The presentation is about the unique project done by Government of Maharashtra for poverty alleviation. This project is partnership between Government of Maharashtra and United Nations, the core objective of the project is to work on livelihoods and employment creation in 27 most backward blocks of Maharashtra. The aim of the project is work with the most distressed community like tribal people, people living near forest areas, rural youths and work on implementing sustainable development goals.

1. Action Room to
Reduce Poverty
Collaboration between Planning
Department (Government of
Maharashtra) and United Nations
India

2. Sankalp se Siddhi- a new India Movement
towards a “Poverty free India”
Action Room to Reduce Poverty is
conceptualised by Hon’ble Finance,
Planning and Forest Minister of
Maharashtra Shri Sudhir Mungantiwar
1.
To ensure that every citizen in the identified
vulnerable blocks benefits from the
livelihood opportunities and gains in
education and health.
2.

3. “Today, much of India’s development
agenda is mirrored in the Sustainable
Development Goals.”
- Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra
Modi
at the United Nations Summit for the adoption of
Post-2015 Development Agenda, 25 September 2016
‘Sab ka Saath, Sab ka Vikas’ aligned with
‘Sustainable Development Goals’

5. About SDGs ?
SDGs balance the 3 dimensions of
sustainable development: the Economic,
Social and Environmental
1.
SDGs are both Sectoral - water, energy, education,
etc. and Cross-sectoral - as they acknowledge the
linkages with other sectors
2.
SDGs are guided by the 3 principles-
• Integrated approach to sustainable development
• Leaving no one behind, reaching the furthest first
• Universality
3.

6. About SDGs ?
Action Room to Reduce Poverty is a
concrete and focused step to implement the
SDGs in Maharashtra
4.
Deploy State-wide SDGs monitoring framework
Adopt SDGs at the decentralized level in planning
and implementation of varied interventions

7. Maharashtra records high levels of disparity and
deprivation in developmental outcomes across and
Economic, Geographical and Social lines despite
being one of the prosperous states.
Why Action Room to Reduce Poverty?
GoM launched Human Development
Mission in 2006 to improve HDI in 25
backward blocks and extended it to 125
blocks across 23 districts in 2012.
1.
2
.

8. It is conceptualised to create people-centric,
sustainable and time-bound strategies to
enhance income, improve quality of life and
ensure dignity for all
What is Action Room to Reduce
Poverty?Building on the work under the Human Development
Mission, the Planning Department, Government of
Maharashtra decided to fast-track this through the
‘Action Room to Reduce Poverty’ in 27 high priority
talukas in collaboration with United Nations in India.
1.
2.

9. Focus Blocks of Action Room

10. Vision
Eradicate extreme poverty in the 125 blocks of Maharashtra
Improve entrepreneurship and provide employment
opportunities
Improve service delivery of health and education
Move towards evidence based policy
decision making

11. Thematic Focus
Health
&
Education

12. Decision Support System

13. Action Room Target
13
Districts
17830
44,49,155
1.34 crores
Villages
Households
Population
27
Talukas
3,508
8,69,630
41,13,514
Target to
be
achieved
675 (25
villages *
27 talukas)
13,500
Households
(500 HHs *
27 talukas)
67500

14. Strategy Plan
Two Staged
Approach
Short Term
• Phase 1: June 2018 – December 2018
• Phase 2: January 2019 – September
2018
Long Term
• 2018 - 2020

15. Short Term Strategy Plan Phase 1
Implement identified interventions
Conduct a Micro Planning Exercise for the 27 Talukas
Design a monitoring system for the Action
Room to Reduce Poverty and present it on a
Dashboard
Chandrapur and
Nandurbar
Tata Trust
Career
Guidance
Counselling
Centre
13 Districts
UNDP and
NASSCOM
Wool and
Carpet Cluster
Yavatmal
Wool and Research
Association India
Poultry Unit
Chandrapur
NSPDT
Agarbatti
Factory
Chandrapur
ITC
Community
Facility Centre
for Food
Technology
7-8 Districts
CFTRI
Samrudh
Kisan

