Our Credo
Resource
Regeneration
Sustainable Resource Utilisation
Maximization of inputs to local economy |
 The Concept
The People
Highlights on site
Regional Focus
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Today is not just a place
nearOrchha,
Madhya Pradesh. It is remembered for the environment that it
creates. It is about down to earth
solutions using premium science and technology. It is
about merging the "people-resource concerns" |
with the thirst to do high quality research applicable
at the grassroots. It is about synergistic approaches
and about converting latent needs into demand. It is
about not compromising on quality and about increasing
the productivity of all our resources: human as well as
material .It is about a way of life.
TARAgram, is an Appropriate Technology center located in
Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh, equally accessible
to both the North Indian states of Uttar Pradesh as well
as Madhya Pradesh. The Development Alternatives Group
realized that in order to improve local economic
conditions to meet basic needs, solutions were needed to
respond to the needs based on local resource
regeneration and use. SUSTAINABLE
LIVELIHOODS SYSTEMS
was conceived as a major area
of work.
This required professional methods for design and
delivery of appropriate technologies coupled with a
business like approach. While the initial years were
spent on understanding the problems and in devising
appropriate technological interventions, the need for
pilot testing and for Action Research, prior to the
liberation of these technologies, led to the setting up
of the Appropriate Technology Center at Orchha in Madhya
Pradesh. This is the culmination of more than 50
person-years of experience and effort of the Development
Alternatives family.
One of the important mandates of this center is to work
at different levels and scales: the household to the
community while encouraging self-sustaining concepts
like micro-enterprises as well as other such business
models. It is a pilot testing center of DA technologies,
for validating and optimising them, before they are
released into the external environment. This centre is
devoted to the continuous creation of assets in the
region by not only reinvesting the assets but also by
creating assets that repeatedly generate further assets.
TARAgram has thus developed as an important node for
capacity building exercises by the Development
Alternative Group in the Bundelkhand region.
All the work at TARAgram, falls under three broad areas:
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The Concept
An "Appropriate
Technology resource Centre" for Bundelkhand
A model for bringing together social, environmental and
technological knowledge to generate sustainable
livelihoods in rural areas
Creation of sustainable livelihoods by training in
enterprise based activities for building materials,
handmade paper and biomass products.
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The People
Focus - 29 villages in the
vicinity of the Centre that are the primary stake
holders.
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Highlights
on site
Natural regeneration
A forum for village meetings
Open Air Theatre
Balwadi
Adult literacy classes for all members
Artisans village
Information Centre
A bi-monthly spreadsheet
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Regional Focus
Bundelkhand - A
geo-cultural region bound by the rivers Chambal, Betwa
and Son TARAgram aims to provide a single window
facility for the region that
provides
Consultancy Services
Watershed management
Environmental consultancy
Alternative energy systems
Appropriate construction technology
Training
Handmade paper
Low cost building elements and technologies
Bio-mass briquettes
Rope making from biomass
Bio-gas plant
DESI power
Construction
Weaving on TARA loom
Building Technologies
Micro concrete tiles
Ferro-cement roofing channels
Stone cement blocks
Compressed earth blocks
Building design and construction
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