UNNAT BHARAT ABHIYAN

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Report of “Swatchta Hi Sewa” Organised in Village

Beladi-Salhapur
BLOCK: Roorkee, District: Haridwar in Uttarakhand, India
Date: September 29, 2019

Submitted by:
Mr Piyush Yadav
B. Tech, II Year, Civil Engineering

Submitted To:
Dr Rajiv Lochan Dhar
Coordinator, UBA-IIT Roorkee

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 Content

S. No. Topic Page No.

1. About Unnat Bharat Abhiyan 3

2. About Beladi-Salhapur 3

3. Inspiration 4

4. Meetings held for successful execution of the 4

event

5. Details of the event 5

6. Financial Summary 6

7. Conclusions and Learnings 6

8. Annexure 7

9. Glimpses of Visit 7

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 About Unnat Bharat Abhiyan
Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) is a program of Ministry of Human Resource Development,
Government of India which aims at the technological, social and cultural betterment of rural
India with the help of students and faculty members of higher education institutes in India.
Under the aegis of UBA, IIT Roorkee has identified two village clusters – Chharba Cluster and
Meerpur Cluster and a stand-alone village, Beladi – Salhapur. The team has in total identified
eight villages – Chandpur -Kala, Chandpur-Khurd, Chharba, Horawala, Meerpur-Muwazarpur,
Jhabarpur, Puranpur and Beladi-Salhapur.

About Beladi-Salhapur
Beladi-Salhapur village is located in the Roorkee block of Haridwar district. The village is
governed by Beladi-Salhapur Gram Panchayat. Its location code or village code No. is 056436
(according to census 2011). It is at a distance of 7 km from Roorkee and about 350m from NH-
58 which connects Roorkee to Haridwar. The nearest major Railway stations are Roorkee and
Haridwar Junction. The total geographical area of the village is 248.77 hectares. Beladi-
Salhapur has a total population of 2500(approx.) peoples. Nearly 70 percent of the villagers
are engaged in agriculture or agriculture-related work, though the number of big farmers is
very less majority of the farmers are low scale farmers, 20-25 percent people work as
agriculture and construction workers and the rest are engaged in either dairy and other
animal products’ selling and a very few numbers of people are employed in service sector
(private companies etc.).
There are two Government schools in this village for boys and girls. There is one Co-
operative Society (more of a Self-Help Group) in this village which provides a loan to the
villagers, but this society also doesn’t function smoothly due to the lack of money with the
group. Majority of the population belongs to SC. The caste distribution of the village has
mainly two castes Rhods and Sainis. If a few number of houses of the upper caste are kept

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aside the majority of the houses are made of bricks and having 1-2 rooms. The main source
of drinking water is the hand pumps (groundwater) installed nearly at every house. Public
water taps are also installed by the Government. The number of such taps is around 20-30.
But the taps remain waterless most of the times as testified by the villagers. The home
cleanliness level is decent but the village-level sanitation, cleanliness of ponds and water
bodies, the public drains and the scattered waste around the village presents a governance
issue in the village.

Inspiration
On the basis of previous visits in the village Beladi the team observed excess plastic bags in
use and excess dumping which inspired team to organise plastic free campaign under
“Swatchhta Hi Sewa” campaign of MHRD. Use of non-degradable sources like plastics for daily
use purposes is harmful for nature as well as can even cost even lives of breeding animals.
The aim was to spread awareness in best possible to make villagers aware of problems faced
due to the use of same and distribution of cloth bags to make it a habit of their use as a
substitute of plastic bags.

Meetings held for successful execution of the event

Date: September 23, 2019 Man Hours Invested: 7.56 (18*.42) hours
In this meeting, Ms Prachi introduced plastic free campaign “Swatchta Hi Sewa” to the team
which is to be conducted in every adopted village as it is assigned to UBA by MHRD (Ministry
of Human Resource Development).
The team discussed that for the successful implementation of the initiative a rally for
awareness could be conducted with the help of Primary School students along with door to
door plastic removal, distribution of cloth bags and household survey.
All the first year and second year members were asked to be available on September 29, 2019
for the visit to the village to conduct the initiative.

Date: September 28, 2019 Man Hours Invested: 8 (16*.5) hours

In this meeting the final strategy for the execution of the initiative was discussed. Mr Ujjawal
was given the responsibility to have 120 forms of household survey printed. The team was
informed about the columns of the form which were necessary to be filled. The team set the
departing time to be 9:30 AM.

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 Details of the event

Date: September 29, 2019 Man Hours invested: 60(15*4) man hours

Organizing Team
I Year
• Ms Deepal Tiwari ( B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering )
• Mr Gopal Gupta ( B.Tech. Electronics and Communication Engineering )
• Mr Jai Raj ( B.Tech. Civil Engineering )
• Mr Kishan Kumar ( B.Tech. Civil Engineering )
• Ms Kurelli Dikshitha ( B.Tech. Chemical Engineering )
• Mr Reshabh ( B.Tech. Chemical Engineering )
• Mr Saket Vijay ( Int. M.Tech. Geological Technology )

II Year
• Mr Balwant Godara ( Int. MSc Applied Mathematics )
• Mr Himanshu Yadav ( B.Tech. Metallurgical and Materials Engineering )
• Mr Piyush Yadav ( B.Tech. Civil Engineering )
• Mr Rishabh Raj ( B.Tech. Chemical Engineering )
• Mr Ujjawal Garg ( B.Tech. Metallurgical and Materials Engineering )

III Year
• Ms Prachi Agarwal ( B.Tech. Metallurgical and Materials Engineering )
• Mr Vinay Jain ( B.Tech. Chemical Engineering )

Professor

• Mr Ram Manohar Singh (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences)

The Event

• The organizing team departed from IIT Roorkee at 9:45 AM and reached the village by
10:00 AM.
• On reaching the village, the team first went to Pradhan’s house to take his
permission for the conduction of Swachhata Hi Seva campaign.
• The team then told the Pradhan about ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ campaign and requested
him not to use plastic and collected plastic from his house.
• Mr Vinay arrived with professor Dr Ram Manohar Singh to Pradhan’s house at

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 10:30 AM and introduced him with the Pradhan.
o Professor Ram also told to Pradhan about ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ campaign
and discussed with him about the use of plastic in the village.
• The team then divided into seven sub-teams with one second/third yearite and one
first yearite and started the Household Survey and ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ campaign.
• Mr Balwant, Ms Dikshitha, Mr Gopal along with Professor Ram made a team and
started the survey.
o The team then told them about ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ campaign and told
them about the disadvantages of using plastic and how much it is
harmful for the nature.
o The team then collected the plastic from houses and gave them cloth bags
in return and sworn to them that they will never use plastic again.
• All the seven sub-teams reunited and left the village at 2:00 PM.

Financial Summary
For The Event

S. No. Activity/material Amount (In Rs.)

1. Forms Printing 240

2. Travelling Allowance 260

3. Dining 2315

Total 2815

Gross Total (In Rs.) 2815

Conclusions and Learnings

• The team successfully conducted the door to door household survey in 75 houses.
• The team successfully conducted ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ campaign and villagers gave a
good response and pledged never to use plastic.
• The team successfully collected plastic from houses and distributed 120 cloth bags in 75
houses.

Total man hours invested = 75.56 hours

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 Annexure
Link for the videos of the Household survey and ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ campaign:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Nev8wlgIVaulE-7tCoqEOzrl51OXy9-G

Glimpses of Visit

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