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BHARAT LOK SEWA SANSTHAN (BLSS)

Legal Status
SOCIETY REGISTRATION NO.
1138/2004/2005

. 347910036
FCRA NO:

Contact Person Mr. Manoj Kumar Pal

Designation President (Managing Trustee)

Mobile Number 9358253214

Mr. Manoj Kumar is the Founder of this Trust. The Founder has wide experience for the
Social service serving for the impoverished people through his Community Development
Programs. Bharat Lok Sewa Sansthan (BLSS) a national level voluntary organization
registered under societies registration act xxi of 1860, fcra, 80g, 12a dedicated to improve the
quality of life of the deprived and underprivileged section of society. The activity of Bharat
Lok Sewa Sansthan (Blss) focus on two dimensions: (a) implementing various community
development programmes for the poor and backward people and (b) conducting intervention
research studies & studies on various socio-economic developmental issues. Our work areas
focus on education, health, skill development, environment of children, youth and women,
for sustainable development. It emphasis grass-root level organizing of children, youth,
women and community in the rural, tribal and urban slums. Organization projects foster need
based development activities at grass- root level with decentralized participatory planning.
The organization endeavours to evolve innovative approach and process to utilize the
traditional skills and knowledge more efficient and eco-friendl Men and Children in the
BLSS Pariwar community through awareness, education and Human Rights,
arivar comprises of a multi-disciplinary team of social science experts, educationist,
psychologist, environmentalists, legal’s, health personals and dedicated team of community
based intervention created both at urban and rural areas.

Vision:

“Empower the Depressed and Oppressed community particularly women and children by
making them to involve and participate towards sustainable development process”.

Mission:
“ To educate to organize and to empower to actively participate in the fields of education,
socio economic, legal, health care and self-governance by involving them in self planned
development activities in most backward areas” ( Empowering Youth, Women and
underprivileged children with gender and rights prospective through community participation
for sustainable development.)

Target Population:
Women, Children, Adolescents, Youths, Tribes, Dalits, and Most Backward Classes
communities in the Districts of Haridwar in Uttarakhand State.

AREA OF CONCERN
• Digital Literacy in development.
• Elementary, Non-formula and Adult education.
• Adolescent reproductive health and rights.
• Women empowerment.
• Culture and heritage.
• Livelihood opportunity and skill development.
• Sustainable environment and sanitation.

Objectives:

 To engage in social activities aimed at improving the living condition and welfare of the
rural people through non-formal education
 To organise women from Tribes and most deprived sections of the women into Self Help
Groups for socio, economic, political and cultural empowerment.
 To provide training to women from Depressed and Tribes communities
 To work for the healthy environment, Global warming, reduction and to promote
awareness among the public.
 To work for the protection and promotion of Human Rights, Consumer Rights, Right to
Information Act, free legal aid.
Strategy-
• Participatory Planning and Implementation.
• Capacity-Building through CBO/SHG.
• Intervention Research.
• Networking
• Advocacy.
OUR PARTNERS
• Ministry of skill development, youth affairs & sports, Government of India.
• Information and Broadcasting Ministry-Govt of India.
• National center for jute diversification-Govt of India.
• Director of health of Uttarakhand.
• State AIDS society Uttarakhand.
• Department of environment and sanitation.
• Municipal corporation of Haridwar.

Present activities and programs:

 Activities towards enforcement of Humanity through advocacy on their needs.

 Conducting Awareness Program on Preventive on Plastic usage
 Activities on Water Management Program
 Empowerment of Women through formation of women’s groups, educating them on
health and reproductive rights.
 Awareness and prevention of HIV / AIDS and also provide Care and support services
for the HIV positive people and their children
 Activities through conduction Health camp and awareness program about the diseases
 Conducting Free Legal training to the people for their rights.
 Economical empowerment through Skill Training to the adolescents
 To motivated the Youths for the social perspective promoting village development

Profile of the Founder & Managing Trustee:

Mr. Manoj Kumar Pal was born in a farmer’s family in Rawalimehdood Village of Haridwar
District of Uttarakhand State. His father was a farmer and dedicated his life for the social
development. The background of rural, agrarian family strived for social empowerment has
its strong influence in all his launching and leading the Social service mission keeping in
view for the Social cause.
Activities:

1. Human development
2. Bio development
3. Youth motivation program
4. Awareness Alternative Healing / Health care Prevention and Control
5. Global Consumer awareness and rights
6. Women's SHGs and Self-Employment Training
7. Health and Child Rights program
8. Preventive Campaign on Plastic Usages
9. Water Management Activities
10. Culture heritage.
11. Pinjarpole & Moksha
12. Anubhav (old age Home)

Achievements:

 Conducting Awareness Program on Preventive on Plastic usage

 Activities on Education Management Program/ Change Makers.
 Empowerment of Women through formation of women’s groups, educating them on
health and there rights
 Activities through conduction Health camp and awareness program about the
diseases
 Conducting Free training to the Tribes/Educationist, Archaeologist, Healers & other
Economic empowerment through Skill Training to the adolescents
 To motivated the Youths for the social perspective promoting village development
 We have associate as a mentor with various organization .

Donors:

1. Government Program
2. Local Donation
3. Global Partners
4. CSR/NGOs.
Donate:-There are various ways in which you can donate to us to help our cause.
Please send cheques or demand drafts (DDs) to our office address. If donating from
outside of India please contact us for further instruction. Deposit directly into our
bank account

Local account:

1- Name of the Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce

Address of the Bank: Oriental Bank of Commerce, Bahadrabad, Haridwar, Uttarakhand
, India.
Account No: 00332010090330, IFC Code No: ORBC0100033,
MICR Code No: 249022009.
2-Name of the Bank: Axisl Bank
 Address of the Bank: Axisl Bank, 6 Hari Nagar Office, Haridwar, Uttarakhand
, India.
Account No: 914010007633435, IFC Code No: UTIB000358,
MICR Code No: 249211002.
FCRA account:
Name of Bharat Lok Seva Santhan
Address of the Bank: Punjab National Bank, Pentagan Mall,Sidcul,Haridwar (UK)
Account No: 6021000100013275
Contact:
Mr. Manoj Kumar Pal
(Managing Trustee)

Office : 01334-231011
Mobile: 9358253214

REQUESTING GRANTS TO KOTA CHARITABLE TRUST, VISHAKAPATNAM

S.No Name of the Project Amount of Budget in Rs.
I Project Proposal on Departmental Stores for 12 92052000
places in Haridwar Parliamentary constituency
II Project Proposal on Establish Ashrams in 6 places 150544800
in Haridwar Parliamentary constituency
III Project Proposal on Establish Schools in 6 places 150000000
in Haridwar Parliamentary constituency
IV Project Proposal on Natural Calamities Shelters in 35460000
6 places in Haridwar Parliamentary constituency
V Project Proposal on Health Care with 4 Bedded 23970000
Hospitals in places in Haridwar Parliamentary
constituency
 VI Project Proposal on 500 watts solar panel erected 780000000
in Rural poor Families belongs to 200 places in
Haridwar constituency
VII Project Proposal on Free/Nominal rate Drinking 492000000
Water supply 200 places in Haridwar
Parliamentary constituency
VIII Project Proposal on Housing Schemes for Poor and 120000000
Middle class Families in 200 places in Haridwar
Parliamentary constituency
Net Total Grants Requested from KOTA Trust. 1844026800

I.PROJECT PROPOSAL ON DEPARTMENTAL STORES (MINI) SUPER MARKET

A. INTRODUCTION
Gone are those days when one had to go through different shops in search of various
household products. Nowadays all the items required for every family are available under a
single roof! The consumer can now select from a large variety of brands of a particular item
from one place. He need not stop at different places to purchase any product. The setting up
of super markets at various strategic locations in cities and towns provides ample scope for
the traders to market all products under one shop and it helps the consumer select and buy all
his requirements from one place.

B. PRODUCT SPECIFICATION & USES

There is no product specification for Departmental stores. The goods and commodities which
are generally dealt in should be of high quality.

C. MARKET POTENTIAL
Retailing in India is well poised for a boom on account of surging domestic consumption and
sophisticated consumerism. Today organized and modern retail together forms around 9 per
cent of total retailing in the country Selection of proper location catering to every class of
customers. As much as 98 per cent of the outlets are smaller than 500 square feet in area. This
means India’s per capita retailing space is about 2 odd square feet compared to 16 square feet
in the U.S The country has more that 12 million retail outlets and needs a structured retailing
industry in the modern sense of the term.

D. TECHNICAL ASPECTS

1. Installed capacity
The proposed unit is a small Departmental store with an area of 1000 sq. ft. The volume of
products can be increased or decreased with respect to area available and availability of
working capital for storage of materials.

