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A project to raise income of the poor

Staff Correspondent

Bottom-up approach has been adopted

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project is said to have helped in enhancing the income of about 17,000 poor families in project villages spread over eight tribal districts.

An official spokesman here said that this was achieved by adopting a bottom-up approach. "The project has energised the Gram Sabhas to identify the beneficiaries and local opportunities for livelihood as well as to decide the quantum and type of help needed by the poor households. Well over 15,000 of those covered by this scheme are from tribal communities and 1,000 belong to Scheduled Castes."

While 8,100 farmers are said to have benefited through agriculture and other related activities, 4,400 families have been engaged in economically viable livestock development activities and another 4,500 poor families have been able to set up or scale up micro-enterprises with the support of the Rural Livelihoods Project.

These activities have been taken up individually or in groups.

It is claimed that the project has revived 1,790 dormant self-help groups and created 4370 livelihood promotion groups. The project has been able to benefit almost all the poor households in most of the project villages through various activities, the official spokesman said, adding that this had helped in generating greater trust of community so essential for enlisting participation of entire villages.

About 7,400 families are claimed to have been benefited through the project's drudgery alleviation programme and 15,000 families have taken advantage of 342 veterinary camps.

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