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Nengmandalgre Village

Contents

  1. Nengmandalgre VNRMC
  2. The Village Resources

2.1 The Social Resources

2.2 The Natural Resources

2.3 Type of forest Cover and Wildlife

2.4 Cultivable Land

2.5 Water Bodies

2.6 Spring Inventory

3. Problem Analysis

4. Community NRM Plan with Estimates

5. Brief Justifications on Proposed activities

5.1 Community Nursery

5.2 Composting

5.3 Plantation/Afforestation/Reforestation

5.4 Spring-shed Development and Management

5.5 Check Dams

5.6 Forest Management Plan

5.7 Gabion Wall/Gully Plug

6. Annexure - 1

6.1 Attendance Sheet

6.2 LULC Map

6.3 Photo Gallery

  1. THE NENGMANDALGRE VNRMC

The Nengmandalgre village is in Samanda C&RD Block of East Garo Hills district in Meghalaya. The village is inhabited by Garo Community with 188 households having 1102 population whereby, 517 are females and 587 are males. The VNRMC in this village was formed on 27th August 2020. The village is 27 KM from Samanda Block and 8 KM for the district headquarter, Williamnagar. The Land Use Land Cover (LULC) map of the village identified GPS co-ordinates as 25.505608 and 90.577446 for latitude and longitude respectively. The village elevation reading is 272.86 msl.

  1. The Village Resources

    1. The Social Resources

    1. The Natural Resources

Through GIS technology the project has collected data that Nengmandalgre village has total of 1297.76 Ha of geographical area of which the total forest cover area is 1038.76 Ha. Water bodies’ coverage is 5.43 Ha. The village has Agricultural land measuring 11.63 Ha and 116.63 Ha of culturable wasteland. Total barren land measures to 0.99 Ha of land in the village. The degraded land identified by the community measures to 57.69 Ha caused mainly due to jhum cultivation which led to barren land of 0.99 Ha. Villagers have opted to cultivate Arecanut and Rubber which brings better income.

    1. Type of Forest Cover and Wildlife in Nengmandalgre Village

The LULC provide that total forest land in the village is 1038.76 Ha whereby, 954.75 Ha is open forest & 84.01 Ha is dense forest. There is a community forest which the village named as Nengmandalgre Reserve Forest. There is also a private forest which belongs to the Manda clan. These forest cover includes major indigenous fruit and non-fruit bearing species such as Matriebol, beholibudu, jongsasatbol, kireng-jaundice, chenong-jaundice, samtana-eye problem Spp., chamcholja, chanbesik, boldak, chapo.a, Teak, bolgipok, gunsorai, sampal, aritdak, Chirore, pakram, jengben, suru, bolbit, sakep, Banyan, Jackfruit, etc. Due to reduction in forest cover and unavailability of food, the existing fauna such as Civet, hoolock gibbon, fox, Langurs, leopard, jungle fowl are in danger or in non existence as on date.

    1. Cultivable Land

The village has 16.63 Ha of agricultural and horticultural and plantation land of 95.26 Ha. The village has also Jhum land in around 3 ha of land. Soil erosion is taking place in around 2.3 Ha of land. The land is becoming less productive due to unavailability of irrigational facilities. Arecanut and Rubber plantation is the major cash crop in the village. Paddy is also a major crop being cultivated in this village.

    1. Water Bodies

The village has 8 springs, 2 streams and 1 river in the village. All these water bodies are perennial, however, during the dry spell the water discharge in many springs and streams are starting to reduce. These water bodies are used for domestic and irrigational purposes.

    1. Spring Inventory

The Master Trainer at the time of PRA exercise has taken the discharge measurement of Asimba spring- latitude of 25.511738°N and longitude of 90.57198°E with elevation of 255.19 m. Spring discharge was calculated as 3.95 LPM through stop watch-bucket method. The PH value of the spring is 6.15 LPM.

  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. The area of open forest is increasing. This is due to jhum cultivation, cutting down trees for timber, firewood and for Arecanut and Rubber plantation. These have resulted in less water discharge of water from springs, streams and rivers and degradation of soil fertility. The flora and fauna in the village is also reducing which needs special attention.