2. Equipments
The following items of Equipments are required:
S.No Items Rs. in Lakhs
 Equipments
1 Interiors 15,00,000
2 Racks 10,80,000
3 Computers for billing 2,50,000
4 Air Conditions (5 Nos) 2,10,000
5 Electricals and Fittings 2,50,000
6 Platform Scale 15000
7 Electronic Weighing Scale 20,000
8 Deep Freezer 20,000
9 Vacuum Cleaner 7,500
10 Labeller 8,500
11 Miscellaneous 2,00,000
Materials & goods ( as per required) 5000000
12 Food Beverage 200000
13 Cereals, Pulses 800000
14 Sugar & Gur 50000
15 Oils and Oil seeds 50000
16 Fruits Vegetables and Tubers 50000
17 Milk & Products 50000
18 Beverages, Pan, Tobacco 75000
19 Clothing & Foot Wear 100000
20 Fuel & Powder 50000
21 Transport & Common 50000
22 Others 50000
23 Building Rent 96000
24 Advance 2,00,000
25 500 ft go down 20000
26 Advance 24000

27 Manager 1x 70,000 x12 8,40,000

28 Accounts Assistants 1x 15000x12 1,80,000
29 Supervisors 1x 20,000x12 2,40,000
30 Workers 2x 10,000x12 2,40,000
Total 7671000
For 12 Departmental Stores 92052000

4. Land & Building

A Building area of 1000 sq. ft. is sufficient to start a small Departmental Store. A
monthly rent of Rs.as per rules is considered. An advance of Rs.100,000 is required. Besides
this, for go down purpose another area of 500 sq. ft. may be required for storing materials
before they are displayed in store.
5. Utilities
Power:
The shop is connected with necessary power connection. Air conditioners and
Computers can be operated.
Water:
Water required for human consumption is estimated at 500 litres per day
6. Implementation Schedule

As the Materials are available easily, if financing arrangements are made, the project
can be implemented in a month’s time.

II.PROJECT PROPOSAL ON TO ESTABLISH ASHRAMS IN EVERY BLOCK/

DISTRICT
Vision: To provide due care the live of the helpless and destitute and old Aged persons in the
society and even those Aged persons neglected by the family and did not get proper care due
to poverty, so that they live as valued members of the society with a peace of mind before
going to their eternal home.

Goal: To Ensure a sound and friendly environment for the poor helpless and destitute an Old
aged persons towards achieving a promising peaceful conditions for them fostering their
physical, mental, social and spiritual development and well being as well.

Purpose of the project: To Ensure access of 30-50 (Thirty to Fifty )poor helpless and
destitute and Old Aged persons in Haridwar District to safe accommodation, tender love,
proper care, nourishment, health service and other basic needs through establishment and
operation of a sustainable Old Aged home.

Specific Objectives:
1. To establish a well constructed, well managed, community participated and safe Old
Aged home at a suitable place.
2. To ensure adequate nourishment and clothes for the targeted the poor helpless and
destitute an Old Aged person.
3. To ensure access to instant and quality health care for the poor helpless and destitute
an Old Aged persons so that they can get awareness on health and hygienic issues.
4. To create an effective an Old Aged friendly learning environment for the poor
helpless and destitute an Old Aged persons within the Old Aged Home, so that they
can live peacefully as their own Home.
5. To provide an Old Aged persons access to fellowship activities, recreational facilities,
mental support, social affairs and spiritual formation.
6. To promote resource generating activities for financial sustainability of the old aged
home beyond donor funding.

RATIONALE OF THE PROJECT:

Why this Project Has been Chosen:
In Haridwar District most of the villages , intense poverty, famine, drought, natural disasters,
chronic endemic diseases and poor maternal health care, all are contributing in turning a large
numbers of an Old Aged person into helpless and destitute each year. There is generalized
and pronounced lacking of health, nutrition, and caring services for indigenous poor helpless
and destitute Old aged persons interfering their physical, mental, social and spiritual
development and well being, ultimately leading to a uncertain and frustrated life.
The BLSS identified the following underlying causes of the above situation in Haridwar
District:
  There is no residential facility for the poor helpless and destitute an old Aged person
at the place where they can live under proper care to them in peaceful mind without
any harassment for their life.
 The family or care givers of the poor helpless and destitute an Old aged person or an
Old Aged person himself/herself cannot afford adequate foods for his/her proper
nutrition.
 The poor helpless and destitute an Old Aged person do not get health care services
and remain untreated and maltreated for many diseases.
 In many cases, the poor helpless and destitute old Aged persons are often deprived of
proper care, tender love and participation in – social events and spiritual activities etc
as being they were neglected.

This project has been undertaken to address the above problem and its underlying causes. The
project will ensure access of 30-50 helpless and destitute Old Aged persons in Haridwar to
safe accommodation, tender love, proper care, nourishment, guidance, health service and
other basic needs through establishment and operation of a sustainable an Old Aged home.

SPECIFIC AREAS OF NEEDS:

Specific area of needs to be addressed by the project is:

1. Foods and clothes: The family or care givers of the poor helpless and destitute an
Old Aged persons or Old Aged person himself/herself cannot afford adequate foods
for his/her proper nutrition. Because they could not work in the field, an Old Aged
person do not get clothing as per their need. Therefore, the poor helpless and destitute
Old Aged persons who will be given residential facility need to be provided with food
and clothes in free of cost.
2. Health Care facility: The poor helpless and destitute Old aged persons do not get
health care services and remain untreated and maltreated for many diseases. Which is
crucial for their age. Therefore, regular medical check-up, health care should be
arranged for the targeted poor and helpless an Old Aged persons.
3. Mental, social and spiritual development: The poor helpless and destitute Old Aged
persons are often deprived of proper care, tender love and participation in – social
events, spiritual activities. Therefore, these Old aged persons need facilities of
nursing, recreation and socialization, so that they may be released from mental
depression.
4. Sustainability of an Old Age home: Last of all, even after establishment of an Old
Aged home fulfilling all the above needs, sustainability of the home will still be a
major concern. Therefore, profitable resource generating programs need to be
conducted side by side with the home activities for sustainable operation of the home.

PRESENT CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE:

The villages and various political issues associated with a longstanding conflict have
seriously hindered the economic development of the Haridwar region. Chronic poverty,
underemployment, illiteracy, disease, disaster and lack of social services are still endemic
here with serious consequence in the life of the people. Intense poverty, political violence,
famine, drought, chronic endemic diseases and poor maternal health care, all are contributing
in turning a large numbers of an Old Aged person into poor helpless destitute each year in
BLSS defines a poor helpless as one who lost at least one of his/her sons/daughters; and a
destitute an Old Aged person as one who is in extreme need of comprehensive external aid to
meet his/her basic needs due to his/her family and social incapacity or hindrance.

There is generalized and pronounced lacking of health, nutrition, and caring services for the
indigenous poor helpless and destitute an Old Aged. The poor and helpless Old aged often
have to earn money engaging themselves into adult economic activities to look after young
babies even they were weak and Old to support themselves and their families. A study of
BLSS suggests that less than 30% of the poor helpless and destitute an Old Aged person in
remote areas can’t take 2 adequate major meals regularly, less than 25% have gained a new
cloth in 12 months.
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Overall condition: Old Aged persons are often deprived of guardian care and tender love.
Being the poor helpless involved in the fighting for themselves and their families, many of
the poor helpless an Old aged persons cannot find any mean to participate in social events,
spiritual activities, and recreational activities. These all seriously hinders the social, mental
and spiritual development of these an Old aged person groups.

The project will support such 30-50 poor helpless and Old Aged persons from areas of
Haridwar District.

EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS:

A well constructed, well managed, community participated and safe an Old Aged home
will be established at suitable and friendly good environment to the Old aged group.

 2000 Square feet semi-concrete & fully furnished building will be established with
living, Library, Reading rooms/ Indoor games place, dining hall, worship room,
recreational and IT facilities for 30-50 poor and helpless old Aged persons.
 8 experienced staffs will be deployed for operation and maintenance of an Old aged
home.
 An old Aged home management committee will be formed and being functional for
overall management of an old Aged home and review its progress and performance.
 An Old aged home staff will be trained through a 15-days long training on “Anubhav,
health Care & Old aged Home Services” for proper nursing, care and development of
an Old Aged person as well as for effective home service and management.
 Women and Men, who are poor helpless/or destitute, will be selected for the old
home services and benefits.
 A Core Committee will be formed and being functional to provide their direct
feedback over the services of an Old Aged home, provide suggestions for any
improvement and act as mediator between the an Old aged home and community.
1. Adequate nourishment and clothes for the targeted the poor helpless and destitute
an Old aged person will be ensured.

 30-50 poor helpless an Old aged person will receive adequate nourishment and
balanced diet every day.
 The targeted 30-50 an Old Aged person will receive adequate clothes – 3 times a year.
 30-50 an Old Aged person will receive necessary toiletries & other .

