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Under the Gram / Basti
Yojana, each branch is encouraged to adopt either a village or a
slum area for its over-all development. So far 700 villages and
urban slums have been adopted by branches of the Bharat Vikas
Parishad for their development. The members of branches visit
the adopted villages / urban slums, understand their problems
and try to solve them as far as possible through their own
resources and cooperation of villagers. They also help them in
getting benefits of different schemes launched by the
Government.

Bharat Vikas Parishad has
started a number of Sanskar Kendras to educate illiterate and
neglected children and has also set up vocational training
centres in the adopted villages and slums.
Realising the need for
integrated development of the villages, Bharat Vikas Parishad
has made a beginning by taking up work for an all round
development in five villages viz. Khajjiar (H.P.) 2001,
Dunera
(Punjab) 2002, Sunder Nagar (U.P.) 2003, Eklaspur (A.P.) 2004
and Mohabbatpur (Haryana) 2005.with financial assistance from
Jindal Foundation, Canada.( vdpi.ca)
Work
in these villages is nearing completion.
Further work
has been taken up in five additional villages in the following
Prants:
S.No. Village
Prant
1.
Apna Gaon No. 6 - Ilsoba
West Bengal
2. Apna Gaon No. 7 - Dunge Maharashtra
Coastal
3. Apna Gaon No. 8 - Kaliwas Rajasthan
South
4. Apna Gaon No.9 - Kumbarakoppalu Karnataka South
5. Apna Gaon No.10-
Lohat Baddi Punjab
Due
to these efforts, there is awakening in adopted villages, as the
villagers have become conscious of being a part of the main
stream of development of the nation. |