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DHAN Vayalagam (Tank) Foundation

(Water Thematic Collective of DHAN Foundation). Water is elixir of life. Water is everywhere on our planet, in the air, in our bodies, in our food and in our breath. Without it life as we know it would not be possible.

About Our Organization

DHAN Vayalagam (Tank) Foundation, is a professional grassroots action oriented development organization with sub sectoral focus on water initiated on October 2, 2006. It has been incorporated as a Trust under the Indian Trusts Act (1882). The Trust has been promoted as the second thematic organization by DHAN Foundation to ensure that the benefits of its Vayalagam Tankfed Agriculture Development Programme reach a large number of poor with quality.

Purpose

Direct actions for upscaling the Vayalagam Programme to conserve as well as develop traditional small scale water resources in ‘resource poor’ areas of the Country in different context through direct action, and through appropriately oriented and concerned NGOs in other parts of the nation as Vayalagam Affiliates. Extensive policy advocacy initiative through effective and vibrant net working with practitioners and other stake holders. Intensifying and strengthening the programme by establishing a resource centre.

Features

DHAN Vayalagam Foundation

Dashboard

Summary of water bodies uploaded

Report

Summary of all the data entered in the field

User Management

Super admin can decide the features available to various users/stakeholders

Filter Search

Search capability based on administrative boundaries

Estimation

Broad-level budget estimation for restoration

Pictures

Mandatory pictures for present status of various components of water bodies

DHAN Vayalagam (Tank) Foundation Quaterly Magazine which focusses on Water Situation in our country

Our Programs

Create access to drinking water

To create access to drinking water through Vayalagam Associations have constructed drinking water ponds in 300 villages in the drought-prone districts of Tamil Nadu, and over 120,000 people now have access to drinking water.

Demonstration of Different Partnership Models

Vayalagam Institutions could mobilise support from several mainstream agencies for water conservation and development works. To take up these works, they have mobilised Rs.829 million from government, private organisations,individual philanthropies.

Promoting Community Governance in Water Resources

DHAN lays emphasis in building social capital for reviving the age old practice of community management(kudimaramath).At each level of the Farmers'Federation, leaders have emerged from among the local communities.

Enhanced Water Management

Traditionally, most of the tanks in south India had water managers to effectively manage the water distribution. Each tank had one or more Neerka had several functions to perform ranging from supply of water to every field at the farm level.