S OCIALLY R ELEVANT

P ROJECT
P HASE -1 R EPORT
Date: 24-02-2014

Submitted By:
GROUP 18
Aakash Rawat (13001)
Surya Prakash Hinduja (13116)
Saad Abdul Wajid (13167)
Saniha S Alva (13168)
Contents
About the District...................................................................................................... 3
Demography............................................................................................................. 3
Agriculture............................................................................................................... 3
Industry................................................................................................................... 4
Services................................................................................................................... 4
State Of education..................................................................................................... 4
Developmental Concerns............................................................................................. 5
Employment Potential................................................................................................ 5
Skill mapping............................................................................................................ 5
Textiles and clothing industry....................................................................................... 6
Some of the Departments in the Haveri District:..............................................................6
Agriculture............................................................................................................ 6
Watershed Development Department.........................................................................7
Social Welfare Department....................................................................................... 7
Backward classes and minorities Department..............................................................8
Reference:................................................................................................................ 8
About the District
Haveri district was formed from the Dharwad district in 1997. Haveri district has a total land
area of 4,848 square kilometres (sq. km.) and a population density of 331 people per sq. Km.
It is sub-divided into seven sub-districts Hanagal, Shiggaon, Savanur, Haveri, Byadgi,
Hirekerur, and Ranebennur; and has about 691 villages. Majority of the population at 79
percent lives in rural areas. Agriculture is the main occupation, employing 75 per cent of the
labour force (as of Census 2001). The remaining is in household industry (four per cent) and
other workers40 at 22 per cent.
Agriculture is the main occupation in the district, of the 485,000 hectare of the geographical
area of the district 360,030 hectare is cultivated. Jowar, cotton, rice, chilies, gram, groundnut,
sunflower, sugarcane, and oilseeds are the major crops of the district. Varada, Kumadhvati,
Dharma and Tungabhadra are the main rivers of the district.

Demography
As per Census 2011, Haveri district has a population of 15.98 lakh persons 2.6 per cent of
the State population. Majority of the population (21 per cent) is concentrated in Ranebennur
sub-district, followed by Haveri and Hanagal sub-districts at 17 per cent, Hirekerrur at 15 per
cent and Bydagi, Savanur and Shiggaon sub-districts have 30 per cent totally. While 65 per
cent of the population in the district is in working-age group (15 to 64 years), about 46 per
cent is actually working i.e. work participation rate.
The districts literacy rate is 77.60 per cent, which is slightly higher than the State average of
75.6 per cent, and also higher than the All-India average of 74 per cent. If things are looked
out at gender wise, male and female literacy were 84.22 and 70.65 respectively, with the male
literacy being higher than the female literacy. Of the 30 districts, Haveri ranks 19th on
Gender Development Index (GDI), with a value of 0.596.
Most of the population (79 per cent) lives in rural areas. Agriculture is also the main
occupation of the people of the district, employing 70 per cent of the labour force as either
cultivators or agricultural labourers.

Agriculture
Of the total area of 4,848 sq. km. in the district, over 75 per cent is the net sown area
(cultivated land). Agriculture is mainly dominated by cultivation of maize and paddy under
food crops and chilli and cotton under commercial crops.
Industry
As of 31st December 2011, Haveri district had five large and medium scale industrial units,
employing 2,748 persons. They are Grasim Industries Limited, Harihar Polyfil, Synthete
Industrial chemicals, Raitara Sahakari Nulin Girani and Venkateswara Hatcheries. End
products manufactured included Viscose Staple Fibre, Rayon grade pulp, chilli and meat
processed products.
Haveri also has 201 Small Scale Industries (SSIs), employing 848 persons. As of March
2011, majority of these were wood based industries at 34.8 per cent, followed by job works
and repair based industries at nine per cent, electrical and electronics and chemical based
industries at five per cent each, and remaining in others.