2. Access to instant and quality health care for the targeted poor helpless and destitute
an Old Aged will be ensured and their awareness on health and hygienic issues will
be increased.
 The Old Aged home, Old Aged groups will receive regular medical checkup and
health care services in monthly medical visits of a qualified person.
 The Old Aged groups will gain instant and emergency health services from local
physicians, health care providers and health centers.
 The home old aged groups will be aware on health and hygienic issues by
participating in the monthly health education sessions.

3. Targeted poor helpless and destitute an Old Aged person will have access to extra-
curricular activities, recreational facilities, mental support, social affairs and
spiritual formation.

 30-50 poor and destitute an old Aged will receive tender love, mental support and
parental care so that they can feel and enjoy the Old aged friendly home environment
as family environment.
 Daily prayer sessions will be arranged in the old Aged home for spiritual development
of the Old Aged persons.
 Attendance of Old aged persons in religious institutions and religions events will be
ensured.
 Social and religious festivals, days and events will be celebrated and observed
throughout the year.

4. Resource generating activities will promoted for financial sustainability of the Old
Aged home beyond donor funding.

 Rent-a-car service will be offered by the Old aged home through for generating
income for the Old Aged home.
 Coordination and involvement of a wide range of governmental and nongovernment
stakeholders including local Company CSR, central government, state government
departments, local religious Trust/ leaders, traditional leaders and NGOs will be
established.
 Community will be encouraged to contribute for the Old Aged home.
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN:

Establishment of the Old Aged Home:

Selection of the Place: The place for establishment of the Old Aged home has already been
selected. It will be established at Block levels in Haridwar Parliamentary Constituency

Construction of the Old Aged Home: The Old aged Home will be a 2000-2500 square feet
semi-concrete/RCC building consisting of one male’ living room, one female’ living room,
one common room, one dining room, one office room, guest room, sick room, three living
rooms for the home staff, kitchen and toilet facilities. A deep tube well and water tank will be
constructed for supply of safe water. A local contractor will be selected for construction of
the old Aged Home through bidding process according to the procurement guideline of
BLSS. The construction work will be completed by the first 3-6 months of the project.

Equipping the Old Aged Home: The Old Aged Home will be equipped with the following
equipments and facilities:
 Beds (Single deck for Old aged person) – 30-50
 Beds (single deck for staff) – 10
 Beddings – 30-50 sets
 Benches – 35-55 numbers
 Tables – 16 numbers
 Plates & drinking glasses – 30-50 sets
 Cooking equipments
 Water filters – 6 numbers
 Indoor Sports equipments
 Outdoor Sports equipments and facilities
 Musical instrument, dhol, maziri, Harmonium, Drum & guitar etc.
 First aid medical equipment & Kits
 Computer with accessories & Pinter (2 two)
 LCD / Music system
 Library, books, Magazine, newspapers Etc
A procurement Committee will procure these equipment’s/facilities according to the
procurement guideline of BLSS.
Staff Recruitment: Following staff will be recruited under the project for the Old Aged
home:
 Project Manager (1)
 Superintendent (1)
 Old Aged Home Care taker/assistant (4)
 Cook (2) & helper (1)
 Shopkeeper/Sale Centre care taker (1)
 Driver/ guards (1)
  Security men (4)

The project manager is an already recruited staff. Rest of the staff will be recruited based on
their experience, expertise and qualification according to the Recruitment Policy of BLSS
by the 3rd month of the project. A recruitment committee of BLSS will be responsible for the
recruitment process.

Formation of an Old Aged home management committee: An old Aged home

Management Committee consisting of representatives from Executive Members and Senior
management staff of BLSS, Project Manager, Local social worker , will be established at the
beginning of the project. The BLSS will be in responsibility for overall management of the
Old Aged home and review its progress and performance. On behalf of the BLSS, Project
Manager, as Chief Officer of the home, will be in direct responsibility for management of the
home, implementation of its services and supervision of the staff. The BLSS will sit in
Monthly/quarterly review meeting. Project Manager will submit monthly progress report
(MPR)/quarterly progress reports (QPR) to the BLSS. Project Director is point person for any
quarry to the donor.

Staff Training/Orientation : For proper nursing, care and development of the Old aged
persons as well as for effective home service and management the Project Manager,
Superintendent and Caretakers will be trained on a 15-day long training on “Old aged person
Care & Old Aged Home Services”. A training manual will be developed in advance by a
National Core Group team of resource person. NCG members will conduct the trainings in
BLSS training/orientation by the 3rd month of the project.

Selection of poor helpless and destitute Old aged person: females and male who are poor
helpless orphan and/or destitute will be selected for admission into the home. A call for
application will be circulated at community level by the CAF grassroots staff before
beginning of the program. Selection will be done by the BLSS based on a set of selection
criteria as to be defined by the BLSS. However, the first criteria will be that the person must
be poor helpless or destitute. BLSS defines a poor helpless an old Aged as one who have no
to look after him/her and have no to take shelter and a destitute old aged person. Who is in
extreme need of comprehensive external aid to meet his/her basic needs due to his/her family
and social incapacity or hindrance. BLSS develop selection criteria for needy person
(Anubhav Ghar)guideline.

Development of Old Aged home operational manual: BLSS will develop an Old Aged
home operational manual before enrolment of the old aged persons aiming to provide all
staffs’ and children some guidelines and regulation for smooth maintenance and management
of the home as well as for maintenance of old aged home discipline.

Supply nutritious foods and adequate clothes for the old aged persons:
Development of a meal item schedule: Project Manager will develop a meal item schedule
before beginning of home operation ensuring adequate nutrition and balanced diet for the old
aged persons.

Procurement of foods: The superintendent will arrange monthly, weekly and daily
marketing of food items and fuels ensuring adequate food storage for the old aged persons.
Marketing will be based on the meal item schedule.

Cooking and distribution of foods: Cooks will be responsible for daily cooking and
preparation of foods. Caretakers will distribute the foods to the old aged persons at dining
spaces. Strict hygienic and sanitary measures will be taken in all stages of food preparation,
distribution and consumption.

Procurement and distribution of clothes: Each old aged person will be provided with
dresses two-three times a year and of three types: ordinary dresses, occasion dresses, and
winter dresses. The procurement committee will be responsible for procurement of the
clothes according to the procurement guideline of BLSS.

Procurement and supply of toiletries: The Superintendent will arrange monthly

procurement of toiletries items and supply the same to the old aged persons.

Provide health care support to the Old aged persons:

Monthly medical visit: Project manager will contract a local qualified physician/Doctor
within 1st quarter of the project for arranging monthly medical visits to the old aged home to
provide health care services to the old aged person.

Instant consultation with physician and attain services from health centers: Project
Manager will establish linkage with local physicians/doctor, health care providers and Health
centers for instant consultation for any ill an old aged person or for management of any
emergency cases. Superintendent will be responsible for bringing the Old Aged person to the
linked physicians, health care providers or health centers, when necessary.

Mental, social and spiritual support:

Daily nursing/ care taking: The caretakers of the Old Aged home will take constant care of
the old Aged person, e.g. regular food intake, adequate sleep, cleanliness, nursing during
illness, etc. The Superintendent and Caretakers will provide tender love, mental support and
parental care to the old Aged persons so that the old Aged persons can feel and enjoy the old
aged home environment as family environment.

Organize daily prayer sessions: Daily prayer sessions will be arranged in the old Aged
home at morning and evening for spiritual development and peace of mind Old aged persons.
 will ensure attendance of the old aged persons in religious institutions and religious events
for their spiritual development and to relieve from their mental burdens.

Celebrate social and religious festivals, days and events: The old aged home will celebrate
social/national festivals/events, like mother tongue day, Birth day, independence day,
children day, world education/Literacy day etc., and religious festivals, like Christmas, Easter
Sunday, Deepavali, Muharam etc.

Sustainability of the old aged home

Sale centre for local handicraft: Local handicrafts sale centre will be established from the
sixth months of the project. The sale centre care-taker will responsible keeping the collected
and selling the same under the strict supervision the home superintendent. Beyond the
project, the sale centre will provide income for sustainability of the home. Salary of the care -
taker will come from the profit of the sale centre.

Sub –activities under these activities include:

a. Construction of sale centre

b. Procurement of local handicrafts of various items
c. Sale of collected items and keep maintain all accounts etc.
d. Keeping neat and clean the sale Centre that can give attraction to the customers.

Involvement of government and nongovernmental stakeholders: BLSS will work in

coordination with local government, government departments, local religious leaders,
traditional leaders, Company CSR and NGOs, to solicit their support during and beyond the
project period for operation of the old Aged home.

