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Special Monitoring of the implementation

and progress of various Rural Development

Schemes initiated by the Government of

India. ese schemes include Antyoday

Yojana, Ujjwala Yojana, and MGNREGS,’ says

Dr Subh Karan Singh, President, Arpan Seva

Sansthan. Other partnerships through CSR

programmes, and Panchayati Raj Institutions

have made its programmes far reaching and

highly transformative.

It is because of Arpan that farmers like

Kishan Singh have converted their non-

arable land into fertile land through soil and

water conservation innovations, and thus

reduced their migration to cities for work.

Villages like Bijori Kalan and Bhilon ka Naka

in the hinterlands of Rajasthan have built

structures to harvest rainwater guided by

the community, leading to increased water

for drinking, irrigation and livestock. Other

rural folk like Ashok Kumar Mohariyais who

is physically challenged, and Sheela Devi

have received loans to start shops, ensuring a

steady income. Kalu Singh Chavda was made

aware of several sustainable technologies that

would help him prosper, like drip irrigation,

vermicomposting, better packaging for his

produce building a poly house, and more,

which he has purchased with loans from the

project. Farmers Ramesh and Narayan have

developed WADI in their fields and started

growing fruits, thereby increasing their yields

and income considerably.

With our fruits, we cultivate resilience and abundance

HCLTech Grant Project Title:

Regenerative

Land Restoration and Agroforestry using

Locally Adapted Native Species

Beneficiaries:

12000 small and marginal

farmers

Location:

225 villages in Rajasthan