Project Title: Sustainable Tourism and Revival/ Preservation of Hill Cultures and Ecology in abandoned villages of Uttarakhand: A pilot project.
1. Project Details
Sanction Date: 28-03-2018
Project Category SG
Year 2017-2018
Project Duration 3 Years + 9 Months Extension
BTA : Infrastructure Development
Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: Villages in the District of Almora/Pithoragarh
Organization/ Implementation Agency: Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, New Delhi
Project Partners: S.No. Name Roles & Responsibilities
1.
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Lead Proponent:

Dr. Nirmal Kumar

Associate Professor of History ,Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, New Delhi

Project Brief Description:

The poor migrants find it difficult to maintain both- their ancestral houses in the hills as well as their current city expenses. These abandoned ghost villages/ houses pose following socio cultural problems: • The law and order problem caused by empty houses
• Ecological imbalances due to wastage of built heritage
• Cultural loss of built heritage as the traditional architectural style of house construction, their layout and building material is lost.
• Loss of intangible culture as future generation lose their contact with their cultural context and roots.
• There is no return on investment and income from their ancestral property. The expenditure of the migrants of ´ghost villages´ in their newly adopted houses in cities increases considerably whereas their income from their ancestral property remains nil.

Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders:

Benefits to local community

Activity Chart (For 3years) Click Here


2. Financial Details
Total Grants (in Rs.) Rs. 50,00,000/- (Rupees Fifty lakh only)


3. Project Objectives, Deliverables and Monitoring Indicators
Project Objectives Quantifiable Deliverables Monitoring Indicators
    • To restore the houses in their original shapes using traditional building materials that may include restoration of these houses as per changed technical requirements like electrical wiring, central heating and workable kitchen/toilets;
 • Home stay model for rural tourism in two remote villages of Uttarakhand; • No. of New Datasets generated on the outmigration Statistics; Architecture and Layout; etc.;
• To make whole village as a unit and convert it into a home stay/heritage village; • Demonstration models for reduced migration through alternate livelihood; • Region-specific demonstrative models (No.) viz., Home stay-based rural tourism model; Alternate livelihood practices;
• No. of Beneficiaries particularly low-income group (No. of Rural Youth, No. of Women, and Total No. of with income generation (Rs./ person); • No. of Beneficiaries particularly low-income group (No. of Rural Youth, No. of Women, and Total No. of with income generation (Rs./ person);
• Policy framework (No.) for Heritage Village Development and Implementation Plan;
• Other Publications and Knowledge Products (Nos.) on the identified dynamics and indices. • Creation of heritage village. • Other Publications and Knowledge Products (Nos.) on the identified dynamics and indices.
S.No. Name (Sanctioned) Qualification Designation Salary
1. 01 JRF @ Rs.25,000/- + HRA
2. 01 Office Assistant @ Rs.10,000/- per month
S.No. Name of Equipment (Sanctioned) Details Cost (in INR)
1. Cost of rehabilitation of Dwelling Unit - 5 nos
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