Solicit community contribution: BLSS will encourage contribution of the community,

according to their ability, to ensure their ownership in the project.
IMPACT OF THE PROJECT:

The ultimate impact of the project will be that the poor helpless and destitute an Old aged
person from the remote Haridwar will enjoy a sound and fulfilling old aged life toward
achieving a promising life through their physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual
development and well being. More specifically:

1. The poor helpless and destitute old Aged will have a safe accommodation and
placement where they will enjoy their old aged life in family environment.
2. Gaining adequate nutrition, physical exercise and quality healthcare the poor helpless
and destitute old aged will lead a healthful life.
3. Tender love and provide care will bring a pleasant and enjoyable old aged life for the
old aged persons and offer them emotional and release from mental depression and
anxiety.
4. Finally, the old Aged home will contribute to build the life of the poor helpless and
destitute old aged person so that they can be an active person having love, fellow
 feeling and responsibility for significantly contributing in overall development and
reformation of the society, country and nation.

EVALUATION:

BLSS central monitoring team will arrange annual evaluation of the old aged home, where it
will assess what the difference the project will make on the safe and quality of the life of the
poor helpless and destitute old aged persons. The old aged will assess the following areas of
indicator:

o Health status of the old aged persons

o Nutritional status of the old aged people
o Participation and performance of the old aged person in social affairs
o Participation and performance of the old aged persons in spiritual affairs
o Participation and performance of the old aged person in social services work

An evaluation plan will be developed at the third quarter of the project which will include
detailed methodology and tools for the evaluation.

BUDJECT OF THE OLD AGE HOME:

S.No Details of Items Amount in Rs

MATERIAL:
Beds (Single deck for Old aged person) – 30x Rs.2500 - 75000
Rs
Beds (single deck for staff) – 5 x Rs.1800 9000
Beddings – 30 sets x 500 16000
Benches – 32 numbers 12500
Tables – 16 numbers 14800
Plates & drinking glasses – 30 sets x 150 4500
Cooking equipments 250000
Water filters /water cooler – 5 numbers 100000
Indoor Sports equipments 50000
Outdoor Sports equipments and facilities 30000
Musical instrument Drum & guitar etc. 60000
First aid medical equipments 15000
Computer with accessories (2) 150000
ADMINISTRATION:
Project Manager (1) Rs. 50000 x 12 600000
Superintendent (1) x 15000 x 12 180000
 Old Aged Home Care taker (4) x 8500 120000
Shopkeeper/Sale Centre care taker (1) x 5000 60000
CONSTRUCTION:
Purchase of Land for 2 acres x@ Rs.1000000 20000000
Construction of Building Cost 3000000
COOKING ITEMS:
Rice, Flour, Dal, Oil, and all related materials per
person Rs. 1000 per month x 35 x 12
Solar Panel Sets and related materials 200000
Miscellaneous expenses 144000
Net total 25090800
for 6 Old age home x 150544800

III.PROJECT PROPOSAL ON ESTABLISH SCHOOLS IN EVERY HQ

“Education is considered as the panacea for all the ills prevailing in the society”. Since ages
every civilization has accorded prime importance to education so as to sustain itself for the
ages to come. Even the learned scholars were received with highest regard at every place they
visited. Access to education becomes even more important in this digital world, without
which an individual’s survival itself is at stake.

In the Indian case, which has a huge demographic divide and where majority of the people
living below the poverty line, education is seen a one size fit policy to eradicate all the ills in
the society. Though the government machinery is in place to cater to the need for education,
most of the children are turning out to be drop-outs in most of the cases for numerous factors.
The situation further accentuates as we move towards our rural interiors and tribal
habitations. Rural hinterlands which hosts the major chunk of our population is unable to
educate its children due to varied reasons.

 Lack of proper infrastructure.

 Lack of proper guidance from their elders
 Lack of competitive environment.
 High teacher student ratio.
 Declining level of commitment amongst the teacher.
 Lack of stringent mechanisms to make hold of the educational committee of the
village accountable for the growth of the children.
 Children being seen as a source of economic income.

It is at this juncture that private institutions are championing the cause of providing education
to the children. Though it’s a welcome relief for the government infrastructure, the exorbitant
fees charged by these private institutions are limiting the access to these institutions only to
upper fiscal realm. Besides they are making money out of the instinct of the parents who
want their children to be educated. Amidst this huge competition the quality aspect of
education is at stake. The reports indicate that majority of secondary school going students
are not able to perform the basic mathematics nor can they read the basic sentences. The
situation turns out to be much more acute in the case of physically challenged/differently
abled people. Though the situation is mending to change of late, yet there is a huge cross
section of people who are yet to be included to ensure that the process of development is an
inclusive and a sustainable one.

Genesis:

BLSS has firmly believed that the education of our younger generation is of prime
importance to check the onslaught of social evils. Besides in the last 11 years of its
operations, BLSS has engaged itself in undertaking comprehensive surveys regarding
communities and their way of life. From the surveys various inputs have poured in, which
only entrenched our belief in education and the wonders it can create. There have been varied
learning’s from the surveys reports

Some of the learning’s include:

 They have been a huge drop out as one move up the ladder of education. Orphans
form the major chunk of the drop outs as they are highly dependent on their
relatives/guardians for their survival.
 Most pitiable scenario is, the orphan children are not even considered as citizens of
India (majority) and are denied for availing most of the government schemes
applicable to them as they seldom possess any residential proof in case of complete
orphans.(Hopefully Laws are being amended lately with low accountability and
transparency with Government machinery)
 Majority of the drop outs are girls.
 There is clear absence of towering personality who can guide the children to aim for
better heights
 Lack of teacher’s responsiveness has been a common complaint in majority of the
schools. Absentee teachers and irresponsible village committees are a common sight.
 Majority of the teachers do not live in the villages in which their school is situated.

Our project:

Education wing of the came up with a project of school, to strengthen the quality of
education and produce academically competent and ethically disciplined citizens besides
taking into account each and every section of the student community so that no child is left
out in this developmental paradigm. We consider the Nature as the ideal teacher for any being
in this universe and we do give utmost importance to the surrounding environment. The
proposed School program is going to be established Village/Block levels in Haridwar
Parliamentary constituency which is at a stretch of 5 acres land to meet the educational needs
of about 1500 students in the age group of 6-14 years in a phased manner. The entire setting
would be in the lap of nature so that student can integrate into the environment and develop
an attitude of dynamism and at the same time accommodative which are the inherent
characteristics of Nature.

We Endeavour to create an atmosphere where in the child feels openness against that of the
stuffiness which is the status of 90% of the schools. The openness refers to both the physical
setting as well as the way the child gets interacted with the outer surroundings. Here, the
students are expected to be nurtured, not in the academic atmosphere of scholarship and
learning, or in the maimed life of monastic seclusion, but in the atmosphere of living
aspiration. They shall learn the lessons of the life, cultivate kindness to all creatures, and
grew in their spirit with their own teachers’ spiritual growth.

Creating awareness amongst the villagers:

BLSS team has actively associated itself in working with villagers and has vociferously
campaigned for the strengthening of village school committees. We have conducted many
awareness camps for the villagers so that they themselves take part in the village reformation
programs and help create a better destiny for their children and village at large

School Construction Budget:

S,No Details of Cost in Rs.

Construction Cost

1 5 Acres Land Cost per acre Q rate of Rs. 500000 x 5 2500000

2 Class rooms for vi std to XII construction, Library, Activity 20000000

hall, Toilets, Office room, Teachers Room, Equipment Cost
for Bore well, Electricity Fittings, wiring

3 Administration Cost 2500000

staffs salaries, Office Staff Salaries, Other relevant

Expenses, Purchase of 4 Wheelers, and Two wheeler,
Office maintenance ,Educational Materials,

Total 25000000

for 6 Places of Schools x 25000000 150000000

Our vision is to foster a society in which every child from the school will become a Universal
man with no bias towards any particular creed but for only the ultimate truth. To equip him
with

a strong mind to deal with the gales of disturbing thoughts,

a strong intellect to face the critical challenges of life,
a strong conviction to conquer the world by his selfless love and
a strong bondage with the every being in the nature to spread the harmony
Since the project is capital intensive it is proposed to implement the project in a phase wise
manner and in this direction we have already procured the required land. We request you to
support us in endeavor to construct a residential facility for orphans and school for providing
education to them along with under privileged children in the vicinity. We would be glad to
provide any further information if required.

IV.PROJECT PROPOSAL ON NATURAL CALAMITIES SHELTERS

Project Summary:
The project aims to assist the poor disaster vulnerable communities of Haridwar District in
adapting the adverse impact of Climate Change and also in reducing the risk factors of
disasters so that they can sustain their livelihood and better life for the future. The Super Goal
of the project is to contribute in achieving the targets of the Millennium Development Goal
(MDG) of the government of India in the face of increased natural disasters and climate
change. It will contribute to the National Plan for Disaster Management.

