SEVAA
Society for Envisioning Vivekananda in Awareness and Action
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A People's Platform for Comprehensive Rural Development
After several months of field and project experience, SEVAA realised that instead of working with single projects, SEVAA should move with a holistic approach of development to get a better and greater impact from the field. Vivekpally is such a people's platform through which they can take decisions, plan the target, make strategies, implement jointly, review from the field and modify themselves accordingly and converge all kinds of support existing, governmental and to be received from SEVAA.
In this platform, they can identify their gaps and any support they require from outside. Thus with this goal in mind the concept of Vivekpalli took birth in early 2022. SEVAA Vivekpalli is an adopted village by SEVAA to inject all-round development in the village in-line with SEVAA working-areas of Education, Health, Livelihood, Emergency-Relief, Culture and Environment.
SEVAA surveyed a few villages in Ajodhya Hills and the first Vivekpalli was established in April 2022 in the "Village Saparambera", Ajodhya, Purulia. The village had no school, electricity, proper livelihood and roads.
The villagers had no adequate money to buy quality seeds for farming. SEVAA started connecting the village with the outside world and governmental facilities, training them how to solve problems through best utilisation of existing resources.
This Vivekpally was named as Birbaba Tilka Murmu Vivekpalli (an Unit of SEVAA) which has been executing activities on all 52 families of that village.
In the last 2 years SEVAA has started projects at Saparambera Vivekpalli mainly in areas of Education, Health, Livelihood, Agriculture, Environment and Culture. A great impact can be seen on the minds of the villagers.
An 11-member Working Committee of the villagers including 2 SEVAA representatives carry out all regular activities in the village under the guidance of SEVAA. This village has already attracted the attention of local administration, people's representatives and officers at Block and District level.
Forest school establishment and educational support
Medical camps and healthcare facilities
Sustainable income generation programs
Modern farming techniques and seed support
Environmental conservation and sustainability
Preservation of indigenous folk culture

Community activities at Saparambera

Educational activities at Vivekpally

Development work in progress

Agricultural training programs

Health and wellness activities

Community meetings and planning
The success of Birbaba Tilka Murmu Vivekpalli at Saparambera has become a model for holistic rural development. This people's platform demonstrates how communities can take ownership of their development while receiving strategic support from organizations like SEVAA.
The transformation of this remote tribal village from having no basic facilities to becoming a center of sustainable development serves as an inspiration for similar initiatives across rural India.