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“Gopal Kiran Samaj Sevi Sanstha ”, GKSSS found its origin in the northern part of Madhya Pradesh where roots of rapid distress can be found every where especially among deprived and vulnerable sections of the society. The organization has been an outcome of joint effort led by a group of people and citizens against the forces, which promote such structures. The organization came into existence in Active Social committed youth Development worker 80S IN the year 1985, Arial 9 is a non-political, non-religious, grass-roots people's organization committed to evolving an alternative path of development in India based on the principles of people's empowerment, equity and sustainability. an ecological and agricultural organization, has actively been engaged Rural area since 1995, Gopal Kiran Samaj Sevi Sanstha took a formal organizational shape when it was registered under Societies Registration Act 1973 section 44 in the year 1986 vide Registration No.16003 dated 28/1/1986. Subsequently a himself registered it under FCRA in the year 1998 with registration no. 063280010.Gopal Kiran Samaj Sevi Sanstha has established and headed Dalit. These are dedicated erle who may find it hard to articulate themselves in English and take time to become conversant with cretin technicalities. In the exploration and development of strategies for promoting sustainable livelihoods for the rural communities living in the semi-arid and arid areas of Madhya Pradesh (one of the biggest state of Republic of India); where severe,Relief work  degradation and loss of traditional grazing lands, shrinking water sources, and relentless deforestation have all eroded the economic base of rural communities that depend on their environment to sustain them. Millions of pastor lists (livestock-dependent people) in M.P.are struggling to survive, and as they make their way into the cities in search of work, their communities are being fractured and the social fabric of rural areas gradually torn. GKSSS has a strong committed team of 3 -12 Year Experiences around 18 professionals drawn from various reputed institutions as well as committed youth emerging from the grass roots as community leaders in our intervened areas. Nature of involvement of Governing Body trustees The Gopal Kiran Samaj Sevi Sanstha (GKSSS VO) is registered under society registration act and is working for rural evelopment since 28thJanuary 1986. The Executive Body and the General Body govern the VO at the top level of management. It is responsible for reviewing the execution of the programme as per schedule approved by General Body. General body meets at least once in a year and generally the agenda for the meeting is to accept the minutes of its previous meetings and to approve annual report and to approve planning of the activities for the coming year as well, with provision of the additional agenda (if any) from the house. A copy of the last annual report is attached as annexure. How to reach a. By Air                                                    :  Gwalior is connected with regular flights from Delhi & Bhopal.

b. By Train                                              :  Gwalior is on the Central Railway's main Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Chennai lines. Among other major trains, the Shatabdi and the Taj Express connect Gwalior with Delhi and Agra daily. c. By Road                                             :     Gwalior is connected by regular bus service with Agra, Mathura, Jaipur, Delhi, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Bhopal, Chanderi, Indore, Jhansi, Khajuraho, Rewa, Jabalpur, Ujjain and Shivpuri. Capacity of the Implementation Team

Achivement _village sirsode fire relief work good examample 7 communitey relasion ship -	Good Interaction with local community and beneficiary. -	Good relationship & Co-ordination district administration. Increase confidence among organizational staff and   community. -	Active participation of community in organisation programme. -	Strengthen of local Self Governance -	Member of State & Regional Level Network -	Good Team of Worker -	Organisation Develop Capacity to Programme Implement. •	To form 139 SHGs groups (Male/female) •	Recovered 70 acres land through farm bunding and land leveling in SiroliPanchayat village. •	Organize and empower the rural poor women through IGP activities. -	Create awareness for Panchayat Raj and Reproductive Child health •	Soil and water conservation •	In having irrigation sources •	Awareness generation during indigenous peoples.

Man office

Nimraje Sadan, New Mohan Nagar,Thathipur, Gwalior -470411 M P, India Email - gksss_gwlorg@ rediffmail.com Phone 0751- 2340719 Fax	0751- 2341151 Sources of Funding -	Donors Agency (Indian & Foreign) -	Government -	Member of Organization Community

Networking at local level with: GKSSS is sharing the knowledge and information with other organization for transfer the benefit to the people of project area of organization. The networking with various other organizations, which are classified at local, state and national level.

