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arecausedbyhumanaction.Table12.3indicates The Petlawad block of Jhabua is located in thatwastelandscausedbyman-madeprocesses the northernmost part of the district and aremoreimportantthannaturalprocesses. representsaninterestingandsuccessfulcaseof Government-NGO partnership and community A Case Study participation in managing watershed Jhabua district is located in the westernmost programmes. The Bhils in Petlawad block, for agro-climatic zone in Madhya Pradesh. It is, in example, (Sat Rundi hamlet of Karravat village) fact, one of the five most backward districts of through their own efforts, have revitalised large parts of common property resources. Each the country. It is characterised by high concentration of tribal population (mostly household planted and maintained one tree on Bhils). The people suffer due to poverty which the common property. They also have planted fodder grass on the pasture land and adopted has been accentuated by the high rate of social-fencing of these lands for at least two resource degradation, both forest and land. The watershed management programmes funded years. Even after that, they say, there would be noopengrazingontheselands,butstallfeeding by both the ministries of “Rural Development” of cattle, and they are thus confident that the and “Agriculture”, Government of India, have been successfully implemented in Jhabua pastures they have developed would sustain districtwhichhasgonealongwayinpreventing their cattle in future. An interesting aspect of this experience is land degradation and improving soil quality. that before the community embarked upon the Watershed Management Programmes acknowledge the linkage between land, water processofmanagementofthepasture,therewas encroachmentonthislandbyavillagerfroman and vegetation and attempts to improve adjoiningvillage.Thevillagerscalledthetehsildar livelihoods of people through natural resource to ascertain the rights of the common land. The management and community participation. In ensuing conflict was tackled by the villagers by the past five years, the programmes funded by offeringtomakethedefaulterencroachingonthe the Ministry of Rural Development alone CPR a member of their user group and sharing (implemented by Rajiv Gandhi Mission for the benefits of greening the common lands/ Watershed Management) has treated 20 per pastures.(SeethesectiononCPRinchapter‘Land cent of the total area under Jhabua district. Resources and Agriculture’). Fig. 9.4 : Trees planted on Common Property Source: Evaluation Report, Rajiv Gandhi Mission forg. 9.5 : Community Participation for Land Leveling Watershed Management, Government of Madhya in Common Property Resources in Pradesh, 2002 Jhabua (ASA, 2004) 104 India : People and Economy Reprint 2026-27