12 NETTUR

12. Don Bosco – NETTUR

Profile

SAREL was started in 2002 at Nettur. It believes in upholding the cause and dignity of the poor and the marginalized Dalits and work towards their total liberation freed from clutches of poverty and all indifferences and divisions. SAREL seeks to enhance and empower the rural Dalit people of Netter through its committed social action. SAREL animates facilities and strengthens the community, groups and local bodies to create a network leading to sustainable initiatives for the betterment of the society.

 Activities

Parish, Youth groups, Primary Schools, Boys Home, Evening Study Centres, Women self-help groups,Men Self-Help Groups, Anbyams (BCC), Pious Associations, Awarness Creation Groups, Evening Study centres, Non-formal Vocational Training Centre and job placement cell at Tirunelveli.

Vision of Nettur

We the Salesians of Don Bosco inspired by the preferential Option of Jesus Christ for the exploited and marginalized section of the society and guided by the love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, commit ourselves to the empowerment and total liberation of the rural dalit people of Nettur Parish especially the young by giving them a social status and economical upliftment to build a society with justice, peace, equality and love.

 Mission of Nettur

Don Bosco believes in upholding the cause and dignity of the emarginated Dalits and the poor of the locality and work towards their total liberation freed from the clutches of poverty and all indifferences and divisions. Don Bosco seeks to enhance and empower the rural Dalit people as well as the poor of the locality through its committed social action by bringing about awareness among the people through literacy programme and by  ensuring formal, non-formal and technical education. Don Bosco is committed to the catechizing and evangelization through faith formation and enhancement of Anbiams and pious associations Don Bosco animates, facilitates and strengthens the community, groups and local bodies to create a network leading to sustainable initiatives for the betterment of the society.

Details of Conferers

P Gnanadickam Arokiasamy	Director/Parish Priest/Cd
P Vedamuthu Arockiam	Asst. Parish Priest/Administrator/Dn/Ys

 History of Nettur

1. Name of the institution: Don Bosco

2. Year of starting: 08 – 06 – 2002

3. Name of the location when it was started: Nettur

4. Original purpose of the institution:

1. Catechizing and Social empowerment of ‘Dalit’ people.

2. To ensure formal and technical education to Children Youth.

3. To initiate drop – out prevention Programme and to ensure alternate employment for young girls engaged in Beedi rolling.

5. Original target group: Poor rural dalit youth.

6. Presentation of institution history: 2002: 

New Parish was erected and handed over to the Salesians.

 Profile of Nettur

1. Year of starting : 08 – 06 – 2002

2. Address of the institution:Director and Parish Priest

                                             Don Bosco Boys Home

                                             Nettur (post) Alangulam (via)

                                             Tirunelveli (Dist) – 627 854.

3.     Head of the institution  : Rev. Fr. George Arokiaraj  Sdb

                                                Director and Parish Priest.

Activities and programme details:

 

S.	Name of the Activity	Year of Starting	No. of.	Expenses per year	Funded by Govt., Foreign, Province
No			Beneficiaries Now
1	Parish animation and community Development	2002	900 families	1 lakh	Province

5.     Extensions service:

 

 

S.	Name of the Activity	Year of Starting	No. of.	Expenses per year	Funded by Govt., Foreign, Province
No			Beneficiaries Now
1	Women Groups (10)	2005	150

 

6.     The details of the Confreres

 

S.	Name	Designation	Qualification	Years of	Present house No. of. Years
No				Exp. Total
1	Rev. Fr. G. Arokiaraj Sdb	Dir/ PP	B.A	17 years	3 years

Details of the NGOs present in the area:

Area Population

 Location of the institution:Nettur

                        District:       Tirunelveli    

                        Taluk:       Alangulam

                        Town / City: Tirunelveli

                        Panchayat :       Nettur

                        Village: Nettur

Geographical area covered by the services of the institution :

                  Geographical area in Kms: 20km  - area covered.

        Taluk                             :      Tirunelveli, Alangulam.

 

Caste	Religion	No.of Families	Assets	Occupation	Status
Devar / Maravar	Hindu	2,300 Families	Lands and Animals	Agriculture, Beedi Rolling	Middle class
Nadar	Hindu	700 Families	Lands and Animals	Agriculture, Beedi Rolling	Middle class
Nadar	Christian (CSI )	200 Families	Lands and Animals	Agriculture, Beedi Rolling	Middle class
Nadar	Christian (RC)	5 Families	Lands and Animals	Agriculture, Beedi Rolling	Middle class
Konar	Hindu	3,000 Families	Lands and Animals	Agriculture, Grazing, Beedi	Middle class
Dalit	Christian (RC)	600 Families	Agricultural Coolies	Beedi Rolling, Coolies	Below Poverty line
Dalit	Hindu	200 Families	Agricultural Coolies	Beedi Rolling, Coolies	Below Poverty line

 Socio – Economic Profile of Tirunelveli District

 Statistics Provided the Government of Tamil
POPULATION, SOCIO – ECONOMIC AND DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION:

Description	Units	District	State	India
Relative CMIE Index of Development	Index	112.0	135.0	100.0
Population Growth per annum	%	1.15	1.4	2.14
Population density(persons / Sq. km)	Nos	367.0	429.0	273.0
Urbanisation	%	31.7	34.15	25.73
Literacy	%	65.58	62.66	52.21
Male literacy	%	77.46	73.75	64.13
Female literacy	%	54.23	51.33	39.29
Urban literacy	%	75.17	77.99	73.08
Rural literacy	%	61.06	54.59	44.69
Workers as % of total population	%	47.18	43.31	37.46
As % of main workers
Agriculture & allied activ.	%	55.84	61.51	66.92
Mining & quarrying	%	0.22	0.3	0.61
Mfg.(non-household) industries	%	8.38	10.51	7.65
Households industries	%	15.17	3.52	2.38
Construction workers	%
Other services	%	19.1	22.01	20.5
Fores area as % of reporting area	%	12.01
Net sown area as % of reporting area	%	35.5	43.85	46.3
Gross Irri. area as % of reporting area	%	45.1	47.51	30.72
Average size of operational holding	Hect	1.01	1.01	1.69
Fertiliser consumption per Hect.	Kgs.	90.0	124.0	72.0
Value of output of major crops per hectare	Rs.	2830.0	6622.0	3576.0
Value of output of major crops per capita	Rs.		809.0	758.0
Per capita food grains production	Kgs	97.0	124.0	173.0
Road length per 100 Sq. kms	Kms	134.05	128.44	60.14
Railway route length per 100 Sq. kms	Kms	0.0	3.08	2.04
Post offices per lakh population	Nos.	0.0	21.57	17.93
Telegraph Telephones per lakh population	Nos.	0.0	9.91	4.93
Telephones per lakh population	Nos.	0.0	1016.0	800.0
Bank branches per lakh population	Nos.	7.75	7.82	7.3
Per capita bank deposits	Rs.	1894.0	3356.0	3269.0
Per capita bank credit	Rs.	907.0	2925.0	1978.0
Per capita bank credit to agriculture	Rs.	272.0	365.0	222.0
Per hectare bank credit to agriculture	Rs.	1424.0	2985.0	1046.0
Per capita bank credit to SSI	Rs.	107.0	312.0	185.0
Per capita bank credit to industries	Rs.	318.0	1190.0	705.0