New Village Report Upper Dopgre 24th 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 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

Upper Dopgre village is situated under the Gambegre C&RD block of West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. The village is about 15 km from the Gambegre Block and 10 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 457 with 60 number of household. The village Latitude is 25.46286"North and Longitude 090.21826°"East. The community is surrounded by Areca nut and Cashew nut plantation. The total geographical area of the village is around 87.44 Ha with 0.8744. sq.Km.

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The Village is about 15 Km away from Gambegre Block and 10 km away from district headquarter Tura. The public transport facilities to and from village is in Autorikshaw, 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.

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 40 HH used wood and 20 HH used LPG in the community. The total population of the, Upper Dopgre village has total no of 60 households with the total population of 457. Out of which are 241 males and 216 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. Upper Dopgre 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, banana, pineapple etc. 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 53 farmers and 1 entrepreneur and 6 services.

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ACTIVITIES

GROUND TRUTHING AND SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME

$H:\Upper Dopgre\4. PRA and CNRMP at Upper Dopgre Village on 4th Oct 2019\IMG-20191004-WA0019.jpg$ DPMU team of West Garo Hills visited Upper Dopgre village for Sensitization cum Ground Truthing on 18^th July 2019.

CASE FINDINGS AND LIST OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

The village has 84 HH with 457 total populations.
The village water sources are springs and streams. It has 7 streams and 5 springs and 1 river.
The village has many local tree species such as Gmelina arborea (Gambare), Kantap, Duabanga grandiflora (Bolchim), Tewek, Chigambal, Bombax ceiba (Bolchu), Boldak, Agru, Agatchi, Gimbil, Makanchi, Chamolja, Phyllantus emblica (Ambari), Ambiletong, Kanchari, Golmatra, Ajari, Sidai
The village Forest has medicinal shrubs/trees such as Gmelina arborea (Gambare), Duabanga grandiflora (Bolchim), Oroxylum indicum (Kereng), Connamomum (chamolja), Schima wallichii (Boldak)
Commercially valued Trees/ Shrubs/Plants in forests available in the village forest are Samilgopma, Samchak, Samsi, Samichik, Pasim, Dublabon, Mekemkem.
Any vulnerable/ endangered species in Forest (fauna & flora) are Ampang

PRA EXERCISE AND CNRM PLAN PREPARATION

$H:\Upper Dopgre\4. PRA and CNRMP at Upper Dopgre Village on 4th Oct 2019\IMG-20191004-WA0018.jpg$ The District team of West Garo Hills conducted PRA and CNRM plan at Upper Dopgre Village Gambegre Block, WGH on 24th July 2019.

The exercises were conducted by the district team Environment and Field Engineer. 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.

Signing of Documents:

As an acceptance and agreement to the project, every member of the village households had to sign green charter on 24th July 2019 and submitted the Village agreement and Expression of Interest to DPMU.

2.2 Formation of the VNRMC

On 24th July 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	Tintin Marak	M	33	XII	VNRMC Pre	Teacher	Garo	8787413705
2	Menakki Marak	F	23	Graduate	VNRMC Sec	-	Garo	6009434882
3	Anjallina Marak	F	43	-	Member	Farmer	Garo	-
4	Sarame Marak	F	24	VII	Member	H.W	Garo	-
5	Brushlin Marak	M	33	VIII	Accountant	H.W	Garo	9077121516
6	LucashMarak	M	65	XII	Member	Farmer	Garo	7641803362
7	KalinathMarak	M	58	VI	Member	Farmer	Garo	9089602514
8	Masumi Marak	F	32	X	Member	H.W	Garo	9089939287
	LeonishSangma	F	45	Primary	Member	H.W	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	Jimbirth Marak	M	29	Class 9	NRM & GIS	Yes, 13^th, 23^rd, 24^th, 25^th and 30^th July,2020	8837072871
2	Jonah Marak	M	27	Graduate	M&E	Yes	8837381762
3	Elsa Marak	F	22	XII	SM & KM	Yes	9089602514

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 team.

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

Sl No	Implemented Activities	Name of Site	Status
1	Community Nursery	Rongmeram site	Completed
2	Plantation	Rongmeram	Completed
3	18 Days Composting (Hot Composting)	Rongmeram site, near Nursery	Completed
4	RCC Water Conservation Dam	Chidare Pangma	Completed
5	Plantation	Bolchim Bisik	Completed
6	PCC Water Reservoir	Te.brong Bisik	Completed
7	RCC Check Dam	Boldak Chiring	Completed
8	Water Conservation dam with Trenches and Plantation	Chidare Bokma	Completed
9	Water Conservation dam,	Te.gatchu Bisik	Completed
10	Trenches with Plantation	Bolsal Bisik	Completed
11	Water Conservation Dam	Balmin Chiga	Ongoing
12	Dugout pond(additional)	Bolchim Bisik	Ongoing
13	Dugout pond (Additional	Rongmeram	Ongoing
14	Permanent Community Nursery (Balance fund)	Rongmeram	Ongoing

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1	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
1	Community Nursery	Rongmeram Site	Elevation 149m N25.46337 E 090.22108	Rs 79,000	Completed

2	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
2	Plantation	Rongmeram	Elevation 73m N 25.46240 E 090.22208	Rs 86,000	Competed

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3	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
3	18 Days Composting (Hot Composting)	Rongmeram site, near Nursery	Elevation 149m N25.46337 E090.22108	Rs 33,000	Completed

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4	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
4	RCC Water Conservation Dam	Chidare Pangma	Elevation156m N25.46339 E090.21515	Rs 3,00,000	Completed

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5	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
5	Plantation	Bolchim Bisik	Elevation 156m N25.463478 E90.214423	Rs 75,000	Completed

PCC Water Reservoir

Tebrong Bisik

Elevation 64m N25.46325

E090.21541

Rs 2,39,000

Completed

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7	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
7	RCC Check Dam	Boldak Chiring	Elevation 215m N 25.46998 E 090.21662	Rs 3,00,000	Completed

Water Conservation dam with Trenches and Plantation

Chidare Bokma

Elevation 160m N25.47110

E90.21977

Rs.3,62,000

Completed

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Water Conservation Dam

Te. gatchu Bisik

Elevation 203m N25.46668

E 090.21774

Rs 2,53,000

Completed

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Trenches with Plantation

Bolsal Bisik

Elevation 150m N25.46808

E 090.218037

Rs 65,000

Completed

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11	Type Of Intervention	Site Name	GPS Co-ordinates	Amount	Work Status
11	Water Conservation Dam	Balmin Chiga	Elevation 172m N 25.46354 E 090.21613	Rs 3,63,000	Ongoing

Dugout pond (Additional)

Bolchim Bisik

Elevation164m N 25.46382

E 90.21405

Rs.250,000

Ongoing

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