Regions: VRO in Orissa


At present thre are two regions in the State of Orissa ie., North and South Orissa covering seven circles as mentioned below:

Regions Name of the Circle Block District
North Orissa     Chandikhole Barachana Jajpur
Arunanagar Mahakalpara Kendrapada
Ashapuri Ghasipura Keonjhar
Bayakumutia Bansapal Keonjhar
South Orissa    Muniguda Muniguda Rayagada
Kuangabasa Lanjigarh Kalahandi
Tumudibandh Tumudibandh Phulbani

ACTIVITIES

Survey of Micro Villages ( Community, Family, Literacy, Water, Disaster victim and Social)

Training programmes for:

  • Village Management ( Training Centre Chandikhole)
  • Village Leadership Training ( Gonasika)
  • Volunteers Training ( Selection and Inservice) Gonasika
  • Volunteer Regional Training Centre ( Chandikhole and Kuangbasa)
  • Women Training ( Ashapuri)

Environmental activities

  • Land Development ( Agriculture, Kitchen Garden)
  • Tree planting ( Nursery, Wasteland Development)
  • Village Forestry Training Centre ( Benerbahal, Tamudibandh)

Technologies

  • Solar cookers
  • Fibre cement sheet making
  • Cement blocks
  • Cycle Trailers
  • Solar Light
  • Windmills
  • Water wheel

Education- Six steps of education

  • Community Child Care Programme
  • Village Learning Estate
  • Basic Productivity Training Centre for Boys-2, Gonasika and Kuangbasa for Cirls, Bayakumutia.
  • Village health and child development guide Training centre at Ashapuri in Ghasipura block Keonjhar

Health and Sanitation

  • Residential Health Centre
  • Mobile Medical Unit
  • Wall and Drainage

For better sanitation, septic tanks and latrines have been provided at all circle offices.

Construction

Village rebuilding programme ( cooperative total village housing) village communities, service buildings.

Culture and Communication

  • Fortnightly wall magazine
  • Educational charts and painted pictures
  • Celebration of village festivals
  • Service camps

Organisational Development

  • Village council formation
  • Youth clubs formation
  • Mahila mandal formation

Resource development

Through very world in progress, the VRO aim more at quality of service than quantity.

VRO ACHIEVEMENTS 1971-96

  • No. of Area planted - 800,000
  • No. of Homes built ( in 12 villages)
  • No. of villages served - 5000
  • No. of volunteers trained - 700
  • No. of children in learning centres - 5000
  • No. of patients - 20000
  • No. of youth trained in skills - 600 Boys, 500 Girls
  • No. of village people - 700000