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EGH _Ronggom Gittim

The CONTENT

  1. The Ronggom Gittim Village

  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

  4. Community NRM Plan with Estimates

  5. 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

  6. Conclusion

  7. Annexure - 1

    1. Attendance Sheet

    2. LULC Map

    3. Village Resource Map

    4. Problem Analysis Chart

    5. Seasonal Calendar

    6. Photo Gallery

  1. Annexure – 2

Technical Plans & Estimates

  1. Annexure – 3

Memorandum of Agreements

  1. THE Ronggom Gittim VILLAGE

The Ronggom Gittim village is in Ronjeng C&RD Block of East Garo Hills district in Meghalaya. The village is inhabited by Garo Community with 80 households with 424 populations. Sex ratio in the village is 222 females per 224 males. The VNRMC in this village was formed in the month of August 29 2019. The village distance are 8 KM from Rongjeng Block and 45 KM from the district headquarter Williamnagar. The Land Use Land Cover (LULC) map of the village identified GPS co-ordinates are 25.633779” N and 90.741583” E for latitude and longitude respectively. The village elevation reading is 338.01 msl.

  1. The Village Resources

    1. The Social Resources

The village is owned by a clan which is called ‘NokmaA’King1 land’. The main institutions in this village are the Nokma, the Village Employment Council (VEC) and N/A Self Help Group. There are no ‘Water and Sanitation Committee’ in the village, which the project need to promote. The Nokma has a total nos of 6 members with a Sordar, President and a Secretary and Join secretary. Women representative in the Nokma is 2nos. It has been only 2 year since CLLMP has adopted the village. Hence VNRMC members got finance. The VCFs are also yet to be identified. Everyone in this village use fire wood as the main source of fuel requirement and in addition that N/A HH also use LPG. The village has good electricity connectivity with 80 households being electrified.

    1. The Natural Resources

Through GIS technology the project has collected data that the Ronggom Gittim village has total nos of 5.95 Ha of geographical area of which the total forest cover area which is also open forest is 40.12 Ha. Water bodies’ coverage is 1.6 Ha. The village has Agricultural land measuring 15.88 Ha and 4.55 Ha of culturable wasteland. Arecanut plantation is the major cash crop in the village.

    1. Type of Forest Cover and Wildlife in Ronggom Gittim Village

The LULC provide that total forest land in the village are 40.12 (total forest land is also an open forest) which is in conformity with the villagers during the PRA exercise. Surprisingly there is no dense forest in this village. The biomass in open forest is reducing year after year. There is community forest (which is also defined as open forest) measuring 40.12 ha with sites name Boldak(Schima -wallichii), Bolchu,Bolsil,Cahsil,Slangre,Sampal. The villagers have agreed to improve this community open forest. The village has protected forest in some N/A ha of land in Ronggom Gittim (site) which they have planned to bring under Forest Management Plan. There is 3ha of private forest which is also open forest in nature. These forest cover includes major 3 Tegatchu , Tebrong and Jackfruit . The NTFPs in the forest including medicinal Shrubs/ trees are Sterculia Villosa, Calamus,Floribundus,Paederia spp etc . The vulnerable / endangered species in Forest (fauna/flora) are Orchid, porcupines,Langurs,Slow Loris.

    1. Cultivable Land

The village has 15.88 Ha of agricultural, horticultural and plantation land. The village has also Jhum land in around 0.8 ha of land. Soil erosion is taking place in around 7.5 Ha of land. The land is becoming less productive due to unavailability of irrigational facilities. The villagers are engaged in multi-cropping which are based on season. The farmers have been suffering with pest attack which has been destroying their paddy field.

    1. Water Bodies

The village has 5 springs they are Chiring Jongnang,Gitdakram,Rongspi,Ronggom,Wenok passing through the village. All these water bodies are perennial, however, during the lean season the water discharge in many springs and streams reduces to large extend. Only one spring has been tested out of these water bodies as on date for intervention. These water bodies are used for domestic and irrigational purposes. Water crisis occur the months of -February,March and April.

    1. Spring Inventory

The Mater Trainers has taken the discharge measurement Ronggom Gittim spring latitude of N/A N and longitude of N/AE with elevation of N/A ml. It’s a depression spring with perennial in nature with the bamboo outlet. The spring water has been used for drinking and for domestic purposes. Spring discharge was calculated N/A LPM through stop watch- bucket method. The pH value of the spring is 1.6 LPM. The catchment area of spring is in the private land. Broad geology in and around the spring location are weathered rock. A rough sketch of the spring has bring an understanding of the potential recharge areas for intervention.

