New Village Report Doldenggagre 3rd 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

Doldenggagre village is situated under the Dalu C&RD block of West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. The village is about 5 km from the Dalu Block and 43 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 508 with 81 number of household. The village Latitude is 25.273003 "North and Longitude 90.222597 "East. The community is surrounded by Areca nut and Cashew nut plantation. The total geographical area of the village is around 309.62 Ha with 3.0962 sq.Km.

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The Village is about 5 Km away from Dalu Block and 43 km away from district headquarter Tura. The public transport facilities to and from village is Pick up, 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). Whereas 49 HH used wood and 32 HH used LPG in the community. The total population of the, Doldenggagre village has total no of 81 households with the total population of 508. Out of which are 214 males and 209 are females.

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

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$C:\Users\User\Downloads\2. Occupation.png$ The village is far from the Tura town and is under developing village. Doldenggagre 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 Cashew nut and Rubber plantation. People came to observe and realize that the hill is gradually losing its soil fertility and water retention properties .The occupations of the community are farmers 68 and 13 Govt service.

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ACTIVITIES

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DPMU team of West Garo Hills visited Doldenggagre village for Sensitization cum Ground Truthing on 29^th July, 2020

CASE FINDINGS AND LIST OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

The village has 81 HH with 508 total populations.
The village water sources are springs and streams. It has 9 streams and 8 springs and 1 River.
The village has many local tree species such as, Chambu, Bolsal, Chram, Kilwe, Tewek, Ajari, Selbal,Chamolja, Bolmatra, Prap, Gimbil, Jengjul, Kiring, Golmatra, ambare, aritak, Arime, agatchi, Bolsal, Tekring, Bolchupret, Jiga
The village Forest has medicinal shrubs/trees such as Gimbil, Jengjul, Kiring, Golmatra, ambare, aritak, Arime, Agatchi
Commercially valued Trees/ Shrubs/Plants in forests available in the village forest are Bolsal, Chambu, Chamolja, Tekring, Bolchiupret, Jiga
Fodder Species/ Valuable grasses in forests are Adorak, Mekrip, Chongi, changru, chige, mekremkrem, mebitchi, meen, matchaduri
Any vulnerable/ endangered species in Forest (fauna & flora) ar Monkey, Deer, Domesal, Dogrik

PRA EXERCISE AND CNRM PLAN PREPARATION

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The exercises were conducted by the district team Environment. 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.

2.1 Signing of Documents:

As an acceptance and agreement to the project, every member of the village households had to sign green charter on 29^th July 2020 and submitted the Village agreement and Expression of Interest to DPMU.

2.2 Formation of the VNRMC

$H:\Doldenggagre\10. PRA and CNRMP at Doldenggagre dalu block 11th Sep 2020\PRA and CNRMP at Doldenggagre, Dalu Block on 11092020. No. of participants 31.jpeg$ On, 29^th July 2020 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	Predistar R Sangma	M	35	Class 10	President	Farmer	Garo	7005021078
2	Salchi R sangma	F	32	Class 10	Secretary	Farmer	Garo	8787574879
3	Henritha R Sangma	F	30	Class 10	Bookkeeper	Farmer	Garo	8837054843
4	Batjing M Marak	M	60	Class 8	Member	Farmer	Garo	8837043787
5	Birbar M Marak	M	44	Class 10	Member	Govt service	Garo	7005108246
6	Blue R Marak	M	42	Class 7	Member	Farmer	Garo	8787407876
7	Pollina R Sangma	F	42	Class 12	Member	Teacher	Garo	7005223022
8	Bina R Sangma	F	45	Class 10	Member	Housewife	Garo	6009468248
	Nihilda Ch Marak	F	33	Class 10	Member	Dealer	Garo	6009927917
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Village Community 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	Bartholomio R Sangma	M	23	Class 10	SM/KM	Yes, 17^th August 2020	7005371428
2	Tengva Ch Marak	M	24	B.A	M&E	Yes, 17^th August 2020	8837009473
3	Walsrang R Sangma	M	23	Class 10	NRM/GIS	Yes, 17^th August 2020	6009364734

Plan Estimate:

The DPMU team of WGH made an inspection to the proposed intervention sites soon after the CNRM plan preparation gets over along with the district Field Engineer, Ms Nimrica Marak.

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

Sl No	Implemented Activities	Name of Site	Work Status
1	Erosion Control Check dam	Nobankura Chiring	Completed
2	Community Nursery	Doldengga	Completed
3	Water Conservation Dam	Songgitcham Chiring Bisik	Completed
4	Dam with storage Tank	Pollina Chimik	Completed
5	Spring Chamber	Baljina Chimik	Completed
6	Water Conservation Dam	Tullut Gittim chimik	Completed
7	Dug out pond	Ronggua	Completed
8	Dug out pond	Tillarius Gittim	Completed
9	Dam with Storage Tank	Lendinish chiring Bisik	Completed
10	Composting pit	Doldengga	Completed
11	Erosion Control Gabion Wall	Songgitcham Chiring	Completed
12	R.C.C. Water Conservation Dam (Additional)	Doldengga Bibra chiring	Completed
13	Dug out pond (Additional)	Phredistar gittim	Completed
14	Permanent Community Nursery (Balance fund)	Gondasia	Ongoing

1	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
1	Erosion Control Check dam	Nobankura Chiring	Elevation 23m N25.27423° E090.22038°	Rs.2,31,000	Completed

2	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
2	Community Nursery	Doldengga	Elevation 46m N 25.27791 E 090.22330	Rs.1,45,000	Completed

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3	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
3	Water Conservation Dam	Songgitcham Chiring Bisik	Elevation 56m N 25.27645 E 090.22116	Rs.2,28,500	Completed

4	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
4	Dam with storage Tank	Pollina Chimik	Elevation 94m N 25.28045 E 090.22565	Rs.3,29,000	Completed

Spring Chamber

Baljina Chimik

Elevation 88m N 25.27820

E 90.21880

Rs.1,87,500

Completed

6	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
6	Water Conservation Dam	Tullut Gittim Chimik	Elevation 60m N 25.27902 E 090.21320	Rs.2,31,000	Completed

7	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
7	Dug out pond	Ronggua	Elevation 47m N 25.27724 E 090.21318	Rs.1,20,000	Completed

8	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
8	Dug out pond	Tillarius Gittim	Elevation 48m N 25.28067 E 090.21343	Rs.1,20,000	Completed

9	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
9	Dam with Storage Tank	Lendinish Chiring Bisik	Elevation 83m N 25.28088 E 090.22321	Rs.3,22,000	Completed

10	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
10	Composting pit	Doldengga	Elevation 46m N 25.27776 E 090.22327	Rs. 49,000	Completed

11	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
11	Erosion Control Gabion Wall	Songgitcham Chiring	Elevation 40m N 25.27563 E 090.22055	Rs.1,92,000	Completed

12	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
12	R.C.C. Water Conservation Dam (Additional)	Doldengga Bibra chiring	Elevation 102m N 25.28214 E 90.22266	Rs.3,20,000	Completed

Before

13	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
13	Dug out pond (Additional)	Phredistar gittim	Elevation 56m N 25.27625 E 90.22085	Rs.1,80,000	Completed

Before After

14	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
14	Permanent Community Nursery (Balance fund)	Gondasia	Elevation 101m N 25.27596 E 9022424	Rs.3,00,000	Ongoing