- NGOs and SHGs play an important role in rural development in India by working on issues like livelihood generation, education, healthcare, infrastructure development, and empowering communities. - Some NGOs discussed are Sitaram Jindal Foundation, Dilasa Sanstha, and PRADAN, which undertake various rural development programs like constructing schools, providing drinking water, supporting farmers, and forming self-help groups. - Self-help groups are informal associations that come together to improve living conditions through collective leadership, conflict resolution, and access to loans. Examples mentioned are Baba Jaleswar Self Help Group and GRAM CHETNA KENDRA SHG.

1. FUNDAMENTALS OF
RURAL DEVELOPMENTS
Research on NGOs and SHGs
- Rintu Singh Rajput
SYBBA

2. Research on NGOs and SHGs Working in
different sectors of Rural Development in
India

3. What is NGOs?
 A nongovernmental organization (NGO) is an organization independent of
the government whose primary mission is not commercial and that focuses
on social, cultural, environmental, educational, and other issues.

4. Role of NGOs
NGO activities include, but are not limited to,
environmental, social, advocacy and human rights work.
They can work to promote social or political change on a
broad scale or very locally. NGOs play a critical part in
developing society, improving communities, and
promoting citizen participation.

5. NGOs Working on Rural Development in
India
 Sitaram Jindal Foundation
 Dilasa Sanstha
 Professional Assistance for Development
Action (PRADAN)

6. Sitaram Jindal Foundation
 The Sitaram Jindal Foundation is a charitable organization in Bangalore and
was started with the sole objective to help with the moral and social upliftment
of the weaker sections of the society. The Foundation was envisioned by Dr.
Sitaram Jindal and was instituted in 1969. This charitable trust in Bangalore has
worked at setting up a number of educational institutions, NGOs, hospitals,
(most notable is the world famous Jindal Naturecure Institute (JNI), Bangalore)
and has contributed towards infrastructure development in rural areas as well.
 Being one of the most trusted charitable organizations/trusts in India, the
Foundation has an independent functioning and doesn't entertain any
affiliations whether commercial, political or religious. With 46 years of service
and having supported more than 500 charitable institutions in India, the
Foundation also runs vocational courses for women and has been a champion
for women empowerment.

7. The Foundation / Associates / Trusts / Societies have constructed school buildings with all basic amenities in more
than 100 villages and handed over them to the Government for conducting classes. Basic facilities for education,
health and potable water have been provided. The foundation has dug borwells and constructed overhead water
tanks in several villages to provide safe drinking water to the villagers.
Our trusts / societies have also been instrumental in renovation / construction and expansion of old buildings of
school and colleges. Drinking water projects were taken up in surrounding villages. The details of some of the
projects are as follows:
1.Construction of School buildings, Bangalore North Taluk, Bangalore district
2.Drinking Water project (15 villages), Bangalore North Taluk, Bangalore district
3.Construction of new rooms / buildings (21 villages), Bangalore North Taluk, Bangalore district
4.Borewells etc. for drinking water in 28 villages, Bangalore North Taluk, Bangalore district
5.Construction of school buildings (50 villages), Bangalore North Taluk, Bangalore district
Rural Development Programs

8. Dilasa Sanstha
 Dilasa” is a Non-governmental Voluntary Organization established in 1994.
Dilasa works in close cooperation with 25 other smaller NGOs in Vidharbha and
Marathawada regions. It runs farmer’s support Centre, spreads information on
various Government schemes meant for the benefit of the farmers and rural
population. Presently Dilasa has been reached out to 59000 beneficiaries from
845 villages of Maharashtra State. It has been proposed to extend its services
in Andhra Pradesh State reaching out to a total of 115000 Beneficiaries from
1200 villages with 5,00,000 of population

