Strengths

  • Fertile agricultural land
  • Suitable climate for the production of variety of agricultural and horticultural products
  • Availability of labour force
  • Ensured scope in goatery
  • Sufficient availability of ponds and reservoirs for aquaculture
  • Vast availability of natural and forest resources
  • Literacy level is higher in case of male and females as compared to state average
  • Most of the villages have schools
  • Community based Institutions are formed and strengthened the traditional village committees, youth clubs, women SHGs
  • Higher women literacy rate as compared to state and India’s avaerage
  • Significant share in the total workforce
  • Increasing participation in PRIs

Weaknesses

  • Poor and inadequate irrigation facilities
  • Rainfed agriculture
  • Pest infestation
  • Poor marketing and inadequate storage facilities
  • Lift and minor irrigation schemes are not working properly
  • Depletion of ground water level
  • Poor facilities for the marketing of milk discourages people to adopt dairy farming
  • Depletion of grazing lands
  • Outsourcing of fingerlings leads to poor quality of fingerlings
  • Only 27.5 percent of the cattle population is breedable
  • Poor basic facilities for people residing in forest and sanctuary area
  • No legal rights are given to dwellers for the collection of NTFP and MFP
  • Insufficient tenurial rights in community forestry
  • Compensatory forest plantation has not been adequately taken up
  • Most of the schools buildings do not have proper infrastructure and boundary walls
  • Scarcity of teachers and other staff in the schools. Untrained teachers are appointed
  • Most of the tribals, SCs and poor children do not have access to the basic education
  • Poor coordination between teachers, PRI members and parents
  • Non- accountability of teachers towards performance of the students
  • Involvement of illiterates in particular and other people in general in govt. programmes is very low
  • Percentage of population BPL is very high
  • Non- availability of work for labourers in the village
  • Easy availability of liquor results into household violence and antisocial activities
  • Out of 154 anganwadi centres only 34 centres have building
  • Inadequate remuneration against significant contribution in workforce, particularly in NTFP collection and agricultural activities
  • Social stigma
  • Dowry-related torture and deaths
  • Post-rehabilitation issues
  • KVK is linked with host institution and other central research institutes in the state
  • Linked with district for all technical programmes
  • Agricultural productivity can be enhanced through farm mechanization
  • Orchard based farming system provide scope for QPM production
  • Predominance of upland – scope for crop/enterprise  diversification with irrigation facility

Opportunities

  • Irrigation potential ranges from 25 to 40 percent in different blocks
  • Agricultural productivity can be enhanced through farm mechanization
  • Establishment of village level mandis will provide better price of produce to the farmers
  • Strengthening of Agricultural Department
  • Better storage facilities (like cold storage) stop distress sale and farmers will get better prices for their produce
  • New gardens of mango, litchi and other suitable fruit crops can be established.
  • Goatery can be promoted with the present natural resource availability
  • Replacement of indigenous cattle population with the crossbred cattle leads to increase in milk production
  • Farm ponds can be created under NREGS, and irrigation reservoirs can be utilized for fingerling production
  • Optimal and need based use of NTFP to raise economic status of tribals and other forest dwellers
  • Promotion of eco- tourism
  • Possibility of creating adequate infrastructure with the help of industrial houses
  • Residential facilities for teachers and staff in remote areas
  • Optimum utilization of natural resources
  • Optimum utilization of the scope of NREGS to stop migration of labour
  • More focus on the capacity building of women SHGs
  • Strengthening the Anganwadi system
  • Social motivation and mobilization to minimize social pressure on women

Threats

  • High dependency on rainfed agriculture and chemical farming
  • Expansion of industries and mining activity will have multiple effects in the form of land availability of agriculture, pollution and labour shortage
  • Declining interest of people in the in agricultural and allied activities
  • Diversion of the labour force to other sectors of employment
  • Growing industrial and mining activity further deplete natural grazing land
  • Lack of interest of people in animal rearing and fisheries
  • In some areas all tanks get dry from January to monsoon period
  • Existing practices of forestry did not promote the production of species suitable for fuel purposes leading to further pressure on forests
  • People alienated from forests are joining extremist/ Maoist groups
  • Preference of people for private schools. Poor children may get discriminated due to this.
  • Unemployment and poverty may lead to social disorders
  • Unsustainability in livelihood through increasing dependency on government and private services
  • Instability in traditional family systems
  • Risk of increasing violence against women because of their growing exposure in traditionally male dominant activities/ occupations