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UBA at IIT Kharagpur
• Core committee formed by Director, IIT KGP▪ With Prof Debasis Roy (CE) as institute
coordinator, and Prof VK Tewari (Head, AGFE and RDC) and Prof PBS Bhadoria (AGFE and RuTAG coordinator) as members
▪ Core committee is meeting every month since january 2015 to coordinate UBA activities in Kharagpur
• Participating units▪ NSS, AGFE, RDC, RuTAG, SMST and ATDC
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Need assessment• Survey at 23
villages▪ ~1200
households▪ At 23
villages
• Water quality assessment▪ At 3 villages
over last 6 months
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State-of-affairs• Meager income level▪ Annual per capita income often below Rs
3000▪ Literacy rate comparable to nat. avg. but
little higher education and vocational skill▪ High dropout rate
• Non-engineered infrastructure▪ ~70 % of the houses are non-engineered
• Poor water quality▪ Elevated iron levels in drinking water
samples
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State-of-affairs…
• Poor sanitation level▪ ~20 % or less of the households surveyed
had toilets ▪ High bacterial load in drinking water
• Over-reliance on firewood ▪ Fulfills ~60 % of cooking need
• Extremely poor nutrition level▪ ~80 % of primary school children are
underweight, ~70 % malnourished
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Ongoing activities
• Income generation▪ Organic farming: at Pariapara (Pilot: 1
farmer, 1 acre, peanut and sweet corn) and Upar Kenthia (14 farmers, 14 acres, ~70 % rice, ~20 % sesame, and rest peanut, soybean, and sweet corn)
▪ Pisciculture at Upar Kenthia▪ Vermicomposting: Upar Kenthia and
Pariapara (10 farmers, 30 beds)▪ Puffed rice: at Sholadahar (2 machines on
trial run; ~100 kg/d; 20 women of 2 SHGs)
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Ongoing activities…• Income generation…▪ Tailoring training (in collaboration with
SENATE, Kolkata): at Porapara; 35 women• Nutritional intervention at schools▪ Pilot at Malma: 95 kids, 5-12 y▪ Eggs and fruits provided as midday meal
supplement over 3 months▪ Malnutrition reduced from ~80 % to ~50 %
• Infrastructure▪ Shramdaan for road building at Balarampur
(2.5 km), Malma (1 km) and Bolla (1 km)
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Ongoing activities
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Planned activities
• Construction of toilet blocks▪ At Porapara, Gangadharpur and Nachna▪ Sustainable construction with pressed mud
block and bamboocrete• Construction of engineered houses▪ Also using sustainable construction with
pressed mud block and bamboocrete▪ For two destitute families at Gangadharpur▪ Provide hands on training to skilled and
semi-skilled manpower in sustainable engineered construction
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Planned activities…
• Installing solar community cookers▪ At Gaighata, Upar Kenthia and Gholghoria
promary schools▪ The school authorities have agreed to
plough back cost savings at improving nutrition levels of midday meals
▪ Long-term monitoring of the impact of this intervention on cognition levels of the beneficiary children
• Connecting the trainees participating in the pilot programs with markets
