1.

Name of the Organisation

The Integrated Rural Development of Weaker Sections in India (IRDWSI)

2.

Registered and Administrative Office

Registered Office: The IRDWSI, Prince Garden Apartments, 104, B, Block, 40, Thambusamy Road, Kilpauk, Chennai – 600010, Tamil Nadu.

Administrative Office:

Dr. William Stanley, Secretary cum Director,

502, Revathi Hills, B.S. Layout, Seethammadhara, Visakhapatnam, 530013, Andhra Pradesh. INDIA. Mobile: +91 9849120377

Field Office:

Mr. Prafullo Kumar Khora

IRDWSI Office (DID Centre Campus) Semiliguda – 764036

3.

Telephone – Landlines

Visakhapatnam, +91 891 – 2520128

Semiliguda, +91 6853-225028.

4.

E-Mail

irdwsiwida@gmail.com, stanley111@gmail.com

5.

Website

www.irdwsi.in

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.

11.

PAN Number and 12AA

AAATT0354N, IT File Number: 0027292017. Renewal - From AY 2022-23 to AY 2026 – 2027

12.

80G

C.No.1146-III (160)/86/80G. Date of Letter of Approval 12.11.2018. Donations Received by the Society from AY 2019-20 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. Renewal - From AY 2022-23 to AY 2026 - 2027

13.

FCRA Registration (Ministry of Home Affairs)

FCRA Number: 075900274 dated 25.02.1988, Renewed on October 2016, validity till 31.10.2021. FCRA renewed on 22 October 2022 validity till 31^st March 2028

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.

Main FCRA Bank Account Details for Foreign Funds

Only Foreign Funds - Name of the Account: The Integrated Rural Development of Weaker Sections in India. Account Number: 40068709453, IFSC Code: SBIN000691, Swift Code: SBININBB104, State Bank of India, NDMB, 11, Sansad Marg, New Delhi – 110001. Contact for Bank Details – stanley111@gmail.com

17.

Utilization FCRA Bank Account Details

Foreign Funds Utilisation Account - Name of the Account: The Integrated Rural Development of Weaker Sections in India. Account Number: 4511836110, IFSC Code: KKBK0007709, Swift Code: KKBKINBB, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Seethammadhara Branch, Visakhapatnam. 530013. Contact for Bank Details – stanley111@gmail.com

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. Account Number: 763010045527, RTGS/NEFT/IFSC Code: KKBK0007709, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Seethammadhara Branch, Visakhapatnam. 530013.

Contact for Bank Details – stanley111@gmail.com

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Board and Society Members as on 2023

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, Member.

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Founder and Patron

Prof. Dr. K. Rajaratnam - UELCI, DSA, CReNIEO, IRDWSI, Chennai

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Current area of Operation in Odisha – 2021.

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Districts

Blocks

Villages

1.

Koraput

Semiliguda

15

Koraput

Pottangi

16

Total Villages

31

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Present Population covered 2021

S. No

Block

Villages

Families

Population

1.

Semiliguda

15

1249

5161

2.

Pottangi

16

695

2563

Total

31

1944

7724

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Disaster Response and Relief Activities Areas

1. Coastal Odisha, 2. Mahanadi River Valley Basin, Odisha, 3. Nellore, Coastal Area of Andhra Pradesh, 4. Gujarat 5. Uttarakhand, 6. Coastal Tamil Nadu. 7. Mizoram.

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Covid Pandemic, Migrant Workers Relief Areas

1.Tamil Nadu, Kerala, 2. Andhra Pradesh, 3. Telangana, 4. Karnataka, 5. Kerala,

6. Odisha, 7. Chattishgarh, 8. Madhaya Pradesh, 8. Jharkhand, 9. Uttar Pradesh, 10. Assam, 11. Bihar, 12. Maharashtra, 13. West Bengal and Delhi.

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Partners in Development 1981 to 2015

1. The People, 2. Lutheran World Federation, Geneva, 3. EED, Germany, 4.NMZ/ZMOe, Germany, 5. Church of Sweden Aid, Sweden, 6. Stromme Foundation, Norway, 7. Norwegian Church Aid, Norway, 8. SOMNEED, Japan, 9. ACT, Geneva, 10. Kinder not Hilfe (KNH), Germany, 11. NCCI, 12. WCC, Geneva

25.b.

