Sanitation

1. Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Through the WASH Project Vikas Bharti Bishunpur has been continuously making the rural people aware towards the significance of conservation of water, use of safe drinking water, significance of practicing good personal and community hygiene by conducting several activities like community mobilization, awareness campaign against diarrhea and malaria, harvesting of rain water, promotion of Bora Bandh through community participation, spreading awareness towards the importance of hand washing along with rendering services in toilet construction, plantation among the Frontline workers, Jal Sahiya, VWSC and local governance system through workshops, seminars, conferences over different and effective issues. Apart from this also povide service towards the strengthening of Government mechanisms through Block Resource Center (BRC) for rendering technical support in toilet construction, bringing about behaviour communication changes at community level.

1. Karuna
Vikas Bharti deals with the problem of mal-nutrition through piloting innovative project named Karuna while streamlining the existing structure of Anganwadi Centers by providing training to the workers and awareness generation through various activities like facilitation of community bodies, promotion of nutritional garden at school, Anganwadi centers and individual levels. Under the Karuna project the Block Operational Plan (BOP) has been conceived as an initiative to focus on strategic inputs and new activities meant to catalyze and improve the delivery of Govt. programmes and schemes which have role in ensuring nutrition security in a block. The project was successfully piloted in a multi sectored convergence in Gumla Sadar of Gumla district and it was supported by his Holiness, Dalai Lama Foundation and Save The Children.
2. Nutrition for Zero Hunger
Vikas Bharti has launched Nutrition for Zero Hunger,a global initiative focussed on providing nutritious food aid and nutrition education to the communities with the support of Save The Children. The project was initiated in Ghagra Block, Gumla covering 120 villages of 18 Panchayats of Ghaghra Block.
3. Protection and welfare
For Safeguarding the children and women from any kind of atrocities, abuses, tortures, and ensuring their safety, security and dignity are always on the priority list of Vikas Bharti Bishunpur since from its inception. The organisation is working to ensure not only their due rights and entitlements but also to make them capable of availing all the benefits of Government programmes and also to rehabilitate them through their positive participations.
A. Child Home
Vikas Bharti, Bishunpur have started the Children’s home in the year 2013 with the purpose to rehabiliate these children and provide them safe environment and nurture them with education, health and their social development. Since from it’s inception child Home is rigorously working for the all round development of children and thus we are running the Child Home in Dumka, Sahebgunj and Gumla districts. .

B. Nari Niketan Nari Niketan Gumla, is a scheme by the Women, Child Development and Social Security Department, Government of Jharkhand, in which women who are socially despised, helpless and abandoned, are to be provided with a part time residential house. This scheme is being run by Vikas Bharti in collaboration with District Welfare Department, Gumla in Gumla district. Here in the center women are provided with the facility of counseling, daily, legal and other facilities under various circumstances. Here in the centre vocational training for their economic independence, skill development training for personality development and life enrichment are conducted on regular basis. Vikas Bharti Bishunpur have started Nari Niketan in Gumla district of Jharkhand in the year 2016.

C. Child Line, Gumla The Child line open platform is a program under which the correspondents of Vikas Bharti Bishunpur are visiting any of the school locating within the area and there they have to arrange awareness meeting with the children and share wth them the information about the Child Line along with information related to dial 1098. Here they insist and encourage the children to share their problems with them without any hesitation and also to provide the appropriate solution of the problem and the other related issues arises.

4. Skill Development
A) Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra
Vikas Bharti Bishunpur has implemented Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra (PMKK) under the guidance of the National Skill Development Cooperation (NSDC) with the main purpose of making the youths to be employable or to motivate them towards being self employed. The PMKK training centres are with utmost state of art and that to be of international standards as recommended by NSDC. All the youth with the age limits of 18-35 years are given subsequent training under PMKK in various domains that includes domestic data entry operator, unarmed security guards, assistant electricians, self employed tailor and home care supports. At Present Vikas VBharti is running 5 PMKK in Palamu, Chatra, Gumla , Latehar and Garhwa districts of Jharkhand.

