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Outline:

Mandate Instructions Objectives Execution Profiles of mandals Profile of activists Methods and Tools Training in progress Trainees’ experiences Case studies Results Limitations Follow and future

The Mandate

Velugu program intends:

• to build the capacities of the poor to secure their rights and

entitlements.

• nurturing barefoot professionals who are available to the

poor to access services and secure rights and entitlements.

• land issue is one of the major areas where poor require lot
• f support and knowledge base.
• Hence it is proposed to pilot in one mandal in Srikakulam

district, the whole approach to building the capacities of the activists on land issues. CEO, SERP

Instructions to District Poverty Iniative Project (DPIP) Srikakulam by CEO, SERP:

• Identify the mandal(s) for piloting this program
• Select two activists for each revenue village

who can be trained as barefoot surveyors

• Arrange venue for training the activists and

make arrangements for the month long training

SERP SAKTI Velugu Programme

Objectives :

• To build a cadre of village level activists capable of

understanding and collecting the land issues.

• Enable participants to read the village map and identify

the problems on the map.

• Understanding the computerized land records and

records maintained by the revenue officials.

• Help them compile the information and guide them in

getting institutional linkages in resolving the problems.

Profile of Activists

Ranasthalam mandal Miliaputty mandal Male Trainees 23 36 Female Trainees 7 19 Total Trainees 30 55 Literate Trainees 28 55 Illiterate Trainees 2 Total Trainees 30 55

Methods

Tools for Land Survey Training

Tools - Village Map

Tools - Survey Stones, vital landmarks

Tools - Land records

Training in Progress

Training in Progress

Training: Locating Survey nos. on village map

Training: Learning Land Records

Training: Village elders with village map

Training:

Training: Locating physical features such as tanks, roads, wastelands,

• etc. on Survey

numbers

Training:

Ranastalam Mandal Having land, but no patta 303 persons 468.27 Ac.

• Having Patta but no land 93 persons – Ac.161.49
• Details of Banjar and Poramboke: Total 55 village:

Wet Land : 6803.79 Dry Land : 26132.13 Banjar Land : 2112.36 Poramboke Land : 10,284.43

• Land less poor

: 465 Results - Ranastalam

Results of analysis of land records by trainees in some villages of two mandals

Ranasthala mandal Milliaputty mandal Revenue villages covered 55 of 58 29 of 70 Families having Land without patta 303 450 Extent of land of above in acres 468.27 549.96 Families having patta without land 93 44 Extent of land of above in acres 161.49 64.22 Landless poor 465 77

Results of training - land identified in two mandals from land records

Land details Ranasthalam mandal Milliaputty mandal

• No. of villages for

which identification done 55 of 58 revenue villages 29 of 70 revenue villages Wet 6803.79 Dry 26132.13 Banjar 2112.36 Poramboke 10,284.43

Limitations of Pilot Project

• Out of 53 villages, trainees from only 15 villages were mobilised

Action plan for follow up:

• Integrating the activists and the target groups with Velugu

mandal unit.

• Regular interaction with MRO office in following up and

resolving identified problems.

• Interaction with district SC & BC corporations.
• Involving the Velugu members in the ‘Maitri’ sangams

convened by the police department to resolve the land disputes.

• Interaction with the members of land assignment

committee.

• Interaction with district legal aid committee and mandal

legal aid committee.

Limitations of followup

• Out of the followup recomended, only one

item has been taken up so far:

• Regular interaction with MRO office in

following up and resolving identified problems.

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