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Banwasi Seva Ashram
Since 2007, Ashram has shifted to initiative. Ashram campus has a dairy
demonstration of organic farming farm where crossbreed cows and bulls
practices. Locally prepared organic are maintained to help local farmers with
manures and pesticides prepared using artificial insemination. The Ashram
organic methods are used in the Ashram dairy farm also provides veterinary
farm. 140 farmers in the Ashram area services and training to the local farmers.
now regularly practice organic farming Now the local bread cows are promoted
and are associated with Ashram’s in Ashram dairy.
5 Gram Nirman (Village Development)
themselves to get their decreed
entitlements. Gramswarajya Sabhas are
instrumental in resolving the village
disputes within village itself and in
containing corruption. In addition,
through the medium of GSS, the Ashram
has addressed a wide variety of social
problems in tribal villages related to
bonded labour, child marriage, gender
equality, social taboos and rehabilitation
of people displaced due to
Gramswarajya Sabhas have been set up industrialisation. The Ashram maintains
in 445 villages that take initiative in thirteen Gram Nirman Kendra (Village
introducing social reforms, Development Centres) in the main work.
implementation of the development At each centre, a team of volunteers is
programmes, promoting women's posted to help the surrounding villages
equality and development, promoting in implementing the Ashram’s
communal harmony, and asserting development initiatives.
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