1. |
Name of the Organisation |
The Integrated Rural Development
of Weaker Sections in India (IRDWSI) Conveniently called ‘WIDA’ |
2. |
Address updated on 29 July
2021 |
Dr. William Stanley, Secretary cum Director, 502, Revathi Hills, B.S. Layout,
Seethammadhara, Visakhapatnam, 530013, Andhra Pradesh. INDIA. Mobile: +91 9849120377 Mr. Madhab Dalapati. Field Director, IRDWSI Semiliguda, Koraput District, Odisha
- 764036, INDIA. Mobile: +91 9348023424 |
3. |
Telephone – Landlines |
Visakhapatnam, +91 891 –
2520128 Semiliguda, +91 6853-225028. |
4. |
E-Mail |
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5. |
Website |
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6. |
Facebook |
The
Irdwsi |
7. |
Study conducted in Orissa |
1978-79 by CReNIEO, Chennai. |
8. |
Establishment of Organisation |
January 1981. |
9. |
Society Registration |
183 of 1985 TN Societies Act.1860,
Date of Registration 09.07.1985. |
10. |
Income Tax Exemption |
166/111/89 Registered under
section of 12 A (A) of the income tax Act 1961. Date of Letter of Exemption 07.03.1990.
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11. |
PAN Number |
AAATT0354N, IT File Number:
0027292017. |
12. |
80G |
C.No.1146-III (160)/86/80G. Date
of Letter of Approval 12.11.2018. Donations Received by the Society from
AY2019-20 onwards are qualified for deduction U/S. 80G (5) (VI) of the Income
Tax Act, 1961 as per C.No. 1146-III (160)/86/80G dt.
12.11.2018 approved by Commissioner of Income tax (Exemptions), Chennai-34. |
13. |
FCRA Registration (Ministry of
Home Affairs) |
FCRA Number: 075900274 dated
25.02.1988, Renewed on October 2016, validity till 31.10.2021. FCRA Renewal
Applied. FCRA Renewal Application submitted on 21.06.2021. MHA FCRA File
Number: 6700892016. |
14. |
NITI Aayog DARPAN |
DARPAN ID: TN/2016/0106826. Date of
Registration 20.10.2016. |
15. |
CSR Approval |
Reference Application Number:
SRN-T18939546. Registration Number: CSR00005783. Date of Approval 14.05.2021. |
16. |
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Only Foreign Fuds - Name of the
Account: The Integrated Rural Development of Weaker Sections in India. State
Bank of India, NDMB, 11, Sansad Marg, New Delhi – 110001. Contact for Bank
Details – stanley111@gmail.com |
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17. |
Utilization FCRA Bank Account
Details |
Name of the Account: The
Integrated Rural Development of Weaker Sections in India. Kotak Mahindra
Bank, Seethammadhara Branch, Visakhapatnam. 530013. Contact for Bank Details
– stanley111@gmail.com |
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18. |
Local Account Details for Local
Funds |
Only Local Funds and Contribution:
Name of the Account: The Integrated Rural Development of Weaker Sections in
India. Kotak Mahindra Bank, Seethammadhara Branch, Visakhapatnam. 530013.
Contact for Bank Details – stanley111@gmail.com |
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19. |
Board and Society Members as on 2021 |
1.Prof.Dr.K.C. Malhotra –
Chairman, 2. Mr. M. Rama Raju – Co-Chairman, 3. Dr. William Stanley –
Secretary cum Director, 4. Mr. Sushant Stanley – Treasurer, 5. Mrs. Christina
Aristotle – Executive Committee Member, 6.Mr. Siva Kumar – Member and 7.Mr.
Kishore Kumar Patnaik. |
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20. |
Founder and Patron |
Prof.
