Society For The Welfare Of Weaker Sections
Natural Management Resources
Watershed Development
S.W.W.S is the Project Implementing Agency (P.I.A) for Implementation of Integrated Watershed
Management Programme in two Clusters namely Kashinagar cluster in Gajapati district and Chandahandi
cluster in Nabarangpur district. Kashinagar cluster is coming under cluster VIII of Batch -V and
Chandahandi cluster coming under cluster XIII of Batch – V. The project is being supported by Orissa
Watershed Development Mission, Government of Odisha.
Kashinagar Cluster is divided in to 10 micro- watersheds and Chandahandi cluster is divided in to five
micro watersheds. The total treatable area in Kashinagar cluster is 4500 hectares of land covering 39
villages and the total area in Chandahandi cluster is 5060 hectares land covering 25 villages.
Agriculture & Horticulture Development
Agriculture is a major livelihoods option of the tribal
families’ in form of settled and shifting cultivation. As has
been observed, the people have very limited land holding
and they mostly do settled agriculture in the community
lands. The output from agriculture has a direct impact on
the food security of the tribal. It supplements about half a year’s food requirements for them.