New Village Report Rongbokgre 17th Jan 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 NaturalResources 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

Rongbokgre village is situated under the Dalu C&RD block of West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. The village is about 31km from the Dalu Block and 41km 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 472 with 92 number of household. The village Latitude is 25.34899" North and Longitude 90.26275"East. The community is surrounded by Areca nut and cashew nut plantation.The total geographical area of the village is around 272.94Ha with 2.7294sq.Km.

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History

During 1953 in Rongbokgre village Jamin Sangma, Kimji Sangma, Rubi Sangma, and Nibaram Sangma were the ones to accept Christian religion. The one who preached the word of God was Rev. Fr. Mathew from Elanjipuram Dalu Parish. In Rongbokgre village, there was no other religion than Roman Catholic. One person is serving as sister in Guwahati.

In Rongbokgre is one L.P. school pucca, 1 Community hall pucca, and Headman tea stall by the roadside. There is one Jio tower constructed by Government. In Rongbokgre, there is one place allotted for graveyard and one land owned by a church.

Since most of the families are poor in Rongbokgre, they lived by doing jhum cultivation and plantation. They plant mostly arecanut and cashewnut.

The Village is about 31 Km away from Dalu Block and 41 km away from district headquarter Tura. The public transport facilities to and from village is bus 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.

Fuel /LPG /biomass/gas most of the households are using Woodsand 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).The total population of the, Rongbokgre village has total no of 92 households with the total population of 472. Out of which240 are males and 232are females.

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

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The $C:\Users\User\Downloads\2. Occupation.png$ village is far from the Tura town and is under developing village. Rongbokgre village are still into farming which includes agriculture and multi cropping. Unlike any other village’sAreca nut is always one of the most grown cash crops followed byCashew nut.The occupations of the community are farmers 70, Labour16, Business 5 and Service 1.

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ACTIVITIES

GROUND TRUTHING AND SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME

$D:\WGH DISTRICTS\11. SEP 2019\4. Rongbokgre Village dalu Block with Shri PK Marbaninag 5th Sep 2019\IMG-20190907-WA0014.jpg$ On the 5th Sep 2019, the West Garo Hills district team Shri Chakrang Sangma, Ms Dimera Marak and Ms Nimrica Marak along with SPMU team Shri P.K Marbaniang DPD; CLLMP visited the village for awareness programme and signing of green charter.

As an outcome the community are ready to form the VNRMC EC members, VCF and other committees as per the project requirement. There were around 69 participants attended the programme

CASE FINDINGS AND LIST OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

The village has 92 HH with 472 total populations.
The village water sources are springs and streams. It has 8streams and 3springs and 3 River.
The village has many local tree species such asJackfruit, Banyan, Chambil, Mango, Jambura, Tamarind, Bolbret, Gambare, Kilwe, Kantap, Jiga, Aminsep, Tewek, Chram, Bolchu, Agatchi, Gimbil, Sirore, Ambare, Chambu, Matchia, Bolpu, Arimu, MAkanchi, Megong, Bolbit, Boldok.
The village Forest has medicinal shrubs/trees such Mandal, Akon, Rajamuni
Commercially valued Trees/ Shrubs/Plants in forests available in the village forest are Gambare, bolbret, siso, chamolja, jackfruit,
Any vulnerable/ endangered species in Forest (fauna & flora)are Samgoldak, pangpangsi, bamboo grass.
There is no safe drinking water supply. The sources of drinking water are the streams, wells etc.
2. Transportation facilities: There is very less and timely public transportation which is bus and winger.
. Banking Facilities: Banking facilities is also a part of their challenges where they have to travel up to Gambegre market.
Public health centre is very limited including the hospitals are very far.
There are no proper facilities for irrigation hence the community members have to depend on rainy season.
There is no irrigation system in the village.
The cause of degradation is due to deforestation.
The village cause soil erosion from the hill top.
The village has Nokma Committee that looks after the Natural resources of the village
During social conflicts the community tries to solve the issue through verbal.
The situation of cleanliness, sanitisation, and access to toilets improve due to the presence of VWSC But waste management is poor because people are not aware of throwing Garbage.
The change of agriculture practise is that before practising of shifting cultivation they convert to the conservation purpose of the forest.

PRA EXERCISE AND CNRM PLAN PREPARATION

$D:\WGH DISTRICTS\11. SEP 2019\11. Rongbokgre village 11th Sep 2019\IMG-20190912-WA0006.jpg$ The District team of West Garo Hills conducted PRA and CNRM plan at Rongbokgre Village Dalu Block, WGH on11^th Sept, 2019.

The exercises were conducted by the district team Environment and Field Engineer. TheTeam 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 ofCNRM 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 villageheadmen, 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 on11^th Sept, 2019 and submitted the Village agreement and Expression of Interest to DPMU.

