This presentation describes Bharat Petroleum's 'Project Boond', funded by the Oil Industry Development Board and with The Bridge Charitable Trust as NGO partner, which covered five villages with a total population of 6,500 in the Kasara region of Thane District in Maharashtra.
This area falls in the rain-shadow of the Western Ghats, and while it receives adequate precipitation during the monsoon season, it becomes completely parched by Feb-March, remaining that way till the next monsoon. The project objectives were to make this seasonally water-scarce tribal region water-sufficient, provide safe drinking water, enable perennial agriculture and reduce distress out-migration and school drop-outs that arise from survival needs.
The work undertaken to meet these objectives included:
The project outcomes found that:
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