2.2.

4 Waste Management

In the village waste management system is not present even dustbins or a single garbage collection area is
missing. People used to dumb there daily waste into river or pokra (pond)which is located on one side of
the village this leads to loss of biodiversity and extinctions of fishes .Now pokra has become the reason
for diseases like dengue, malaria which is one of the prominent disease in the village. The waste like
plastic, packing wrappers which are non-biodegradable are being burnt which has negative impact on
environment .The waste which is biodegradable like cow dung is used as manure in the agricultural
practices and as a biodiesel fuel which is used in chulas. In the village major of the houses are paccha but
few house are kaacha .Cow dung and mud is also used to make roofs and floor of the kaccha houses
which prevent them from flies and other insects. People also sell some of the waste like plastic bottles,
leather, metal, cloth etc. to the junk and scrap dealer whose visit to the village thrice a week. The waste
which is generated from kitchen is used as a feeding means for their cattles. Now almost 70 percent of the
household have toilets so they use organic waste of these filled pits in agricultural fields.

Water resource

The village comprise of privately owned 49 pump sets that cater to the drinking water needs in
the village. The pump sets are around 100ft to 200ft in depth out of which only the pump set with
depth of more than 150ft are used for drinking water , remaining are used for household
activities. Previously the depth of the pump sets were around 150ft for drinking water and for
household activity it was 50-60ft which is a strong signal of depletion in groundwater level .The
water from these pump sets have arsenic content which has increased the cases of kidney stone in
the village due to which people have shifted to RO water that they procured from near buy
villages or through other vendor who delivers water in the village at the rate of 20Rs per bottle
(20 litre). Villagers used to own wells most of which have dried by now and disowned by owner.
There is a river named Rapti that flows near the village. Farmers usually use this river water for
irrigation purposes as there is no other source of water for irrigation purpose.

Land resource

The village is spread across an area of 210 hectares out of which 75% that is 156 hectares of land
is irrigated and used for cultivation and the remaining land is used for the living by the villagers.
Every household holds a land of about 0.60 hectares. Land is the major resource for the villagers
therefore the type of land they occupy plays a major role in defining the type of farming done by
villagers. Some of the farmland is inclined while some is declined. There is a portion of village
that is prone to floods which leads to loss of crops and fodder of the animals. Based on the type
of land people cultivate crops for example the inclined land or declined land is used for the
vegetable farming. The land where water gets stagnated is used for the rice cultivation. Also, the
village has various types of soil that decide the type of crop to be fertilized. The village mostly
consists of two types of soil, first the loamy soil that is used for rice cultivation and second, the
sandy-loam soil that is used for vegetable cultivation. To summarize, the type of land along with
the soil present on that land area defines the type of crop to be cultivated.

Natural forest resource

There is no forest land resource however; there are some clusters of trees called Bagiya in the
village which is a natural heritage of birds.