KHLOOKYNRIEN VILLAGE

Report of Khlookynrien Village

District: West Jaintia Hills

Block: Laskein Block

Date: 25^th January 2024

COMMUNITY LED LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT PROJECT

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COMMUNITY LED LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT PROJECT (CLLMP)

The Government of Meghalaya with financial help from the World Bank is implementing the Meghalaya Community Led Landscape Management Project (MCLLMP). The project covers the entire state of Meghalaya, and implementation of community-led plans are rolled out in a phased manner throughout the state. The Meghalaya Basin Management Agency (MBMA) will facilitate community-led planning by providing support, technical inputs and funding.

The project is intended to strengthen community-led natural resources management in selected landscapes within the 7 districts of the state. This would be achieved through a variety of planning, capacity building, and on-the-ground interventions to promote the conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, social inclusion and community mobilization; building traditional knowledge and learning, mapping of natural resources management; strengthening the community institutions and creating linkage with financial institutions and community organizations.

The project interventions will include preparation of community led natural resource management plans. The CLLMP has the following three components:

Strengthening Knowledge and Capacity of Communities for Natural Resources Management
Community-Led Landscape Planning and Implementation
Project Management and Governance

The project objective is “to manage and conserve the natural resources, especially forests, soil and water sources, in a manner that supports the financial and physical well-being of communities in the State”

Introduction

Khlookynrien Village is located in West Jaintia Hills district in the state of Meghalaya. Agriculture is the main profession of this village and does not have any industrial development. The People of this area is very peaceful without taking much issues and problems to think about the external affairs. They are confined to what they have been doing and comfortable with their daily schedule.

Village History

In the olden days, Khlookynrien Village is a place covered with thick forests and which has various types of plants and animals. We can find fauna like Tigers, Deers, Wolves, Lions, Fox that can harm people and other living beings. This place is very fertile and fruitful which is covered with forests. Therefore, people from other villages like Mynska, Soh kymphor, Byrwai, Pohkseh came to work in this place. As time goes by,many houses were there and people started living here. They take their children here but they never give birth or finish the death tasks. They used to take it to their own villages. However, people find it very difficult to carry the death bodies of people to faraway places, so people who come out from Byrwai started doing the religious ceremony here and later, others do too.However, it is inevitable, that one mother from Mynska gave the first birth in this place. Later, when people saw that there weren’t any feelings, they started giving birth too. Later, they begin to identify themselves as villagers of this place. They started seeking help from Government for schools, eating and drinking supplies and other necessities. Later, after years and years, the population of the village gets bigger and bigger, most of the forest become thinner and animals become endangered due to diggings of underground minerals or coal as well as selling of trees and because of agriculture.

Khlookynrien village is surrounded by water. As we can see from the east side, there is no rising of the hills whereas from the west side it slips down. The north and the south is steep because there were hills. Thus, the ancient named it as ‘’khlookynrien’’ which means forested place and also which goes downhill or steep.

At present, this village has changed. It has about 227 households. People modifies the outlook of this place. The forest has declined due to digging of minerals and agriculture .Selling of trees for money. Despite all of these, the villagers are still poor, illiterate, lack of progression but the village is filled with love and understanding towards one another.

VILLAGE PROFILE

Khlookynrien Village is located in Laskein C.D Block in West Jaintia Hills District, Meghalaya, India. It is about 48Km away from Block Office and 41.2 Km from district headquarter Jowai. The traditional land tenure system is Daloiship. The village is inhabited by the Pnar community with 228 households and a population of 1363. The gender ration in the village is 666 males and 697 females. As per the data collected, 226 HHs uses fire wood for meeting the fuel needs with an average consumption of 5820 kg per household per annum and 1 HH use LPG with an average of 6 cylinders per household per annum. The village does not have sites of tourist interest. The main institution of the village is the Village Council, School Managing Committee (SMC) and were functional. There are 1 Water and Sanitation Committee. Government Water Supply is available but it is not enough for all the household. At present, there is no hospital and there are 3 primary school in the village.

