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nvironment

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rotected water body adjacent to the Sacred Grove

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atural resources. ‘e PC produce is being

introduced in the e-markets like Kalgudi,

National e-Market Limited and Rashtriya

e-Market Services, which will give a global

market as well as a great price for the farmer

produce,’ says Dr. Venkatesh Naik, Executive

Director, SCODWES.

SCODWES also has successful and

widespread healthcare interventions including

a pioneering Mobile Medical nit project

in Karnataka to take good healthcare to the

doorsteps of the rural and tribal populations

in three districts. It also sets up Primary

Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in remote villages,

for example, in Diggi, a village in Joida taluk,

which otherwise lacks even basic facilities like

electricity and roads. During the Covid-19

pandemic, SCODWES Team Sanjeevini

provided a highly effective medical response

service in the remote areas of ttara Kannada.

e current project for which the

HCL Grant application has been made

aims to rehabilitate the forests of the central

Western Ghats, one of the eight biological

hotspots, by rejuvenating and forming sacred

groves, which have traditional and global

environmental significance.

HCL Grant Project Title:

R

ehabilitating

Degraded orests and Enriching the Existing

orests for Global Advantage through

Rejuvenation of the Existing & ormation of

New Sacred Groves of Central Western Ghats

of ttara Kannada District, Karnataka

Beneficiaries:

1,11,100 villagers, farmers,

students, youth, tribes and indigenous

communities

Location:

250 v

illages in 1 district

of Karnataka