Tilothu Mahila Mandal (TMM) is a non-governmental organization in Bihar, India that has been working since 1963 to improve lives in rural Bihar with a focus on empowering women. TMM operates several programs, including Amaltas Niketan school which educates over 1,000 children from rural households, Applique by TMM which trains women in applique artisan work, and TMM Nirmiti Kendra which teaches women masonry skills in construction. Over the last three years, TMM Nirmiti Kendra has focused on using ferrocement technology for affordable housing and high-quality toilets to address housing and sanitation needs in rural

1. Who We Are
What We Do
.
Amaltas Niketan:
CBSE English Medium
School where children of
rural households are
groomed to become world
citizens, informed, curious
& confident.
The school has a 1000+
children, charges a
nominal fee, and has
successfully graduated 6
batches of 66 students,
several with CGPA’s of 9
and 10. 30 of the
graduating students have
been girls.
Applique by TMM:
Training women in high
quality applique work, an
art that was stagnating in
Bihar among rural folk.
The production is sold in
up-scale markets of
metropolitan cities and
large towns through
exhibitions, repeat sales
and personal contacts.
This activity specially
helps skill development
among young girls that
they carry to their
husbands’ families after
marriage and enables
Muslim ‘purdah’ women to
add to family income, and
is for many, almost full-
time employment.
TMM Nirmiti Kendra:
Center for development
and delivery of cost-
effective construction
technology and practical
solutions in housing and
sanitation where rural
women are at the forefront
of a traditionally male
industry.
Women masons of TMM Nirmiti
Kendra
Tilothu Mahila Mandal, is a non-government organization (NGO), registered under the FCRA
Act, that has been working since 1963 to improving the lives of people of rural Bihar. With
women as the nucleus and focus of change, it has a holistic approach that includes
education, shelter, sanitation, and programs for women employment and empowerment.
Empowering Rural Bihar with
Education, Housing & Sanitation

2. TMM Nirmiti Kendra
Housing & Toilet Mission
Over the last three years, TMM Nirmiti Kendra has worked on Ferro-cement as the main
technology of constructing Cost-Effective Housing and Low-Cost-High-Quality Toilets. It
addresses not only the needs of housing and sanitation, but also the issues of availability, the
ever-rising cost of raw materials and the possible scope of replicability, so as to create trained
man-power to address the immediate and future needs of modern construction in both rural
and urban areas.
With the Government’s focus on Open-Defecation-Free India by October 1, 2019 and
Housing-for-All by August 14, 2022, Ferrocement Toilets and Houses is the greenest, the
most calamity-free, affordable and sustainable means of pre-engineered construction.
Indira Awas Unit in Ferrocement
Ferrocement Toilet and Septic Tank
Superstructure sits on the Septic Tank placed
underground
The manufacture of the toilet and housing components is done almost entirely by trained
women, even as the installation is done by men in remote locations.
Skills Development Employment Creation Reducing Carbon Footprint
To learn more about our work
contact Ranjit Sinha, sinha.r47@gmail.com
Ferrocement Toilets Installation in Rayalseema District of Andhra Pradesh