VILLAGE VISIT

District - KHAMMAM

Name of village –GAIGOLLAPALLE

Group members – RAVJOT GREWAL(IPS)

MANJEET BHATOYA(ITS)

MANISHA RANA(IFS)

ANIL RAJ(IRS(C&CE))

BHUPATI ROHIT(ICAS)

GENERAL OVERVIEW

Gaigollapalle - Village Overview

Gram Panchayat : Gaigollapalli

Block / Tehsil : Kusumanchi

District : Khammam

State : Telangana

Pincode : 507161

Area : 1007 hectares

Population : 3,179

Households : 825

Nearest Town : Khammam (35 km)

POPULATION: TOTAL – 3179 MALES – 1583 FEMALES – 1596 SC – 357 ST- 1848

TIMELINE/HISTORICAL TRANSECT YEAR MAJOR EVENTS

Early 1900s Village established by Lachayya(landlord) who owned about 500 acres of

land around the village.

1903 Name of the village changed from lachheyygudam to Gaigollapally.

1904-05 1st temple constructed(hanuman temple)

1960s 1st political party to visit the village(Congress)

1962 1st Sarpanch elected by consensus

1962 1st political murder of sarpanch candidate

1970 1st radio in the village

1973 Rice and wheat cultivation(earlier jowar,bajra)

1974 1st primary school constructed

1977 Post office constructed

1978 Village electricfication

1980 Tubewells and borewells built

1985 1st television in the village

1994 Panchayat building constructed

1997 1st women sarpanch elected

1999 Anganwaadi centre built

2000 Construction of CC roads

2000 1st government employee from the village(police constable)

2004 1st mandal parishad president from the village

2007 1st mobile phone

2016 Mission Bhagirathi (drinking water project)

2016 Mission kakatiya(rejuvenation of water tanks)

2017 Pucca housing scheme for the poor(2 BHK)

2017 Bhaktiramdas multipurpose project for irrigation and drinking water

project

TRANSECT WALK

SOCIAL MAP

INFRASTRUCTURE

• MANDAL PARISHAD PRIMARY SCHOOL

• GRAM PANCHAYAT

• ANGANWAADI CENTRE

• PDS RATION SHOP

• POSTOFFICE

• DRINKING WATER TANKS

• CELLPHONE TOWER

• FERTILIZER SHOP

• CEMENT ROADS

SOCIO ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN THE VILLAGE

1. Education

• Number of schools – 5 (4 primary, 1 highschool)

• Number of students – 159

• Number of teachers working – 14

• Drop out rates is hardly 2-3%

• Mid day meal scheme is being implemented successfully.

• Parents are willing to send their kids to schools with an average enrolment rate of 11-12 per year.

1.1 Concerns

• Need for a higher secondary school since there is school facility only till 7th standard in the village

• Inadequate infrastructure in school- need more benches, electricity supply, playground facilities, drinking water.

• Need for capacity building and upgradation- need for set up of computers to promote e-learning, need to hire more teaching staff for better coordination.

2. Health

• Common disease – TB, filaria

• Medical facilities- no health sub centre( sub centre 2km away, PHC is 10km away)

• 4 ASHA workers , 1 ANM worker

• 5 sessions per month (Wednesday and Saturday)

• Average birth weight- 2.5 to 3kg but post birth abrupt weight loss in babies due to maternal malnutrition

• No veterinary hospital

• Child development protection officer

• Implementation of aarogya lakshmi scheme

• Handling anganwaadi centres

• Institutional deliveries

• National nutrition tracking system

• Aadhaar coverage

• Orphanage rehabilitation – handling to CWC

3.POVERTY,UNEMPLOYMENT

SOCIO-ECONOMIC

GROUP

ASSETS NUMBER OF

HOUSEHOLDS

LAND HOLDING

GROUP 1 Buffaloes, Cows,

Bulls, Tv, Big Pucca

Houses

10

>20 acres

22 >10-20 acres

GROUP 2 Cows, bulls, goats,

sheep, TV, small to

medium pucca

houses

54 >5-10 acres

512 <5 acres

GROUP 3 Goats, hen, kutcha

houses

130 Landless

3.1Wealth map

Causes of poverty-

• Landlessness

• Illiteracy

• Seasonal agricultural employment

• Irregular income

• Indebtedness

Other forms of employment

• Tailors(16)

• Carpenters(10)

• Masons(5)

• Basket makers(7)

• Press reporters(3)

• Shop owners

FOOD AVAILABILITY – FOR THE POOR (PDS)

• 1 PDS shop, 901 beneficiaries out of which 50 are antyodya food security card holders. AFSC holders get 35kgs rice and 1 kg sugar per month. 851 get 6kgs rice per month at the rate of Rs 1 per kg. There are upto 30% absentees and the backlog stock is distributed in the following months

4.AGRICULTURE

4.1 CROPS GROWN

• COTTON(WIDELY GROWN)

• PADDY

• CHILLY

• GROUNDNUT

4.2 LAND USE PATTERN

SR NO. CROP AREA UNDER CULTIVATION(ACRES) PRODUCTIVITY

(QUINTALS/ACRE)

1 COTTON 805 10-12

2 PADDY 345 20-25

3 CHILLI 335 25-35

4 GREEN GRAM 290 4-6

5 RED GRAM 64 4-5

6 MAIZE 3 8-10

7 GROUNDNUT 130 10-12

TOTAL 1972

4.3 STATE INITIATIVES

• BHAKTARAMDAS PROJECT BY STATE FOR IRRIGATION – VERY SUCCESSFUL

• SEED VILLAGE PROGRAMME(50% SUBSIDY)- CERTIFIED SEEDS GIVEN.