  1. Community Natural Resource Management Plan with estimation

Having foreseen the upcoming threats to land, water and forest, the Villagers and VEC members of the village came together on the 17th December 2020 to identify and plan out interventions to address challenges faced in their village in terms of NRM issues. The VEC with facilitation from DPMU-EGH has proposed 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 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. (Rs) Date of work order issued Date of work implementation Date of work completion
1 Contour Trenches Nengsit Spring 1.41 13 38550.00 15-Mar-21 14-Apr-21 27-Apr-21
2 RCC Check Dam Watre Stream 6.18 6 168700.00 15-Mar-21 9-Apr-21 5-May-21
3 Community Nursery Rong·guang gittim 4.12  188 112800.00 26-May-21 1-Jun-21 11-Jun-21
4 Afforestation Nengsit 12.8 188 192400.00 26-May-21 1-Jun-21 10-Jun-21
5 Gabion wall Chibok River 11.5 188 253000.00 8-Jul-21 14-Jul-21 26-Jul-21
6 Erosion control Gabion wall Chibok River 8 188 158400.00 22-Sep-21 5-Oct-21 8-Oct-21
7 Spring Chamber Kodol Chiga (Asimbra) 3 8 153100.00 22-Sep-21 1-Oct-21 30-Oct-21
8 Water Storage Tank Palwang 3.5 18 169900.00 30-Nov-21 3-Dec-21 5-Jan-22
9 Water Storage Tank Rongnabang 3.85 40 243300.00 30-Nov-21 12-Dec-21 9-Jan-22
10 Spring Box Rongnabang 3.5 40 67100.00 28-Feb-22 9-Mar-22 15-Mar-22
11 Water Storage Tank with CC Dam Dengreng 3.5 20 208500.00 28-Feb-22 11-Mar-22 29-Mar-22
12 Orange Plantation (Horticulture) RongguangGittim & Mite Chiring 8.5 188 114650.00 5-May-22 23-May-22 26-May-22
13 Dug Out Pond Memo Bisik 5.85  188 80600.00 5-May-22 4-Jul-22 12-Jul-22
14 Agro-Forestry Nengsit 8.12 188 194000.00 5-May-22 30-May-22 24-Jun-22
15 Lemon Plantation (Horticulture) Manda Mahari Bagan  7 188 104460.00 17-Jun-22 1-Jul-22 4-Jul-22
16 RCC Check Dam Chirongbrak 4.5  7 187040.00 17-Jun-22 25-Jul-22 16-Aug-22
17 Water storage tank Dempila Chigat  4 15 208500.00 17-Jun-22 11-Jul-22 26-Jul-22

  1. Brief Justification on the Proposed Activities

    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 of around 73.89 ha of land. The villagers envisage that their village will be back to dense forest coverage within 7 to 10 years that would bring about drastic environmental and economic benefit to all inhabitants in the village. The village has cultivated in the Nursery at Rong.guang gittim which is Agal, Gasampe, Cheena, Aridak & Jambu.

    1. Composting

The villagers have also proposed to improve land productivity in around 106.89 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 the village there is only open forest in the village which is about 954.75 ha. 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 1295.76ha of land. In the horticulture they have planted orange plantation and Lemon plantation at Rong.guang gittim.

    1. Spring-shed Development and management

There are 10 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 and staggered trenches in the catchment areas benefitting to about 117.62 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: Dengreng chiring, Asimbra, Rongnabang, chasi chiring, chiwaku chiring, kalbang, jimpila, kodol chiga, palwang chiring, and chirongbrak.

    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 3nos of check dam which is 1) Rcc check dam at water stream 2) cc dam at Dengreng 3) Rcc check dam at chirongbrak 2 no.s is private and 1nos community to be constructed for irrigation and domestic purpose from which around 46households will be benefitting from it. It is expected that 117.62 ha of land will be benefitting 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 wanted to reclaim the forest which is around 60ha to be brought under forest management plan which further increase its forest cover, take more activities which is Nursery for food forestry, Boundary survey, In-situ and ex-situ conservation, assisted natural regeneration in open forest.

    1. Gabion Wall/Gully plug

The village has constructed gabion wall at Chibok River in order to control land sliding on road side and also to prevent water logging area from further destruction. This has prevent blocked of road, soil erosion etc.

  1. Annexure

ATTENDANCE

LULC Map

PHOTO GALLERY

  1. The land belongs to a clan which is called Nokma A’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.↩︎