Project Impact:
The project will contribute directly to the progress of the country towards all major
development and resilience framework and strategies in place at global and national level. It
is very difficult to estimate as multiple factors are in place, but specific measures will be
taken in close collaboration of the national government, mandated organizations, dedicated
project teams and other relevant stakeholders in this regard. This can be measured by the
number of policy and programme related measures taken in joint partnership with the
Government of India at national level. At local level partnerships with the administrative
functions on climate and disaster risk management will be established and their capacity to
leverage at least 10 % increase in climate adaptive financing will be ensured at the end of the
project period.

Project Outcomes/Outputs:

 Improved rural livelihood strategies of the vulnerable communities through introduction

of climate adaptive livelihood measures and capacity building towards predicted
conditions of climate change
 Improved policy and institutional arrangements to plan and deliver climate resilient
development approaches at local level (Institutional strengthening)
 Build capacities of community organisations and partners to effectively respond to
disasters and implement socially inclusive and innovative community based climate
change adaptation and mitigation

Enhanced sharing, learning and reflection on practical experience and good models of climate
change mitigation and adaptation for integration at local, national and global level

Strategic Framework:

The project strategic framework is guided by the national frameworks and action plan on risk
reduction and climate change adaptation. The combination of frequent natural disasters, high
population density, poor infrastructure and low resilience to economic shocks make Haridwar
District especially vulnerable to climatic risks. The high incidence of poverty and heavy
reliance of poor people on agriculture and natural resources increases their vulnerability to
climate change”. Vulnerability results from people being exposed to hazards that present an
unacceptable level of risk to personal safety and their livelihood. The hazard is therefore the
“trigger” that exposes the vulnerable elements of the community to greater risks. In practice,
this usually refers to the poorest of society. Identifying, analyzing and assessing potential
negative impacts of hazards and then targeting risk that is specific to communities will lead to
an increase in community resilience and a decrease in duration of negative impacts as a result
of this.

Continuing to build community resilience through identifying and expanding indigenous

coping capacities and strengthening traditional warning systems have been considered as very
important strategies and integrated as major thrusts of the project. Marginalized groups
(women, children, disabled persons and the hardcore poor) will be specifically targeted with a
goal to strengthening their capacity and confidence to access a range of support services with
a view to minimizing the personal negative impacts associated with disaster situations.

The project development framework recognizes that the success of this strategy lies in the
sustainability of project interventions and that lower level committees and organizations are
best positioned to provide this support at a frequency that will result in tangible outcomes at
the community level.

Local community is the one of the most vulnerable due to Global Climate Change. Though
the Development Disaster is the key factor to influence and bringing the disaster in that area
but Global Climate Change is making complex the vulnerability of that area. It is proved
scientifically that due to the Climate Change number of stronger cyclone is hitting the coastal
area and this area bear the mark of this statement. Salinity intrusion due to sea level rise as
the consequences of the climate change is making more saline prone area and forcing
thousands of people to migrate. There are several environmental problem existed such as the
consequences of Shrimp farming and the polder system, Environmental Mismanagement etc
which is making harder for the community to reduce poverty but the cyclone is making
hardest to reach with the goal of poverty reduction and meeting the goal of MGDs ultimately.

Poverty and Food Insecurity:

Poverty and food insecurity is widespread in the project areas. The situation aggravates after
any disaster event.
The major livelihoods in the affected areas, farming, suffered significant damage and loss due
to continuous inundation of paddy fields

Unstable Livelihoods:

Agriculture and shrimp farming are the major areas of employment and livelihood in the
selected Haridwar District . Around 85% people are employed in agriculture and landless
farmers make up almost 66% of the population.
Following table presents a summary digest of the key characteristics of the different groups.

Stakeholder group Critical Issues

Community people/households  Chronic and persistent ill-health affecting capacity
marginalised and vulnerable to to work
disaster risks Asset-less male &  Lack of physical security/ fear of theft & robbery
female headed households  Women in male likely to seasonally migrate but
i.e. no homestead receive lower wages
sharecropper/reared,  Women commonly report domestic violence during
temporary migration — seasonal and crisis situations.
daily,  Depending on homestead location subject to regular
Mainly dependent on day/wage inundation and thus dependent on landowners for
labour and experience acute food access to homestead/sharecropping land.
shortage.
Women and child headed As above and including:
households : De jure and de facto  Highly vulnerable to physical, sexual and verbal
without male protection harassment
 Already constrained mobility further compromised
due to absence of males/adults.
 No male representative means doubly excluded
from local support systems.
Communities on or outside As above and including:
embankment.  Whilst linked to government support, other service
provision often minimal.
Adolescent girls  Highly vulnerable to physical, sexual and verbal
harassment
 Low social status – considered burden because of
dowry obligations
 Age and gender act to exclude girls from
community level decision-making processes.
Elderly People and disables with no  excluded from most early warning and other
family support information, decision-making networks
 extreme food insecurity
 dependent on charity and/or relief

The project (detailed description of what would be in the logical framework

The Project is designed with the input of stakeholders and project participants to increase
disaster resilience through social mobilization and empowering the poor and marginalized
communities in the Madurai and ultimately contribute to their poverty reduction in a
sustainable way. In designing the project and then checking the logical connections between
planned activities and intended results, standard project logical framework template is used to
set the logical linkage among the goal, purpose and objectives. A project monitoring and
evaluation framework elaborated with SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic
& Time bound) indicators has been developed.
.
The project will be implemented with a rights based approach of development. Poor and
marginalized peoples’ rights and demand for safe life and livelihoods including participation
in the issues that affect their lives i.e. Ganga river management will be focused through social
mobilisation, solidarity building and knowledge management. The project integrates
crosscutting issues like gender, environment, governance and poverty, has a multi-
stakeholder focus and promotes linking and learning.

Beneficiary Analysis
The proposed project area is highly vulnerable to the climate change and disaster related
risks. Due to climate change and attacks of two consequent Dry and floods, the targeted areas
has lost huge bio-diversity resources. Traditional livelihood options are not able meet food
security needs of poor people. No integrated initiatives are undertaken neither by the
government nor the non-governmental organizations. As a result of these, poverty situation is
decreasing and people are forced to migrate in search of better livelihood.

The project will directly work with 10,000 persons living in the most vulnerable and disaster-
prone areas of Haridwar; however the benefits will gradually encompass a larger portion of
the total local community. These beneficiary figures are on the higher side because of the
mass awareness activities planned under information, education and communication and local
disaster management sector.

Empowerment and active participation of the poor, in particular women, through

community based organisations

Due to imbalances in power, the extreme poor households, and women in particular, have
limited access to information, resources and their participation in the decision making
processes, that they are also extremely effective in advocacy and networking to mobilise local
resources from government and NGOs, according to their rights and locally determined
development priorities. For the participants, primarily women, the experience of developing
their own successful businesses and participating in community leadership positions has
contributed significantly to their empowerment. Women’s active participation in groups and
CBOs has not only empowered them socially, but also helped them to increase their political
role.

Sustainability

The proposed project builds on ongoing risk reduction and climate adaptation programmes
implemented BLSS. Through the experience of these projects a high level of sustainability is
envisaged as long as the overall project activities are not overambitious or demanding.
Keeping previous experience in mind, this operation will cover a much smaller geographical
area and will focus more on developing and strengthening the existing coping and adaptation
capacities of the communities and institutions. The activities will consider and integrate
everyday community problems and hazards including basic health care, and water and
sanitation into the climate adaptation work. The project aims to implement the activities with
the collective involvement of beneficiaries in order to ensure sustainability.
The project will sustain beyond the completion of its three year life time in terms of
institutions, financial and policy aspects. In terms of institutional aspect, it will be
sustainable. The project will expand its approaches to address the rights of participation on
water management, climate change and disaster management issues, with support from
CBOs, grass organisations, civil society and media, and build greater public engagement with
the service providers for a sustainable solution risk reduction. Focusing on empower
communities through an integrated approach to rights based programming by providing
community members with the capacity and knowledge they need to ensure safety of their life
and livelihood in the face of natural disasters and facilitating linkages among donor,
government and community activities to deepen impact and sustainability.

Thus the key sustainability strategies and approaches of the projects includes human capacity
building through training and awareness of the citizens, Organisational capacity building.
Building network and partnership. All methods and models being proposed have been tested
and found to be effective and sustainable. BLSS has built sustainability into the project
through processes of capacity building for those who have been marginalized in the past, and
those responsible for providing services to the vulnerable, together with survival support for
the individual households who are victim of disasters and climatic risk.

The project activities would like to establish an effective community mobilization which
would provide a base to mainstream climate adaptation efforts with other important sectors
and phases of humanitarian and development programmes. The important part will be sharing
a vision around the issues faced by the community to ensure their ownership and work in
collaboration. The project design in particular capacity building and awareness raising
activities will strive towards linking and mainstreaming these measures by selecting various
themes on water and sanitation, education and health etc.

 Project monitoring system

A project monitoring system will be developed involving all the partners to regularly monitor
the progress made against the indicators identified. This monitoring system will show the
type of data needed for each indicator, the methodology and frequency of data collection, and
how the data will be analyzed and reported.

