INTEGRATED AREA DEVELOPMENT
Integrated Area Development Project for Dhartidhar in Sirmour District
Foundation is devoted to working in backward relatively underdeveloped areas so that people in need could be helped to overcome the adverse circumstances on the one hand, and simultaneously succeed in raising their incomes on a sustained basis.
One of the all-embracing interventions of the Sai Eternal Foundation has been initiated in the Dhartidhar region of Sirmour District after conduct of a comprehensive benchmark socio-economic survey was conducted in the area.
To begin with following activities are proposed to be undertaken:
- Promotion of Indigenous cows.
- PrakritikKheti (Natural Farming) for niche crops of the area.
- Rain Water Harvesting at a larger scale to provide assured lifesaving irrigation in the arid region of the project area.
- Processing facilities for value addition in the farm and dairy output of the project area with appropriate linkages through FPOs with the assistance of NABARD.
- A massive plantation drive for the entire Dhartidhar region of Sirmour district, simultaneously to un-prove the vegetative cons in the severely eroded outer shiwaliks straddling the area.
An event was conducted for the ex-servicemen and for the families of martyrs who were felicitated and provided with plant saplings of species like Amla, Beal, Moringa, Neam, Peepal etc., for creating “Memory Groves” for martyrs besides creation of groves by ex-servicemen.
