How villagers in drought prone Bundelkhand revived this river using MGNREGA funds
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- čas přidán 29. 03. 2021
- Small streams and rivulets are never perennial in India’s Bundelkhand region. This is a region of ravines. And even though it gets over 800mm of rainfall, because of the topography and lack of natural aquifer, almost all the rain flows away through runoff. Rivulets and streams here only have water during the monsoon season, but for most of the year they are dry. But in this parched region, a rivulet called Odi has water throughout the year. This stream is completely rainfed and only 20 kilometers long. But when Down to Earth’s team visited in the middle of March it was still flowing. What could be the reason? What made this stream different from most of the other streams in the region? And what role did Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Generation Scheme or MGNREGS play in its revival?. Odi starts at a place called Madawara, in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Before it empties its water at the reservoir of the Jamni dam. But in this journey, Odi also satiates the water requirements of eight villages. Work on reviving the stream began in 2018. It was completely funded by money from MGNREGA. The villagers along with an NGO drew up a three-stepped plan. The first step was to remove the silt that was choking the check dams. The villagers then deepened the streambed and finally planted nearly 25,000 saplings along the side of the banks of the stream. The roots of the trees would allow easy percolation of water into the soil helping the stream to retain water throughout the year. This work that nearly lasted for a year, gave employment to 558 families and created nearly 71,000 man-days of work. Approximately Rs one crore was spent to revive this stream. Odi’s transformation into a perennial stream also increased the fortunes of all the eight villages along its banks. The total arable land around these eight villages is about 6,000 acres. But before the waterworks, the villagers could grow only one crop, once the rains came. But after the rejuvenation, these villages could grow more than two crops a year. An additional 700 acres of wasteland was also made arable. All this led to a 69% increase in the average annual incomes of all the families in the area. The average incomes increased from Rs 40,200 to Rs 68,000 per year. The revival of Odi is testimony to the fact that water scarcity and drought need not be a curse for a water deficit region like Bundelkhand. Numerous streams and rivulets flow through the region which if restored properly could lead this water deficient region to a water surplus one.
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It's soooooooooo pleasing to see the river and greenery there ...Always heard of the sadness of the people and farmers of the region.....want to see rich and happy farmers here now
Isha Foundation's Rally for Rivers was advocating the same strategy for the revival of the Kaveri river. Thanks for showing us the power of MGNREGA.
Did that work ?
There is difference between advocating and taking affirmative action on the ground. Just ideas and lectures are insufficient. It’s important to plan, ground and execute the works.
The thing is MGNREGA funds in most of villages goes to construct Roads and Streets
I don't understand why our agriculture department officials/ ministers don't think or work on these lines all over our country !!
That was a great job 👍.
@Pratham A.S Excellent Government . R u joking ?
Thanks to everyone who has worked with them.❤️
I love how this channel is bringing up the real achievement is done! love you guys
A fellow naturalist!
Thank you down to earth for this!!!
these videos expose and inspire the truth how if given a chance can change the whole village and the world by saving water and tapping the whole potential of the mother earth
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These videos are so inspirational. It seems still there is hope.Please upload more documentary like this. Thanks for your wonderful effort.
Salute to villagers and NGO ..... also govts MGNREGA
Thank you Down to Earth.
Those who disliked this video don't know the preciousness of water.
Being a nature lover this is so positive initiative. I wish I can join the people and help in improving the life of people and animals. Please give contact .
Great, proud of my india
Lot of learning for this massage trees are essential for over environment Riverine Forest are compulsory for over Rivers , stream and Delta ecosystem
Very encouraging example.
Good to know that finally something great happened
great job done by the villagers
This approach is far better than ket betwa project...we need to go for such watershed based projects , which are decentralised, eco-friendly, sustainable and participatory and inclusive of biodiversity
Really? 5 dislikes? Who in their right mind cannot like this amazing effort and the eventual result.
Most probably, i think i know the reason.......i shall give you a hint: in the beginning part of the video, it was said that tye project was took up in "2018"......yes, "2018" .......getting any idea now???😉
@@shankhadeepmandal978 2006 was when MGNAREGA started !🙄
@@shankhadeepmandal978 Yes my fellow citizen. Got the idea. YOU ARE STUPID 🤦🏼
Marathwada is another place that comes to mind when we think of water scarcity.. May be they could also turn their fortune..
It's nice to see such positive stories
Such a beautiful example of if there's a will there's a way ,kudos to the planners n executors especially the mnrega labourers n the community involved for making this project successful, thanks to DTE for bringing this pious endeavour to us, journalism at its best ❤️🙏
Just imagine how many people can be employed if tasks such as -
Lake revival
Plastic collection , segregation
From water and soil and drains
Reviving forest
Renewing underground water
Implementing rain water harvesting or water harvesting
And many more which even I don't know
And in waste lands , planting trees
Mgnrega is big mess in my village in churhat, M.P. This scheme offers 190/- in daily work. Where no labour wants to work. Village secretary and rojgaar-sahayak plays important role for mess. They need corruption to happen. All kinds of politics played to not allow the development. Sarpanch is helpless to use her authority because of politics lobby. 3 years is all waste. Remaining 2 years seems to go the same ways.
Exactly
I havr experience same
Same problem in Arunachal
Wow superb work and utilisation of fund by people and everyone. 👍🎉🎊👏🙏. Water streams are lifeline for everyone.
