Annual Action Plan 2020-21: NYKS Core Programme

Training of Youth on Jal Jagran Abhiyan

Water is an important issue across the globe. The importance of water as a vital resource to the life system and an essential component of societal development cannot be overemphasized. Recognizing the importance of water resource development many ancient civilizations emphasized on various mechanisms of water appropriation, collection and distribution. In earlier times, the state took care of the water supply side by developing and maintaining several ingenious and indigenous ways of storing rain and floodwaters. The maintenance of water quality and the means of regenerating the natural resource are crucial factors for sustainability, especially in the dry areas.

Water is a prime life-sustaining natural resource that cannot be created. India is having 18% of world’s population, but has only 4% of its fresh water resources. The per-capita per-year availability of water has come down drastically. Though unevenly spread temporarily and spatially, India receives sufficient rainfall to cover most areas of the country. However, presently India stores approximately 8% of this water. With the increasing population and demand, this is leading to water crisis year after year. Effectively managing the fast depleting water resources is also of strategic importance. Prime Minister has from many platforms and many times exhorted citizens to join hands to conserve water to secure the future.

Duration of the Programme : One day

Level : Block

No. of Participants : Minimum 50 (male and female)

Time Line : October - November

Objective

To make aware and educate youth leaders and volunteers from NYKs Youth Clubs on the manifold issues and need of water conservation, rain water harvesting, minimizing wastage and re-use of water.
To educate youth as to how to capture rainfall runoff from roofs or similar hard surfaces in the villages
To empower youth to assume lead role and act as catalytic agent for educating people to practice Rainwater “harvesting” and popularize tagline “Catch the rain, where it falls, when it falls”
To make aware youth about new technologies for irrigation and promote basin level integrated water resources management at local level

Suggestive Topics to Cover in Training

Issues, need and how to ensure water conservation, rain water harvesting, minimizing wastage and re-use of water
Methods for to capture rainfall runoff from roofs or similar hard surfaces in the villages
New Technologies for irrigation
Strategies for promoting basin level integrated water resources management at local level.
Solutions to Water Problems
Water-Extracting Methods and Low-Tech Water Technology
Efforts to Bring Clean Water to Villages
Improving water management practices that reduce the use or enhance the beneficial use of water.
Decrease flood hazard to improved areas

Implementation Strategy

District Youth Coordinators should select the venue for organizing this programme where successful “Training of Youth on Jal Jagran Abhiyan” could be organized. For example, venues where facilities like space for discussion, lectures, teaching aid and equipments, electricity with power back up, water, sanitation and other facilities are available.
Youth Clubs, trained office bearers and designated NY volunteers should be actively involved and made in-charge of the programme.
The District Youth Coordinators should identify the topics to be covered out of the above mentioned areas. Accordingly, the concerned heads of development departments and agencies be finalized along with their experts and resource persons who through lectures can impart awareness and educations as well as provide IEC material on the selected topics and subjects to be covered under the programme and moderate discussions
District Youth Coordinator should be present during each programme and guide the beneficiaries of the programme.
Each District Youth Coordinator has to inform the participants and resource persons well in advance the dates, venues and other details of the “Training of Youth on Jal Jagran Abhiyan” so as to enable them to attend the programme with full preparedness.
Educated youth should also be motivated to mobilize their peer and village communities for creating awareness in at least two identified areas of their interest in their respective Youth Club villages.
The District NYKs shall finalize the Programme Schedule for the Programmes, the structure of the Programme, the subjects to be covered in each Programmes, the speakers, venue of the programmes and so on.
Necessary resource material on the subjects covered in the Programmes shall also be arranged.
The entire planning should be done in close coordination with Government officials of Development Departments / Agencies.
It must be ensured that Public Representatives viz. Hon’ble Ministers, MPs, MLAs, MLCs as well as Heads of Development Departments, NGOs, Agencies should be invited to attend the programme.
The Programme shall primarily be participatory and interactive in nature.

Budget Per Programme utilization pattern

Head	Budget (in Rs.)
Tea & Snacks / Lunch to participants	8,000
Honorarium to Resource Persons and Resource material to participants	2,000
Stationery (Pen, Pad, etc.) to participants	4,000
Organizational and other miscellaneous expenses (Banners, Photographs, etc.)	1,000
Total	15,000

NOTE: Inter head adjustments if required under exceptional justified reasons and for meeting the objective of the program may be made with the approval of concerned Deputy Director/ State Director

No. of Training Programme : Based on the number of Blocks in the district as per criteria given in the following Table:

Category	No. of Programmes per District @ Rs.15,000/- per program	Amount(in Rs.)	No. of Participants to be covered @ minimum 50 per Program
Districts with 0-3 Blocks	1	15,000	50
Districts with 4-5 Blocks	2	30,000	100
Districts with 6-10 Blocks	2	30,000	100
Districts with 11-15 Blocks	2	30,000	100
Districts with 16 & above Blocks	4	60,000	200

Expected Outcome

To have trained 67,750 youth on the issues of Water Conservation
To have sensitized their peers and others on the issues of Water Conservation