In addition, hundreds of families were supported through their self help groups, watershed associations, resource centres, school committees, health committees and other CBOs with inputs for integrated farm development, vermi-composing, integrated pest and nutrient management, demonstrations of new crops and cropping technologies, animal husbandry inputs, support to set up non-farm enterprises, medical advice and upscaling of RCH (Reproductive and Child Health) outreach, improving primary and secondary education through provision of school supplies and positioning and training of additional teachers to short-staffed schools, supply of fodder and food to mitigate the impact of several continuous years of drought, and other such programmes of socio-economic development.

Myrada's programmes carry subsidy elements in varying degrees but people's own investment is stressed in all cases. The preferred form of mobilisation is money, rather than material or labour, since it can be counted and audited more easily. However, contributions in kind are also encouraged and accounted. In this year, Rs.36,868,155/- was mobilised in cash and Rs.3,628,144/- in kind from the village communities towards the various programmes listed above. (This money is not collected by Myrada but by the concerned CBOs who also receive Myrada's contribution which they pool with their own to implement the programmes.)

Independently, between April 2003 and March 2004, the 8411 self help groups in our project areas mobilised Rs.117,369,850/- directly from banks under the SHG-Bank Linkage Programme. The addition to their Common Fund during the year (through members' savings, service charges on loans advanced, fines, donations, etc.) was to the order of Rs.210,586,106/-. The money in their control was used to give 140,938 loans to members during the year.