Sankalp has been working relentlessly amongst the Sahariya community to fulfil their social and economic needs for the last three decades. Sankalp strived to mitigate the varied inequalities suffered by the Sahariya community through its various interventions in the following domains.
Sankalp has engaged with the Sahariya community through its multiple interventions and programs for their health and nutrition. The Sahariya community has been residing in the remote forested track of the Baran district for ages. The region is isolated from any urban centre of Rajasthan, and access to government public service is meagre at best. The acute drought in 2002 in the Baran district resulted in starvation and hunger deaths in the Sahariya community. Many people died within a short period in the interior forest of Shahbad Block. To combat this, Sankalp mobilised its resources to campaign for the food rights of the Sahariya community.
Services to be offered by the SANKALP Facilitation Center under telemedicine
(a) e-SanjivaneeOPD Of Government of India. This is based on the eSanjeevani model and offers OPD consultation services to people in the comfort of their homes. This was launched during the COVID pandemic in April 2020. Here, doctor to patient teleconsultation is offered free of cost to the patients.
(b) The panel of government and private Registered Medical Practitioners (RMP)
(c) Through online mobile APPs such as Apollo, Practo, Tata1mg etc.
With the help of the Social Work and Research Center (SWRC), Tilonia, Ajmer, Sankalp helped educate sahariya girls in installing solar lightning in many villages of Baran district. The team of women went on to become a phenomenon, famously called barefoot solar engineers.
Sankalp has successfully provided opportunities for the Sahariya community in sustainable livelihood. We have fought for the traditional forest rights of the Sahariyas and helped them get a better price for forest produce. In addition, women were given employment in the gradation of minor forest produce. In 2004-2005, a PTG Training Center was established for skill/technical training with financial assistance from Social Work and Research Center, Tilonia. Under this initiative, Sankalp established a computer centre, welding workshop, solar workshop, flour mill, and a small communication centre in the village Mamoni of Baran district. A dormitory with two halls and three rooms was also constructed for trainees. By this residential training, Sankalp trained 200 tribal youth from village Mamoni.
Sankalp, with financial support from the Council for Advancement of people and rural technology (CAPART) and Department of Rural Development, Government of India, constructed 100 pucca houses for Sahariya families in five villages of Baran district. Similarly, Sankalp installed handpumps in drought-prone areas of the Baran district.
This project was initiated by the Forest Department of Govt. of Rajasthan with the active support and experience of Sankalp society. Essentially, this was a project to regenerate badly degraded forests with the full involvement of the Sahariya community of Baran district. Sankalp marked many forest enclosure sites in the forest, and Sankalp gave their protection and maintenance to the Committee of the Sahariya people. Funds were utilised from the District Poverty Initiative Project (funded by World Bank) to provide regular employment to Sahariya for boundary wall construction, soil management and water conservation work.
With the help of the Social Work and Research Center (SWRC), Tilonia, Ajmer, Sankalp helped educate sahariya girls in installing solar lightning in many villages of Baran district. The team of women went on to become a phenomenon, famously called barefoot solar engineers.
Sankalp has successfully provided opportunities for the Sahariya community in sustainable livelihood. We have fought for the traditional forest rights of the Sahariyas and helped them get a better price for forest produce. In addition, women were given employment in the gradation of minor forest produce. In 2004-2005, a PTG Training Center was established for skill/technical training with financial assistance from Social Work and Research Center, Tilonia. Under this initiative, Sankalp established a computer centre, welding workshop, solar workshop, flour mill, and a small communication centre in the village Mamoni of Baran district. A dormitory with two halls and three rooms was also constructed for trainees. By this residential training, Sankalp trained 200 tribal youth from village Mamoni.
Sankalp, with financial support from the Council for Advancement of people and rural technology (CAPART) and Department of Rural Development, Government of India, constructed 100 pucca houses for Sahariya families in five villages of Baran district. Similarly, Sankalp installed handpumps in drought-prone areas of the Baran district.
This project was initiated by the Forest Department of Govt. of Rajasthan with the active support and experience of Sankalp society. Essentially, this was a project to regenerate badly degraded forests with the full involvement of the Sahariya community of Baran district. Sankalp marked many forest enclosure sites in the forest, and Sankalp gave their protection and maintenance to the Committee of the Sahariya people. Funds were utilised from the District Poverty Initiative Project (funded by World Bank) to provide regular employment to Sahariya for boundary wall construction, soil management and water conservation work.
One of the core strategies of Sankalp is to create a financially aware and empowered network of Sahariya community members. The organisation is committed to undertaking a massive financial, educational campaign to help people manage money more effectively and achieve economic well-being. So far, Sankalp has worked in the following:
Sankalp Society Sankalp provided infrastructural support viz. computer, printer, space, and electricity and also help him avail of credit facilities with the local SBI Branch and a new SBI sponsored Banking Correspondent was opened on 5 June 2021 as a pilot project basis within the premises of Sankalp Campus in Momani. SBI Banking Correspondent will ensure access to appropriate financial products without being cheated by unscrupulous CSPs.
Bank Mitra has helped Sahariya women access banking services near the villages. Just in a few months, a sizable number of Sahariya community members have opened their savings accounts and also recurring deposit accounts. with some level of savings in them.
It is proposed to select at least 10 such CSP points in suitable tribal villages to help tribal people to avail of banking facilities at the nearest point to their villages.
For the second year running, Rajasthan has registered the highest number of rape and attempt to rape cases, as per data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for 2020. There are many atrocities against Scheduled Tribes women that go unregistered in police records of the state. For the last three decades, Sankalp has been working on preventing multiple forms of violence against Sahariya women in the Baran district of Rajasthan. Sankalp has worked with 6000+ Sahariya women and girls across 25 Shahbad and Kishanganj block villages. We have a team of dedicated social activists working with the Sahariya women. Sankalp will work on various themes associated with equity and women emancipation in the coming years.
In Sankalp’s experience working with the community for three decades, most community members, specifically women, are unaware of conducting banking activities such as opening accounts, filling up forms, depositing receipts applying for loans. Sankalp is organising a financial literacy class for women and youth of the Sahariya community within its campus in Momani. In future projects, comprehensive financial training modules will be created by Sankalp for 30 villages Shahbad and Kishanganj block of Baran District.
For the second year running, Rajasthan has registered the highest number of rape and attempt to rape cases, as per data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for 2020. There are many atrocities against Scheduled Tribes women that go unregistered in police records of the state. For the last three decades, Sankalp has been working on preventing multiple forms of violence against Sahariya women in the Baran district of Rajasthan. Sankalp has worked with 6000+ Sahariya women and girls across 25 Shahbad and Kishanganj block villages. We have a team of dedicated social activists working with the Sahariya women. Sankalp will work on various themes associated with equity and women emancipation in the coming years.
In Sankalp’s experience working with the community for three decades, most community members, specifically women, are unaware of conducting banking activities such as opening accounts, filling up forms, depositing receipts applying for loans. Sankalp is organising a financial literacy class for women and youth of the Sahariya community within its campus in Momani. In future projects, comprehensive financial training modules will be created by Sankalp for 30 villages Shahbad and Kishanganj block of Baran District.