Jan Shikshan Sansthan aims at providing vocational training to illiterates, neo-literates along with school drop-outs from the rural areas through identifying the necessary skills that covers the relevant market of those areas. This covers the SCs, STs, Women, Girls, Slum Dwellers and Migrant Workers of ages 15 yeras or above. Vikas Bharti is running a total of 5 JSS in Ranchi, Khunti Gumla, Garhwa and Dumka as accorded by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India. Objectives :
1. To impart vocational skills, life skills and technical knowledge to the illitrate and neo- literates so as to improve their work efficiency and productivity.
2. To make the locals employable and develope the entrepreneurship skills into them.
3. To uplift the rural economy by providing the necessary skill trainings to the rural population and subsequently enhancing the local trades and markets.

C) Non-Departmental Training Centre (NDTC)
Vikas Bharti Bishunpur has started a separate centre named as Non- Departmental Training Centre through the support of KVIC at Bishunpur on 29th December, 2022 so as to give skill development training in various trades that includes Carpentary, Bee Keeping, Food processing, Welding, Tailoring to the rural locals especially the youths so that they can get market driven entrepreneurship skills at local levels.
5.Agriculture
A) Krishi Vigyan Kendra Vikas Bharti , Bishunpur partnered with Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) for establishing Krishi Vigyan Kendra in Gumla district to support the rural community in enhancing Agricultural productivity by introducing new technology to the farmers.

B) Van Vigyan Kendra, Balatu
Project Van Vigyaan Kendra now upgraded to as Singi Dai Van Vigyan Kendra, Balatu by NSDC, New Delhi has been started by Vikas Bharti, Bishunpur in Balatu village, Narma panchayat, Bishunpur block, Gumla district in the year 2004 and presently it covers the area of 9.6 acre constituting with herbal and medicinal herbs, plants and trees. Purpose of starting it to improve the living standard of the villagers through practising horticulture and making use of forest medicines. Achievements :
1. As the centre is utmost of it’s kind so visitors from across the state, neighbouring states like Bihar, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, etc regularly visit the centre with the number in total of lumpsum of 2 to 3 thousands per year.
2. For training and knowledge information gathering purposes , Students from different State and Central Universities, farmers from different States and from across the Jharkhand, SHGs and number of Entrepreneurs have regularly visited the centre. They get the knowledge regarding identification of
medicinal plants, ways of farming, their usages and benefits.
3. Fruits like Mango, Litchi, guava, etc seasonal vegetables , medicinal plants and aromatic plants are exported to other states as according to their demands. People from different regions are giving their positive feedback related to the quality of the products.

6.Livelihood
A) Jharkhand High Impact Mega Watershed Project (Jiwi Daah Hasa)
Jharkhand High Impact Mega Watershed Project has been started by Vikas Bharti, Bishunpur in association with Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation, New Delhi for the duration of 4 years from January, 2021 to december, 2024. Project covers 10 Panchayats and 68 Villages of Bishunpur block along with 9 panchayats and 63 Villages of Dumri block both of Gumla district with the major goal of regenarating the agricultural ecology , doubling the income of 1,00,000 small and marginal farmers and securing livelihood and climate resilience. Objective
 Improving crop intensity in 1.5 lakh ha of land.
 Building capacity and knowledge of 4000 frontline functionaries of Panchayati Raj Institutions, communities and Civil Society Oraganisations.
 In upper reaches of 24 blocks through comprehensive watershed treatment.

B)Biotech Kisan Hub
Vikas Bharti Bishunpur with the support of DST-DBT implemented Biotech Kisan Hub Project in the 4 aspirational districts namely West Singhbhum, Simdega, Garhwa and Latehar of Jharkhand. Under this project 15 demonstrational units each for goat farming, poultry farming and pig farming were established in these 4 districts . farmers were trained for ebntrepreneurship skill development in the field of Mushroom cultivation , Vermi composting , Medicinal plantation, Bee keeping and Lac farming .

C) Clusture Facilitation Project (CFP)
CFP is an initiative project for Aspirational Districts and other backward areas in the country under Mahatama Gandhi NREGA with a vision of addressing the poverty in the Aspirational Districts/ backward areas with a multi- pronged strategy of leveraging the synergies of different flagship programmes of the Central / State Governments in convergence with MGNREGA through better coordination , planning and it’s implementation. Vikas Bharti Bishunpur is running this CFP project in four different blocks name Ormanjhi, Palkot, Gurabanda and Bhandra of Ranchi, Gumla, East Singhbhum and Lohardaga districts of Jharkhand. Objective :
1. To strengthening the work under MGNREGA in the extreme and the backward areas within different blocks.

