National Environment Awareness Campaign (NEAC)
NEAC is a flagship environmental awareness campaign of the government at the grassroots level involving thousands of NGOs, voluntary agencies, education institutions and others. The financial assistance is provided to participating organization for carrying out both awareness and activity-oriented programmes. The activities are aimed at spreading environmental awareness, which would lead to remedial action from the individual and society. The activities of participating organizations are monitored at the state level by the organization appointed as regional resource agencies (RRAs). The aim of SSD is to aware general public about impact of climate change on mankind and its impact on livelihood specially agriculture and animal husbandry. Climate change is a burning issue and Rajasthan facing gigantic problem of shortage of rain, heavy rainfall in decent area & hence improper agriculture production. Rajasthan’s villages are heavily dependent on agriculture. SSD emphasized on the awareness among farmers/general public about impacts of climate change on agriculture cultivation, community participation in Plantation, students and vehicle owner involvement in pollution checking. For this sake SSD conducted a seminar in Karauli to sentient general public, workshop in villages to aware farmers about climate change and adaptation, competition among students about climate change, plantation by community and pollution checkup in city.
SSD have been implementing natural resource management program through community action in 50 villages with the aim to save forest, bio-diversity and natural resources.
Following works have been done under this activity.
Renovation of Pokhers.
Deepening of wells.
Land improvement activities.
Pasture development.
Agriculture High yielding crop demonstration.
Veterinary camps.
Afforestation.
Environment Education program.
Exposure visits of villagers to developed watershed sites.
Publication of Quarterly New letter “Aranyararta”.
Capacity building of SSD staff.
Creation of community based Organizations.
As we know local villagers are totally dependent on agriculture and forest for livelihood so we are also educating them on forest management, uses of new technologies in agriculture, rain water harvesting and to become self dependent. As there is lack of water in Rajasthan State, we have also focused to improve irrigation facilities in Karauli district. Deepening of wells is being done to improve drinking water facilities and rainwater harvesting concept is being taught to villagers so that they can store water and use that water for drinking, agriculture and many other purposes. After implementing different programmes on natural resource management and environment education, SSD with the help of CEE and Forest Department is been able to create awareness on all these issues successfully. Different projects on water sanitation and Biodiversity has been implemented successfully and now villagers are fully aware the importance of forest and environment in society.
Here it would be worth while to mention that all the decisions for community/Individual asset creation are decided by respective village development committee (selected by villagers in open session of gram sabha). In case of individual & community asset creation, the contribution of villagers is 50% & 25% (minimum) respectively.
NEAC is a flagship environmental awareness campaign of the government at the grassroots level involving thousands of NGOs, voluntary agencies, education institutions and others. The financial assistance is provided to participating organization for carrying out both awareness and activity-oriented programmes. The activities are aimed at spreading environmental awareness, which would lead to remedial action from the individual and society. The activities of participating organizations are monitored at the state level by the organization appointed as regional resource agencies (RRAs). The aim of SSD is to aware general public about impact of climate change on mankind and its impact on livelihood specially agriculture and animal husbandry. Climate change is a burning issue and Rajasthan facing gigantic problem of shortage of rain, heavy rainfall in decent area & hence improper agriculture production. Rajasthan’s villages are heavily dependent on agriculture. SSD emphasized on the awareness among farmers/general public about impacts of climate change on agriculture cultivation, community participation in Plantation, students and vehicle owner involvement in pollution checking. For this sake SSD conducted a seminar in Karauli to sentient general public, workshop in villages to aware farmers about climate change and adaptation, competition among students about climate change, plantation by community and pollution checkup in city.
SSD have been implementing natural resource management program through community action in 50 villages with the aim to save forest, bio-diversity and natural resources.
Following works have been done under this activity.
Renovation of Pokhers.
Deepening of wells.
Land improvement activities.
Pasture development.
Agriculture High yielding crop demonstration.
Veterinary camps.
Afforestation.
Environment Education program.
Exposure visits of villagers to developed watershed sites.
Publication of Quarterly New letter “Aranyararta”.
Capacity building of SSD staff.
Creation of community based Organizations.
As we know local villagers are totally dependent on agriculture and forest for livelihood so we are also educating them on forest management, uses of new technologies in agriculture, rain water harvesting and to become self dependent. As there is lack of water in Rajasthan State, we have also focused to improve irrigation facilities in Karauli district. Deepening of wells is being done to improve drinking water facilities and rainwater harvesting concept is being taught to villagers so that they can store water and use that water for drinking, agriculture and many other purposes. After implementing different programmes on natural resource management and environment education, SSD with the help of CEE and Forest Department is been able to create awareness on all these issues successfully. Different projects on water sanitation and Biodiversity has been implemented successfully and now villagers are fully aware the importance of forest and environment in society.
Here it would be worth while to mention that all the decisions for community/Individual asset creation are decided by respective village development committee (selected by villagers in open session of gram sabha). In case of individual & community asset creation, the contribution of villagers is 50% & 25% (minimum) respectively.