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DARIBOKGRE Village

CONTENTS

1. Daribokgre VNRMC

2. The Village Resources

  1. The Social Resources

  2. The Natural Resources

  3. Type of forest Cover and Wildlife

  4. Cultivable Land

  5. Water Bodies

  6. Spring Inventory

3. Problem Analysis

  1. Community NRM Plan with Estimates

  2. Brief Justifications on Proposed activities

    1. Community Nursery
    2. Composting
    3. Plantation/Afforestation/Reforestation
    4. Spring-shed Development and Management
    5. Check Dams
    6. Forest Management Plan
    7. Gabion Wall/Gully Plug

  3. Annexure - 1

    1. Attendance Sheet
    2. LULC Map
    3. Photo Gallery

  1. THE DARIBOKGRE VNRMC

The Daribokgre village is in Samanda C&RD Block of East Garo Hills district in Meghalaya. The village is inhabited by the Garos consisting of 39 households with 174 population which consists of 87 females and 93 males. This village lies on the mountain of Norek range which is also a biosphere reserve. Here, we can also find The Nokrek National Park which is famous for trekking. The VNRMC in this village was formed in the month of 20th August 2020. The village is 37 Km away from Samanda Block and 51.5 Km from the district headquarter, Williamnagar. The Land Use Land Cover (LULC) map of the village identified GPS co-ordinates of 25.490632 and 90.323511 for latitude and longitude respectively. The village elevation reading is 3.5 msl.

  1. The Village Resources

    1. The Social Resources

    1. The Natural Resources

Through GIS technology the CLLM-project has identified that Daribokgre VNRMC is 542.83 Ha big in area. Total forest cover area 467.90 Ha. Water bodies’ coverage is 6.53 Ha. Nokrek range is also the source of Simsang river which is the largest ang longest river of Garo hills region, flowing from Daribokgre East Garo hills to South Garo Hills and down to Bangladesh. The village has Agricultural land measuring 2.78 Ha and 25.74 Ha of culturable wasteland. Banana, pineapple, rubber, areca nut, orange plantations are the major cash crops in the village. The degraded land identified by the community is caused mainly due to slash and burn cultivation. Villagers have opted to cultivate squash, maize & chilli, ginger, and orange which brings better income.

    1. Type of Forest Cover and Wildlife in DARIBOKGRE Village

The LULC provide that total forest land in the village is 467.90 Ha which consists of open forest and dense forest covers. Apart from having a national park, the villagers also maintain a community forest measuring 31.91 ha of land which they named as Daribokgre Village Reserve. These forest cover includes major 23 nos. of indigenous fruit and non-fruit bearing species such sampol, bolmeseng, Burmese grapes, tebil agilde, adambak, renot, gingsiring, agong, Xylia xylocarpa, Macaranga denticulate. In addition to indigenous species, there are large numbers of plant species species used by the villagers as fodder like Nengitchak, thysanolaena spp., Dakdak. There are also NTFPs in Forest like climbing hempvine, fish mint, broom grass, aloe vera. The forest is famous for having elephants, clouded leopard, monkey, Barking deer, etc

    1. Cultivable Land

The village has 2.78Ha of agricultural, and plantation land. The village has also Jhum cultivation land in around 25.74ha of land. Soil erosion takes place in some areas. The land is becoming less productive due to poor irrigational facility. The villagers are engaged in multi-cropping which are season based. The farmers have been suffering with pest attack which has been destroying their paddy field.

    1. Water Bodies

The village has 12 springs 6 streams and Simsang Rivers originating from the village. All these water bodies are perennial, however, during the lean season the water discharge in many springs and streams are decreasing in recent years. Out of 6 springs, water flow is decreasing in s3 spring - songkam bisik, Me‘gong bisik, songgisep bisik. And out of 6 streams, one stream named Wachal is drying up. The villagers use these water sources for drinking, domestic and irrigation purposes.

    1. Spring Inventory

During the PRA exercise, the Master Trainer has taken the discharge measurement of Mangru spring (latitude of 25.494212°N and longitude of 90.324122 °E with elevation of 1089.32m). It is a depression spring with perennial in nature with the bamboo outlet. The water of the spring is used for drinking and for domestic purposes. Spring discharge was calculated 3 LPM with the help of stop watch- bucket method. The pH value of the spring is 6: LPM. The catchment area of spring is in the private land. Broad geology in and around the spring location is of weathered rock.

  1. Problem Analysis

The above village resource data collected through GIS technology, primary data collection made through CNRMP template and Spring Inventory templates suggests that the village is still rich in natural resources. At the same time natural resource degradation has started in the village that need planned actions and interventions. The area of open forest is increasing due to slash and burn activities, cutting down trees for timber, firewood and for plantations like arecanut, etc. for immediate economic benefit. These has resulted in less water discharge from springs, streams and rivers which has brought about low moisture content in the ground, loss of soil fertility and low crop production. The flora and fauna in the village is also reducing drastically. Irrigation facilities are now required during the month of March, April and May.

  1. Community Natural Resource Management Plan with estimation

Having understood the importance of natural resources in the village, having foreseen the upcoming threats to land, water and forest, the Villagers and VEC members of the village came together on the 20th August’ 2020 to identify and plan out interventions to address challenges faced in their village both in terms of NRM issues and their economic issues. The VEC with facilitation from DPMU-EGH and SPMU has come up with a list of activities to be taken up in next three years’ time within the budget provision. The villagers strongly feel that these interventions would enable them to conserve, preserve and improve the natural resources for them and their future generations.

