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     Natural Resource Development Programme      
   

Through the Natural Resource Development (NRD) programme, Seva Mandir works with communities to restore the highly degraded natural resource base and to provide technical inputs that will enable them to adopt more secure and sustainable livelihood options. The NRD programme encompasses:
 
(a)
Dry land management – which includes the treatment of private and common lands through watershed development and the establishment of both private and common pasture lands;

Water resource development – in the form of both constructing water harvesting structures and installing community managed irrigation systems;

Forest protection and management – by working with both communities, through Forest Protection Committees, and the Forest Department as per the Joint Forest Management scheme;

Enhancing the profitability of natural resources – through the provision of agricultural extension services, horticulture and vegetable cultivation trainings, animal husbandry trainings and cattle camps.
   
(b)
   
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(d)
   


Objectives:
   
Optimise the productivity of natural resources, especially wastelands, forests and agricultural lands
Strengthen and encourage village institutions for better land governance and appropriate management of the enhanced natural resources

 
Increase ecological security by balancing rural livelihoods and environmental processes
 
   
Status :

To date, through its work on Natural Resource Development, Seva Mandir has treated 12,343 hectares of degraded common and private pastureland. It has also worked on the protection, plantation and management of more than 1,000 hectares of forestland under the Joint Forest Management scheme, in collaboration with the Forest Department. atershed treatment work has been completed on 8,959 hectares of land spread across 27 sites. Seva Mandir has also constructed 3 masonry anicuts (water harvesting structures) and helped to establish 33 community managed lift irrigation systems. Through its agricultural extension work, Seva Mandir has helped farmers establish more than 1,000 vermi-compost units and hundreds of horticulture nurseries. The organization has also conducted close to 100 animal camps.