New Rongdenggre Village Report 17th Feb 2023

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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

Rongdenggre Village is situated under the Rongram C&RD block of West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. The village is about 22 km from the Rongram Block office and 35 km from the district Headquarter, Tura. The village is under the traditional land owner of A’king Nokma. The total population and the demographic of both male and female of the village is about 570 with 103 number of households.

The village can be reach through transportation such as buses and winger, with a very limited access to its time to ply. However, these days, many of the community travel to and fro in their private vehicles as well as in their motor bikes.

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The Village is about 22 Km away from Rongram Block and 35 km away from district headquarter Tura. The public transport facilities to and from village is in public bus, winger and private vehicle. In respect to the Social Mobilization, it wasn’t that difficult to handle the community of this village as they are active and hardworking. Despite of very less facilities available, the community are very keen towards achieving the aims and objectives of CLLMP.

When it comes to use of fuel /LPG /biomass/gas most of the households are using Wood sand very less access to LPG. The community has few facilities such as education, safe drinking water supply, road and access to medical facilities. The village is under Head of village (Nokma).

In regards to social profile, Rongdenggre village has total no of 103 households with the total population of 570. Out of which 282 are male and 288 are female.

The following is the demographic break up information acquired by the CLLMP team of WGH district.

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Rongdenggre village are still into farming which includes agriculture and multi cropping. Unlike any other village’s Areca nut is always one of the most grown cash crops followed by black pepper, banana, pineapple etc. People came to observe and realize that the hill is gradually losing its soil fertility and water retention properties. There are 102 HH farmers, and 1 HH are Police Service.

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ACTIVITIES

GROUND TRUTHING AND SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME

On the 21st Jan 2019, Assistant District Project Manager (ADPM) and Assistant Manager, Social Management of District Project Management Unit (DPMU), West Garo Hills visited Rongdenggre village for Sensitization cum Ground Truthing.

CASE FINDINGS AND LIST OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

The village has 570 HH with 103 populations.
The village has Community Forest
Low soil fertility
No proper drinking water facilities. The village water sources are springs and streams. It has 12 streams and 4 springs.
No irrigation facilities for farming
The village has few medicinal herbs and endangered species in forest.
The village has many local tree species such as: - Gambare, Boldak, Kimbal, Bolsil, Jenggil, Te.bil, Prap, Te.wek, Chagro, Bolpu, Mandal, Bolchu, Me..gong, Achri, Agatchi, Do.kime, Chamisi, Aminsep, Sisoo, Bollong, Ambari, Arimu Chagro, Gimbil, Bolbret, Bolchim, Agatchi,
The village Forest has medicinal shrubs/trees such as Tematchi, mandal, Memang narang, mandal, Bamboo.
Commercially valued Trees/ Shrubs/Plants in forests available in the village forest are – Gambar, Bolbret, Dalbergia Sisoo, Schimawallichii (Boldak),
Fodder Species/ Valuable grasses in forests-Samsok, Samchigang, Dilbak, Ampang, Samchek, Sambanggre, Me.ga, Nengchong, Dalak, Sarat, Samsillong (Meghalaya budu), Wakmebudu. Bamboo grass is available in the village
The endangered species in Forest (fauna & flora) such as Duabanga grandiflora (Bolchim), Shorea robusta (Bolsal), Chambu, Sisoo, Gambari, Soksimarang, Attapol (Annona reticulta (custard apple) etc

2. PRA EXERCISE AND CNRM PLAN PREPARATION

The District team of West Garo Hills conducted PRA and CNRM plan at Rongdenggre Village on the 21st Jan 2019. Rongram Block, WGH.

The exercises were conducted by the district team Social, Environment, M&E. The Team informed the community that PRA exercise is to understand and locate the natural resources of the village and plan the activities according to their need. The community had an exercise to plan and draw resource and social map on the same day.

In the exercise of CNRM plan preparation, the community were asked to prioritized the plan /activities and submit the plan to DPMU for 5 years. The exercises were done in the presence of village headmen, VNRMCs and Village facilitators. There were around 34 participants for the programme.

