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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

PostHeaderIcon MY FIELD VISIT EXPERIENCE IN POP MANDALS AT VISHAKAPATNAM AND PRAKASAM DISTRICTS- Sumitra

6:56 PM | Posted by Rijo P. | Edit Post



During the month I have been visited the POP mandals in Prakasam and Visakapatnam. I want to share my experience with POP cell

Prakasam:

Visited Santamagulur mandal and Mamidipalli village on 9th of July and discussed with mandal level staff about POP strategy and interacted with POP CAs about their experience with SHG. And discussed to be developed the Santamagulur mandal as Model mandal in all aspects. Mandal level staff and MS OB accepted to take up the Santamagulur mandal to mould as Model. I have been facilitated the staff to take two VOs for adoption.

S.No
Name of the staff
Taken the VO for adoption
Remarks
1.
Subbarao - APM
 Elthur VO 1 & Patha magulur VO                                      
2 vos
2.
Gopi – POP CC
Mamidipalli VO
1 vo
3.
Srimannarayana – CC general
Sarjapuram VO & Pathepalem VO
2 vos
4.
Rajeswari – MBK
Bandivaripalem & Kopparam Vos
2 vos
5.
Venkaiah -MBK
Yelthur VO & M.K.Palem
2 vos

In Mamidipalli village there are 7 POP SHGs. Even 8 years experienced SHG also were not receiving the loan as per their entitlement

        After the POP CCs training POP CC Mr. Gopi have taken initiation to conduct the training to SHGs and motivated the leftover poor to join into SHGs.

        POP families have selected two POP CAS they are Parvathi 5th std and Prasanna 8th std. Out of 80 SC families 45 families have been attended the meeting in the evening at church premises. We explained the POP strategy to the POP families. MS OB also involved in the meeting. All the 45 POP families expressed their happiness about the POP strategy in the form of song.

Visakapatnam:

I have been visited the POP Mandals in Visakapatnam from 13th to 18th July10.

Visited the villages

S.No
Name of the mandal
Name of the Village
1.    
Yalamanchili mandal          
Pulaparthi
Line kothur
2.    
Amalapuram 
Jagannathapuram
3.    
Madugula
J.D Peta
4.    
Chowdavaram 
Gowravaram
5.    
Paderu
Vanjangi
Lagisipalli

Unheard voice:

     Marthalli (Mild MR) an unmarried SC woman is living in Pulaparthi village. She has a blind mother. Both of them living in small kacha house. Her sister has (physically handicapped) got married but her husband has died. Marthalli is looking after her blind mother. Hardly she do the labor work for 10 days and getting wage of Rs around 1200.00. Her mother is getting disable pension of Rs 500.00. Marthalli looks like a malnourished with full of bones. She has no idea to maintain the small petty shop or 100 days work because of her ill health.

 She said that she has no desire to get more income. Just she need stable income at least per month 2500. That is enough for her to look after herself and her mother.

    I felt sad that, how  we ignore  this kind of families. In what way we need to help them. FOOD FOR THOUGHTS

I motivated her to join in SHG meeting also informed the VO OB not to insist fixed savings.

POP CCs Intervention:

Yalamanchili POP CC Mr. Rajubabu(In charge) has taken initiation (After the POP CCs training) He explained the branch managers about POP strategy and made linkage up to 5,00,000 for POP SHGs.
Ambedkar SHG       4,50,000
Ushodaya SHG        4,50,000
Gandhi SHG            5,00,000
Jai Bhavani SHG     4,50,000
Kalikadevi SHG      4,50,000

Ananthagiri POP CC also taken initiation and explained the POP strategy to Sri Sathya sai trust. Trust people impressed about the strategy and they decided to provide the 10 kgs of rice, cooking vesils, blankets, Cloths for 200 families in POP villages.



Observations:
·       Not provided TA and DA while the POP CCs are attended the training to Hyderabad in TPMU.
·       Going the villages is very horrible because of hill station. Two wheelers are getting repaired frequently. But TPMU is not paying the vehicle maintenance cost.
·       POP CRPs conducted the POP survey. VORT teams also conducted the survey for two days. Out of 4 VORT CRPs 2 CRPs are men. There is no proper clarity to VORT teams regarding POP strategy.

·       In Vizianagaram District Zilla samakhya own funds are laid idle of Rs 4.38 crores. If they start to help to PIOP families around 1000 POP families will benefit per year( for Land lease 5000.00 per 0.50 cents in Vizianagaram) Zilla samakhya may utilize the iele fund to this purpose.FOOD FOR THOUGHTS  
  
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Monday, July 05, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Stay during Field visits

9:58 PM | Posted by Bhanu Shyam | Edit Post

We are telling our PoP CA that she should be a role model for the remaining PoP families and that is the reason why ,our PoP CA is chosen from the PoP families. It applies to us also. We need to be role models for our CCs and APM is in making field visits, attending the scheduled SHG meetings etc

But to go to field and spend enough time there, do we have enough resources supporting us? For example one issue is that in municipalities the maximum limit as per HR policy for accommodation is Rs.350 /day, which we know is not possible, even in towns like Nalgonda, Srikakulam etc. Though we have government guest houses available, God only knows when we have to vacate them. Any political person can ask us to vacate it at any time of the day; first of all they are not accessible and not safe in many places. So shall we worry about going to the field or the accommodation expenses? Some amount of comfort is that in corporations the amount is Rs.1500/day as per HR policy. Perhaps in a mandal it is Rs.250/day. This only means that we are taxing the staff going to small towns?

Moreover, when we go to municipalities like Chittoor, the accommodation provided to us are well above the limit of Rs.350 , due to which, we request (force / understood ! ) the district personnel to pay the bills. I have been told that this was done and is being done with all the SPMU staff, which in my opinion leaves scope for abuse of system under the name of “hospitality”.

Any staff visiting to the field, should ideally pay for their accommodation and claim them at their head quarters. District staff only facilitates the timely booking of the accommodation. If this principle is strictly followed (along with paying for one’s own food during the field visits), then sytems may slowly fall in line.

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PostHeaderIcon Unique codes

5:40 PM | Posted by Rijo P. | Edit Post
It is becoming increasingly difficult to consolidate and operate data from different units. Software (excel or anything) is not able to relate and join data pertaining to same entities. As we are having district and mandalwise unique codes, I propose that we should encourage their usage. The unique codes sourced from NREGS and CCLA are perfect upto mandal level. We will be able to iron out the issues in the next levels of GPs and habitations very soon as well.
In my opinion codes are easier than enforcing a uniform spelling for all entities across the state.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

PostHeaderIcon IGA

1:42 PM | Posted by Rijo P. | Edit Post
During my immersion visit to Anantapur I came across a small number of MCP beneficiaries. All the women had used their loans for IGA purposes such as buying an autorikshaw or a marble polishing machine. Nonetheless all the ten-fifteen activities described by the women were performed by male members of the family. Although under the danger of fallaciously generalising this incident in a nondescript village, I feel that the MCPs are treating the women as a ‘via-media’ to reach the males, the income generators of a family.
It might be quite true that such means can also take us to the end of reduction in poverty. However paving foundation for equity in the family and collective groups over individual actions might be one good path.
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