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The major occupations of the people in the village are teachers and daily wages earners.

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WATER BODIES

Springs- 8

Stream-2

LAND

Forest-160.87Ha

Water Bodies- 13.35Ha

Agri-Hortii-22.91 Ha

Degraded Land-366.17

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Safe drinking Water

Irrigation system

Access to timber,fuel wood and fodder

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Degraded Land

Water scarcity during winter season

Deforestation

Activities

GROUND TRUTHING AND SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME

Ground truthing and village level sensitization programme was held at Khloo kynrein village under Laskein Block on the 10.02.2020 There were many members participated for the programme. The community decided to have a meeting with the entire village members and discuss about the project, formation of VNRMC, EC and Village facilitators.

FINDINGS

1. Timber has been reduced over the years due to commercial use.

2. The cause of degradation is due to deforestation.

3. Water bodies are facing threats due to mining runoff.

4. Public health centre is very limited including the hospitals are very far.

5. There is no proper facilities for irrigation hence the community members have to depend on rainy season.

6. conflict and disagreements are being handled by the village council.

LIST OF NATURAL RESOURCES OF KHLOOKYNRIEN VILLAGE

The list of indigenous tree species are – Schima wallichii (dieng chyrngan), dienglin (Betula alnoides), sasei, soh niamtra (citrus reticulate), soh phai (Myricia esculenta), jack fruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), lemon, siej, mango (magnifera indica), dieng lang, guava (Psidium guajava), sookyndit, salait, diengtler,sning,skop,kseh,champa,diengsai,sohlangsain,lardoh (exbucklandia populnea).
The Valuable grasses of the village are- Sla salah, kdait, dieng salat and local growns.
1. Signing of Documents:

After few days of sensitization programme, on the 18 of February 2020, the district DPMU and SPMU visited Khloo kynrein Village for signing of all the documents such as EOI, VGA and CGC.

Formation of VNRMC

The formation of VNRMC EC members and VCF were been done on the 15^th -02-2020, wherein the community decided to select the representatives from VEC, SHG and other village functionaries.

Listed below are the members of the VNRMC:

Village Natural Resource Management Committee (VNRMC)
Sl No	Name in Full	Gender M/F	Age (in Yrs)	Education	Designation	Occupation	Community	Contact No and email address
1	Smt. Raplang Shadap	F	43	II Passed	P.C	Labour	Pnar	9366029152
2	Smt. Maiju Lapasam	F	41	I Passed	P.C	Labour	Pnar	936621725
3	Shri.Skhem Sayoo	M	37	III Passed	P.C	Labour	Pnar	7005752901

Village Facilitators (VCF)

Sl No	Name in Full	Gender M/F	Age (Yrs)	Education	Area of specialisation/ focus (forests, water, soil, accounts, environmental and social safeguards, knowledge management, GIS)	Trained under CLLMP (Yes/ No?) if yes, date training was received	Contact No and email address
1	Sambun Wann	F	24	Class -12	SM/KM	Yes	6909829930
2	Kermingstar Sungoh	F	20	Class-12	NRM/GIS	Yes	9366717942
3	Wandakini Lapasam	M	32	Class-2	M&E	Yes	9366900516

PRA EXERCISE

PRA exercise was conducted on the 6^th September 2019 at Khlookynrein Village,Laskein Block, WJH.

Plan Estimate:

The plan estimate is done once field engineer along with the Environment Management pay a visit to the proposed sites for inspection. On approval, the plan estimate is being carried out further by the district field engineer.