Services
The services sector includes wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants, transport,
storage and communication, banking and insurance, real estate, public administration and
other services. As mentioned above, services account for 46 per cent of GDDP in Haveri
district. Of all the services, the key services in the district are of real estate, ownership of
dwellings, business and legal services and other services at 11 per cent of GDDP each,
followed by trade, hotels and restaurants at seven per cent.

State Of education
As of March 2010, Haveri district had 1,753 schools, with 309,617 students enrolled. There
are 95 pre-university (PU) colleges with 22,142 students. There are also 30 general colleges,
one medical college, three polytechnics (for technical education) and two engineering
colleges.
For vocational training, Haveri district had a total of 48 Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) /
Industrial Training Centres (ITCs) as of March 2012. Of these, three were Government ITIs,
three were private aided ITIs and remaining 42 were private unaided ITIs. All the 48 ITIs
together have a seating capacity of 4,783.
The district has training infrastructure for different trades set up by both Government and
Private Institutions. The Government Departments offer courses in trades such as animal
husbandry, hand-in-hand microfinance, teacher education and evaluation, policy planning,
personality development etc.
Developmental Concerns
Lack of Industrialisation: Haveri is in many ways an agrarian / rural district. More than 75
per cent of the population is dependent on agriculture for a livelihood. There is some amount
of industrialisation, but only in a small pocket in the Ranebennur region. Also, since the
economy is totally depended on agriculture, most workers belong to the unskilled labourers
category, involved in farming and other allied activities. For all the projects signed on during
the 2010 GIM, only one has been implemented where the company had land of its own. In all
other cases, the Government as well as private players are finding it difficult to get land from
the farmers to implement their projects. Shortage of skilled manpower within the district: The
district has very less number of technical training institutes. Its only strength is in the number
of ITIs, but even those are spread too far, teaching just one or two trades per ITI and the
quality of training and delivery is very poor. In the absence of good quality technical training
institutes (E.g. Engineering colleges), students have to choose between going back to their
agricultural background or to move to adjacent districts like Hubli, Dharwad and Davengere
which has adequate good quality institutions. And the preference is for the former. Thus the
district severely lacks skilled manpower on the technical front.

Employment Potential
According to an estimate between 2012 and 2022, an incremental demand for 1.19 lakh
persons is likely to be generated in Haveri district. Haveri is an agrarian economy and over
the next five years too it is expected to provide most of the additional employment in the
district. Almost 57 per cent of the future expected demand for man power is expected to come
from the agriculture and allied activities sector, most of it in the minimally skilled category.
Within agriculture and allied, the focus continues to be on the production of paddy, jowar,
maize, cotton, chilli etc. This will be followed by Building, Construction industry and Real
Estate and Healthcare services sector. In addition, as the economy grows, demand for
supporting infrastructure such as health and education is also expected to increase.

Skill mapping
Agriculture and agriculture related (chilli processing, sugar and cotton based industries)
businesses have been and will continue to be the main stay of Haveris economy in the next
three to five years with further investments in the food processing sector. But the lack of
development within the district has now turned in its favour with a lot of corporates evincing
interest in investing in the district. The major investments (based on the MoUs and EoIs
signed during GIM 2010 and GIM 2012) will be seen in the sectors of:-
1. Power (Gas based and Bio mass based plants)
2. Synthetic textile
3. Steel
4. Food Processing
 5. Cotton processing
6. Chemicals

Textiles and clothing industry

As compare to other districts within Karnataka, Haveri has various industrial units which
focus on the upward stream processes of creating fibres out of both natural material like
cotton as well as man-made ones. The major companies in this segment are Grasim Industries
Limited, Harihar Polyfibres Limited, Fortune Cotton and Agro industries limited and a
Government sponsored cooperative called Raitara Sahakari Nulin Girani. Together these
companies employ about 2,300 to 2,500 people from the district, varying upon the season and
availability of cotton bales. Grasim and Harihar manufacture a product called Viscose Staple
Fibre (VSF), a man-made, biodegradable fibre with quite similar to cotton in its feel. VSF is
manufactured using rayon grade pulp which too is manufactured at Harihar polyfibres.