1.0 Signing of Documents:

As an acceptance and agreement to the project, every member of the village households had to sign green charter on 19^th Jan, 2019 and submitted the Village agreement and Expression of Interest to DPMU.

Formation of the VNRMC

On 21^st Jan, 2019 after the ground survey and sensitization programme, the village signed the EOI, VGA and Green charter as a sign of accepting the project. Whereas in regards, to the selection of Village Natural Resource Management Committee (VNRMC) members the Village Executive Committee (VEC) along with entire community carried out the process of selecting 15 chosen members such as 9 Executive members, 3 Purchase committee and 3 Village Community Facilitator.

Listed below are the members of the VNRMC:

Sl No	Name in Full	Gender M/F	Age (in Yrs)	Education	Designation	Occupation	Community	Contact No and email address
1	Silseng DSangma	M	35	Class 10	VNRMC Chairman	Farmer	Garo	6000153896
2	Jimmy D shira	F	45	Class12	VNRMC Sec	Aganwadi	Garo	6009301852
3	Henry M Sangma	M			Member	Farmer	Garo	6009622764
4	Chingsengbirth Marak	M			Member	Farmer	Garo	9863510641
5	Tengkal TSangma	M	26	Class 10	Member	Farmer	Garo	9089331683
6	Deepstar Sangma	M			Member		Garo	6009718835
7	Senmira Sangma	F	28	Class 6	Member	Farmer	Garo	6009804174
8	Joyson B Marak	F	43	primary	Member	Farmer	Garo	8794895115
9	Kresilla Sangma	F	33	Class 8	Member	Farmer	Garo	9366003385

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	Silbard B Marak	M		Class	SM@KM
2	Silnachi D Sangma	F	17	Class X	NRM&GIS	yes	7640054313
3	Nenerak Marak	M	19	Class XII	M&E	yes	6909235036

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

Silbard B Marak

Class

SM@KM

Silnachi D Sangma

Class X

NRM&GIS

yes

7640054313

Nenerak Marak

Class XII

M&E

yes

6909235036

Plan Estimate:

The DPMU of WGH made an inspection to the proposed intervention sites soon after the CNRM plan preparation.

3. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

Sl No	Implemented Activities	Name of Site	Work Status
1.	Community Nursery	Wage	Completed
2.	Spring Chamber with storage Tank	Rangdokpea Chimik	Completed
3.	PCC Water Reservoir	Nokang Chimik	Completed
4.	RCC Check Dam	Jakgitoksika Chiring	Completed
5.	PCC Water Reservoir	Ano Chibisik	Completed
6.	Dam with Storage Tank	Jaron Chimik	Completed
7.	Plantation	Dite	Completed
8.	Trenches with Plantation	Nokang bisik	Completed
9.	Composting Pit	Wage,near Nursery	Completed
10.	Roof Top Rain Water Harvesting (Additional)	Danggra Gittim	Completed
11.	Dug out Pond (Additional)	Danggra Bisik	On-going

4. Fund Status

1	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
1	Community Nursery	Wage	Elevation: 602m N25.69376° E090.36521°	Rs.79,000	Completed

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Spring Chamber with Storage tank

Rangdokpea Chimik

Elevation:622m

N 25.69302

E 090.36060

Rs.3,22,000

Completed

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3	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
3	RCC check Dam	Jakgitoksika Chiring	Elevation 647m N 25.69272° E 090.35642°	Rs.2,98,000	Completed

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4	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
4	PCC Water Reservoir	Nokang Chimik	Elevation 588m N 25.70185° E 090.36473°	Rs.3,23,000	Completed

Before After

5	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
5	PCC Water Reservoir	Ano Chibisik	Elevation 613m N 25.69198 E 090.36753	Rs.4,99,000	Completed

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Before After

6	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
6	Dam with Storage Tank	Jaron Chimik	Elevation 626m N 25.69667 E 090.36178	Rs. 3,94,000	Completed

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Before After

7	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
7	Plantation	Dite	Elevation 608m N 25.68974 E 090.35055	Rs. 1,10,000	Completed

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Before After

8	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
8	Trenches with Plantation	Nokang Bisik	Elevation 600m N 25.70194 E 90.36474	Rs.58,000	Completed

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