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
1	AFFORESTATION	RIATPAMLONG 1	25.45506	92.48677	1,66,170	IMPLEMENTED
2	AFFORESTATION/RIATPAMLONG 2	RIATPAMLONG 2	25.45407	92.4833	1,66,170	IMPLEMENTED
3	AFFORESTATION	RIAT PAMLONG	25.4551	92.48733	1,42,670	IMPLEMENTED
4	AGRO-FORESTRY	RIAT PAMLONG	25.45911	92.48862	1,11,250	IMPLEMENTED
5	COMMUNITY NURSERY	IAW SA UT	25.45142	92.48598	99,300	IMPLEMENTED
6	VERMI COMPOSTING	IAW SA UT	25.45144	92.4864	3,01,619	IMPLEMENTED
7	SPRING CHAMBER	NEIN SHNONG	25.44529	92.48297	1,21,100	IMPLEMENTED
8	SPRING CHAMBER	UMPYRJAH	25.45522	92.49698	1,21,100	IMPLEMENTED
9	AGRO-HORTICULTURE	RIAT PAMLONG	25.45898	92.48345	1,39,030	IMPLEMENTED
10	BROAD SPECTRUM BIO-PESTICIDE	URTASAM	25.4514	92.48626	32,123	IMPLEMENTED
11	RCC RAIN WATER HARVESTING	MADAN TI RIANG	25.454	92.49431	1,77,290	IMPLEMENTED
12	PLANTATION OF AGRO-FORESTRY	UMKYRTEM	25.44979	92.49453	1,58,615	IMPLEMENTED
13	PLANTATION OF AGRO-FORESTRY	MOOKNOR	25.44988	92.47836	2,59,650	IMPLEMENTED
14	PLANTATION OF AGRO-FORESTRY	LUMJAK	25.45009	92.49228	1,58,615	IMPLEMENTED
15	BARBED WIRE FENCING FOR PRESERVATION OF SACRED GROVES FOREST	KREM TANGSAH	25.45073	92.48269	1,80,465	IMPLEMENTED
16	SEED BANK	IAWSAHOT	25.45142	92.48602	1,21,774	IMPLEMENTED
17	SOIL EROSION PROTECTION WALL	RIAT PAMLONG	25.45815	92.4884	1,97,155	IMPLEMENTED

FUND STATUS

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
1	AFFORESTATION	RIATPAMLONG 1	25.45506	92.48677	1,66,170	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
2	AFFORESTATION	RIATPAMLONG 2	25.45407	92.4833	1,66,170	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
3	AFFORESTATION	RIAT PAMLONG	25.4551	92.48733	1,42,670	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
4	AGRO-FORESTRY	RIAT PAMLONG	25.45911	92.48862	1,11,250	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
5	COMMUNITY NURSERY	IAW SA UT	25.45142	92.48598	99,300	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
6	VERMI COMPOSTING	IAW SA UT	25.45144	92.4864	3,01,619	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
7	SPRING CHAMBER	NEIN SHNONG	25.44529	92.48297	1,21,100	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
8	SPRING CHAMBER	UMPYRJAH	25.45522	92.49698	1,21,100	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
9	AGRO-HORTICULTURE	RIAT PAMLONG	25.45898	92.48345	1,39,030	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
10	BROAD SPECTRUM BIO-PESTICIDE	URTASAM	25.4514	92.48626	32,123	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
11	RCC RAIN WATER HARVESTING	MADAN TI RIANG	25.454	92.49431	1,77,290	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
12	PLANTATION OF AGRO-FORESTRY	UMKYRTEM	25.44979	92.49453	1,58,615	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
13	PLANTATION OF AGRO-FORESTRY	MOOKNOR	25.44988	92.47836	2,59,650	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
14	PLANTATION OF AGRO-FORESTRY	LUMJAK	25.45009	92.49228	1,58,615	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
15	BARBED WIRE FENCING FOR PRESERVATION OF SACRED GROVES FOREST	KREM TANGSAH	25.45073	92.48269	1,80,465	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
16	SEED BANK	IAWSAHOT	25.45142	92.48602	1,21,774	IMPLEMENTED

SL NO	TYPE OF INTERVENTION/WORK	SITE NAME	GPS COORDINATES		AMOUNT from CLLMP	WORK STATUS
17	SOIL EROSION PROTECTION WALL	RIAT PAMLONG	25.45815	92.4884	1,97,155	IMPLEMENTED