Awesome work
Thank you for Hindi subtitles
Sharing, Justice and Freedom for All.
Thank you for this news item, kindly do more such stories 🙏
Lessons to be learnt from nature 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Such a informative and well described use of MNREGA.
Thank you DTE
That is the reason I always want people's participation to make such initiatives successful. Such best practices should be shared on public platforms for knowledge exchange and capacity building.Can I use this video for larger audiences to understand the importance of indigenous knowledge and people's participation?
Hats off to you MNREGA ❤️❤️❤️ & Down to Earth
such inspiring possibilities. great collective work
Tum bahut mast kaam karta h 'Down to Earth' bhai !
when every living cell holds an ocean within - water wants to flow slow
Nice work down to earth team, keep it up
thank you RaGa for making this happen :)
This means planting appropriate trees on the banks of streams, rivers, etc is proving to be useful
Very good vidio all government fund should utilize for people
Wow very nice
awesome
Very beautiful. Water is life.
Plz post more such videos...thr is scarcity of positive news around us... 🙏
Great work
our media never shows this type of news only politics 24X7...........thankyou for letting us know ......it feels good
This is a power of a manrega, and you think what is improtens of this in our lives
Great video
Everything is possible, we only need will power, attitude towards improvement and dedication.
Very good job👍👍
Great information 💁♀️ ❣
With determination and sustained effort nothing is impossible.
Money is needed too.
Without it people won’t work for free.
Nice info
From Odisha 🙏🏾
Congratulations to the entire work force and project team who made this possible. This should be inspiration for other area to take up such work.
Kudos
This shows the power of collaboration and team work. Miracles can be achieved if we work together to achieve common goals. Good job people, keep it up 👍🏻🙌🏻 Jai Shri Ram 🏹🚩
Excellent stuff, reviving water tables using Trees to maintain the local Hydrological cycle. If parts of those new green areas were planted with Forest Gardens, it would create more food diversity local fruit, Nut etc, and much increase volume of plant foods in the area.
It would have been nice to have English subtitles as well.
Indian Solution for a Indian Problem.
This is what's the need of time. Let our country be India.
I proud you
MGNREGA-EB contributes to augment environmental benefits and rural livelihoods through the MGNREGA programme of Government of India.
If one or two months labour can do wonders we can solve our basic problems very soon . Need to be focused and good planning.
Hindi subtitles... Nice..
So good! Could English subtitles be added please?
It's great
AMAZING! Wish more people could it now especially now during covid. Millions of migrant are moving back to villages from mega cities. Time to draw up plans now under mnrega to get sustainable agri so that re-migration to cities can be stopped
We need to do more things like this
Thanks to the honest govt officials who actually spent the money instead of hoarding
Nice
Wow....
The stream also needs rocks and other debris like tree logs etc to filter the sediment increasing the stream flow to not allow the sediments to build up again naturally
Still a great start from where it was a great achievement to all involved
Just by De-silting and Deepening of nalas given such improvement... What is the action plan, How it was implemented...these details can also be given...
It took only 1 cr. To revive a river.. and government uses thousands of crores to build a highway. If just 1% of all the highway budget was given to revive rivers. India will be a drought proof country. Peace
Same is happening to JAMUAARI river in samastipur bihar but no one is here to protect the river.... 😔
If you had a Hindi narration, I could share this video with a few villagers.
At 3.39 it's told that stream ways were cleared and stream banks were strengthen by tree planting. Is that enough to give rebirth to a dead stream are anything else required.
Bundelkhand se to mastani thi..Bajirao ji dekh rhe honge to khush honge
Need to implement on a national level 👍
so creating a shadow (with the help of trees) along the stream could possibly slow the drying of the stream. This is interesting.
Rally for Rivers Stands for same 🙏🏻
Limitless abundance from Mother Earth but ignorant human species are not respecting & responsible for worshipping 💚💚💚 please it takes effort from ALL to unite together to create a beautiful world 🙏
Hii your all videos are very good.
Please make your videos in hindi too so that everybody can watch these videos.
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We need to save our water sources & forest or our future generations will be left without it
Which trees one should use while reviving river,ponds etc. That also grow faster and easy available and good in long terms means of having good roots which can survive heavy flood?
Please answer if you guys know.
Mnrega Gives legal guarantee of wage employment to the adult members of rural households who are willing to do unskilled manual labour subject to a maximum of 100 days per household.
Water = Life = Income
And please make a video on reality of clean ganga
the silt behind the check dams IS the reservoir for clean groundwater.......the check dams will be resilted in a few years and this is no loss but a good protection for the scarce water from evaporation....better than in open water reservoirs.....not the best idea though
हो सकता है बचपन में आपकी हाइट कम रही हो अंकल जी और आपको नदी गहरी लगती रही होगी
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Dte pranam
If the captions provided in "English" too.... that would make be more of inclusiveness to the video coverage 😊💐🙏. So that the view can get to know what field-players are actually trying to convey... ✌😊‼️
Poor planning in 1990s lead to so many problems. We must use all sources and knowledge taking on new projects
Us Keralites can learn something from this!
As the lands are nourished the populace flourish, a caution on overpopulation must be spread and understanding about family planning must be generated
Please make a tutorial video of how to revive small ponds and our local river by plantation
We can save Ganga from dying too if Namami gange instead of pumping cleaned sewer water Dredges the riverbed and plant १५ billion trees along the river course