About Me!!!

This is Bijaya who always wants to win other’s heart and emotion. Life is full of struggle and real experience of that forced me to move towards development sector with the vision of eradicating “Poverty” across Rural, Tribal, Urban and Coastal with right knowledge, attitude and skills. “Doing something innovative way and searching strategic option for the development of pro-poor” is my way of living for the sector.

To Eradicate Poverty…

I have Seen… The way rural people live without their basic needs.

I have Experienced… The way they suffer to get it.

I have Acquired… Right Knowledge, attitude and skills.

I am Ready… I will fight to eradicate poverty and smile for pro-poor.

R u ???

The Case in my life…

Each and every moment  during my journey to the development sector, I tried to cross “Poverty Road” and take strategic issues mainly to find alternative way for solution. But, I felt weakness after my graduation from BJB (A) College, Bhubaneswar while I stayed in slum near O.U.A.T. and experienced urban poverty. After graduation, I got opportunity to study Postgraduate Diploma in Development Management at Tata-Dhan Academy, Madurai in Tamil Nadu with the fellowship supported by SRTT. After the completion of course I have to work for the development sector in managerial post.

This blog will share some of the development issues, strategic planning and current approach for the development with practical experiences.

Lots of Love & Regards!!!

Bijaya Kumar Nayak

Mail Id: bijaya.nayak@gmail.com

Development And Myself

Childhood and Myself…

Conflict and situation, I created.

What I asked and what I got.

No one is able to calculate gain and loss.

But still, I am puzzled.

What is my vision?

Nothing, I’ve learnt and achieved.

But, The trust I built.

The way, I enjoyed life.

No one is to share.

But still, Myself have to feel.

What is Development?

The dependency, I had in childhood.

I failed to express my needs.

No one is responsible.

I developed skills to earn.

But, The world has no space.

I frustrated and lost patience.

I gathered my courage and regained energy.

Is it enough for me?

The task, I completed.

The role, I made and linked.

The SWOT , I analyzed.

The way, I struggled.

The strategy ,I followed.

The alternatives, I generated.

Is it enough for development?

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Once there was a king who wanted to appoint his prime minister in the kingdom. But there was none suitable in his eyes and also people in the kingdom could not able to select a person for the prime minister. So the king made one plan and declared that he had one lock which was not unlocked. One who could unlock it would be the prime minister of the kingdom. There were three persons for the competition. The king handed one big lock which was around 20kg weight. The first person came with lots of big keys and tried to unlock that. His whole labour went to end without any fruitful result. The next was one magician who came and tried to unlock that with lots of tricks but was unable to unlock that. The last person came without any keys and simply gave smiling to the audience and asked for their blessing for the competition. Then he held the lock for a moment and examined it and became surprised to see that the lock was unlocked before. He could not believe his eyes and went to the king to show unlocked one. The king became so happy by the third fellow and appointed as his prime minister.
The story was  told by somebody while I was child. But the input I took is unbelievable in my life. I think you can have same

This is one of the indigenous practices in Kendar where most of the people are extracting oil from niger(Alasi), neem, Karanja etc. People in different villages come to extract oil from this type of machine. More than 4/5 village from nearby area to the village the machine is situated. This is placed in the common place of the village. People bring log of sal wood from the deep forest and make the machine. ‘Now-a day, it is too difficult to find wood for making the machine due to the decline of forest.’ is the answer from the people. It is a low cost machine. Around Rs. 2000 is required for making the machine.

Preparation for oiling (photo: Bijaya)

First the seed is dried well and then powdered. Water is sprinkled with the powdered seed. It takes more than 10 min for making for boiling. They boil the powdered seed in the above pot made in mud. In the lower pot, they keep water and the steam produced from the lower pot will boil the powered seed in the above pot. After 30-45 min it will be opened from the pot. The boiled seed is bounded in the small pieces of nylon or any strong clothes where oil can be extracted easily.

Process of oiling:

People are engaged for extracting oil (photo: Bijaya)

After boiling the seed through the evaporation process, the seed is taken near to the indigenous machine. There seed is bound tightly through the small pieces of nylon or any strong clothes. Then at least three such types of tightly bind seed should be placed between the two pieces of log wood. It is pressed by binding with the rope and with the help of iron stick. They collect oil in the lower part of the machine. They keep one cupper ring in the oil extracting pot as there is believe that they will get more amount of oil by doing so. They generally extract more than 250 ml of oil from one kg of the seed of Niger. It also depends on different seed. They have to give more than five rupees for oiling from 1kg of the seed.

Utility:

This oil is tasty than any other oil and good keeping quality. The oil is good for the health as it contains unsaturated fatty acids which are over 70% of its composition and absence of toxins. They get more taste by milling themselves by indigenous practiced machine than by milling through machine. This oil is also used for preparing the cake and using for festival lightning. They store this oil for their own consumption. The market value of the oil varies from Rs. 70 to Rs. 80 rupees and the value of Niger varies from Rs. 20 to Rs. 45 rupees according to the availability of the production of crops. The waste from the oil extracted will be used as the compost in the field.

Limitation:

1. More labour is required for extracting the oil. At least three people are required.

2. Less amount of oil will be extracted from the seed.

3. More time is required for extraction of oil.

4. It is necessary to wash properly the wood as there is probability of the mixing oil with mud and other waste material.

Lift irrigation by Tenda

People in Kendar use one indigenous practice for lift irrigation. They generally dig earthen dam in near the stream or nala and try to bring water to the middle land. This practice is done from many years ago. This is the only method which exists with a greater value and low cost instrument used for lift irrigation. People those do vegetable cultivation on the meddle land they use it for lifting water up to 4 to 5 ft high from the low land. For this they use bamboo and log of wood for supporting to the bamboo. They hang stone in one end of the bamboo and tie it. In the other end they put the bucket and one wood where nala is made by cutting it were kept on the earth. Through the bucket they pour water on it and it is designed so that water will go down the middle land. This is an interesting method of withdrawing water from low land to the middle land. They also keep small pieces of the bamboo for supporting themselves while withdrawing water from the earthen dam. They also cultivate vegetables in the low land and make nala to the earthen dam. In summer they also go for cultivating vegetable near the streams or near the river and follow similar strategy for the lift irrigation purpose. The total cost of the indigenous lift irrigation is approximately Rs.300 to Rs. 400.

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