Rural Tourism
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The Rural Tourism Project is supported by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India.
Programs are devised to ensure that the local people are benefited economically and culturally by conserving their heritage.
Initiated in 2004, this project aims at promoting tourism while preserving the physical and cultural characteristics of Anegundi village. The project has provided expanding employment opportunities to the local people, enhancing their lives. The result is a serene environment, which promises clean and green tourism for visitors.
Local people are involved through working in program initiatives as employees and stake holders and through the generation of self-employment schemes.
Business incubators are created in restored vernacular dwellings and habitats. These are maintained and managed by local people on a profit-sharing basis.
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Guest
Houses - Traditional Vernacular Houses.
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» Cafe.
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Internet
Cafe.
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Craft
Shop.
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» Bicyles & Coracle Rides
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Improvement
of village infrastructure
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A Solid Waste Management Program has been initiated under the Rural Tourism Project with the aim of promoting clean and hygienic conditions within the village and making the village more congenial to tourists.
» Augmenting Drinking Water Supply - In order to provide clean and safe drinking water for the community, existing water tanks were redesigned to cater to a larger number of people at any given time. More taps and hygienic surroundings were created with proper drainage facilities for run-off water.
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Village Surveys and Preparation of Spatial Maps – Our Village Household Survey (VHS) created a database of all the buildings likely to disappear (due to neglect and/or being replaced by modern structures) as well as buildings prone to ad hoc construction with a mixed architectural vocabulary. Both databases linked these changes to the economic and aspirations of the residents.
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»Spatial maps were produced which depicted the dumping pattern of garbage at various sites. These maps also indicated densities and volumes at each site and differentiated the garbage producing and disposal patterns of farm-holding households and composting households without farm lands.
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Sculpture Garden - In collaboration with the State Archaeology Department TKT created a Sculpture Garden where ancient remains were collected and displayed at the village centre. The idea is to retain the ancient remains in their native location. TKT plans to develop similar gardens on all the four main streets of Anegundi.
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»Road Development - TKT has been instrumental in persuading the local Public Works Department to lay new roads which help to provide necessary access and visibility to the village
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Eco Transportation -- TKT has organized traditional coracle rides for tourists run by the local people on a profit sharing basis. The same is also being done with the bicycles rentals in the village.
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Interpretation
Centre »
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The objective of the Interpretation Center is to generate awareness about the value of the cultural resources in the Hampi World Heritage Area. The Center documents, compiles and disseminates information with regard to the conservation of the natural and cultural heritage of the Anegundi-Hampi region. It conducts capacity building programs and workshops that facilitate people's participation in conservation and sustainable development.
With the support of UNESCO and financial assistance from TEMA, Sweden, TKT has restored, redesigned and rehabilitated a traditional, vernacular house belonging to an artisan in the royal street of Anegundi. This house functions as the Interpretation Center. |
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The house will be maintained by TKT for a period of five years and will then be handed back to its owner. Through this process, the artisan not only gains immediate benefit, but becomes a stake holder in the larger project of restoring Anegundi, culturally, socially and economically..
»Local
traditions
»Agricultural practices
»Architecture
»New developments
in the region.
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Organci
Farming »
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TKT has been instrumental in assisting farmers in the area to organize themselves into informal and formal groups. It has brought them together with various resource organizations in order to gain inputs on organic farming.
TKT has initiated the following activities in an effort to promote Organic Farming in the region.
»Re-introduction
of organic farming methods
»Documentation
of traditional methods
»Creating awareness about the harmful effects of chemical fertilizers and insecticidesInteractive workshops with resource persons from Agriculture Man Ecology (Netherlands) and the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Gangavathi |
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Education
Through Performing Arts »
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TKT has organized workshops on which introduced village children to classical dance and taught them folk dance, music and street theatre. Such efforts have resulted in performance collaborations between local people and visiting artists.
Workshops
conducted so far include
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Forms of classical dance
» Street theater
» Mask making
» Mime
»Yoga
» Conversational
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All donations are exempted from Income Tax Under 80G Act
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