All concerned line departments  E.P.C.O. Collector and other government offices Krishi Vigyan Kendra,Gwalior Agriculture College Jiwaji University  Local NGOs (about 15) in Gwalior district Some peoples movements Print and electronic media

Networking at state level with:

	Dalit NGO Foram M.P. 	KRIAVISH,Alwar, Rajasthan 	Centrl Soil &Wter Conservation Reserch and Training Institute,Datia. 	MadhyaPradesh Voluntary Health Association, (MPVHA), Indore 	XIDAS, Jabalpur 	SAMARTHAN, 	AFPRO-Unit 5, Gwalior 	CASA MadhyaPradesh

Networking at national level with: 	ICCO, New Delhi 	Action For Food Production (AFPRO), New Delhi 	Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), New Delhi 	Indian Social Institute (ISI), New Delhi 	Association of Voluntary Agencies in Rural Development (AVARD), New Delhi 	Voluntary Action Network India (VANI), New Delhi 	Indo-German Social Service Society (IGSSS), New Delhi 	Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi 	India Development Group UK 	International Development Enterprises (IDE), New Delhi 	Samaj Pragati Sahayog, Bagli 	CAPART, New Delhi 	The Ecological Foundation, New Delhi Rural rainwater harvesting and ground water recharge: An NGO'S effort made my Gopal Kiran Samaj Sevi sanstha (GKSSS) GWALIOR.

An example of technical.social and moral work is provided by an NGO called GKSSS ( Gopal kiran Samaj Sevi Sanstha ) run by Mr.Shriprakash Nimraje around Gwalior.

In the recent past ( 1998 – 2003), the rainfall around Gwalior has been poor resulting in draught conditions and poor crop yield.

The population of the villages Ramanagar, Siroli and Vijaigarh is about 650, 250 and nearly 200 respectively. All these villages come under Siroli Panchayat. The main occupation of these villagers is agriculture; the poor folk work as farm labour. all village a joint meeting of the village was help to discuss this problem. Around Ramnagar (Sirauli) there tal is 200 years old. But no work wasd done since then after that. Then in January 2003, the work of water harvesting was started at Batwara Tal, which has an area of about300 bigha. The Secretary& Project coordinator of GKSSS Mr. Shriprakash singh Nimraje, explained the action taken financial assistance by CFLI/Canadian High commission New Delhi this voluntary organization working at grass- root level.

There are 42 families in the village, which donated lab our worked as labourers in the construction of the ‘’ on the Batwara Tal (Ram Nagar ) are about 20 km. away to the NW of Gwalior and lie in the Survey of India topo sheet No.54 J/7. These villages are a part of Morar block. are well connected to a metalled road i.e., Morar-Parsen road The length of the bandh is about 1010 meters and it has a crescent shape.

As the farmers of this village are marginal farmers, so through their own efforts they got some success in their community participatory work. The rain water was collected behind bandh. This ponded water recharged the ground water in down stream area. The water remained in the reservoir for some time. As a result of this. The first crop’’ Kharif’’ was good. The farmers were also to take the ‘’ Rabi’crop from this land. This was the community-oriented work and total cost this bandh came to be about Rs 200,000. The villagers themselves do this maintenance after every monsoon But again a problem is being faced there. The aquifer at 20 meter depth is dry it is 5-6 meter thick. water is not able to reach at this depth because of clay layer at the top. Dr. M.C Khare and Mr. Seraj Khan of CGWB suggest a plan to the villagers. As suggested recharge shafts hold be provided up to 20 m depth. A dug well of I miter diameter and 20 m depth should be constructed and filled with sand and gravel (Inverted filter) It should be tied with aquifer at 20 m depth. Monitoring of this system can be done in nearby dug wells. These shafts will recharge the surplus rainwater into the dry aquifer. Thus the village can get more water and its benefits. This is a good example of artificial recharge by community participation in a rural area of Gwaliolr distt

1.1	– Visit to sirauli village , Ramnagar,Sirauli Village is a village ( post office Ratwai) district Gwalior with 58 Families and 500 population. The people are of different religions and different castes. The main occupation of these people is lab our and begging. The production is very less there, as the soil is saline and also water problems there. Draught conditions were there during the last few years. Then the people tried to mark some planning to avoid these problems. They started rain water harvesting under the guidance of Mr. Nimraje GKSSS.Gwalior and technical suggested Mr. Aman Singh Chief coordinator Krishi Avam Paristhitiki Vikas Sansthan (KRAPAVIS) Alwar, Rajasthan They made channels recharge pit ( A well) which is covered. The net of these channels is spread through out the village. The channels should be

