Sahara India Pariwar, a major business conglomerate of India, on Monday flagged off VEDAS, its 1,000 village full adoption programme.
VEDAS project was flagged off by Subrata Roy Sahara, managing worker and chairman, Sahara India Pariwar, along with launching of project in 172 villages at districts Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh and district Araria in Bihar.
Under VEDAS, Sahara is fully adopting 1,000 villages for holistic and sustainable development. The project aims to cover 4.5 lakh rural households, touching the lives of 25 lakh people of 7 States.
Under VEDAS, Sahara will undertake numerous initiatives which include providing safe drinking water through water purification plants and distributing it through water ATMs, imparting education through more than 500 education resource centres with interactive classrooms equipped with high end Q Cloud technology.
Free primary healthcare will be provided to all villages on regular basis through fleets of mobile health unit (MHU) vans. This will be augmented with medical centre for serious cases at central point village, with each center catering to a cluster of around 50 villages within its immediate vicinity.
To empower people of the villages, Sahara is setting up empowerment centres at each centre point village.The centres will impart training and will have a workplace equipped with food and beverages processing units, machines for traditional household goods manufacturing, facility to make local craft products and products based on local resources. Besides, it will help all small and big farmers increase their land yield through its teams of highly qualified agriculturists.
For all round sanitation, community awareness and advocacy programme will be initiated and community toilets will be renovated. Sahara will also provide assistance in safe migration to people going to big cities for opportunities.
Under VEDAS, solar powered lanterns will be distributed to 4.5 lakh families of these villages, so that they have a healthy and eco-friendly source of lighting.
On this occasion, Subrata Roy Sahara, said, ‘It is our dream that all our countrymen can get quality living. Even being the bread basket of the nation, our villages have always reeled behind in this walk of development. Only collective growth can make our beloved nation into a powerful nation and this requires sharing with and caring of our left out fellow brethrens. VEDAS is our humble initiative to fully adopt villages so that a substantial and sustainable rise in the quality of the life and livelihood of our rural brethrens can be achieved. Initially, we are taking 1000 villages across India and we intend to take this project to more villages in times to come’.
VEDAS project was flagged off by Subrata Roy Sahara, managing worker and chairman, Sahara India Pariwar, along with launching of project in 172 villages at districts Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh and district Araria in Bihar.
Under VEDAS, Sahara is fully adopting 1,000 villages for holistic and sustainable development. The project aims to cover 4.5 lakh rural households, touching the lives of 25 lakh people of 7 States.
Under VEDAS, Sahara will undertake numerous initiatives which include providing safe drinking water through water purification plants and distributing it through water ATMs, imparting education through more than 500 education resource centres with interactive classrooms equipped with high end Q Cloud technology.
Free primary healthcare will be provided to all villages on regular basis through fleets of mobile health unit (MHU) vans. This will be augmented with medical centre for serious cases at central point village, with each center catering to a cluster of around 50 villages within its immediate vicinity.
To empower people of the villages, Sahara is setting up empowerment centres at each centre point village.The centres will impart training and will have a workplace equipped with food and beverages processing units, machines for traditional household goods manufacturing, facility to make local craft products and products based on local resources. Besides, it will help all small and big farmers increase their land yield through its teams of highly qualified agriculturists.
For all round sanitation, community awareness and advocacy programme will be initiated and community toilets will be renovated. Sahara will also provide assistance in safe migration to people going to big cities for opportunities.
Under VEDAS, solar powered lanterns will be distributed to 4.5 lakh families of these villages, so that they have a healthy and eco-friendly source of lighting.
On this occasion, Subrata Roy Sahara, said, ‘It is our dream that all our countrymen can get quality living. Even being the bread basket of the nation, our villages have always reeled behind in this walk of development. Only collective growth can make our beloved nation into a powerful nation and this requires sharing with and caring of our left out fellow brethrens. VEDAS is our humble initiative to fully adopt villages so that a substantial and sustainable rise in the quality of the life and livelihood of our rural brethrens can be achieved. Initially, we are taking 1000 villages across India and we intend to take this project to more villages in times to come’.