Some of the Departments in the Haveri District:

Agriculture
The department of agriculture is one of the oldest departments in the state which has been
functioning since 1913. The mission of the department is to increase the production and
productivity of agricultural crops by way of conducting training programmes for the forming
community in the use of new scientific techniques.

The Karnataka Government has started Raita Samparka Kendras at every hobli
headquarters. In Haveri District 19 Raita Samparka Kendras have been started.

The objectives of establishing Raita Samparka Kendra:

To provide updated information of crop productions, production practices, etc.

To facilitate on site provision of Agricultural Inputs like fertilizer, PP chemicals, seeds
etc.,
To facilitate on site provision of Primary testing facilities like seed germination and
quality tests/soil testing etc.
To provide for demonstration of both public and private seed materials and inputs at
the Kendra level.
 To provide a forum for interaction between public and private sector technologies and
inputs.
The department has Seed Production Centres at 1) Rattihalli. 2) Havangi.
The Agriculture Department has responsibility in making sufficient fatilizers available to the
farmers at fair prices. The farmers belonging to different categories are being provided with
subsidized seeds, pesticides, Bio agents and fertilizers through different scheme.

Watershed Development Department

Watershed development department came into existence during 2000-01 in Haveri District.
District watershed Development Officer is the Head of the district and is assisted by sectoral
heads like Assitant director of Agriculture, Assistant Conservator of Forest, Sr.Assistant
Director of Horticulture and Asst.Director of Animal husbandry who look after
Agriculture,Forest,Horticulture Animal husbandry activities respectively in the watershed
development programmes in the district along with their other officerswho work at taluka and
down below.
Watershed Development Programme:
Objectives
To conserve soil & moisture.
To mitigate the adverse effects of drought on crops and livestock.
To control desertification & to improve the Productivity of land.
To minimize the ill effects of climate change.
To conserve and develop the biodiversity.
To encourage restoration of ecological balance and
To promote socio economic development of Project inhabitants.

Social Welfare Department

After re-organization of states, Government, by super seeding all the previous orders of
erstwhile states in their Order dated 18-10-1956 have created the Directorate of Social
Welfare with the Director of Social Welfare as the head of the department having jurisdiction
for the entire state.
Aims and objectives

Over the years the Scheduled caste people were ill treated by the society and institutions. This
was because; they were powerless to influence key decisions affecting their lives. In essence
one could define Scheduled caste people were those who experienced multiple deprivations.
They were denied of choices and opportunities for living a tolerable life. They were lacked of
adequate food and shelter, education and health. These people have been generally described
as those falling outside the VARNA system. They were untouchables and had been integral to
dominant communities in the village and cities. Since the traditional occupations pursued by
the Scheduled caste people were at the root of low social status. To put these Scheduled caste
people in to mainstream of development, it is as to why the Department of Social Welfare
came into limelight with an intention to develop the Scheduled caste people in the state.

Backward classes and minorities Department

The Government of Karnataka formed the Backward Class and Minority Department in 1977
in a view to curb the social and economic difference in Backward Class and Minority and to
impart social justice. Various backward classes in the state are socially backward because of
lack of education, identifying this fact educational programmers have been preferred by this
department According to the sections 15 (4) and 16(4) of the constitution of India, to give the
available constitutional safeguard to the backward classes the reservation policy have been
launched by the Government.

To implement the departmental Programmers on a state level Backward Classes and

Minorities Department Directorate and on a district level, The Officer of Backward Classes
and Minorities are there.

Reference:
1. http://haveri.nic.in/
2. http://haveri.nic.in/depts.htm
3. http://haveri.nic.in/depts.htm
4. http://haveri.nic.in/SocialWelfare.htm
5. http://haveri.nic.in/watershed.htm
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haveri
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haveri_district