.                                 as well as food products.

* Live stock should be                          * Live stock decreased and  

developed for organic farming               machinery introduced

* Organic farming is matter of               * Chemical farming is matter

giving back to the nature that               of destruction of nature. It is

what was taken from it. It is                 dangerous, expensive and

safe, inexpensive and profitable        disappearance of creatures

                                                        of God