Rajasthan Mission on Skill and Livelihoods

Monthly Progress Report-November, 2011

Skill Development

820 programmes have been approved to 279 training providers till November, 2011. 104 skill training programmes are on going and 71 programmes have been completed. RMoL has sanctioned Rs. 267.31 lakhs for 280 programmes and released a sum of Rs. 193.33 lakhs as advance to 164 training providers.

Initiatives for Livelihood Promotion

Under Dairy Project, Total 99 SHGs have been formed with a total of 1147 women members and total 4 clusters have been formed. 6 MCCs have been operating and the total per day milk collection from the centres has been in the range 50-60 liter per day. At present we are collecting around 400 liters of milk in a day from Deoli route. The tie up with Mother Dairy has been made for better return from milk selling and income has been increased from Rs. 1000 to Rs.1500/ month from milk.

Under fishery Project, Hand holding support is being provided to fishery cluster at Garhi. Main focus during the month is restocking of fish seed, resumption of harvesting and marketing of fish besides strengthening the group and its cluster association

Under Sheep Cluster, 52 SHGs have been formed. vaccination camps were organized in coordination of Animal Husbandry Department, GoR, in which 1200 animals were treated of which 1000 were sheep. 29 Sheep rearing SHGs Member participated in other Livelihood training programs.

Under Jawaja cluster, for conducting design development workshop and EDPs for Jawaja artisans, the designer has been finalized and MoU has been signed. Training has also been initiated.

Under Tribal SME, Funds have been transferred to 24 entrepreneur’s SHGs bank account. Partner NGOs attended the Gramnidhi review meeting. A review meeting was held on 29th of November with the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) and partner organizations for Tribal SME Project. It was advised to make optimum use of Gramnidhi funds by focusing on the interventions yielding good outputs with low investment and collaborating with government agencies.

Under the TADD Child Migration Project, Study of 4000 tribal families having cases of child migration completed and final report is submitted by RMoL to the Commissioner, TADD, Udaipur. Similarly the Value Chain study also carried out for the potential produces in these 4 districts as per the study findings. Under animal husbandry intervention total 142 households from four project districts have been benefitted. Poultry unit and goat unit were given to selected households in animal husbandry intervention. 266 Sirohi goats are distributed to 38 beneficiaries in Banswara, Dungarpur and Pratapgarh districts; each beneficiary taking six goats and a buck. During this reporting month one Manson batch and one electrician batch, one mason batch & one Industrial tailoring batch graduated.
A review meeting of Child Migration Project was held on 29th of November wherein Project Director-RMoL along with Senior Manager, Project Officer and District Manager-Udaipur participated. Team from partner organization Access Development Services briefed RMoL team on the status of activities and discussion was held on improving quality of outcomes and accelerating the pace of implementation.

Under TADD Mason Training Programme, 500 tribal BPL youth to be trained in construction sector in 11 districts of Rajasthan. Total five agencies namely B-ABLE, SAATH Livelihood Services, Bhartiya Shodh Sansthan (BSS), Bhoruka Charitable Trust (BCT) and ITI Sangod have been finalized. The MoU have been signed with the agencies and the agencies have started mobilizing youth for training.

Under TADD supported Vocational Skill Training Project, total 3580 tribal BPL youth to be trained. 10 Agencies are finalized for the implementation of the project in the 21 districts of Rajasthan. MoU with six agencies have been signed and remaining four are in signing process.

Initiatives at RMoL District Office

A three days visit was made to Jaipur and Tonk by District Manager-Udaipur from 31st of October 2011 to 2nd of November 2011. On 1st of November 2011, a field visit was made to Tonk District with Project Director and UNDP Representative Mr. Ratnesh. The visit was intended to explore the potential for an intervention by UNDP on financial inclusion. During the visit meetings were held with the beneficiaries of Financial Literacy Project implemented by CECOEDECON with support from RMoL and UNDP in the year 2009-10.
On 5th of November, District Manager participated in the review meeting by Commissioner-TADD. District Manager briefed on the progress of activities and the fund utilization under Child Migration Project.

On 11th of November 2011, District Manager participated in the meeting and orientation program on Lok Sewa Guarantee Act. The Programme was chaired by the District Collector.

During the month two meetings were held with the Additional Commissioner-Tribal Area Development. During the meetings progress of TADD supported projects were shared and various issues were discussed.
A meeting was held on 29th of November with Hindustan Zinc, Udaipur wherein Project Director-RMoL along with Senior Manager, Project Officer and District Manager-Udaipur participated. The meeting was organized in view of request by Hindustan Zinc for support in implementation of its livelihood enhancement programmes in the vicinity of the plants of the company.