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HARVESTING DIVERTED WATER - An Innovative Idea and Inspiration For Others.

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A success story written at Sinising located in Odisha(India) by farmers and a voluntary organisation named as Institute of Social Action and Research Activities(ISARA).  Now a days, people of this tiny village are happy a lot because even as the scare of drought looms large over several parts of the State, people are still able to irrigate their land. This is made possible only by using water from the continually recurring streams originating from the hill adjacent to the small village.
A farmer in Odhisa working in his fields

All of  this started around three years ago probably in 2012 when Institute of Social Action and
Research Activities(ISARA) with help and support from Mennonite Central Committee, started the diversion-based irrigation system(DBIS) on their(residents of village) land. In this system, water originating from perennial (continually recurring) hill stream is brought to their land. Earlier, water from the perennial streams was going waste by flowing in other directions and sinking.
Tribal families only used to grow maize and ragi for decades and were totally dependent upon rainfall (like most of the farmers in India) .But now with the DBIS, people has not been able to grow different crops in fields, they has also added more cultivable area by levelling the land that was lying unused on the hill slopes. Additions also include cultivation of paddy, groundnut, turmeric, sweet potato, brinjal, beans, cauliflower and many others.
Now lives of tribal families have changed for better. They are now able to grow crops throughout the year and also selling their excess produce. The smile of their faces tell a story of success and achievement because they contributed the labour for the construction of the tank at the hill were water from the stream is collected and laying the pipelines that brings water to their village.
And as the smell of their success spread, a hamlet with 40 tribal families known as Anagha located a few kilometres away also established and started using DBIS. Several other villages using DBIS are Kharipada, Munigadhia, Dambadiha, Patrabasa and Abarsing and all are situated in R. Udayagiri block. Similar structures have been put up and hundreds of acres are being irrigated with the water from perennial streams. Rabindranath Patra of ISARA and members of his team have identified more villages in the area to replicate DBIS.
But the same way could be replicated in a big way if the State Government takes note of the venture to ensure that the tribals take to multi-crop farming instead of migrating to far off places to work as daily wage labourers. And the same can be said about Central Government (as migration happen all over India which has certainly increase crime rate in big cities like The Capital city or Metro ones  )  where there is a chance of using this system.
 All of the success stories are driven by hard work. It was the dedication of ISARA’s members towards society and their people and hard work of tribal families as it is not easy to construct water tank on hills as we know which help them. This story is an inspiration for all of us. We should not keep only ourselves first but our society and nation first which will help us all in spreading the humanity and peace .


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