Joint field visits

Such visits are instrumental for monitoring the quality of the project actions with technical
partners with staff with different technical backgrounds. Having different perspectives on the
team will facilitate a more complete analysis and understanding and avoid that cross-cutting
themes, i.e., equality, gender, HIV/AIDS and environment are not overlooked. The joint field
visits will be scheduled quarterly for the first year of the project and semi-annually thereafter.

Monitoring Instruments

A variety of monitoring tools will be used for the purpose of monitoring. Care would be
taken to make the monitoring tools user-friendly, improvement-oriented, simple (language),
self-instructional, comprehensive, independent of bias, co and easy to analyze. Generally,
following tools are used:
 Report card,
  Questionnaire
 Checklist
 Observation schedules
 Interview guide

Budget
S.No Details Amount in Rs.

1 Purchase of Land in 3 acres @ Rs. 200000 x 3 600000

2 Construction cost with all related materials fittings etc 5000000

3 One month Hospitalities expenses 200000

4 Health care support 10000

5 Maintenance staffs Honorarium Rs. 10,000 x 3 x 12 3,60,000

6 Miscellaneous 100000

Total 5910000

For 6 places x 5910000 35460000

V.PROPOSAL FOR PRIMARY HEALTH CARE WITH 4 BEDED HOSPITAL AND

HEALTH EDUCATION IN RURAL AREAS IN Haridwar PALIAMENTARY
CONSTITUENCYIN PLACES:

OBJECTIVES:
The objective is to start a four Bedded Nirogdham Hospital and Health Centers in the rural/urban
communities of Haridwar Parliamentary Constituency in Bahadrabad, Haridwar . We propose to do
this by applying novel solutions that take advantage of developments in harnessing solar power,
computers, and information technology. Our strategy is to use technology to provide effective early
medical intervention, deliver expert health care, and minimize the inconvenience caused to patients
and health-workers from poor logistics and long travel time. To provide health education emphasizing
family planning, hygiene, sanitation, and prevention of communicable diseases.
OVERVIEW:
The long-term goal of the BLSS and the KOTA funding agencies has been to provide health care to
rural/Urban communities through HCs. However, even with large funding, these centers have not
been successful for a variety of reasons that include lack of decent facilities, equipment for
performing even simple laboratory tests, etc. Even more important is a social reality: there just are not
enough trained and qualified doctors to adequately serve the entire urban and rural populations of
India even if we could provide financial incentives for them to work in rural areas. Since we believe
that the dearth of doctors willing to practice in rural areas and their reluctance to travel to, let alone
live in, remote areas will continue to exist for a long time to come, we have incorporated this reality
into our planning from the start as described in this proposal. Our plan, therefore, is to increase the
effectiveness of doctors who are willing to work in rural areas by a large factor. This can be
accomplished by reducing the need for doctors in the initial screening of patients, and by allocating
one physician for every HCs. Simultaneously; we plan to make working at HCs more attractive and
satisfying.
The result of non-functioning HCs has been that, in many cases, diseases are not diagnosed in their
early stages nor treated. The rural population has to often travel to urban areas when they can no
longer bear the suffering caused by the disease, thus increasing the load on hospitals in urban areas
and ending up with serious complications that, in many cases, could have easily been treated at their
early stages. The need to rectify this problem has become critical especially given the fact that over
652 million people live in rural areas across the country with poor awareness of health issues. This
ignorance, coupled with the increased mobility between rural and urban areas, has led to an explosive
increase in the spread of diseases like HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B and C.
We envisage HCs functioning as the first level in a hierarchical system of health care facilities. At this
primary level, HCs will play two equally important roles: First, diagnosis of diseases based on
symptoms and simple laboratory tests, and their treatment either at the centers or through referral.
Second, health education leading to family planning, better hygiene and sanitation, and prevention of
communicable diseases, especially sexually transmitted diseases.

STEPS IN THE PROCESS OF ENHANCING THE CAPABILITIES OF THE HEALTH

CENTRE:

The first step is to furbish the existing Health Centre (land, building, equipment, and supplies). We
anticipate each HC to consist of an initial screening room with a computer, an examination room for
the doctor, a laboratory for medical tests and supplies, and toilets. The furnishing will be simple,
comfortable, and durable.
The most critical infrastructure element is electricity. We propose to use either solar panels or diesel
generators (depending on a cost-benefit analysis) connected to batteries for uninterrupted electric
power for computers and laboratory equipment. Each HC will have a full time staff consisting of a
paramedic individual to perform initial screening with the computer, a trained nurse or physicians’
assistant, and a laboratory technician. We anticipate that a qualified medical doctor will be shared
between 3-5 HCs in a given area. Training of this staff in the novel technology and in the holistic
approach we are proposing will be extensive and continuous, and their performance will be monitored
constantly as described in Appendices B and C.
In addition to the testing capability of the on-site medical laboratory, a crucial tool for diagnosis will
be the computer. A software program shall assist the technician in maintaining, in a protected and
confidential manner, the medical history of all patients, in suggesting tests to perform, and to evaluate
possible causes based on the symptoms displayed or the description given by the patient. It will also
incorporate the medical history in making the probable diagnosis. In addition, based on this
diagnosis, it will also prescribe medicines for minor illnesses, which will be sold at cost by the HC. In
cases of probable major illnesses or when the diagnosis is not clear, the computer output will propose
a future course of action further tests and possibly a visit to a specialist. In the latter case, the
computer will print out the patient’s relevant/essential history that can be taken to the specialist. We
anticipate that the majority of cases will be handled at the level of HCs, thus drastically cutting down
the burden placed on hospitals and doctors. A brief description of the software is given later and in
Appendix D. Patients visiting HCs will also be provided health education by the staff through posters
and through audiovisual demonstrations. Providing information and help with family planning, and
awareness on communicable diseases, will be a key role of the staff. Community programs for which
we shall form collaborations with BLSS and social workers will supplement these activities.
At present we envisage each HC to be an isolated unit. All software updates and sharing of
information would have to be uploaded/downloaded periodically by a person traveling from center to
center. We plan to connect each HC to its assigned doctor through wireless communications and a
palm computer. Over a three-year time frame we propose to connect the computers at different HCs
through standard telephone and/or cell phone link to a central coordination/support center. The central
facility will then be able to collect and update the data from all HCs within its jurisdiction, and
perform pattern detection and epidemiological analysis, thereby predicting epidemics and exposing
widespread health problems in their early stages. In addition to simplifying the
uploading/downloading of data onto the central computer, this enhancement will allow on-line access
to specialists via e-mail, further reducing patient's travel time and cost and the load on urban health
care facilities.
As a final step, we anticipate enhancing the diagnostic capability of HCs through video consultations
wherein the patient (through the HC) will access a physician (and even a specialist) via a two-way
video camera and screen. We anticipate that this technology and the required transmission rate using
cellular connections will become a reality in rural areas/urban in 5-10 years.
HEALTH EDUCATION AND DISEASE PREVENTION:
Rural areas faces many very serious problems. Notable amongst them are potable water, emerging
pandemics, population control, good hygiene and sanitation practices, basic education, and simple
techniques for improving their crops and lives (see Appendix C). One cannot expect to upgrade the
people’s health without simultaneously making an impact on these issues, and vice versa. We will,
therefore, train and empower the staff at the HCs to spread awareness on some of these issues, build
trust within the community, and to take a holistic approach to health care.
Using the telephone link to the central facility, relevant training and educational material and specific
health instructions will be periodically transmitted to the computers at all HCs, and the status of
various educational programs will be monitored.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:
For the HCs to be effective, people have to believe that the HCs are there to serve them and to provide
value. To facilitate this we plan to involve the local population in the operation and in the community
outreach programs. We also plan to encourage cultural activities, self-help programs, and health
education through the HCs. The monitoring role of BLSS will be to evaluate the performance of HCs
and to provide guidance. Evaluation will be based on one simple criterion whether the HCs have
significantly improved the health and well being of the community.

HEALTH CARE IN REMOTE AREAS:

Persons involved in health care in remote, rural and backward areas will be able to use it easily. The
basic qualifications expected of a person who will use this software are knowledge of English, a
simple understanding of computers, and a strong motivation and aptitude for primary health care. It
does not require someone with a medical degree or even formally trained health workers and nurses.
Users will undergo specific training to use the software, and will have extensive hands-on training
before they are allowed to use it in the field.
There are two main persons involved in the use of this software: the patient and the interviewer
(computer user). The software will prompt the interviewer with the questions to ask. The software will
keep on evaluating the answers and posing new questions until it has narrowed the list of possibilities
down to a probable diagnosis or a future course of action. The interviewer is, therefore, passive in
this process. This feature has been incorporated by design to minimize the medical knowledge
expected of the interviewer. For cases referred to specialists or hospitals, the interviewer is
responsible for following up and making sure that the paperwork, diagnosis, and results of lab tests
are entered into the computer to maintain the full and up to date medical history.
BUDGET COST:

S.No Details Amount in Rs.