  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 to planned actions and interventions. The area of open forest is 40.12 Ha increasing and it seems that there is 26.09 Ha dense forest in this village. This is due to jhum cultivation, cutting down trees for timber, firewood and for other plantation, etc.. for immediate economic benefit. These have resulted in less water discharge of water 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.

  1. Community Natural Resource Management Plan with estimation

Having understood the natural resources in this village are foreseen the upcoming threats to land, water and forest, the Villagers and VEC members of the village came together on 29 Aug’ 2019 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 arrived at the 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 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. 2020 -21 2021 -22 2022 -23
1 Check Dam Gitdakram Bisik 210900   3/12/2021   
2 Afforestation Ronggom Spring 80 180000 9/6/2020     
3 Spring Chamber Wenok Spring 1,48,015 28/2/2020     
4 Spring Chamber Jonggimang Spring 40 155900   2456/2021 -2/6/2021  
7 Erosion Control Gabion Wall Gitdakram 5 200400   3/12/2022  11/1/2022 
8 Contour Trenches Bolpu Chiring 17800 28/7/2020     
9 Contour Trenches Ronggom Bisik 80 33500 11/8/2020-12/8/2020     
10 Agroforestry 117190   4/6/2021   
11 Agro Forestry Village Reserve 80 192400 17/6/2021-20/6/2021
12 Community Nursery Gitdakram Spring 80 108840 6/6/2020-10/7/2021     
13 Rcc check dam Rongspi Stream/Matrong Depek 12 193500 28/3/2022-4/5/2022
14 Water reservoir Tank Wenok Spring 15 14801500
15 Banana Plantation Rongsipi 86200
16 Erosion control Gabion Wall Gitdakram 238845
17 Open Well Gitdakram and Wenok 112500
18 Rcc Check Dam Chigisim Spring 294000
  Total   17091490      

Notes:

  1. The Detail Technical Plan and Estimates of Proposed activities attached in the Annexure

  2. CLLPM will finance only 21.55lakhs for the proposed interventions. As per project design, the rest of the estimated amount would be from convergence with other programmes of the state and central government.

  1. Brief Justification on the Proposed Activities

Available budget from CLLMP N/A ha of land however, villagers have decided to treat around 105.14 ha of land or more. This would be done through community contribution and in convergence to state and central government schemes.

    1. Community Nursery

The details of the Community Nursery can be seen in the Annexure. 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 to a total nos of around 40.19 ha of land. The road connection to the village is far from the market so sourcing building would pose as a challenge for the villagers, but since natural resources like water, trees, bamboo, etc. are readily available to them, they can quite easily construct an environment friendly nursery.

    1. Composting

The villagers have also proposed to improve land productivity in around 15.88 ha of agricultural land using composting so that the soil will be more fertile and that healthy plants in return would fetch more productivity leading to increased income.

    1. Plantation/Afforestation/Reforestation

In this village there is only open forest in the village which is about 40.12 ha. Villagers have realized that open forests are increasing which leads to climate change and loss of biodiversity . 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 40.12 ha of land. It is advice to encourage the villagers to plant fruit bearing trees while carrying out reforestation for the benefits of all fauna and human beings alike.It will also restore and maintain balance in the biodiversity.

    1. Spring-shed Development and management

There are 4 nos. of springs in the village which are perennial. The water discharge from these springs reduces drastically during the lean season. Development of spring-shed approach in this village along with rejuvenation activities such as afforestation, contour and staggered trenches in the catchment areas benefiting to about 4.55 ha of land that would help in increasing the discharge both peak and lean season catering to households and reduced drudgery, especially of women.

    1. Check Dam

Since there is unavailability of irrigation facilities during the month of May till July and the land become less productive, villagers have proposed at Gitdakgram e.i 1 nos. of check dam to be constructed for irrigation and domestic purpose from which around 6 households will be benefiting from it. It is expected that 1.26 ha of land will be benefiting from this 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. After the villagers realized that open forests are increasing which leads to climate change and loss biodiversity is increasing day by day. The Ronggom Gittim wanted to reclaim the forest which is around 7.5 ha to be brought under forest management plan which further increase its forest cover, take more preventive measures, etc.

    1. Gabion Wall/Gully plug

  1. Annexure – 1

  1. Annexure – 2

  1. Annexure - 3

  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.↩︎