Dr.K. Rajaratnam - UELCI, CReNIEO, Chennai |
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21. |
Current area of Operation in
Orissa – 2021. |
S.No. |
Districts |
Blocks |
Villages |
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1. |
Koraput |
Semiliguda |
15 |
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Koraput |
Pottangi |
16 |
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Total Villages
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31 |
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22. |
Present Population covered 2021 |
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S. No |
Block |
Villages |
Families |
Population |
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1. |
Semiliguda |
15 |
1249 |
5161 |
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2. |
Pottangi |
16 |
695 |
2563 |
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Total |
31 |
1944 |
7724 |
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23. |
Other Disaster-Prone Areas |
1. Coastal Odisha, 2. Mahanadi
River Valley Basin, Odisha, 3. Nellore Coastal Area, Andhra Pradesh, 4.
Gujarat 5. Uttaranchal, 6. Coastal Tamil Nadu. |
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24. |
Covid Pandemic, Migrant Workers
Relief Areas |
1.Tamil Nadu, 2. Andhra Pradesh,
3. Telangana, 4. Karnataka, 5. Kerala, 6. Odisha, 7. Chattishgarh, 8.
Jharkhand. |
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25. |
Partners in Development as of 2021 |
1. The People, 2 State Government
Departments. 3. DST, Central Government of India, 4. Lutheran World
Federation, Geneva, 5. EED, Germany, 6.NMZ, Germany, 7. Church of Sweden Aid,
Sweden, 8. Stromme Foundation, Norway, 9. Norwegian
Church Aid, Norway, 10. SOMNEED, Japan, 11. ACT, Geneva, 12. UNDP, New Delhi,
13. WFP, Bhubaneswar |
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26. |
Partners in 2021 |
Proposal Submitted to ZMOe, Goonj. |
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27. |
Staff |
Total Number of Volunteers and
Staff: 10 |
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28. |
Ideology, Vision, Mission, |
Ideology:
“To
help people help themselves” Vision: Sustain
humanitarian and communitarian values of respect for each other, dignity,
harmonious living with nature, work together for a self-reliant community,
continue to work collectively, to attain self-sufficiency and just, gender
equal, sustainable and ecologically sound civil society. Mission:
Facilitate
the process of empowerment of the poor, especially among the indigenous
communities (Adivasis, Dalits, Fisher-folk, the Marginalized and the victims
of disaster and dominant development) in India, with a view to their
achieving self-governance with ownership of the development process,
influence all policies and programmes of the state, national and
international organizations affecting these communities, directly and
indirectly. Realize the human, socio-cultural and political rights with
ecological and economic balance, gender and social justice, equality of life,
with an emphasis on people-centred sustainable
development in a given timeframe of 10 to 30 years. |
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Main
objects of the Organisation as spelled out in byelaws: 1.Community
Development Education of the weaker sections to create in them an awareness
for Social Health and economic development through a process of Community
Organisation. 2.
Educate them on Health, Sanitation and Nutrition. 3.
Training them in skills for self-employment. 4.
To remove the elements of backwardness of the people and increase their
productivity of the available resources through practical programmes. 5.
To undertake Children focused development activities. 6.
To address issues related to human rights, communal harmony and societal
peace. 7.
To promote decentralised energy options of
renewable energy sources like – wind, solar, hydro and other relevant energy
activities. 8.
To undertake relief measures, rehabilitation and resettlement of natural
disaster victims and victims of people made disasters. 9.
To undertake climate change related activities like mitigation, adaptation
and clean development mechanism projects. 10.
To work towards issued based documentation, lobbying, advocacy, networking,
and alliance building. 11.