1 Purchase of Land in 1 Acre@ Rs.300000 x 1 300000
2 Construction Cost 2000000
3 Solar Panels and Batteries 500000
4 Computers and Printers 75000
5 Laboratories tools 150000
6 Medical supplies 250000
7 Stationeries 40000
8 Furniture’s 200000
Operating Costs:
9 Physician 1 x Rs.40000 x 12 480000
10 Paramedic/Computer Operator 1 x Rs. 10000 x 12 120000
11 Nurse/Medical Assistant 2 x Rs. 10000 x 12 240000
12 Lab technician 1 x 8000 x 12 96000
13 Cost of Transportation 1 x 250000 250000
14 Miscellaneous 100000
15 Vehicle 700000
Total 3995000
for 6 places x 23970000

MANAGEMENT OF OPERATION:
A Steering Committee consisting of representatives from the donors, government officials, and local
communities will oversee the project. Day-to-day operations will be carried out by a management
team under the supervision of BLSS/ Representative of Donors. Funds received will be credited to a
Trust account in a bank(s), and will be operated by BLSS. BLSS will have the overall responsibility
for executing the project, and will coordinate its activities with government agencies and other
participating in the program.

Appendix A: Management of the Project

Overall project management is the responsibility of BLSS . The advisory board (see Appendix I) will
assist in continued development of the concept and strategy. The steering committee for this project
will representatives of local, state, and central governments, and prominent local Doctors/ physicians.
We anticipate the total strength of this committee to be up to 10 individuals. They will be responsible
for overall planning, setting of priorities, budgeting, and monitoring of the project, and for developing
new opportunities. To facilitate the development and operation of this project,
The Head Office will be adequately staffed to perform overall management and administration of the
project. It will include a Project Manager, Assistant Managers/Coordinators, accountants, software
engineers, and consultants, as required. Development of training and educational material, on-line
communication with HCs, and other centralized functions will be carried out by this Head Office.
For every HCs, there will be a Support and Training Center. It will be staffed with a project
administrator, 5 field coordinators (social/health workers), 3 computer technicians, and 2 staff
members for training PHC staff under the supervision of a physician. These Centers will be
responsible for responding to the needs of their respective PHCs (repair of hardware, updating of
software, allocation of medicine and supplies, training, coordination, etc.), and for monitoring their
activities. These centers will be established within their respective communities, and will store and
handle supplies and medicine needed by the HCs. The project administrator is responsible for keeping
the Head Office informed of the progress, and for executing its directives.
While each HC operates independently, one physician will be assigned to every 3-5 HCs, and will be
responsible for ensuring the quality of health care delivered by them. Field coordinators will oversee
the activities of HCs. We anticipate the involvement of local NGOs in the smooth running of HCs,
and for providing assistance in delivering health education and for social activities. Social/health
workers will be empowered to develop peer groups. These individuals will be selected from within
the community to act as teachers and role models. To facilitate dissemination of information and for
building trust within the community, we shall provide financial incentives to the peer groups to
partially compensate their efforts.
Project progress will be evaluated at monthly meetings with senior administrators, and by field
inspections. The steering committee will meet at least once every six months. Annual status reports
will be circulated to all concerned parties, including the major donors, at the end of each year and
within 60 days following the end of the fiscal year. Adjustments to the program will be made as and
when necessary, and new and/or innovative ideas for improving the service will be field-tested when
deemed appropriate.
Appendix B: Support and Training Centers
Ongoing Support and Training of HC personnel are the responsibility of the Support and Training
Centers established for every 50 PHCs. Support activities consist of recruiting HC staff, set-up of
facilities, supply of medicine, maintenance/repair of hardware, coordination of transportation,
interaction with local community, etc. Field coordinators and computer technicians carry out most of
these activities. Arrangements with doctors and hospitals/clinics in the nearby areas will be made for
handling referrals from PHCs. Involvement of local NGOs will be encouraged.
Support activities will be coordinated and made efficient through on-line communications, tracking
procedures/systems, pre-maintenance, periodic status review meetings, and other techniques. The
goal is to ensure that PHCs are fully operational at all times to serve the community.
Training of PHC staff covers the following areas: a) administration of PHCs, b) use of system, c)
conducting laboratory tests, d) proper understanding of the cultural and social norms of the area, and
e) how to carry out health education. Comprehensive training for the above will be conducted at the
Support and Training Centers, which will be followed by on-site training at the HCs under the
supervision of physicians and field coordinators. Training materials and User Guides will be supplied.
The operator is expected to have basic understanding of Hindi/English, enough to input information
into the computer and read and translate the questions posed by the computer from Hindi/English into
the vernacular. We believe that individuals with good high school graduation results or with higher
education can be trained to carry out this task.
The complete training course material for the lab technician and the operator will also be made
available at each HC as an interactive software package on a CD. One of the most important aspects
of the training will be the communication skill of the staff. In additional to Hindi/English, they will
need to be fluent in the language of the community they serve. Since gaining the trust of the
community is the foundation stone of our approach, we feel that communication skills are very
important. Using the feedback we receive from the HCs, illustrative examples of good communication
with patients and the community will be developed in an audiovisual format, and will be included in
the training.
Training to provide health education will be an integral part of the program. The initial scope of this
program and the current status in the development of the material are described in Appendix C. We
will supplement this by initiating an active program to attract visiting physicians, social scientists, and
public health officials. Their recommendations will be incorporated where appropriate, and additional
training and educational materials will be developed with their assistance

Appendix C: Health Education and Community Activities

Initially we shall concentrate on the following community health education related activities:
 Training of local women as midwives to reduce risks during childbirth.
 Instruct women on pre and post-natal care and early childhood development.
 Provide information on family planning and birth control.
 Give instructions on simple practices that improve hygiene and sanitation.
 Provide instructions on how to make drinking water safe.
 Provide information on how to reduce the risk of communicable diseases.
An educational course on health and hygiene, emerging pandemics (TB, malaria, Hepatitis B,
Hepatitis C, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV), addictions (alcohol, tobacco, drugs), abuses
(emotional, physical, sexual), and environmental concerns (air and water pollution) has already been
developed in Microsoft PowerPoint 97. At present this material is information rich and in the form of
brief summary statements -- an information resource organized by topics. Over time we propose to
convert this into a modular multimedia format. The modularity aspect is crucial as we envisage
maintaining a central backbone that is relatively stable and examples illustrating the points to be
drawn using local people and situations. Offering health education and learning how to communicate
the message in a simple manner will be an integral part of the training for the entire staff. It will be
available at each HC so that the staff can refresh their understanding as needed.
A second important way in which we propose to deliver these instructions is to develop homegrown
video demonstrations. These will be recorded using local people who hold the respect of the
communities, and using local situations to provide better identification with the problems and the
solutions. These videos will be duplicated for distribution and the local HC staff will be trained to
further explain and demonstrate the procedures so as to make their adoption easier.
Instructions will also be offered to the community at the time of visit to the HCs. We plan to use the
computer at the HCs and possibly a television with a video player to continually provide this
information while patients/families wait for their checkup.
Local community centers and village meetings are other forums for presenting the information.
NGOs and social workers will be provided the necessary tools, like the homegrown videos, to enable
them to educate the rural population on health issues. The field coordinators will organize the above
activities with the assistance of local NGOs and community leaders.
Appendix D: Results of Field Testing
The system will be implemented at HCs only with government approval. The use of the system and its
benefits will be explained to local officials, community leaders, and the general population at village
meetings. It must be noted that the system is only the first line of intervention, and all serious cases
will be referred to doctors and/or hospitals.
The data entered into the computers will be regarded as sensitive and highly confidential as it will
contain the patient's and possibly their family's medical and social history. It is therefore essential
that we address the issue of confidentiality properly. To guarantee this the software will incorporate
the same degree of checks and security procedures that are employed in today's financial world.
All the rates provided in this estimate approximately rate will differed as per loctation &
market rate.

VI.PROJECT PROPOSAL ON 500 WATTS SOLAR PANAL TO BE ERECTED TO

EVERY POOR FAMILY:

The Solar Panel to be Erected to every poor family in Haridwar Parliamentary constituency
This project addresses the priority area of agricultural support. The project also strongly
supports health, education, general economic development and community infrastructure.

The lack of a reliable power supply is a major impediment to development in rural areas such
as Haridwar District where none of the major population centers are served by electricity.
Electrification is a cornerstone of development. Economic growth and the reduction of
poverty are difficult or impossible without the enabling power of electricity in all sectors of
village life.

