The document summarizes the internship experience of Ramkrishan Gaur at the Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization (HESCO). It describes HESCO's focus on sustainable development and environmental protection. It outlines various projects undertaken during the internship, including supporting women's entrepreneurship and livelihood programs, developing biomass stoves, analyzing spring recharging techniques, and promoting the concept of Gross Environmental Product. The internship provided valuable experience in areas such as project documentation, communication skills, and understanding the functioning of non-governmental organizations.

1. SUMMER INTERNSHIP
EXPERIENCE
AT
HIMALAYAN ENVIRONMENTAL
STUDIES AND CONSERVATION
ORGANIZATION
RAMKRISHAN GAUR

2. CONTENT
 ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
 WORK DONE
 CHALLENEGES FACED
 ROLE PLAYED BY THE WORKER
 LEARNING
 SELF EVALUATION

3. ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
 HESCO was formed in 1979 and registered in 1983 and under FCRA
in the year 1991 .
 A group of scientist.
 Serve in the spirit of dedicated volunteerism.
 Acknowledge and develop the natural talents of the community.
 Encourage self-sufficient and “simple” solutions to the practical
problems.
 Promote the practice of “shridan”: that every village which is helped
with development, will in turn, adopt and help another village.
 Promote sustainable development with a priority on environmental
protection and economic independence.
 Use of Science and Technology as a tool.

4. ABOUT THE FOUNDER
 Indian green activist
 Social worker
 Botanist
 Quit job of Reader in the
Government P.G. College.
 Formed HESCO in 1979
 Awarded by PADAM SHRI in
2006.
VISION
Developing a viable, successful and
a sustainable model for rural
development in India giving due
consideration to environmental
protection and economic
independence.
MISSION
A new measure of economic
growth “Gross Environmental
Product (GEP)''.

5. HESCO’s Initiatives &
Interventions
 Reviving Eco-friendly Water Based Rural
 Entrepreneurship
 Shrine Offerings: Income generation through Bio-resource applications
 Assistance for improved Agricultural Practices
 Establishment of Technology Business Incubators (TBI) for Ex-servicemen in
Uttarakhand
 Engaging children and disseminating Local wisdom
 WISE – Women Initiative for Self Employment
 KISAN BANK
 REBIRTH
 GAON BACHAO
 GEP(gross environment product)

7. HESCO’s special features
Programme Support
CORE support Department of science and
technology , New Delhi
Isotope hydrology centre (BARC
Support)
Bhabha atomic research centre,
Mumbai
Water mill centre MNRE, Delhi
Rural Bio Resource Centre
(RBC)
Department of Biotechnology

8. Partnership with National &
International institution(Exposure)
 Don University, Dehradun
 Himgiri Zee university, Dehradun
 Graphic Era University, Dehradun
 Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahbad
 HIT, Dehradun
 HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar
 Doon PG College, Dehradun
INTERNATIONAL:
 University of Colombo, Srilanka
 University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 Technical university of Liberec, Czech Republic
 University of North Texas, USA

10. WORK DONE BY THE TRAINEE
1. WISE
2. WISE BANK
3. DOCUMENTION OF REBIRTH
4. KISAN BANK
5. BIOMASS STOVE
6. SPRING RECHARGING
7.VISIT TO SALGA VILLAGE
8. GEP

11. 1.WISE – Women Initiative for
Self Employment
•To inspire the concept of women as entrepreneurs
•For independence and empowerment of women.
•The sparks of knowledge and wisdom in women.
•To develop low cost, location specific, easily adopted
technologies which will provide them self-employment and
respect in society.

12. WISE follows the approaches
Encouraging to initiate work
Identifying local resources
Providing a platform
providing training
Providing the finical help
Counselling and Appreciation

13. ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Mobilizing and empowering communities near Vaishno Devi temple to engage
in Prasad preparation
Training to tribal carpet weavers in better technologies
Improvement in traditional bee-hives practices
Mass awareness programmes to train rural women in improved agricultural
practices
Low cost bakery
Lantana Traning

14. 2. WISE BANK
 WISE bank is a initiative of WISE-women initiative for self employment.
 The bank was instituted in September 2006.
 WISE helps women entrepreneurs by granting loan out of the funds
collected from them.
 The loaning process is simple with no separate interest obligations
instead recipient women have to pay Rs. 100/- every months till the loan
is paid back.
 The banks services are now offered to women in areas such as
Mehuwala, Shuklapur, Garhi, Jatowala, Fatehpur and Ratanpur-
Nayagaon.

