Tribal project takes Andhra Pradesh one step higher
Feb 27, 2007 - 4:23:20 PM
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STEP, also supported by the European Union, has served 235,000 people from the marginalized sections of the society across 6,000 habitations and 778 village panchayats. Among its achievements, the project has pushed the enrolment ratio in schools from 80 percent in 2001 to 95 percent in 2006 and the drop out rate has plummeted from 70 percent to 40 percent.
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By IANS,
[RxPG] New Delhi, Feb 27 - Aiming to achieve sustainable livelihoods for tribal people in northern Andhra Pradesh, a multi-sectoral project has raised the enrolment ratio in schools among the state's tribal children, besides empowering the women folk.
The report of CARE's Sustainable Tribal Empowerment Project - was released here Tuesday.
CARE and its partner non-government organisations - like Nature, has been running the STEP project in conjunction with the Department of Tribal Development of Andhra Pradesh in four of its districts- East Godavari, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam and Vizianagaram- since November 2001.
The seven-year-old project, called Social Mobilisation, Empowerment and Capabilities: Enhancing Development Outcomes, is aimed at bridging the gap between India's economic growth and human development and empowerment.
'STEP aims at helping the individual and the community to access facilities and rights which are provided for it under the administrative and public development system. So this would include demanding schools for the community's children from the education bureaucracy to accessing bank loans for setting up small businesses through the mechanism of self help groups,' said Basant Mohanty, project director of STEP.
STEP, also supported by the European Union, has served 235,000 people from the marginalized sections of the society across 6,000 habitations and 778 village panchayats. Among its achievements, the project has pushed the enrolment ratio in schools from 80 percent in 2001 to 95 percent in 2006 and the drop out rate has plummeted from 70 percent to 40 percent.
Welcoming the initiative, S.Y. Quraishi, member of the election commission of India, said that the project is a valuable contribution to the study of political, economic and social empowerment. Francisco da Camara Gomes, Ambassador of the European Union for India, Bhutan and Nepal, was also present on the occasion.
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