9. Rural Development Programs
 Dilasa constructed 292 Phad Models in Vidharbha & Marathwada from 1995. This
initiative helped in irrigating 11718 Acres of farm land, benefiting more than 3906
farmers and their families
 Dilasa helped 7,000 SHG (Self help Group) and 84,000 women members from 11
networking NGO's across 7 districts of Vidharbha and Marathvada. Received credit
of Rs. 46.00 Crores benefiting 46,316 members.
 Dilasa helped in building temporary shelter, roofing shits, housing sheds, and
distribution of livestock, seeds, food material, education material in drought &
hailstorm affected areas. This aid helped more than 2334 families across 71
villages from 10 districts of Marathwada and Vidharbha.
 Dilasa runs a farmer support center with help of Caring Friends, Mumbai, which
assists women farmers, to economically sustainable farming. This initiative helped
more than 15000 famine stricken farmers and 238 deceased farmer families.

10. Professional Assistance for Development
Action
 PRADAN was created in 1983 by two young professionals, Deep Joshi and
Vijay Mahajan, who were convinced that even the stubborn, endemic poverty
of rural India can be solved. They believed that well-educated professionals
working within communities can bring both the empathy and knowledge
needed to help poor people improve their lives.
 Deep and Vijay also believed that grassroots work in the spirit of pradan, or
giving back to society, can be a fulfilling and viable vocation for educated
men and women. They created Professional Assistance for Development
Action (Pradan), to systematically groom and enable professionals with
empathy towards the poor to work at the grassroots level

11. Rural Development Programs
 PRADAN has assisted nearly 625,250 rural families with crop selection and
access to modern markets, enhancing their productivity by three to four
times and ensuring year-round food security. The families grow cash crops,
such as tomatoes, cabbages, cauliflowers, broccolis, chillies that not only add
to their incomes but also help the participating farmers augment nutritional
benefits from
 RADAN supports more than 145,518 small-holding farmers with integrated
natural resource management to build resilience to water variability caused
by climate change.
 PRADAN has helped nearly 516,000 people participate in income generation
activities like agriculture, fruit orchards, tasar silk and poultry.

12. What are SHGs?
 Self-help Groups (SHGs) are informal associations of people who come
together to find ways to improve their living conditions. They are generally
self-governed and peer-controlled.

13. Functions of Self Help Groups
 They try to build the functional capacity of poor and marginalised sections of
society in the domain of employment and income-generating activities.
 They offer collateral-free loans to sections of people that generally find it
hard to get loans from banks.
 They also resolve conflicts via mutual discussions and collective leadership.
 They are an important source of microfinance services to the poor.
 They act as a go-through for formal banking services to reach the poor,
especially in rural areas.
 They also encourage the habit of saving among the poor.

14. SHGs Working on Rural Development in
India
 Baba Jaleswar Self Help Group
 GRAM CHETNA KENDRA

15. Baba Jaleswar Self Help Group
 The ladies have jointly formed a Self Help Group called Baba Jaleswar by
raising good quality fish breeds and selling them. They are presently bringing
in more resources through the income generated with this business.
 Women sell fish caught from the pond and this has helped them become
financially independent. They no longer ask for money from their husbands
and more importantly, are contributing to family income. The financial
condition of women in her village has improved significantly after they
started selling fish caught from the village pond in the local market. “We are
now able to earn `3,000 to `5,000 a month
 They cleaned the town lake and began raising fish with specialized and
monetary help from the State Fisheries Department. The individuals took
responsibility for taking care of the fish each day, checking development,
overseeing the arrival of fingerlings into the lake, and selling the fish, and so
on

16. GRAM CHETNA KENDRA
 This SHG group is linked with banks and other financial institutions which
thereby make a positive impact in attaining financial assistance for income
generation activities. To make a positive impact they provided in-depth
knowledge to the Self Help Group members. Various training sessions were
organized to clear the concept of Self Help Group , how to manage, record
keeping tactics, initiation of various income generation activities.
 In addition, Self Help Group ensured that they were capable of managing
funds, conducting effective meetings, and providing participation
opportunities to every gender and social status.

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