AMU SOCIAL WORK AND HESCO INTERNSHIP PPT

HESCO

1. ‌ SUMMER INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE AT HIMALAYAN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION RAMKRISHAN GAUR

2. ‌ CONTENT ‌ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION WORK DONE CHALLENEGES FACED ROLE PLAYED BY THE WORKER LEARNING SELF EVALUATION

3. ‌ ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION ‌HESCO was formed in 1979 and registered in 1983 and under FCRA in the year 1991 . A group of scientist. Serve in the spirit of dedicated volunteerism. Acknowledge and develop the natural talents of the community. Encourage self-sufficient and “simple” solutions to the practical problems. Promote the practice of “ shridan ”:  that every village which is helped with development, will in turn, adopt and help another village. Promote sustainable development with a priority on environmental protection  and economic independence. Use of Science and Technology as a tool.

4. ‌ ABOUT THE FOUNDER ‌Indian green activist Social worker Botanist  Quit job of Reader in the Government P.G. College. Formed HESCO in 1979 Awarded by PADAM SHRI in 2006. VISION ‌ Developing a viable, successful and a sustainable model for rural development in India giving due consideration to environmental protection and economic independence. MISSION ‌A new measure of economic growth “Gross Environmental Product (GEP)''.

5. ‌ HESCO’s Initiatives & Interventions ‌ Reviving Eco-friendly Water Based Rural Entrepreneurship Shrine Offerings: Income generation through Bio-resource applications Assistance for improved Agricultural Practices Establishment of Technology Business Incubators (TBI) for Ex-servicemen in Uttarakhand Engaging children and disseminating Local wisdom WISE – Women Initiative for Self Employment KISAN BANK REBIRTH GAON BACHAO GEP(gross environment product)

6. STRUCTURE OF THE ORGANIZATION

7. HESCO’s special features Programme Support CORE support Department of science and technology , New Delhi Isotope hydrology centre (BARC Support) Bhabha atomic research centre, Mumbai Water mill centre MNRE, Delhi Rural Bio Resource Centre (RBC) Department of Biotechnology

8. Partnership with National & International institution(Exposure) Don University, Dehradun Himgiri Zee university, Dehradun Graphic Era University, Dehradun Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahbad HIT, Dehradun HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar Doon PG College, Dehradun INTERNATIONAL: University of Colombo, Srilanka University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Technical university of Liberec, Czech Republic University of North Texas, USA

9. ‌ WORK DONE BY THE TRAINEE 1. WISE 2. WISE BANK 3. DOCUMENTION OF REBIRTH 4. KISAN BANK 5. BIOMASS STOVE 6. SPRING RECHARGING 7.VISIT TO SALGA VILLAGE 8. GEP

10. 1.‌ WISE – Women Initiative for Self Employment ‌ To inspire the concept of women as entrepreneurs For independence and empowerment of women. The sparks of knowledge and wisdom in women. T o develop low cost, location specific, easily adopted technologies which will provide them self-employment and respect in society.

11. ‌WISE follows the approaches

12. ACCOMPLISHMENTS

13. 2. WISE BANK WISE bank is a initiative of WISE-women initiative for self employment. The bank was instituted in September 2006. WISE helps women entrepreneurs by granting loan out of the funds collected from them. The loaning process is simple with no separate interest obligations instead recipient women have to pay Rs. 100/- every months till the loan is paid back. The banks services are now offered to women in areas such as Mehuwala , Shuklapur , Garhi , Jatowala , Fatehpur and Ratanpur-Nayagaon .

14. Future Prospects for WISE Alternative 1. Expand yourself Alternative 2. Partner with Government and Other Rural Focused Organizations Alternative 3. Tie-up with local bakeries Alternative 4 . Contract farming

15. 3.DOCUMENTATION OF A SOCIAL CHANGE PROGRAMME The concept of rebirth: An Alignment of Religion and Ecology

16. 4. KISAN BANK Knowledge, seed sourcing and other services will be accessible through the bank. In case of crop failure for any reason, bank will not be entitled to force recovery but will explore other possibilities to empower farm community to return the same. Kisan Bank will facilitate farmers to obtain crop / produce insurance policies to cover crop loss, marginal and small farmers are otherwise don’t have access to it. Agro-institute or present agro public services will also be tied up with bank to provide related knowledge and backup services. The Bank will also source quality seed from development agencies and will ensure its access to common both by multiplication and dissemination.

17. 5. REPRESENTATION OF INOVATION (DAKSH CHULLA –BIOMASS STOVE) ON THE VISIT OF CHIEF MINISTER OF UATTARAKHAND IN THE ORGANISATION HESCO has developed a new cooker named as a DUKSH CHULLA. The cooker is suitable for the places where LPG and electricity availability is hard to get. It can be used daily as useable cooker for cooking food. The main aim of this cooker is to utilize the agriculture wastes like small dry leaves, dry wood, fallen branches, bushes etc. The dung cake and weeds can also be used as a fuel in this cooker. It depends on the availability of the bio resource. Since, it is steam based cooking; vitamin and other important nutrients almost remain intact. FUNCTIONAL SCIENCE: Work in steam flow cooking method by the utilization of waste bio-mass.