D) Solar Lift Irrigation and Plantation
The program of Solar Lift Irrigation was started by Vikas Bharti Bishunpur thart aims at promoting the irrigation through solar panel with the support of ITDA , Gumla. It also aims at reducing the migration of tribal people owards urban areas by providing them livelihood in the form of income and basic necessities.
E) Holistic Rural Development Programme (HRDP)
Vikas Bharti in collaboration with HDFC Bank HRDP project is making concerted efforts to promote livelihood among the much weaker section of the society . Such as promoting poultry farming, distributing milk producing animals like cows,goats and etc. Promoting vermicomposting by providing trainings and infrastructural support to the farmers due to established environmental and economic advantages. Vermicomposting is gaining popularity in Garu Block, Latehar district of Jharkhand and is being adopted by more than 40 farmers to fulfill their requirements. Apart from individual consumptions farmers are also marketing vermicompost to have additional source of income. It is one of the easiest methodsto recycle agricultural wastes and to produce quality compost.

F) Project Tejaswini
Project Tejaswini has been started by Vikas Bharti , Bishunpur in Dumka district of Jharkhand in association with Women Development Committee, Jharkhand and Department of Women, Child Development and Social Security, Government of Jharkhand.The project Tejaswini covers the all ten blocks of the districts comprising of all 209 gram panchayats and town areas.
The structural division of the Tejaswini is in two parts and that is tejaswini kendra and Tejaswini Club with the aim of operationalising it’s 129 Kendras and 1078 Clubs across the Dumka Districts by providing secondary education along with market driven skills for making them employable to the adolescent girls and the young women with age between 14 years to 24 years.

Other activites :
1. Shilpi Mela Sah Pradarshini
On the occassion of 40 years of Vikas Bharti Bishunpur a three days Shilpi Mela Sah Pradarshini, 2023 was being organised from 10th to 12th January, 2023 at Vikas Bharti Bishunpur, Ranchi Centre.

2.Grameen Udyami Pariyojana
Vikas Bharti Bishunpur through the Sansadiye Sankul Vikas Pariyojana and by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) has got the opportunity to provide skill development trainings to the 200 tribal girls aged between 18 to 35 years under Grameen Udyami Pariyojana Phase-III. These tribal girls were selected through vigrous processes and are coming for trainings from across the 11 different districts (Gumla , Latehar, Garhwa, Chatra, East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum, Ranchi, Khunti, Dumka, Lohardaga and Koderma ) of Jharkhand.

3.Kisan Mela
A district level Kisan Mela with the theme of “Sustainable Agriculture and Income through Natural Farming “ was organised on 3rd March, 2023 by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Gumla and was inaugurated by Sri Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Agricultural Minister, Government of India. Mela was attended by morte than 8000 farmers coming from across all the 12 blocks of Gumla district along with from Latehar and Lohardaga districts.

4.World Environment Day
World Environment Day was celebrated on 5th June, 2023 at Vikas Bharti Ranchi Office premise with the auspicious presence of Sri C P Radhakrishnan Ji , Hon’ble Governor of Jharkhand as the chief guest of the event. The main theme of the event was to promote natural farming and plantation drive. On the occasion Ho’ble Governor had made an appeal to do plantation of about 1 crore fruitful plants all over across the Jharkhand. The event was attended by about 600 common masses.

5.On the occassion of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav Freedom Fighter Jatra Tana Bhagat footbal tournament was being organised from 16th to 29th August, 2022 at Koyaleshwar Nath Mahavidyalaya, Bishunpur. Total of 72 teams have participated in this football tournament. 6.On Gandhi Jayanti Cycle Race, Vikas Marathon Race and Singbonga Marathon Race were being organised from 1st to 3rd October, 2022 on the occassion of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. Totalof 1679 participants have paricipated in these competitions. 7.A three days Gram Sabha Awakening workshop over PESA Act and Human Rights was being organised jointly by Vikas Bharti Bishunpur and Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram from 4th to 6th November, 2022 at Bishunpur. In this workshop total of 74 Gram Pradhans, Social influencers , etc coming from 6 different districts of Jharkhand have participated. 8.A three days workshop for the selected boys and girls through State Level Child Right Competition was being organised from 5th to 7th January, 2023 by Vigyan Samiti Jharkhand at Sidho- Kanho Auditorium of Vikas Bharti Bishunpur, Bishunpur. #Note : Please keep the rest 5 activities as it is that are highlighted on the website in the activities conservation of culture section.