Livelihood

Livelihood

Nayantara’s one of the key focus area is to find opportunities for livelihood of the tribal villagers. Agriculture & Animal Husbandry trainings are given along with Capacity Building and Skill Enhancement Programs. Villagers are trained by experts on the development of Family & Community Kitchen Gardening. Duckery, Poultry, Dairy and Fishery are also being tried. Formation and strengthening of Self Help Groups (SHG) of about 50 of them have been done along with SHG Leaders’ training. Other initiatives are:

• Horticulture and seed bed
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Rabi Crop cultivation to initiate change in crop pattern
• Scientific Agricultural Practices
• SRI Technique
• Drip Irrigation
• Scientific Animal Husbandry Techniques
• Vermicompost
• Soil Testing
• Vocational Training (Motor Driving, Food Processing, Water filtering)
• Sahayika Sevika Care Giver Training
• Electrician & Wiring Training
• AC and Refrigerator Repair Training

• Electrical Appliance (Washing Machine, Micro Wave etc.) Repair Training
• EDP Training
• HandicraftTraining like Paper bag making, Malaysian Batik, Tailoring  etc.

Success Story

• 29 girls have undertaken the Sahayika Sevika course from Matri Bhawan Hospital run by Ramakrishna Sarada Mission in Kolkata and most of them are employed.

• Cultivated land (in bigha) went up from 72 to 104 from 2009 to 2011.No. of beneficiaries went up to 199 from 68 and the yield recorded was 7.5 lakh as against earlier 2.5 lakh.