18. STRUCTURE OF DAKSH CHULLA: Portable cooker Divided into 2 parts – outer, inner Cylindrical in shape Dimension 20inch in height and 10 inch diameter-outer 13inch long and 9inch diameter -inner

19. 6.Analysis of Spring-Recharging concept in the Himalayas region ( salga and the shuklapur ) Spring recharging concept This whole process of water recharging is a very simple, but it is a systematically devised approach which can be used to recharge the areas of any given spring. In this methodology, an environmental isotope was identified, and applied. Model

20. EFFECT ON COMMUNITY Today, many youths have started commercial cultivation of vegetable. Vikram Singh an unemployed youth today earns Rs. 2000-3500/- monthly from his land now as he cultivates vegetables for local market. Similarly Mr. Jaspal has also enjoyed boons of Surplus water of spring for fisheries. INTERVIEW OF VILLAGER Aniket kala said “ Ek time par yee nadi bilkul shukh gye thi , fir Joshi ne meeting bulaye jis main as pas ke gaon ke log bhi aye the, Aur unhone pahadi par kuch kuch dure pr gadde khodne main sharmdan ki liye kha ur uske fayde bataye . Joshi G par sbka bharosa tha , sb ne mil kr ye kiya . Ek saal tak kuch nhi hua lekin phir pahadi par harayali ane lagi aur dusre saal main nadi main paani badhne lga . Hamare gaon ke liye chamatkar jesa tha ”

21. 7. DEMOGRAPHY OF SALGA There are about 35 houses in Salga village. The regional language of the Salga village is Jaunsari but they speak both Hindi and Jaunsari . Deodar trees and pines trees are very common. major crops paddy, millet, wheat, maize. Crops for commercial purpose:turmeric , coriander, ginger, tomato, potato, garlic, colocasia root. There mostly people belong to SC and ST communities.

22. Field Visit to Salga Village DATE OF VISIT : 13 June 2018 Salga village is located in Chakrata Tehsil of Dehradun district in Uttarakhand , India. HESCO is working in development project with MOODY'S CSR. The head and coordinator of the project is Dr. Himani Purohit . The project was started in January 2018. The project is an ongoing project for three years. The interventions done by HESCO are- Biogas Rainwater harvesting Water recharging (connecting pipes from the springs) Building toilets Given livestock to 15 families. Give training for making burash and mint squash and Pickles. Solar light. Seed bank

23. 8.Gross Environment Product Gross Environment Product GEP is a concept given by Dr. Anil Joshi. The aim of GEP is to include environmental factors like soil, water, forest, air as a part of GDP (Gross Domestic Product). It is a new dimension to measure development. Gross Environment Product concept came to HESCO as it was working for equal economic opportunity for rural India. HESCO launched movement to demand Gross Environment Product parallel to GDP so that ecological and economical accounting can be brought in place in the interest of rural people and country’s at large.

24. ANALYSIS OF AWARENESS PROGRAMME AND STEP FOR GEP DISCUSSION ON GEP IN PUBLIC PLATFORMS What is Gross Environment Product (GEP) and how it is linked to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of any country or state? (https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_Gross_Environment_Product_GEP_and_how_it_is_linked_to_Gross_Domestic_Product_GDP_of_any_country_or_state) Now, Gross Environmental Product to calculate eco-systems’ health ( https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/Now-Gross-Environmental-Product-to-calculate-eco-systems-health/articleshow/49050159.cms ) Need to focus on gross environment product: Joshi - Tribune India (https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/uttarakhand/community/need-to-focus-on-gross-environment-product-joshi/356245.html)   Gross Environmental Product vs Gross Domestic Product | Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi | TEDxDBATU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcpRBVrVQ0Q) GEP: New barometer to measure economic growth ( http://indiaclimatechange.blogspot.com/2011/10/business-standard-gep-new-barometer-to.html )   Eco System - UCOST PIL High court ordered the state to give their counter reply within four months in the hearing of PIL. Chief Justice K M Joseph and Justice V K Bisht accepted the PIL and ordered the state to give their reply against this PIL.

25. CYCLE YATRA From SILIGURI to DEHRADOON

26. CHALLENGES FACED Language barrier . Low acceptance of plane area people in hilly area region. Culture differences.

27. ROLE PLAYED BY THE WORKER Communicator Facilitator Educator Mobilize Organizer Researcher Analyzer

28. LEARNING Analyze the impact of NGO intervention in the deprived areas. Working with RURAL AREA Documentation Interpersonal communication skill Working with NGO Working of an NGO Learn t a lot about NGOs functioning, their vision, objectives and the problem it faces in the various departments like finance, marketing and others. Also understood the initiative taken by private institutions as a part of corporate governance social responsibility and its impact on the society. Study about how to help the society and what HESCO is doing in this field.

29. SELF EVALUATION It was the great learning experience for me during my summer internship. I have worked with HESCO (Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization), Dehradun, Uttarakhand The organization has helped me in learning a lot of professional skills during the internship period. Apart from this I also gained theoretical as well as practical knowledge. I have gained a lot of exposure and experience during my 45 days internship. I have gained a lot of confidence and have grown tremendously. I feel great for having had that experience.