16. Lakhpati Kisan/ Samruddh Kisan
• To promote sustainable livelihood enhancement of the rural and tribal communities of Maharashtra and
double their incomes
Objective
Scope
Partners
• CiNi, Tata Trust
Chandrap
ur
Nandurba
r
5 blocks
2 blocks
481village
s
61
villages
11685
HHs
10,000
HHs
Outreach
1
• Create vibrant agriculture clusters with prime focus on market linked
production through convergence of government programs
• Undertake layered intervention of irrigation development, high value
farming, dairy value chain, technology induction, productivity enhancement
of cereal crops and livestock development
• Create 5-10 model Agri-Smart villages (production clusters) in each blocks
with existing irrigation saturation: high value, micro-irrigation, hi-tech
nurseries, custom hiring centres, market access and transport
• Create sustainable community institutions which can take forward the
development tasks in partnership with government and other agencies

17. Hi tech poly nursery for vegetable
seedling production
Healthy soil less vegetable seedling production and sales
(Hi-Tech polyhouse)
Vegetable production through
Trellis (Mandap System)
New group under well construction Goat health camp

18. Small holder poultry project
• To establish business eco-system for growth of small-holder poultry
• To collectivize in to producer organization for economies of scale and maintain quality and competitiveness with timely
supply
Objective
• Launch 1,000 new producers including their training, creation of
production sheds and organising them in to 1 Poultry Producer
Company.
• Establish business viability of the producer’s collective and make
them self-reliant.
• Strengthen and establish the market linkages both input and output
markets including setting up a community owned input supply chain
by establishing an integrated feed plant, one hatchery and parent
farm, and a centralised marketing cell and brand promotion at latter
stage.
Scope
Partners
National Small-Holder Poultry Development Trust
2
Outreach
Chandrapu
r
3 blocks 36 villages 757
Beneficiaries

19. Pic. 1 – Backyard Poultry shade; Pic.2 – 1-2 days chick reared by women;
Pic. 3 & Pic. 4 - Cleaning & rearing of poultry birds

20. 3
Common facility center (CFC) for
food technology
• To boost agriculture based employment generation by focussing on agri-business and value chain development in order to
improve entrepreneurship and provide employment opportunities
Objective
• Building common facility centres with basic QA laboratory containing
food products prepared by the locals and SHGs and its packaging
necessities
• Provision of proper training, food testing and hand holding to the
existing groups
• Hand holding for production and continued training by trainers at CFCs.
• Providing technological support in establishing food processing CFC in
selected 13 districts.
Scope
Partners
CSIR-CFTRI
Outreach
7-8 Districts ~600
Beneficiaries

21. 4 Agarbatti factory unit
Objective
• To establish an all women (of marginalized communities) producer’s collective for livelihood enhancement through
agarbatti making business in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra.
Scope
• Promoting an integrated community-owned business enterprise
with necessary input and output linkages in the district
• Establishing modern raw agarbatti making and agarbatti scenting
and packaging machines along with other necessary company
infrastructure
• Launching 250 new producers including their training, creation of
production sheds and establishing business viability of the
producer’s collective and making them self-reliant.
Partners BRTC
Outreach
Chandrap
ur
Pombhurn
a
~200 HHs

22. 1. Raw Batti manufacturing unit; 2. Drying of raw battis
3. Scenting and Packaging unit ; 4. Warehouse and Storage

23. Extend the reach of ARRP to all the 13 districts.
Increase the scale of Phase I interventions.
Emphasize on health and education interventions in
Phase I talukas.
Implement the micro development plan identified
in the Phase I .
Short Term Strategy: Phase 2

24. Long term strategy
Align with the larger goals of Human Development Mission
• Improve HDI score and SDG achievement of the talukas
Achieve the national goal of Doubling farmers’ income
Converge with the activities under aspirational districts.
Implement evidence based policy.
Create success stories that are sustainable and
scalable.

25. Our Potential Partners
Implementation Partner
•District Administration
•MAVIM
•MSRLM
•Tata Trust
•Jaljeevika
•ITC
•NSPDT
Knowledge Partner
•UNDP
•UNICEF
•UNFPA
•WHO
•NASSCOM
•Wool and Research
Association, India
Technology Partner
•CFTRI
•Data Driven Governance, Tata
Trust
Academic Partner
•Tata Institute of Social
Sciences
•IIT Bombay

26. THANK YOU