Key Activities for making Micro plan

• Training/Workshops on How to Make a Micro Plan
• Conducting PRA
• Planning a Micro Plan Converged with Available National/State Schemes

Micro Planning 

The NGOs hired by the Project undertake the activity of making a micro plan as a learning process of participatory community development in all selected villages. This mi- cro plan is an integrated development plan of each selected village, composing forest manage- ment plan, watershed conservation plan, and income generation plan. The Project/SPMU will make and provide necessary GIS maps to each selected village as a pre-condition for micro-planning. Based on the maps provided, each selected village is supposed to make a land-use plan in a participatory way as described previously. Within the process of micro -planning, the Project, specifically the NGOs hired, should prevent a village head/Nokma, members of traditional community institutions, or other village authority from dominating the decision-making processes of making a micro plan. For this purpose, the the NGO hired first needs to facilitate each selected village to newly establish a sub-committee under Village Employment Council (VEC) developed for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in all villages of the state and the country. The sub-committee should be consisted of representatives of diverse groups in each selected village, specifically socio-economically disadvantaged groups, such as women, youths, landless people, and a minor clan.

Selection and Screening

Sub-projects are selected based on the priority needs identified in the micro plans or other plans. Specific sub-projects will be selected on the basis of community preferences. However, certain exclusion criteria are required to ensure that the Project does not include sub-projects with potentially significant adverse environmental impacts such as EIA required projects (i.e., No Category ‘A’ or ‘B’ projects as per Indian EPA (1986) and the EIA Notification (2006)). Sub-project selection and screening will be firstly carried out by VEC/sub-committee for the micro plan and Range officers for the beat action plan. Each activity in the sub-project shall be screened and then the highest category among the activities will be the category of the sub-project. For example, if the infrastructure development activity falls into category B while other activities fall into category C, the sub-project shall be categorized as B.