Bharat Gram (The India Village)  

An Eco-Village Project

 

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"The seas are the heart's blood of the earth."

-- Henry Beston, 

(The Headlong Wave in The Outermost House, 1928.)


  

 

   Mohanlalganj Block area of Lucknow district falls in South-East of the district. According to 1991 Census the block covers an area of 410.8 sq.km., inhabited by 1,64,000 people comprising 31,300 families. Out of that population of Scheduled Castes in the block is more than 75,000 and that of Scheduled Tribes only 12. 
   Village Kankaha is situated almost in the center of the development block area.
   In the block there are 34,484 agricultural workers and 9,127 agricultural labourers engaged while in non-farm activities 12,400 persons are employed.
   The land utilization pattern shows that the cultivable waste is maximum in case of Mohanlalganj (5.85% of the reported area). It has 36,534 ha area, out of which 2,921 ha (7.99%) is covered with forest, 2,139 (5.85%) is cultivable waste, 4,410 ha (12.07%) is current fallow, 1164 (3.18%) is other fallow, 1,479 ha (4.04%) is usar and uncultivable land, 2,872 (7.86%) is area under non-agricultural use, 1,128 ha (3.09%) is pasture land, 1,419 (3.88%) is orchard, tree and bushes etc. Thus, the total net sown area under the Mohanlalganj block is 19,002 ha i.e. 52.01 per cent of the land which is being put to productive use currently.
   The net irrigated area in the block was 89.87 per cent in the year 1993-94.
   The ground water table in the block shows that it is 8.43 meter in pre-monsoon period, while in post-monsoon it was 6.28 meter thus there is a fluctuation of 2.15 meter.
   The state of irrigation in Mohanlalganj block demonstrates that 5,850 ha area is being irrigated by canal water, 418 ha by government tubewells and 19,045 ha  private tubewells, 22 ha through well, 165 ha via ponds and 30 ha through some other sources. Thus, net irrigated area comes to 16,530 ha (86.99%) and net sown area 19,002 ha.

 

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