Proposed Activities

SL Proposed activities Site Name Benefitted area in Ha No. of HH benefitted Estimated Amt. Date of work order issued Date of work implementation Date of work completion
1 RCC Check Dam Achongprot stream 6.8 10 315300.00  23/3/22 18-May-21 21-May-21
2 Community Nursery Songgisep stream 4,12 36 1,12,800  11/5/21 24-May-21 19-Jun-21
3 Afforestation Simsang spring & Didare Stream 15.5 35 239100  10/6/21 2-Feb-22 22-Feb-22
4 Extension of existing pond stone masonry wall Songkama 6.8 36 103200.00  30/11/21 10-Jan-22 21-Jan-22
5 Earthen Embankment A.pal stream 9.5 5 270200.00  17/6/22 5-Jan-23  25-Jan-23 
6 Recharge fit Songkama 1 35 83,700  30/11/21 5-Apr-22 26-Apr-22
7 Spring Chamber Fishery gitoK 5.8 10 160100.00  5/5/22 8-Jun-22 16-Jun-22
8 Spring Chamber Helipad spring 3.6 10 160100.00  5/5/22 10-Nov-22 23-Nov-22
9 Erosion Control Gabion Wall Simsang stream 9.5 5 195600.00  5/5/22 22-Jun-22 23-Jul-22
10 Contour Trenches Nite Marak land 7.8 15 40,100  11/5/21 20-Oct-22 31-Oct-22
11 Contour Trenches Helipad & Didare 8.29 15 40100.00  5/5/22 9-N0v-22 22-Nov-22
12 Protection wall Songkama 9.32 36 192300.00  23/3/22 12-Sep-22 10-Oct-22
13 Water storage tank Helipad 2.5 8 172800.00  5/5/22 10-Nov-22  23-Nov-22
14 Orange plantation Didare 1.5 36 13900.00  5/5/22 5-Dec-22 19-Jun-21
15 Agro forestry Simseng spring/didare stream 10 36 202200.00  26/5/21 18-May-21 16-Jun-21
  Total      

  1. Brief Justification on the Proposed Activities

    1. Community Nursery

The details of the Community Nursery can be seen in the above table. The proposed nursery is meant for raising the saplings which will be planted in the open forest, catchment areas, reserve forest, and private land covering around 542.83 ha of land. The villagers envision that their village will have more dense forest coverage within the next 7 to 10 years that would bring about drastic environmental and economic benefits to all inhabitants in the village. The village has planted in the Nursery which is Orange, Gasampe, Darechik, and Aridak and so on.

    1. Composting

The villagers have also proposed to improve land productivity of agricultural land using organic manure and composting prepared by the villagers so that the soil will be more fertile and that healthy plants.

    1. Plantation/Afforestation/Reforestation

In the village there is only open forest in the village which is about 33.68ha. Villagers have realized that open forests are increasing which leads to climate change and loss of biodiversity is increasing day by day. The villagers have decided to Afforestation or reforestation & Agro-forestry both in the open forests as well as in the private land which bring to a total of 36.34ha of land. The village has taken up orange plantation at Didare under CLLM-Project.

    1. Spring-shed Development and management

There are 4 no.s of springs and streams in the village which are perennial. The water discharge from these springs reduces drastically during the lean season. Development of spring-shed approach in the village along with rejuvenation activities such as afforestation, contour trench and staggered trenches in the catchment areas benefitting to about N/A ha of land that would help in increasing the discharge both peak and lean season catering to 188 households and reduced drudgery, especially of women. The springs and streams are: 1) Songisep chiring 2) Mangru chiring 3) Fishery chiring 4) Songkama chiring 5) Helipad Chiring 6) Achongprot Chiring 7) chongchongprot chiring 8) Wakbot chiring 9) Reru Chiring 10) Dilwang Chiring.

    1. Check Dam

Since there is unavailability of irrigation facilities during the month of March to April and the land become less productive, villagers have proposed 1 nos. of check dam at Anchongprot stream to be constructed for irrigation and domestic purpose from which around 10 households will be benefitting from it. It is expected that 6.8ha of land will be benefitting from these structures. Availability of water throughout the season can help the villagers to practice multiple cropping and follow crop rotation throughout the year which will increase the production and their income as well.

    1. Forest Management Plan

The village has a Reserve forest which has been preserved by the community but due to extraction of timber by the villager themselves now it is consider as open forest which leads to climate change and loss biodiversity day by day. For this reason the residents wanted to reclaim the forest under Forest Management Plan from CLLMP which further increase its forest cover and take preventive measures like raising Nursery for food forestry, Boundary survey, Forest fire control measures, In-situ and Ex-situ conservation and assisted natural regeneration in open forest.

    1. Gabion Wall/Gully plug

The village has constructed gabion wall at songkama and simsang stream in order to control land sliding and to prevent water logging area and destruction of paddy fields.

  1. Annexure – 1

ATTENDANCE SHEET

PHOTO GALLERY

  1. The land belongs to a clan which is called NokmaA’king land. It is under the custody of its female head, the Nokma, whose husband acts on her behalf in all clan decision-making; the Nokma has no authority to take decisions on land and its use. Decisions are meant to be collective among representatives of the clan.↩︎