Honours of 'Jaldut'

Katkalamba a village in kandhar Tahasil of Nanded District was stricken with scarcity of water ,as ground water level decreased to large extent ,there was no water in cube well & well in the vicinity people would get the water only in the rainy season whereas in the remaining month potable water was not available .Contaminated water caused diseases among villagers . Villagers learnt the fame of Sanskriti Samvardhan Mandal in Water conservation work & requested to implement Drought Mitigation

Programme .

SSM  adopted the village & brought about change through cleanliness campaign, Health awareness programme , skill Development, water conservation work .SSM along with Seva Vardhini  Pune did the collaborative work , keeping co ordination among 20 NGOs across Maharashtra and planned the project Jaldut in systematic way  the work of water conservation & watershed Development was carried out in selected villages , 40 Jaldut of 20 NGOs along with one trained villager for each village passionately did the work of water conservation and watershed Development ,the prpject was implemented during sept2015tojun2017 , 22 villages has been selected in between march2016to june 2017 for the project the work like CCT ,Deep CCT , New bunds , well construction, desilting of water resources , water supply through solar energy were carried out project received Rs 2.25 Cr. from CSR . 14 Experts in water conservation , 6 Expert in project Management participated in the project. ACWADM, SOPPECOM, GSDA alsi supported  the project, through the project Jaldut participatory Resume Maping Training held during march 9 to march 13 2016 , was inaugarated by District Collector.

                As Jaldut played vital role in bringing about the change in villages the Government acknowledged their work , felicited  Jaldut offering citation at Pune by Revenue Minister  Chandrakant Patil, Ram Shinde Minister for water conservation . SSM's Ganpat Gaikwad and Katkalamba's Ramdas Baswade awarded as 'Jaldut' .