15. Future Prospects for WISE
 Alternative 1. Expand yourself
 Alternative 2. Partner with Government and
Other Rural Focused Organizations
 Alternative 3. Tie-up with local bakeries
 Alternative 4. Contract farming

16. Strengths:
High quality of products in terms of nutritional value.
Based on available local resources so garner Govt
support in terms of funding and exhibitions.
Strong collaboration with the IMA which helps widen its
reach especially to inaccessible areas.
Excellent reputation of nearly 10 years of successful
entrepreneurship.
Loyal customers which creates a pull for WISE
products.
Weaknesses:
Multitude of products which leads to issues in apt
allocation of scarce resources.
Lack of Differentiation of products.
Uncertainty with respect to uniformity in quality of
similar products procured from different entrepreneurs.
Lack of regular distribution channel to market in uptown
areas.
Heavy reliance on word of mouth marketing and no
point of purchase displays or other forms of low cost
advertising like flyers.
No cost and financial records maintenance.
Opportunities:
Developments in rural areas creating avenues for
regular income.
Promising growth in the size of middle class.
Increasing trend of demand for organic products.
Sound CSR initiatives
Partnering with external distribution partners will help
scale up and improvement of production practices
Threats:
Competition from other ventures in the same direction
like Khadi gramodyog etc
Rising investment costs to set-up own outlets across
Uttarakhand to widen its customer base.
Mistrust among entrepreneurs with respect to contracts
and legal proceedings of partnership with regional/big
players.
Competition from the organised sector.
SWOT Analysis: WISE

17. 3.DOCUMENTATION OF A
SOCIAL CHANGE
PROGRAMME
The concept of rebirth: An
Alignment of Religion and
Ecology

19. 4. KISAN BANK
 Knowledge, seed sourcing and other services will be accessible through
the bank.
 In case of crop failure for any reason, bank will not be entitled to force
recovery but will explore other possibilities to empower farm community
to return the same.
 Kisan Bank will facilitate farmers to obtain crop / produce insurance
policies to cover crop loss, marginal and small farmers are otherwise
don’t have access to it.
 Agro-institute or present agro public services will also be tied up with
bank to provide related knowledge and backup services.
 The Bank will also source quality seed from development agencies and
will ensure its access to common both by multiplication and
dissemination.

21. KISAN
BANK
FINIANCIAL
HELP
TECHNICIAL
HELP
PROVIDING
GOOD SEED
PROVIDING
FERTILIZER
FARMING
INSTRUMENT
TECHNICIAL
TRANING
CROP
SAFETY
SOIL
TESTING
PESTISIDE

22. 5. REPRESENTATION OF INOVATION (DAKSH
CHULLA –BIOMASS STOVE) ON THE VISIT OF CHIEF
MINISTER OF UATTARAKHAND IN THE ORGANISATION
 HESCO has developed a new cooker named as a DUKSH CHULLA.
The cooker is suitable for the places where LPG and electricity
availability is hard to get. It can be used daily as useable cooker for
cooking food.
 The main aim of this cooker is to utilize the agriculture wastes like small
dry leaves, dry wood, fallen branches, bushes etc. The dung cake and
weeds can also be used as a fuel in this cooker. It depends on the
availability of the bio resource. Since, it is steam based cooking; vitamin
and other important nutrients almost remain intact.
 FUNCTIONAL SCIENCE:
Work in steam flow cooking method by the utilization of waste bio-mass.

23. STRUCTURE OF DAKSH
CHULLA:
•Portable cooker
•Divided into 2 parts – outer, inner
•Cylindrical in shape
•Dimension 20inch in height and
10 inch diameter-outer
•13inch long and 9inch diameter -
inner

24. 6.Analysis of Spring-Recharging concept in
the Himalayas region (salga and the shuklapur)
Spring recharging
concept
This whole process of water
recharging is a very
simple, but it is a
systematically devised
approach which can be
used to recharge the areas
of any given spring. In this
methodology, an
environmental isotope was
identified, and applied.
Model

25. EFFECT ON COMMUNITY
Today, many youths have started commercial cultivation of
vegetable. Vikram Singh an unemployed youth today earns
Rs. 2000-3500/- monthly from his land now as he cultivates
vegetables for local market. Similarly Mr. Jaspal has also
enjoyed boons of Surplus water of spring for fisheries.
INTERVIEW OF VILLAGER
Aniket kala said “Ek time par yee nadi bilkul shukh gye thi, fir
Joshi ne meeting bulaye jis main as pas ke gaon ke log bhi
aye the, Aur unhone pahadi par kuch kuch dure pr gadde
khodne main sharmdan ki liye kha ur uske fayde bataye.
Joshi G par sbka bharosa tha, sb ne mil kr ye kiya .Ek saal
tak kuch nhi hua lekin phir pahadi par harayali ane lagi aur
dusre saal main nadi main paani badhne lga .Hamare gaon
ke liye chamatkar jesa tha”