Partners from Government

1. Department & Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India, 2. Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, 3. UNDP, New Delhi, 4. State Departments, Government of Odisha, 5. Bonda Development Agency, Odisha, 6. ITDA, Koraput, Odisha, 7. DRDA, Koraput, Odisha, 8. Swatch Bharat – RWSS, Koraput. 9. Odisha Livelihood Mission, Koraput, 10. Block Development Office, Semiliguda, 11. World Food Programme, Odisha, 12. IGRMS and 13. IIFM, Bhopal.

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Partners in 2023

To connect with new Partnership

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Current Human Resources

Total Number of Volunteers: 10

Total Number of Staff: Full time - 2 and Part Time Staff - 3

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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 rights with ecological and economic balance, gender and social justice, equality of life, with an emphasis on people-centered 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

·         Capacity building activities of youth and other leaders towards people’s centered development

·         To facilitate access to social protections schemes from government

·         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, natural resources – land, water and forests, sustainable livelihood, and sustainable development practices.

·         To make people aware on Forest Rights Act and apply for Individual Forest Rights and Community Forest Rights

·         To support communities to build community managed credit and market mechanism

·         To initiate and engage meaningfully towards sustainable development – promote life giving agriculture and seed banks.

·         To initiate activities addressing community-based calamity preparedness – Climate crisis and Preparedness – build resilient communities

·         To promote peace and communal harmony and build peace centers

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, Andhra Pradesh, and Mizoram)

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                                             :           4,502 acres in 58 villages

Labour Cards Mobilized                                  :           6,099 persons in 275 villages

Ration Cards Mobilized                                   :           10,749 families in 289 villages

Government Housing                                       :           75 villages covering 688 families

Children Enrolled in Schools                           :           4,030 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                       :           2,034 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                                    :           2,451 persons in 220 villages

Adivasi Samvaad – 2                                       :           200 People

Cultural Groups trained                                   :           472 people Sustainable Agricultural Farmers Trained        :           1,978 farmers Sustainable Agriculture Assistance                  :           8,200 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                          :           3,200 families, 40 villages

Odisha Cyclone 1999                          :           5,917 families, 108 villages

Gujarat Quake 2001                            :           6,450 families, 41 villages

Odisha Floods 2001                             :           11,490 families, 175 villages

Odisha Floods 2002                             :           4,214 families, 96 villages

Gujarat Riots 2002                               :           1,223 families, 7 villages

Andhra Floods 2002                            :           619 families, 45 villages

Odisha Drought 2002                          :           1,742 families, 27 villages

Odisha Floods 2003                             :           1,307 families, 60 villages Tamilnadu – Andhra Tsunami 2005    :           20,528 families, 114 villages Andhra Floods 2005                :           1400 families, 12 villages Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees 2006         :           1,400 families, 1 camp Andhra – Odisha Floods 2006             :           3,310 families, 37 villages Cholera outbreak Kashipur 2007         :           24,000 Patients

Bihar Floods 2008                               :           1000 families, 30 villages

Uttarkhand Floods 2013                      :           500 families, 10 villages

Odisha Phailin Floods 2013                 :           1,400 families, 12 villages

Chennai Floods 2015                           :           84,000 People in 143 Locations

Covid Relief 2020-2021-2022             :           2,00,000 people in different States (Separate)

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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Publications, Policy, and Study:

-          A personal glimpse on Adivasis in 1980

-          A vision and a Hope of the Downtrodden – 1981

-          Putsil Way - 2004

-          Bridge Course – Education – Child out of Labour

-          Natural Dyes Research Book - 2001

-          Natural Resource Management

-          Sustainable Secured 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

-          IRDWSI Profile updated

-          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

-          Decentralised Energy Options – Mini hydro a Brochure

-          KNH Partners Publication 2016

-          Indian Development Scenario

-          Natural Resource Management by Women

-          IRDWSI Resource Mobilisation Efforts

-          4IR and AI Impact on Society

-          Manipur Violence

-          Conflicts and Peace Building

Aspects for further strengthening for more effective work.

Marketing, Local fund raising, Alternative technologies, Professional Consultancy and Decentralised Energy Programmes, Climate Emergency and Preparedness, Post Covid Approach, Youth Leadership, Peace Building and Communal Harmony, Strengthening PRIs

Facilitate Implementation Social Protection Schemes of Governments, Facilitation of FRA and Demonstration of Life-Giving Agriculture Farm related activities, promotion of seed banks and Farmers Collectives

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Covid Relief Data: 2020, 2021 and 2022 Number of Migrants living in different states

Assam Migrants in Tamil Nadu

West Bengal Migrants in Tamil Nadu

Total

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