from high gradients to low gradient. The recharge pit is a pit with gravel packing A Filter is there for the filtration water. When there will be rain all the water through he channel comes to the recharge pit, water when there will be rain, all the water through he channel comes to the recharge pit, where the water is filtered and gets stored in the recharge pit, This filtered water is then used up by the village for their various purposes as bathing. Washing and even for drinking the care shout taken care that the recharge pit is completely covered so that no contaminant should enter into the pit and contaminate the water. The water should be purified from time to time by using disinfectant as chloride.etc. This is the best example of artificial ground water recharge. Thus. the water problem of this village get solved. With the help of this water conservation or artificial recharge. The women of this village taken the advantage. they started a nursery in may 2003. Known as Kiran – Mahila Nursery. Sirauli. This nursery started on loaning but today. The position of the nursery is such that it gives loans to other people for different working in the nursery the plantations use of various species and of different verities as flowing plant, Guava. Alma papaya, Imlay berries. Chilies etc. As the people ot this village are very poor 60 % of the houses are Kacha” Houses. The ladies were early busy in bringing water from father places. Now. When there is no water problem they pay more attentions to their children and get award of about their education and other functions. This nursery given to other people for different work and work in a social manner. This is an intergraded effort of the people for their own development and their village development. The income of the ladies also increased they get money for their home. Thus the overall problems of the village get reduced to some extent through this integrated effort, 1.2	Impact of mining and quarrying on environment. The surroundings around us is the environment. The air we breathe. The water we drink. The food we eat. All are components of environment. For a proper and healthy living. it is necessary for us that out environment should be healthy. Earth is the generator of minerals. Almost all the minerals obtained from earth by mining whether the mining is open cast or under ground. The nation ‘s property depends upon the mining of these minerals but some problems are also associated with this. Some of the examples are taken from the area of Gwalior. The unscientific quarrying of granite ( Bundelkhand granite ) Near Jhansi is the result of bad effects of mining as certain disasters are there. The places from where, the granite is taken out, remains as pit which later becomes stagnant pools of water in rainy seasons and causes problems as dyrrohoea,dysentery, malaria due to the development of microbes and mosquitoes. When the powder of these rocks gets deposited on vegetative land, it becomes barren. Thus the land gets degraded and loss of vegetation takes place. powder of granite when inhaled through nostrils causes disturbance’’ Synchronies ‘’ Huge dumps of granite are also made which also leads to land degradation. when crushing and blasting of these takes place the dust spreads all over and makes the surroundings invisible. so that the persons are not able to see on the road which may also lead to accidents. The people doing work in these mines get lungs problems such as asthma, bronchitis etc which may lead to death. if continuous inhaling of this powder is going on proper steps should be made so that these hazards should be overcome. Eco friendly bricks should be made from this powder instead of putting the dumps of these rocks here and there the rock pieces should be used as road metal. This rock powder is the main source of air pollution so proper steps should be taken so that these health problems to minimum extent. Anther example of such unscientific quarrying is near Naya Gaon where stone crusher is used for crushing here the quarrying is of dolerite dykes. The stone crusher is of closed circuit type, This stone is best for road metal. and its powder is used for making bricks. During the crushing the stone powder fly into threat morpheme. Which leads to the air pollution and also causes water pollution when settles down on the water surface leading to the contamination and causes health problems to the people. The open mines of the iron near santau village also lead to several problems. As the pits are open after the mining which causes land degradation .the rain water may get accumulated in these pits and causes landslides. This may be very hazardous. So proper care should be taken to avoid all these problems. The eco friendly bricks should be made from the fly ash. so that it may not deposit on the vegetation and cause no problem. The pits should be filled up with material coming out from the new mine .in this way huge dumps of these materials are reduced and pits are also get closed so that water may not get accumulated in these pits. These are the some of the measures, which should be adopted to reduce environmental pollution and land degradation.

The GKSSS effort to rural rainwater harvesting and groundwater reacharge is an example of participatory work done at community level around Sirouli panchat. The reduces the water problem of the people to a great extent & also leads to an increase in their income from agriculture. In Ramnagar village & the starting of the SHGs are the first step towards improvement in quality of life on the basis of community participant & mobilization of locally available resources. We also learnt environmental problem associated earth the unscrupulous mining& unscientific quarrying of the rocks, which leads to degradation of natural beauty & health hazards for common public. Proper steps should be taken immediately so that no further damage is done to flora and fauna& the stability of the ecosystem is maintained.

( Anita Sharma M.s.c. Applied Geology, Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra& Veersingh )

Date; 18 Aug. 2004