To carry on activities and
programme incidental to the above-mentioned objects of the Association. Core
Values: Participation,
democracy, transparency, gender equality, peace, social, economic and
ecological justice and sustainable development. Strategy:
“Empowerment
of the individual and the whole community” Methodology: To help people discover their own
village, accompany the people in their journey towards development; imbibe
the elements and values of critical consciousness, involve people in
recollecting the past, understanding the present and focusing on the future,
and to get people to envision and empower themselves through a systematic
plan of action for a better future. |
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People’s Vision: “Every child should go to school and everyone in the village to be
literate. Safe drinking water, a kitchen garden, good health and immunise
children against diseases. None in the village will borrow loan unnecessarily
or mortgage lands. Everyone shall pay and receive fair wages. Sustain
humanitarian and communitarian values of respect for each other, dignity and
harmonious living. Work together for a self-reliant community. Control or
regulate consumption of alcohol. Save money for the future, grow trees and
protect forests, weigh produce before selling and become active members in
the organisation of people’s development. Utilise Government programmes that
will enable change for betterment for the people. Begin to work collectively,
co-operatively to attain self-sufficiency and a just sustainable and
ecologically sound development village society.” |
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Objectives
· To sustain the efforts of
Integrated Rural Development Activities, strengthen the political process and involvement of leadership both
women and men and communities to meaningfully participate in the grass-root
democratic institutions within the given framework of Parliamentary Democracy
· To identify geo- specific
bio-diversity regions and ecologically degraded areas and to develop local
eco-system- including plantation, forest rights of the indigenous
communities, soil conservation, and water shed activities thereby restoring
community rights in control, ownership and management of these natural
resources in a sustainable way towards secured livelihood · To promote demonstrative
de-centralized multiple energy options using solar, wind and water resources
in specific locations of Eastern Ghats Orissa and Andhra Pradesh Hill Borders
where indigenous people live) as people cantered development alternatives. · To Strengthen the already
initiated empowerment processes of ensuring entitlements of all social
protection schemes and promote a space for weaker sections communities to
ventilate their concern towards sustainable livelihood. · To document specific success and
failure stories and disseminate the experiential learning to Community Based
organisations, Secular and Ecumenical Civil Society Organisations. Strategic
Objectives ·
Strengthening
the People’s Institutions – Children Organisations, People’s Organisations,
Women Organisations, Networks, Panchayati Raj Institutions ·
To
work on Children issues and on People with Disability ·
To
address the issue of gender discrimination and work towards gender justice ·
To
work against all forms of discrimination ·
To
promote, enable and address issues related to energy, environment,
sustainable livelihood and sustainable development practices ·
To
support communities to build community managed credit and market mechanism ·
To
initiate activities addressing community-based calamity preparedness ·
To
initiate and engage meaningfully towards sustainable development Main sectors of intervention ·
Empowerment
of Weaker Section ·
Capacity Building Activities ·
Women's
Empowerment ·
Environment
Activities ·
Rural
Skills and Technology ·
Leadership
Training ·
Decentralised Energy Options ·
Community
Health ·
Disaster
Preparedness, Response, Relief, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Clientele: 1.Dalits,
Adivasis, Fisher Folk and Backward communities. 2.Bonded
& Landless Laborers, Marginal & Small, Farmers, Rural Artisans,
Migrant Workers, LGBTQ, PWD. 3.Women and Children, Rural
& Urban and Slum Poor, Victims of Disasters Strength’s
skills, competence, capacities etc. to carry out projects: Community
Development, Women's Programme, Environment programme, Rural Skills and
Technology, Leadership Training and Community Health and Community Based Disaster
Preparedness. 1. DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION SINCE 1981 (Odisha) Villages
covered : 300 People
covered : 70,000 Adivasi and Dalits People’s
Organizations : 290 villages Women’s