2.2 Formation of the VNRMC

On,11^th Sept, 2019after 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	AnjanSangma	F	54	X	President	ASHA	Garo	-
2	PillimstarSangma	M	44	VII	Secretary	Farmer	Garo	8787431368
3	BersilicaSangma	F	37	XII	Book Keeper	Anganwadi	Garo	8787431368
4	JensingSangma	M	49	X	Member	Business	Garo	9366739639
5	MijithSangma	M	42	IV	Member	Farmer	Garo	7005876576
6	PitinaSangma	F	49	X	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
7	Greeting Sangma	M	39	III	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
8	BarenSangma	M	36	II	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
	MakdalinSangma	F	26	IX	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
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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	Erald Marak	M	24	XII	NRM & GIS	Yes	6002614677
2	Rakbath Marak	M	23	XII	SM & KM	Yes	7005509179
3	Herod Marak	M	29	IV	M&E	Yes	9366701673

Plan Estimate:

The DPMU 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 and also with the help of Block officials in recommendations from BDO, Rongram Block

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

Sl No	Implemented Activities	Name of Site	Status
1.	Spring Chamber	Matchu Nok Chiring Bisik	Completed
2.	Community Nursery	Rongbokgre Gittim	Completed
3	18 Days Composting (Hot Composting)	Rongbokgre Gittim, near Nursery	Completed
4.	RCC Check Dam	Kimkol Bisik	Completed
5.	Agroforestry	Siso Chisam	Completed
6.	Plantation	Bagugre UP School Compound	Completed
7.	Plantation	Nabanda	Completed
8.	Agroforestry	Rongbokgre	Completed
9.	Agroforestry	Bagugre	Completed
10.	Spring Chamber	Rongbokgre Chimik	Completed
11.	Agroforestry	Bagu nokat	Completed
12.	Agroforestry	Wakkangchet	Completed
13.	Dug out pond	Solen Gittim	Completed
14.	Trenches with Plantation	Rongbokgre Chimik	Completed
15.	Trenches with Plantation	Kimkol Bisik	Completed
16.	Plantation	Rongbok Chimik	Completed
17.	Vermicomposting	Rongbok Chisam	Completed
18.	Vermicomposting	Bagu Songma	Completed
19.	Vermicomposting (Additional)	Nabandagre	Completed
20.	Vermicomposting (Additional)	Bagugre Kimkol Gittim	Completed
21.	Permanent Community Nursery (Balance fund)	Rongbokgre Gittim	Completed

4. Fund Status

1.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
1.	Spring Chamber	Matchu Nok Chiring Bisik	Elevation 65m N 25.34368 E 090.25876	Rs.1,21,000	Completed

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2.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
2.	Community Nursery	Rongbokgre Gittim	Elevation 41m N 25.34550E 090.25561	Rs.1,48,000	Completed

3.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
3.	18 Days Composting (Hot Composting)	Rongbokgre Gittim, near Nursery	Elevation 41m N 25.34550 E 090.25561	Rs.33,000	Completed

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4.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
4.	RCC Check Dam	Kimkol Bisik	Elevation 73m N 25.34771E 090.26812	Rs.3,92,000	Completed

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5.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
5.	Agroforestry	Siso Chisam	Elevation 71m E 90.25333N 25.36193	Rs.52,000	Completed

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6.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
6.	Plantation	Bagugre UP School Compound	Elevation 78m N 25.35012 E 090.26923	Rs.45,000	Completed

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7.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
7.	Plantation	Nabanda	Elevation 130m N 25.35528 E 090.25311	Rs.87,000	Completed

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8.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
8.	Agroforestry	Rongbokgre	Elevation 46m N 25.35057E 090.25983	Rs.42,000	Completed

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9.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
9.	Agroforestry	Bagugre	Elevation 78m N 25.34782E 090.26849	Rs.58,000	Completed

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10.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
10.	Spring Chamber	Rongbokgre Chimik	Elevation 63m N 25.34762E 090.25932	Rs.4,58,000	Completed

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11.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
11.	Agroforestry	Bagu Nokat	Elevation 51m N 25.34390 E 090.26172	Rs.48,000	Completed

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12.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Agroforestry	Wakangchet	Elevation 74m N 25.34803E 090.25739	Rs.48,000	Completed

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13.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
13.	Dug out pond	Solen Gittim	Elevation 61m N 25.34403 E 090.25865	Rs.1,20,000	Completed

14.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Trenches with Plantation	Rongbokgre Chimik	Elevation 63m N 25.34762E 090.25932	Rs.29,000	Completed

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15.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Trenches with Plantation	Kimkol Bisik	Elevation 117m N 25.34748E 090.26704	Rs.32,000	Completed

16.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
	Plantation	Rongbok Chimik	Elevation 49m N 25.35646 E 090.25375	Rs.48,000	Completed

17.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
17.	Vermicomposting	Rongbok Chisam	Elevation 43m N 25.34698E 090.25462	Rs.1,97,000	Completed

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18.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
18.	Vermicomposting	Bagu Songma	Elevation 51m N 25.35048E 090.27023	Rs.1,97,000	Completed

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19.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
19.	Vermicomposting (Additional)	Nabandagre	Elevation98m N 25.35917 E 90.25702	Rs.250,000	Completed

20.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
20.	Vermicomposting (Additional)	Bagugre Kimkol Gittim	Elevation66m N 25.35063 E 90.27072	Rs.250,000	Completed

21.	Type of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Coordinates	Amount	Work Status
21.	Permanent Community Nursery (Balance fund)	Rongbokgre Gittim	Elevation 41m N 25.3455 E90.25561	Rs.300,000	On-going