Environmental Sustainability

Number of lives impacted: 36,298

In the era of economic development and growing human populations, natural spaces are increasingly shrinking and the environmental damage is often overlooked. NPCI believes in sustainable development and conservation and protection of India’s rich and unique bio-diversity in order to create harmony with flora, fauna and communities who share space with them. These communities are mostly from economically backward backgrounds and are dependent on forests for their sustenance.

Under this focus area, NPCI aims to:

Build capacities of communities and of critical stakeholders in protecting India’s rich bio-diversity.
Ensuring sustainable and efficient Natural Resource Management integral to the wellbeing of India’s bio-diversity and neighboring communities.
Create mitigation parameters for pressing environmental challenges.
Ensure sustainable livelihood opportunities in landscapes where people share area with wildlife in order to reduce their dependency over forests and reduce Human-Wildlife conflict.

Presence

Programs

Building Climate Resilient Community for Securing Livelihood , SRIJAN

Project Summary

NPCI in partnership with SRIJAN is implementing project across 30 villages of Chattarpur, Madhya Pradesh. The project focuses on building secured livelihood and income enhancement of the farmers by creating sustainable socio-economic initiatives to enhance livelihood opportunities for the marginalized and seeks to empower them.

The project focuses on five circle livelihood cluster model of a) community institution with management capacity is at the centre b) credit linkages with financial institution c) soil health, water access, climate action d) appropriate technology e) value chains.

The holistic approach is to improve livelihoods of rural community based on working with community collectives, institutions of local self-governance working towards capacity development on thematic and institutional capacities enhancing accountability with shared roles and responsibilities and creating synergies for vertical growth by engaging multiple stakeholders for a convergent planned intervention.

Project Outreach:

4000 farmers and indirectly 1000 farmers to be covered

Project Location

Chattarpur, Madhya Pradesh

Completed Projects

Human wildlife coexistence in CIL,BNHS

Project Summary

NPCI in partnership with BNHS implemented project on Human Wildlife Coexistence in Central India Landscape (CIL). The project focused on reducing Human-Wildlife conflict through awareness and sensitization of local communities at the village level by involving village heads and forest department as well as reaching out to school students.

Project Outreach:

18,845

Project Location

Chandrapur, districts of Maharashtra.

Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP), The Corbett Foundation

Project Summary

NPCI in partnership with The Corbett Foundation has implemented Integrated Rural Development Project in 15 villages of Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra. The area lacked basic livelihood opportunities due to small and marginal land-holdings for agriculture. The human-wildlife conflict was prevalent in these villages. The basic amenities such as drinking water, sanitation were in poor condition. Educational institutions need to be supported in terms of infrastructure and initiative needs to be taken to improve learning level of children.

The project worked towards overall wellbeing of the community through intervention ranging from Livelihood Generation, Natural Resource Management, Education, Sanitation, Health and Community Institutions for period of 2 years.

Project Outreach:

13,453

Project Location

Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra.

Gallery

Human wildlife coexistence - Bombay Natural History Society

Awarness Camps
for school

Workshop for Forest department officials

Integrated Rural Development Program - The Corbett Foundation.

Awarness Generation Activity at school

Masala Making Self
Help Group

Vermicompost
Unit

Videos

Field stories

Vermicompost- Self sufficiency and Sustainability - The Corbett Foundation

Hanumant Sawant, a resident of Ovaliye village in district Sindhudurg, Maharashtra is an enthusiastic farmer, He is part of The Corbett Foundation (TCF) & National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI)’s Integrated Rural Development Project (IRDP) in the area of Amboli. He willingly undertook the vermicomposting as part of the livelihood component of IRDP.

Sawant completed the training arranged by TCF and learned the know-hows of the establishing, managing and running a vermi compost unit. He got his vermi compost unit set up in his premises. By meticulously following his learnings from the training, Sawant successfully produced his first lot of vermicompost within 45 days of setting up the unit, which was a quantity of whopping 100 kg!

Hanumant Sawant had taken the training in December 2021, and since then in the past 9 months he has been regularly producing vermi compost; each time around 100 kg. So far, Sawant has produced at least 420 kg of vermi compost. The market rate for vermicompost is Rs. 15 per kg. Thus, Sawant has produced vermicompost worth Rs. 6,300/-

However, instead of selling vermicompost Sawant has been using it in his own orchard for 300 cashew trees, 28 coconut palms and 50 mango trees. Interestingly, Sawant did not need to buy any fertilizer or pesticide from the market for these trees. Thus, with the vermicompost set up he managed to reduce his production cost and at the same time took a step towards avoiding the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides for considerably large number of trees in his orchard.

Hanumant Sawant