Groups : 289 villages Savings
Introduced : 275 villages Community
– Cash / Grain / Seed fund : 203 villages Government
Land for Landless : 683 families Land
for Women : 4502 acres in 58 villages Labour
Cards Mobilized : 6099 persons in 275 villages Ration
Cards Mobilized : 10749 families in 289 villages Government
Housing :
75 villages covering 688
families Children
Enrolled in Schools : 4030 children Education
Assistance : 146 high school students Patients
Treated : 1,23,981 patients Kitchen
Garden Introduced : 15,059 families Forest
Protection : 129 villages FRA
Families covered : 2646 Families FRA
Lands received – acres : 3140 acres FRA
Villages Covered : 68 villages Income
Generation Activities : 3,975 persons Skills
and Technology Training : 2034 youth Check
Dam for irrigation : 29 villages Link
Roads :
41 villages Drivers
Trained : 944 youths Computer
Training : 192 youths Housing
Construction : 797 families Mini
Hydro Projects :
4 villages covering 300
families Solar
– 2 kW : 2 villages, 65 families Bridge
Course Camps Boys and Girls : 2 camps, 1231 students Motivational
Education Centre : 27 villages, 2331 students Higher
Education :
175 students Bare-foot
Engineers : 46 people from 16 villages Bare-foot
Journalist : 33 persons Aquaculture
: 21 People from 6 villages Deomali Women Federation : 180 groups, 120 village, 4095 Women Loko
Unnyan Sangh (People’s Network) : 8 CBOs PRI
Training : 793 leaders Adivasi
Mela – 7 times : 2451 persons in 220 villages Adivasi
Samvaad – 2 : 200 People Cultural
Groups trained : 472 people Sustainable
Agricultural Farmers Trained : 1978 farmers Sustainable
Agriculture Assistance : 8200 farmers Nursery
raising : 3,33,300 – plants People
With Disability follow-up : 800 people Low
Carbon farming support : 2378 farmers Low Carbon farming – acres
covered : 5918
acres Low Carbon farming Villages : 53 villages Fuel Efficient Wood Stoves : 10 Villages, Families -200 International Visitors : 2350 2. EMERGENCY INTERVENTION SINCE 1988 (India) Odisha
Drought 1988 : 3200 families, 40 villages Odisha
Cyclone 1999 : 5917 families, 108 villages Gujarat
Quake 2001 : 6450 families, 41 villages Odisha
Floods 2001 : 11490 families, 175 villages Odisha
Floods 2002 : 4214 families, 96 villages Gujarat
Riots 2002 : 1223 families, 7 villages Andhra
Floods 2002 : 619 families, 45 villages Odisha
Drought 2002 : 1742 families, 27 villages Odisha
Floods 2003 : 1307 families, 60 villages Tamilnadu – Andhra Tsunami 2005 : 20528
families, 114 villages Andhra
Floods 2005 : 1400 families, 12 villages Sri
Lankan Tamil Refugees 2006 : 1400 families, 1 camp Andhra
– Odisha Floods 2006 : 3310 families, 37 villages Cholera
outbreak Kashipur 2007 : 24000 Patients Bihar
Floods 2008 : 1000 families, 30 villages Uttarkhand Floods 2013 : 500 families, 10 villages Odisha
Phailin Floods 2013 : 1400 families, 12 villages Chennai
Floods 2015 : 84000 People in 143 Locations Total
Emergency intervention : 992 villages covered 1.16 million Human days created
through food for work and food and non-food assistance, shelter rebuilding,
psychosocial accompaniment, health care and livelihood support for 63010
families. |
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32. |
Publications,
Policy and Study: A personal glimpse on Adivasis in
1980 A vision and a Hope of the
Downtrodden - 1981 Putsil Way Bridge Course – Education – Child
out of Labour Natural Resource Management Sustainable Livelihoods Study Land Alienation Study Decentralized Energy Options Posters on Climate Change,
Mini-hydro and awareness building Bio-diversity Register – Khond Pungar Coastal Communities Knowledge systems Children Policy Finance Policy Gender Policy Agriculture Policy Emergency Policy Low Carbon Paper Shifting Cultivation Book on Khond Pungar
Biodiversity Science and Technology a tool for
Empowerment Indian Context and Globalisation Impact Eco-Debt Study ODAF Criteria Minor Port Study On Leadership On Communication Displacement Study and Paper Development Paper Ecological Debt Study (WCC) Reflection on India updated in
2014 IRDWSI Profile updated in 2014 SHG Concept Note People’s Struggles – Advocacy
Initiative Land Does not belong to us, we
belong to the Land (WCC-Echo) Displacement Issues – EPW. On Odisha Empowerment of Women Traditional Medicine On Communal Violence 2008 Life Giving Agriculture Paper of Development or
Destruction to World Bank Dectralised Energy Options – Mini
hydro a Brochure Indian Development Scenario Natural Resource Management by
Women IRDWSI Resource Mobilisation
Efforts Aspects for further strengthening for more effective
work Marketing, Local fund raising, Alternative
technology, Professional Consultancy and Decentralised Energy Programmes. |