Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Restore "orans" to their pristine, sustainable green environment; develop better management practices of the rural ecosystem; secure the rural livelihood of millions; preserve endemic/endangered species and variety of cultivars found within orans.

Project Message

Yadi hamara devbani thik to sab kuch hai; yadi yah thik nahi to chara, pani aur bhojan ke lale.” - “If our oran is intact we have everything; if not, we suffer from lack of fodder, water and wood.
- Bodan Gujjar, from Bera village, He is a 50 year old pastoralist beneficiary

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Aman Singh Singh,
Project Leader
KRAPAVIS, 5 / 218 Kala Kua
Aravali Vihar
Alwar, Rajasthan 301001
India
144 – 2344863
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public (nominal)

Organisation

Krishi Avam Paristhitiki Vikas Sansthan (KRAPAVIS) KRAPAVIS, 5 / 218 Kala Kua Aravali Vihar Alwar, Rajasthan 301001 India +91-144-2344863

Learn more about Krishi Avam Paristhitiki Vikas Sansthan (KRAPAVIS) and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Climate Change.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 24, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 31, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Documentation of 'Orans'

By Aman Singh - Project Leader, January 24, 2012 02:02 PM

Documenting Orans_KRAPAVIS staff among community

During the last three months, KRAPAVIS has documented 50 Orans in Jaipur District of Rajasthan (India). ‘Orans’ serve as a strong, shared and naturalised icon of village life.  As a communal and sanctified space, they are frequently utilized as forums for local affairs.  Matters pertaining to village politics, crops and livestock a well as the Oran itself may be discussed there, and punishments for offences relating to the Oran (e.g. encroachment, destructive extraction, and the like) are often enacted around the temple or shrine.  In the process of documentation, KRAPAVIS collected the basic information about the Orans through structured survey format; recorded GPS positions of each study Oran; took photographs of each surveyed site and drawn maps of each site, showing the location and important features on the boundary and within the site; recorded any encroachments, diversions, and allotments found through visual estimate or discussions with the local guide and communities; check vegetation status and state of grazing by visual estimate.

This process has had benefited the community, in the following manner;

• Community led documentation- their observation; opinion, semi-structured interviews; oral histories were sought on the issue, not only in meeting but discussing on-the-site, in their homes, probing and triangulation.
• Through this process they (community) become more informed on the vital issues of Orans.

'Orans' serve strong, shared icon of village life

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