COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT PROJECTS

In order to foster community involvement in the Family Welfare Programme, two new schemes have been started on pilot basis. Under one of these, one revenue village in every district, among villages with a population of 500 or more, will be given an award of Rs.2 lakhs for achieving lowering of the Crude Birth Rate, Infant Mortality Rate and Child Mortality Rate. The second scheme aims to integrate family welfare and health care into the ongoing National Watershed Development Project for Rain fed Areas(NWDPRA) of the Ministry of Agriculture. Under this Scheme, the watershed level community based management structures, known as the 'Mitra Krishak Mandal(MKM) will conduct surveys and prepare watershed level family welfare and health care plans. An amount of Rs.5000/- will be given to each village in the watershed, for specified activities.