• FARM MECHANIZATION SCHEME(50% SUBSIDY)- TRACTORS , SPRAYERS ETC.

• CROP LOANS INCLUSIVE OF INSURANCE PREMIUM(PFBY) • NFSM AND NMOOP – GROUNDNUT CULTIVATION(PILOT

PROJECT) • SOIL HEALTH CARDS GIVEN TO 50% FARMERS • ID CARDS GIVEN TO COTTON FARMERS • MAA TELANGANA MAA VYAVASAYAM(AWARENESS

CAMPAIGN) • 24*7 ELECTRICITY GIVEN FOR IRRIGATION( TRIAL RUN)

4.4 PROBLEMS

• EXCESSIVE USE OF CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS

• LABOUR PROBLEM( AVAILABILITY AND WAGES)

• APMC(INTERMEDIARIES)

• PROBLEM OF PESTS AND INSECTS( BROWN PLANT HOPPER IN PADDY, PINK BALLWORM IN COTTON)

PANCHAYAT

• VOTERS- 2054

• Men- 1031

• Women – 1023

• Participation of voters- 70-75%

• Present sarpanch- smt Mulkuri Mounika

• Socio-economic status- above poverty line

• Training of panchayat members is conducted at the mandal headquaters

• Panchayat members come from varied castes, tribes, and socio-economic status

• Panchayat meetings are held once in three months

• Gram sabha is also held every three months and wide participation from the village is seen

• Last gram sabha meeting was held on 2nd october 2017

• Before every financial year, budget is prepared and planned

• Budget is allocated from the 14th fc. Other income sources of panchayat are house tax and water tax

• For the first two quarters of FY 2017 Rs 659102 was allocated to the panchayat

• Mandal level checking of the records is done periodically at micro levels(like raw material, work progress and output etc)

Schemes implemented by panchayat 1.Food security cards

• No of FSC – 901

• No. AFSC - 50

• No. of FP shops – 1

2. Deepam

• No of deepam grounded - 12 cylinders

3. Telangana ku harithahaaram

• No. of plants proposed - 19200

• No. of plants planted - 15105

4. Adult education programme( saakshar bharat)

• Carried out in 5 phases. Target is to educate 229 adults on general issues.

• Supported by NIOS, implemented by gram panchayat

Poverty alleviation programmes

MGNREGA

• NO. OF JOB CARDS ISSUED – 856

• NO. OF INDIVIDUALS – 2041

• NO. OF HOUSEHOLD PROVIDED WITH 100 MAN DAYS- 06

• EXPENDITURE – WAGES – 19.73 LAKHS

MATERIAL- 6.37 LAKHS

PWS schemes • No. of OHSRs-4

• No. of sources-2

• No. of public taps-0

• No. of private taps-728

• No. of hand pumps-21

AASRA PENSIONS • No of OAP pensions: 194

• No of Widow Pensions: 139

• No of T&T Pensions: 2

• No of Disabled Pensions: 56

• No of single women pensions: 12

SELF HELP GROUPS

• Every SHG have been provided approx. 5-7 lakhs of bank

loan.

• 10 groups have been given individual schemes too.

• 8.72 lakhs additional loan amount through state pool is given to the eligible groups on basis of their performance.

• There are 10 defaulter groups.

NAME OF HABITATION NUMBER OF SHGs NUMBER OF MEMBERS

GAIGOLLAPALLY 24 240

NANDINI 15 150

JYOTHI 24 240

2BHK SCHEME

• Houses build by government for the BPL families.

• Beneficiaries selected by the gram panchayat.

• Progress till now – 18 houses built. Total of 52 beneficiaries identified

Swachh Bharat Campaign

• No. of IHHL’s sanctioned – 506

• No. of IHHL’s progress – 128

• No. of IHHL’s completed – 115

• No. of duping yards sanctioned – 01

• No. of graveyards identified - 01

• Held awareness and sensitization campaign for building individual household toilets. We described the benefits of building toilets and made them talk about the problems and constraints that they are facing.

• Distribution of cheques( Rs 12000) to households who have already constructed toilets.

• Laying foundation stone for those who have agreed for construction of IHHL’s

PROBLEMS

• Non availability of running water

• Vastu and land availability issues

• Financial problems

• Labour problem(due to MGNREGA)

Financial Literacy Campaign

• Service bank- AP GRAMIN VIKAS BANK

• No of account holders – 2023

• Under PMJDY – Rupay cards given, insurance products like PMJJY, PMJSY offered

• Savings type – RD , FD(7.1% interest rate)

• Loans – crop loans, SHG, MUDRA loans, gold loans given, loans under NCDSC/ST

• Mgnrega payments done through banks.

• Atal pension yojana implemented by banks.

• Villagers were aware of MOBILE banking but most of them were aware of BHIM APP.

• Conducted a small financial literacy campaign by demonstrating the application of BHIM app and explained the villagers its advantages.

OTHER IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS • MISSION BHAGIRATHI for drinking water

• 24*7 electricity for both household and agriculture

• Land purification – digitization of land records

• MISSION KAKATIYA- rejuvenation of tanks and reserviours.

• KALYAN LAKSHMI PATHAKAM- Rs 75000 given to sc/st, minorities at the time of marriage

Media coverage