A non-profit organisation established in 1983
Creating Large scale Sustainable Livelihoods
Development Alternatives Group Websites

 www.TARAhaat.com
TARAhaat.com brings information, products and services via internet to the underserved rural market. This initiative was launched in Central India becoming the first major rural portal to connect the villagers to all kinds of services, the government and markets.
   
www.cleanindia.org
Focusses on providing facilities for air, water and soil quality monitoring to facilitate local communities in assessing the environmental quality and initiating remedial action.
   
www.taraakshar.com
TARA Akshar is a literacy program which teaches illiterate people how to read and write hindi.
Literacy
   
www.empowerpoor.org
Poorest Areas Civil Society Programme (PACS) empowering masses through Civil Society Oganisations.
   
www.peoplefirstindia.org
People First is the advocacy wing of Development Alternatives and is about instituting good governance.
   
www.dainet.org
DAINET aims at making relevant information available in the form and at the time required, for sustainable development efforts, especially in the independent sector.
   
www.vsbkindia.com
The Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln technology, originally developed in China, is an energy efficient, economically viable and environment friendly means to produce quality bricks.
   
www.desipower.com
DESI Power utilises renewable energy resources for providing electricity to rural areas independent of the national grid with independent rural power producers.
 

www.tara.in

For over twenty years, the TARA Group of Companies has been transforming the landscape of rural India by creating new opportunities to build village economies. TARA is a social enterprise which pioneers business approaches by which local entrepreneurs can help improve rural lives. The risks are few but the rewards are manifold.
 

 

 

 

www.basinsa.net
basin-South Asia Regional knowledge Platform (basin-SA)  is committed to “developing knowledge systems and promoting collaborative action within South Asia to enable access by the poor to sustainable habitat and livelihoods”.


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Development Alternatives
111/9-Z, Kishangarh
Vasant Kunj
New Delhi - 110070
Tel : 91 (11) 2613-4103, 2689-0380
Fax : 91 (11) 2613-0817

Email : tara@devalt.org