26. 7. DEMOGRAPHY OF SALGA
 There are about 35 houses in
Salga village.
 The regional language of the
Salga village is Jaunsari but
they speak both Hindi and
Jaunsari.
 Deodar trees and pines trees
are very common.
 major crops paddy, millet,
wheat, maize.
 Crops for commercial
purpose:turmeric, coriander,
ginger, tomato, potato, garlic,
colocasia root.
 There mostly people belong to
SC and ST communities.

27. Field Visit to Salga Village
DATE OF VISIT :13 June 2018
 Salga village is located in Chakrata Tehsil of Dehradun district
in Uttarakhand, India.
 HESCO is working in development project with MOODY'S
CSR.
 The head and coordinator of the project is Dr. Himani Purohit.
 The project was started in January 2018.
 The project is an ongoing project for three years.
 The interventions done by HESCO are-
Biogas
Rainwater harvesting
Water recharging (connecting pipes from the springs)
Building toilets
Given livestock to 15 families.
Give training for making burash and mint squash and Pickles.
Solar light.
Seed bank

28. 8.Gross Environment Product
 Gross Environment Product GEP is a concept given by Dr.
Anil Joshi.
 The aim of GEP is to include environmental factors like soil,
water, forest, air as a part of GDP (Gross Domestic
Product).
 It is a new dimension to measure development.
 Gross Environment Product concept came to HESCO as it
was working for equal economic opportunity for rural India.
 HESCO launched movement to demand Gross
Environment Product parallel to GDP so that ecological and
economical accounting can be brought in place in the
interest of rural people and country’s at large.

29. ANALYSIS OF AWARENESS
PROGRAMME AND STEP FOR GEP
DISCUSSION ON GEP IN PUBLIC
PLATFORMS
 What is Gross Environment Product (GEP) and how it is
linked to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of any country or
state?
(https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_Gross_Environ
ment_Product_GEP_and_how_it_is_linked_to_Gross_Dome
stic_Product_GDP_of_any_country_or_state)
 Now, Gross Environmental Product to calculate eco-
systems’ health
 (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/Now-
Gross-Environmental-Product-to-calculate-eco-systems-
health/articleshow/49050159.cms)
 Need to focus on gross environment product: Joshi -
Tribune India
 (https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/uttarakhand/communit
y/need-to-focus-on-gross-environment-product-
joshi/356245.html)

 Gross Environmental Product vs Gross Domestic Product |
Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi | TEDxDBATU
 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcpRBVrVQ0Q)
 GEP: New barometer to measure economic growth
(http://indiaclimatechange.blogspot.com/2011/10/business-
standard-gep-new-barometer-to.html)

 Eco System - UCOST
PIL
High court ordered the state
to give their counter reply
within four months in the
hearing of PIL. Chief
Justice K M Joseph and
Justice V K Bisht
accepted the PIL and
ordered the state to give
their reply against this
PIL.

30. CYCLE YATRA
From SILIGURI to DEHRADOON

31. CHALLENGES FACED
 Language barrier .
 Low acceptance of plane area people in hilly area region.
 Culture differences.

32. ROLE PLAYED BY THE
WORKER
 Communicator
 Facilitator
 Educator
 Mobilize
 Organizer
 Researcher
 Analyzer

33. LEARNING
 Analyze the impact of NGO intervention in the deprived areas.
 Working with RURAL AREA
 Documentation
 Interpersonal communication skill
 Working with NGO
 Working of an NGO
 Learnt a lot about NGOs functioning, their vision, objectives and
the problem it faces in the various departments like finance,
marketing and others.
 Also understood the initiative taken by private institutions as a
part of corporate governance social responsibility and its impact
on the society.
 Study about how to help the society and what HESCO is doing
in this field.

34. SELF EVALUATION
It was the great learning experience for me during my
summer internship. I have worked with HESCO (Himalayan
Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization),
Dehradun, Uttarakhand
The organization has helped me in learning a lot of
professional skills during the internship period. Apart from this
I also gained theoretical as well as practical knowledge. I have
gained a lot of exposure and experience during my 45 days
internship. I have gained a lot of confidence and have grown
tremendously. I feel great for having had that experience.