SOCIO-ECONOMIC SCENARIO OF TELAHI:-

           When we speak of developing economies, we generally imply societies which are trying to break away from the traditional single occupation of agriculture and related activities.

          Telahi, an isotropic view of nature, rural area which covers 30,323 hector of geographical areas, containing 83 no of village with only one revenue circle belong to Lakhimpur District of Assam. It has only Six(6) Gaonpanchayat and one Sub-Police station.

          The population of the telahi is 51,037 where the male and female population is 26390 no and 24647 no respectively. 9020 no S/C and 19467 no belongs to S/T.

          As telahi is a major flood affected area in N.L. Sub-division the rural infrastructure and the economic situation is considerable.80%-90% of people’s main occupation depends upon the agriculture and allied activities like farming,fishing,sericulture etc.The rest 15%-10% engaged in the trade,commerce, transportation and communication etc.

 

Economic scenario of Telahi Block:

Agriculture: - The total crop area 12,949 hector net area shown 11,907 hector, besides its area shown other than one crop(double crops) is 1047 hectors. Area under some important crops like autumn paddy , winter paddy, summer paddy, jute , mastered oil wheat  ,potato and sugar cane are 1267,7872,368,68,1057,642,1024,2 hectors respectively .

Sericulture: - Total village cover under sericulture programme is 41nos. The family engaged by it 1370 nos. In Ere and Muga 160nos. and 1090 no respectively . One golden fiber project was implemented in 2001.

           Veterinary, animal husbandry and fishery. The total nos. of livestock and poultary are 48539 and 30434 respectively.No resister bill found in the boundary of telahi but 193 nos. of private fisheries were found.

Industry:- Industrializations is the main prospect of the advancement of any communities. In NE region the industrialization is at the infant stage. In telahi two nos. of industries found registered under factory Act and another 2 nos. are under industry department .

        One mastered oil processing mill and 3 brick production industry were found.

Trade and commerce:-  The rest people are related to trade and commerce like transportation and shop.

Problem and prospect: - Telahi area suffers   from lack of infrastruction and poor communication facilities . The total rural road length is only 374 k.m. electrified village 46 nos. Village under water supply 40 nos. 2 nos. and 4nos. doctors and F assistant for the 57037 nos. of population.                                        

          For improving the life style of rural community and eradicting poverty and unemployment it is now essential that the government department, NGO s, local populace be involved in rural development work and suitable technology for development of rural area infrastructure we appropriate arrangement be made to transfer such developed technology to rural community. Focal prints to effect  transfer of technology to the rural areas and to make contribution in all around rural development are –

1. Socio economic , technical survey of adjoining villages with a view to determine felt needs of area and the people.

2. Technology transfer to improved productivity in agriculture , rural industries ,rural housing, sanitation and rural transportation with a view to improved the quality of life of rural people.

3, Technical support services to ensure sustenance of technologies in rural areas and provide an assistant to local entrepreneurs is various aspects of enterprise building.

4. Community support services with a view to improve support building, people participation in development and meeting some of the priority needs for better quality of life.

5. Dissemination of information for creating awareness about various development schemes and application of science and technology to specific problem. In this block greater potentiality of sericulture and fishing.******

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