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A
joint initiative of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Samaj Pragati Sahyog
and Sambhav Social Service Organization
Tikamgarh is one of the most backward districts of Madhya Pradesh. Out of the 6
blocks Prithvipur is known to be most backward block in Tikamgarh.. The block
has 123 notified villages and 60 hamlets. These hamlets here are not reached by
any government service that leads to very low health and immunization coverage,
and high rates of illiteracy.
Unemployment
There are no regular sources of
labor work in the block. The daily wages given to agricultural labor is as low
as Rs.30 to 35, which is far below for minimal requirements. Most of Harijans
and Adivasis migrate to big cities like delhi in search of work. Some migrate
to other agricultural areas in springs and March for harvesting of soyabean,
wheat, mustard.
Ration:
Most of the shopkeepers themselves
are not informed about the policies that have to be followed while running a
public distribution system shop. Most of the shops to not open as prescribed by
the government. There have been cases where in spite of the grains being is
stored in the shop the shopkeepers tend to refuse on the availability of grains
and hence sell the available stop at higher rates than those prescribed by the
government.
The ration shops are at large
controlled by influential people. They buy ration in any quantity wished,
whether being grains or kerosene oil filled in drums. Adivasi families get a
very limited amount of kerosene and grains at these shops. Even the measurement
of these grains is highly biased. In some cases 4.5 kg of wheat has been written
as 5 kg.
Immunization:
Immunization services provided by
A.N.M are very poor. They rarely go to villages and even if they visit they do
not undertake immunisation. People often hesitate to lodge complaint against
her. Remote villages are still unserved as A.N.M is not ready to go there.
Gram Sabha:
Sarpanch are hesitant in conducting
gram sabha meetings. According to them if meetings will be held then people will
ask about the details of money the received, and spent for which they do not
have data available with them. The reason for which is that most of the money Is
already taken up by the middle men.
Panchayat:
Most of the Panchayat meetings take
place at the residence of the Sarpanch. The female Sarpanch in no way is a part
of these meetings. Even the other when panchayat members do not attend these
meetings. Most of them tell that none of them is even invited to these
meetings. These meetings take place with only the Sarpanch and Secretary being a
part of it.
Status of Education:
The entire block has 302 primary
schools, but in most of them the teachers either don't go to school or sit in
the school idle and go back home without teaching with that of the students. In
spite of making Complaints to the government education department, there have
been no actions taken against these teachers.
Children coming from the families
that Migrate in search of work to other cities, have not been able to get
education in any of the schools as they have to sit back home and look after the
younger ones .
A survey of 20 villages was done in
Prithvipur to study the quality of service delivery on the various schemes being
implemented by the government.
Goal: To ensure that the constitutional
guarantees are met by the government, through communities participation in the
process of governance.
Objectives
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Organizing people at village and block, where people themselves can raise
problems, monitor, follow-up and benefit from the right to food and RTI. The
civil society organizations to be strengthened which should have a total
ownership of programs.
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Using communication
techniques to disseminate information among people on the various schemes.
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Setup a system of
information flow. Making the information flow institutionalized. The
information should flow directly to the people and through any
intermediaries.
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To make efforts for
sufficient supply at PDS Shop to meet the demands, timely opening of shops,
provisions for taking grains in installments, and that people get grains in
prescribed pattern.
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Ensure regular supply of
grains and cooking material at ICDS centers through community liaison and
demand generation from food department
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Making efforts to
re-engineer the ICDS logistics i.e. storage space, cooking space, hygiene
assurance
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Activate PTA and
motivating it to involve itself in the school activities.
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Initiating the Mid-Day
meal scheme in schools where it is not functional.
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To work and sensitize
service providers on qualitative service delivery.
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To build community level
groups who work and act on the issues of food security.
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Include Right to
Information activities as a part of the project, that facilitates timely and
accurate information transfer.
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Getting Antyodaya cards
issued to eligible candidates, and ensuring the services are reached
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To use the finding of the
survey already done for educating the community and initiating the social
action.
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Make use of advocacy tool
wherever the system dysfunctions.
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Organize people and
communities, who should raise the voices against malpractices and the
dysfunction.
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To facilitate a active
dialogue between service provider and community.
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Ensure that employment
assurance schemes reach the eligible candidates.
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To let people realize and
identify problems as being the problems.
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