This course has been designed to build capacities of
the rural youth to be able to work for a cluster of
villages over several years. Our experience in
training and working with Bare foot N.R.M managers
has shown that this provides sustained inputs to
villages beyond the project phase by such youth.
Secondly because these youth belong to the area the
quality of interaction with people is much better
and the quality of plans developed and execution are
far superior. It also gives rural youth and the
village as a whole a sense of dignity and enthusiasm
to take the development efforts forward with a long
term perspective. The course is designed with
minimal reading and writing and instead focuses much
more on interactive learning using lots of local
terminology to make the candidate feel comfortable.
Most of course is designed to generate outputs on
maps.
Expected Outcome
This 45 days course should be considered a
foundation course to build confidence of rural
youth. The candidate will develop a basic
understanding of geology of the region, salinity
pattern, rainfall pattern, type of agriculture and
grassland practices, constraints and potential. They
will at the end of the course be competent and
comfortable in generating maps, using revenue and
topo maps, identify reasons for salinity and develop
drinking water plans for his\her cluster of
villages. They will also be able to develop the
basic strategy for water resource development in
his\her cluster of villages. They will also be given
the introduction to alternative water resource
management practices.
Eligibility
:
The
minimum eligibility criteria for these training will
be that trainee should be at least secondary
appeared.
Duration
:
The time duration of the training programme for this
module is 45 days and these 45 days will be
staggered into 10 to 12 days in 4 months. The
trainee will be given the homework to prepare the
planning of the villages from which they belong and
which they belong and the plan will be assessed
after they will come back.
Batch Size
:
The size of the batch
will be 12-16 in numbers (probably 16). There would
two trainee from each village.
Fee (for year 2008)
:
Rs.
22,500/- (This includes lodging and boarding to the trainee)
Subjects
Covered
:
Understanding on
training and base map
Concept of
training and course outline
Map reading
Base map
preparation and verification
Generate Base
map and collection of village information
Understanding
of Geology, Land use and Geomorphology
Geology and
Geo-hydrology
How to
understand geology in Village
Understand
Geo-morphology of the area and its influence on
its water resource
Water
resources - ground water occurrence and surface
water
Hydrological
cycle
Aquifer
identification and definition of aquiclude,
aquifuse and aquitard
To understand
groundwater resources in village
Water
harvesting structure evaluation and analysis
Watershed and
demand supply scenario of a village
Watershed
characteristics of village
Water demand
of the village
Estimation of
Water resources potential of village
Climate of
Kachchh and its relation with water
Rain fall
analysis
Planning
Ideology
To understand
Planning ideology
Village level
Water resource Planning (based on above
characteristics)
Arid Communities
and Technologies (A.C.T.) is a professional voluntary
organization and working in semi arid to arid region. A.C.T.
is mainly focuses on research program and training program
for capacity building mainly in water resource and
agriculture field. So ACT has two physical unit, one is
Planning and research center and second one is Training
center.
