Members of The EarthCare organization,paid a visit to a remote area called Khour in Jammu district of J&K state of India.They initiated pioneering work of making local populace aware of their plight caused by extreme soil erosions and felling of trees.The local Government represtatives were approached to start an effort to pressure Government of India to start water conservation and plantation programme in order to stop further damage to the already eroded soil and wasteland.The efforts were well rewarded as the GOI,granted a scheme called Haryali to be implemented in the area at a total cost of Rs.3 crores.The scheme is to take a maximum of five years to complete with assetes for the rural masses for future use.
Actual work onthe scheme took off in the year 2008,with rewarding achievements the details of which shall be provided in my next post.