Bio-diversity

To develop project proposal for providing irrigation facility for reforesting the community land. Project goals or objectives are to Increase agricultural production (Fruits), Develop irrigated command area Improve, conserve and sustain ecosystem (bio-diversity) of Mand Area, Uplift the socioeconomic conditions of small farmers of the project area. Activities to be carried out under project are to Collect and analyse hydrological and hydro-geological data of the Nihang River catchment., Carry out topographical survey of area and design diversion dam and irrigation channel from the dam to the command area and Construct diversion dam and channels involving local labour. The direct beneficiaries of the project are the over 25,000 residents/small farmers and women groups of the area. They have low means of subsistence and are marginalised. Their involvement in the project is expected to be in the forms of unskilled labour and provision of local knowledge and material. The population of the area is already mobilized/organised for taking over the full responsibility of O of the project after completion.

Pakistan