Rural Development

Touching lives and locales around us

BORBHAG Foundation

About

Implementing pioneering models for rural development drives us. Through our effort we work to implement projects that take an ecosystem approach empowering communities and making them self sustaining.

Initiatives

  • Co-conceptualised & implementation of the first smart village in North East in terror torn Baska, District in Bodoland Assam, transforming a sleepy hamlet of 234 households, from an insurgency- ravaged village to holding the distinction of the first model smart village for the region.
  • Creating solar entrepreneurs and empowering communities by bringing pioneering cost-effective technologies for rural & urban electrification in unelectrified districts.
  • Providing support for setting up urban waste management and waste to energy projects.

Impact

Encouraging local governance and formation of VDC

Encouraging local governance and formation of Village Development Committee

Encouraging local governance and formation of VDC

100 Toilets built by community to encourage access to sanitation facilities

RO plant

Installation of 100 solar powered home lighting, solar street lighting for village electrification

Encouraging local governance and formation of VDC

Empowering local entrepreneurs through purchase of raw material

women self-help groups

Setting up of yarn banks for women self-help groups

Health camps

100+ cataract operations and 15+ free health camps conducted

Setting up a bus stand

Setting up of a bus stand and playground

Encouraging local governance and formation of VDC

Encouraging skill development, training programs and financial & legal literacy

RO plant

Setting up of RO plant for provision of water at 50 paise/litre and improved water quality

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