Solar powered are economical, reliable and easy to sustain. Solar enable the use of water
sources ranging from surface water to barbells. When coupled with the latest technologies in
efficient small-scale irrigation, solar electricity has the power to dramatically increase
agricultural production and family well-being in the following ways:

 Help poor farmers overcome rainfall and water constraints by providing a sustainable
supply of water for cultivation and livestock.
 Provide increased food security to poor communities by irrigating crops during the
previously unproductive dry season.
 Fresh food grown in the dry season will contribute to the alleviation of poor nutrition.
 Increased production will provide a source of household income through the sale of
surplus food, especially for women who are generally in charge of vegetable
production.
 The introduction of efficient technology and methods will help build agricultural
capacity in the Haridwar District.

In recognition that the sectors of health, education, communication, security and village
commerce all work together with agriculture to improve life in a farming community, solar
energy will also be used to provide general support to villages in the following ways when
the pilot phase is complete and the full-scale project is implemented:

 Lights and vaccine refrigerators for health clinics

 Lights and computers for school classrooms
 Streetlights for security
 Radio phones and/or internet connectivity
 Micro-enterprise centers
  Solar well pumps to augment village domestic water supply
 Home lighting systems

In addition to the direct benefits to the 100 residents of Haridwar District, this project will
form a replicable model that.

Project Description

1. Install a pilot micro-enterprise center after determining the needs of local village
businesses, the ability to pay for the energy service, and the physical and energy
requirements needed to construct and power the centers.
2. Install model solar home lighting systems in order to assess the interest in the
systems, the ability to pay for them, and the steps necessary to create a solar business
to provide home systems supported by a revolving micro-credit scheme.
3. Perform a full socio-economic survey of all villages to determine needs and to form a
baseline from which to measure objectives.
4. Research and determine cost-effective and sustainable communications options for
villages, including solar-powered radio telephones, satellite communications, internet,
etc.
5. Demonstrate in one village, all PV systems proposed for Phase Two.
.
Implementation:

 Maximum local input from villagers as well as a comprehensive survey

assures that the project meets the most critical needs as defined by the
community itself.

 Maximum commitment from the project villages. As villagers help design the
project, they also commit to support it by organizing user groups and by
committing to pay affordable fees for the home, agricultural and micro-
enterprise systems and operation and maintenance fees for community service
systems such as schools, clinics, water supply and streetlights

Budget
S.No Detail Amount in Rs.
1 each villages 100 x 200x Rs.39000 780000000

VII.PROJECT PROPOSAL ON FREE/NOMINAL RATE DRINKING WATER

SUPPLY:

Title of the Proposal:

Community Water supply and sanitation (CWSS) project exclusively for Free/Nominal rate
to Urban & Rural Poors.
Objectives of the Proposal:
 To provide Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation Facilities
 Improve Health Conditions through Hygiene Education and Practices
 Enhance Home and Village Environment
 Develop Human Resources and Capacity of Communities
 Alleviate Poverty and Improve the quality of life People in the target area
Work plan and methodology:
Present situation:
 75 % of population with no access to WSS and Vulnerability to waterborne diseases
 Heavy expenditure by Government on free medical care through Primary Health
Centers and Government hospitals.
 No involvement of beneficiaries
 No people centered activities
 So, this situation led the BLSS to search for an alternative approach and apply to
KOTA for seeking grant.

Justification:
Fluoride-contaminated water poses a serious threat to affected communities. Excessive
fluoride content (exceeding the WHO-recommended guideline of 1.5 mg/L) cause serious
health issues like skeletal and dental fluorosis, debilitating bone diseases, infertility, skin
infections, and so on. There are a number of water purification solutions. However, many of
these solutions do not address the issue of fluoride; and all existing de-fluoridization
solutions (such as household reverse-osmosis filters) are out of reach of populations who
need it most. The problem is not technology; it is affordability and reach.
BLSS will have partnership with the selected with the village Panchayats and Jilapanchat
which is necessary to improve of Haridwar District, Uttrakhand,to create a community-
owned solution to the proble. BLSS will invest in a water de-fluoridization & purification
plant with the support of donor KOTA charitable Trust Visahapatnam . The Panchayats will
be required to grant access to a raw water source. The aim is to distribute the water at a
minimal processing charge affordable to all. These charges will pay for the plant, at which
point ownership will be turned over to the community. This is envisioned to be a sustainable
solution, independent of regular outside funding or government.

Solution
The proposed community based water plant, will cover selected grama panchayats
population in the selected grama panchayats. The region was chosen for its high fluoride
content. The communities in the selected Grama Panchayats suffer from extreme poverty,
and lacks even basic facilities. So, the water will be provided at a charge of 20 paise per litre
to them. In less than three months, the water plant will supply over population .
The proposed water plant can generate thousands of liters of clean water per day. With a
vehicle containing a tanker, water from the plant will be supplied to the villages. The vehicle
can carry purify waters at a time and make three trips per day to supply thousands liters of
water per day to the far flung villages. To open swachksh Jal centre in village level.

Project Concepts
  People centered
 Demand responsive
 Community plan, construct, own and manage

PROJECT ACTIVITIES:
 Establishment of Water purification Unit
 RO Water Supply to community people
 School Water Supply
 Sanitation (Village & School) – Construction of Individual toilets in houses and in
school campus
 Conducting Hygiene Awareness, behavior & Attitude change awareness camps to
SHG members, Youth, adolescent girls and school students
 Environmental Conservation – Tree plantation & solid waste management
 Stakeholder Capacity Building – Training to the unit operators, care takers and water
distributing workers
 Skill development and Vocational training to Adolescent girls and unemployed youth,
community.
Proposed Ownership to be Established:
Opportunity will be provided to the Community for:
 Water source selection
 Decision making on option & service level selection
 Cost sharing – minimum 100% of capital cost Procurement & Construction
 Scheme M&E including tariff setting
 Selection & training of care-takers
 Recognition by the Govt:& other organizations
SUSTAINABILITY
In the proposed project the following factors will contribute the sustainability of the project
activities:
 Effective / innovative community mobilization
 Establishment of CBOs by beneficiaries for management sustainability
 Fee based water supply to the beneficiaries (the purified water will be sold for Rs.
0.20 per liter) for economical sustainability.
 Creation of sense of ownership from the inception for social sustainability
 Implementation activities backed by Training
 Community at the midst of decision making
 Involvement of experienced NGOs as Partners
 CBO capacity building
 Women/unemployed person will play lead role
 CBO – prominent partner of local institution network
 Insuring CBO assets (the equipments & machineries in the water purification center)

Methodology:
 Participatory Community Development Approach
 Beneficiaries play the lead role in the entire process of implementation
 Beneficiaries share minimum 10% of the capital cost
 Communities plan, construct, own, operate and manage
 Entrust heavy responsibilities to Community Based Organization (CBO) on trust
 Encourage economic, social and cultural activities apart from WSS
The participatory Community Development approach includes the following factors:
  Awareness creation through mobilization on the inter-linkages among hygiene
education, sanitation and water
 Source protection and household level environment programs
 Participatory health monitoring
 Involvement of local health staff
 Effective coordination at all levels

Long-Term Impact
Full utilization of the water plant will allow for the cost of water to be further reduced.
Reduction in water cost will enable more people to use clean water not just for drinking but
for cooking as well. We expect the problems with flouride contaminated water will
significantly reduce among SC people in these grama panchayats if everyone can access
clean water for cooking and drinking.
In low income communities, every second visit made to the doctor is related to a water borne
disease. An average family might end up spending upto 10% of monthly income on medical
and associated expenses. BLSS believes, the key initiative to ensure water availability and to
help people to come out of the vicious circle of poverty led by frequent sickness is through a
sustainable provision of low-cost safe drinking water on a pay-per-use basis.
In the Corporate sector a lot of public money outlay is being made in the name of installing
purification machine. And also they produce packaged drinking water in bottles and plastic
sachets. Sadly and unfortunately, in most of the cases, the purification plants break down or
lie unused over the long run and cost of packaged drinking water is very high (Rs. 12 per
liter). Hence, the under-served remain un-served especially the DC Community in the target
area.

The following Impacts will also be seen in the target area:

 Improved health condition
 Reduced expenditure on medical bills
 No water crisis
 Open defecation will be reduced
 Ground water table will be increased
 Enhanced labor productivity
 Increased family income
 Improved health condition relieved the Government from a heavy burden of providing
free medical care
 Scheduled Caste community people will join the mainstream of development

Budget:
S.No. Particulars Amount Rs.
1 Establishment of Water purification Unit – Cost of equipments 600000
2 RO Water Supply to community people (cost of vehicle – mini 750000
van)
3 Land Purchase of the Water plantation 500000
4 Environmental Conservation – Tree plantation & solid waste 250000
management
6 Salary to Project coordinator Rs. 20,000 x 12 months 240000
7 Salary to Water plant assistant Rs. 10,000 x 12 months 120000
Total 24600000
for 200 places x24600000 492000000