Agenda: Three-day visit to Muthupet (Tiruvarur District) for

Consultations for the CSV project

Day 1 – 26-07-2023
Time Subject Content Purpose Resource Person
10:00 am – Meeting with the District Collector Project briefing and DFO
10:30 am - Tiruvarur introduction. Context setting
Introduction to line
departments
• Introduction with the
representation from all line DFO
departments in the District
10:30 am- • Short presentation on CSV
11:30 am • Context and expectation setting
• Data collection requirements
• Discussion on the way forward
for interactions

11:45 am- Break

12:00 pm
Departmental Consultations Consultations to provide an
12:00 pm – Rural Development Department overview of development
1:30 pm Agriculture Department activities in the district and
Revenue and Disaster Management Muthupet Town Panchayat in DFO
Department particular.

Short Presentation from each

department on different
activities which they are leading
01:30 pm- Lunch Break
02:30 pm
Consultations to provide an
Forest Department overview of villages under
03:00 pm- Muthupet TP DFO
04:30 pm Tourism Department
Understand current condition of
Fisheries Department the fishing villages and other
activities that are being led by
Fisheries, Forest and Tourism
Department

04:30 pm Going around the Villages in Forest

Muthupet – Village Identification Department
Day 2 – 27-07-2023
09:30 am- Meeting with the Panchayat heads Project briefing and DFO
10:00 am and council team introduction.
Context setting
Introduction on CSV and its
relevance for Muthupet

Data collection requirements

Going around the selected Village Identification of entry points

10:00 am- and surrounding forest areas – Challenges DFO
12:30 am Transect Walk Opportunities
Current Level of services

12:30 am- Lunch Break

01:30 pm
Social Resource Mapping and Social map depicts what the
02:00 pm – Community Consultations and local people believe to be
4:30 pm FGDs relevant and important for
them. Thus it reflects their DFO
Participatory Rural Appraisal perceptions of the social
dimensions with their reality
with the high degree of
authenticity.

Discussions with Community

Members on important past
events. To understand from the
community the historical
perspective on current issues.
Debriefing with the Village Heads,
04:30 pm- BDO and other Village officers on
05:00 pm the consultation
Day 3 – 28-05-2023
9:30 am – Consultation and meeting with key DFO
10:30 am community members in the Village
11:00 am – Debriefing the Collectors office on DFO
11;45 am the visit
11:45 – Consultation with rest of the
rest of the
day

Please also find attached to this agenda a data sheet template which needs to be filled for
the district and the village. For any further details or communication you can reach out to
Vivek Venkataramani (+91-9841373701, Vivek.venkataramani@wri.org) and Sabareesh
Suresh (+91- 9159672948, Sabareesh.suresh@wri.org)
S.No Data point or information documents on the village Checklist / Value
1. Total Population in the village? Male : Female :
2. Total number of Households in the Village
3. Extent of the Village in sqkms
4. Number of Hospitals or primary health centres
5. Number of Kulams and other water bodies in the village
6. Details of the Gram Panchayat Development Plan
7. Details on the list of activities carried under MGNREGA
8. Details on the list of schemes being implemented in the Village
both state and National schemes
9. Number of Rescue shelters in the village
10. Details on the Water supply scheme and implementation
status in the village
11. Village boundry maps and FMBs
12. Data on the agriculture yield and pattern in the village
13. Data on solid waste management in the village
14. Data on total energy consumption in the village
15. Any other development plan or scheme being implemented at
the village which has a climate relevance
16. Details on Tourist footfall for the pichavaram region
17. Details on list of resources forest department has for the region
18. Total area of the region under forest . (Maps if available)
19. Revenue generation and budgets of Forest department, the
village panchayat and the tourism department
20. Details and contact number of key village officials ( BDO, VO,
Agricultural officer, Village panchayat heads etc)
21. List of SHGs and NGOs working in Pichavaram