Dilasa Sanstha

The Integrated Pest Management Project by Dilasa Sanstha (Krishidoot) addresses the challenge of farmers lacking scientific farming knowledge and relying on local krishi kendras for agricultural inputs. This reliance forms a cycle leading to poor productivity and farmer distress. Middlemen exploit farmers, pressuring them to incur high production costs and adopt unsustainable practices. Dilasa intervenes to mitigate these challenges through their project, aiming to equip farmers with better knowledge, reduce middleman influence, and promote sustainable agricultural practices.

Through its Saving & Credit Programme, Dilasa Sanstha aims to link approximately 4000 self-help groups (SHGs) to banks, partnering with 10 local grassroots NGOs. Dilasa carefully selected these partner NGOs based on their microfinance expertise and management capabilities. The chosen partners underwent an orientation workshop to align their approach with the project's objectives. This initiative seeks to enhance financial access and stability for SHGs by establishing connections with banks and leveraging the expertise of local NGOs.

The Hasre Gharkul Centre, initiated in 1998 in Arni village of Yavatmal District and later relocated to Pusad in 1999, has received consistent support from organisations like Stichting Geron and Stichting Mitra from the Netherlands up until 2009. Currently, the Sant Gajanan Maharaj Sansthan Trust in Shegaon is providing support for food and nutritional needs from April 2010 onwards. This centre, with a current student population of 40, not only carries out regular activities but also strives to introduce innovative methods for the intellectual growth of the children in its care.

Dilasa Sanstha partnered with the General Insurance Corporation of India for a Drinking Water Project. The project aimed to address the persistent drinking water issue, enhance groundwater levels through water and soil conservation efforts, and double agricultural income for targeted beneficiaries by providing protective irrigation facilities. The initiative spanned from October 2016 to September 2017 and covered 22 villages in the Ambad Block of Jalna district, benefiting over 6498 households. The approach involved building community capacity, collecting baseline data, and designing necessary structures while ensuring coordination with line departments for bund construction. Water User groups were formed in each village to oversee the project's implementation.

Dilasa Sanstha conducted the Holistic Watershed Development Project Phase-I in the Pahapal cluster of Pandharkawada block, Yavatmal district, from October 2009 to March 2011. This initiative encompassed watershed treatments across 2500 hectares in Pahapal, Kegaon, and Wadner villages. The project involved various treatments like farm bunding, CCT, VAT, LBS, gully plugs, and more, resulting in benefits for 805 households. A subsequent phase was conducted in Mangurda and Gawrai, where treatments were applied across 1800 hectares, benefiting 635 households. Furthermore, various projects were undertaken, including the development of ponds and pits, supported by organisations like NABARD, SRTT, and Axis Bank Foundation, leading to a total of 285 farm pits/ponds developed and benefiting 285 farmers across different areas in the district.

SBI Foundation have partner with Dilasa Sanstha in the rural development project of Drought proofing of villages viz, Mohkhed, Varkatwadi, Singanwadi, Pachi pimpaltanda ,Repewadi, Hingni Bk, Hingni kd, Motewadi, Deodahifal and Chikhali in Dharur taluka of Beed District. The project entittled -Drought proofing of villages by construction of Doha in streams in ten villages of Dharur Taluka of Beed district in one year of project duration.

SBI Foundation extended the helping hands towards Dilasa to reach drought prone regions to get villagers mitigate the problem of scarcity of most vital element “Water” for sustaining lives on long term basis. The proposed intervention will strengthen the water resources of 10 villages, enhance ground water level, resolve drinking water problem, create irrigation facilities which will enhance the agricultural income of farmers and ensure fodder supply.