TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT

In the project operational area, the tribal population is living in pathetic conditions without proper livelihoods leading to migration and increased number of them working as bonded laborers and landless are unemployed most of the time. Taking these pathetic conditions of women, children, men and youth, RASS had assessed their livelihood needs through participatory assessment exercises, the major outcome was the promotion of horticulture and plantation activities as an alternative livelihood option to these communities. Nearly 1000 farming and 352 landless families are being covered under the project. 

The major activities include

• Awareness to beneficiaries
• Horticulture plantation
• Boundary plantation
• Intercrop cultivation
• Soil conservation works
• Water resources Develop
• Health activities
• Women development
• Training, capacity building initiatives
• Livelihood promotion
• Animal health
• Irrigation management & Convergence

Both the projects were undertaken with the support of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural development (NABARD)