Sustainable Livelihoods
The primary focus of this intervention is to create alternative employment for surplus labour and decrease pressure on arable land by promoting non-agricultural incomes.
 Livestock Development
With the objective of creating high yielding progenies through genetic improvement, a total of 121 Cattle Development Centres (CDCs) covered 2,400 villages. During the year, 1.02 lakh artificial inseminations (AIs) were performed, and 32,754 live births took place, taking the total number of progenies to 68,352. Nearly 43,000 milch animals were also covered under the preventive health programme this year.
 Economic Empowermentof Women
These programmes aim to create sustainable income opportunities for women. Till 2008-09, 1,296 active self-help groups (SHG) with 18,032 members had mobilized small savings of
Rs 135 lakhs. During the year, 6,610 women have been gainfully employed either through micro-enterprises (931) or as self-employed (5,679) through income generation loans.
 Community Development
The primary education programme has so far covered over 1.83 lakh primary school-goers. In addition, 393 government primary schools have been provided infrastructure support, consisting of benches/chairs, compound walls/gates/roof, additional classrooms, teaching aids and sports kits.
A total of 2,712 low cost sanitary units have also been constructed so far, with one-third of the costs being met by the beneficiaries.
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