Collector Nikhil Pavan Kalyan launched the Baseline Survey and Micro Planning Project for the six mining affected blocks of Sundargarh district.
The District Mineral Foundation (DMF) Sundargarh has been supporting the participatory micro plan and the baseline survey, which will be conducted in 185 villages in 29 Gram Panchayats under 6 blocks such as Hamgir, Koida, Lahunipada, Rajgangpur, Kuarmunda and Kutra).
The Youth for Social Development (YSD) has been designing the technical tools and implementing the survey and micro planning along with two other NGOs i.e. Sarda and Niyatee Foundation.
This is the first ever participatory micro planning and baseline survey in any DMF district in the country. More than 40,000 households affected in the mining areas will be surveyed through a mobile application and micro plan will be prepared with the participation of the people.
The micro plan prepared by the people will be presented in the gram sabha and approved by the people in the mining affected gram panchayats. This is the bottom-up planning approach to understand the people’s needs and include such considerations in the DMF plan based on the provisions of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act (MMDR), 1957, as amended in 2015, and the Odisha DMF Rules, 2015 (as amended in February 2016).