Our Programmes and activities are conceptualised in such a way so as to become a partner in achieving the development goals of Bharat in pursuit of becoming the third largest economy in the world within next few years.
ONGOING PROJECTS/PROGRAMMES
FINANCIAL INCLUSION (FI)
Financial Inclusion Project is an availability and equality of opportunities to access financial services. The organization is working with State Bank of India in eight districts, namely; Bharatpur, Dholpur, Karauli, Alwar, Dausa, Sawai Madhopur, Jaipur and Jodhpur. The annual average transaction under this project is Rs. 280 crores, in which more than 3.44 lakhs new bank accounts have been opened and approximately 29,000 families from 761 villages were included in this project. In this project 120 CSP are working on the process by which individuals and businesses can access appropriate, affordable and timely financial product and services.
Along with our F.I. Program, we have also carried out social work from the monetary resources of service charge given to us as well from donors, who deeply repose faith in us.
Since we are social animals, it is our bounden duty to do such humble work to the society. Such works not only serve the needy but also encourage others to do something worthwhile for the society. The Government and other institutions cannot do micro works and, in our opinion, it is left out for NGOs/ Voluntary organizations to fill up such gaps.
Financial services in our opinion are not just about money or just about giving loans to the poor. They are really about building assets to secure lives and livelihoods.
Finally, we learn that the timely help can result for rehabilitation and empowerment of needy and also sets an example of compassion and hope.
INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (ICDS): A RECOGNITION OF DIFFERENCE BY STATE GOVERNMENT
ICDS Project at Kumher
We are spearheading the prestigious ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) project in collaboration with the Government of Rajasthan, aiming to transform the entire Kumher block into a malnutrition-free zone.
As the sole NGO overseeing an ICDS project among 363 ICDS projects in Rajasthan, we’ve been entrusted by the government due to our organization’s commitment and capability.
Covering the entirety of Kumher block, including two tehsils and a subdivision, our project encompasses 120 villages and the municipal area, reaching a rural population of 2.0 lacs and an urban population of 0.30 lacs.
With 192 Anganwadi centres in operation, staffed by 384 workers and helpers, and monitored by seven dedicated supervisors, each overseeing 25 to 30 centres, our project ensures comprehensive coverage and support.
Our objectives within the ICDS framework include enhancing the nutritional and health status of children aged 0-6 years, fostering holistic child development, and mitigating mortality, morbidity, malnutrition, and school dropout rates.
Our service package encompasses supplementary nutrition, health and nutrition check-ups, immunization, non-formal education for preschoolers, health and nutrition education, and referral services, ensuring a comprehensive approach to child development.
In addition to the standard package, we provide tailored support to Anganwadi centres and beneficiaries, striving to establish a model project that sets a benchmark for excellence, besides persuading the mothers to grow nutri-gardens in their backyard.
Model Anganwadi Centres
In support with its CSR partner Shri Krishna Sudarshan Urja Pvt. Ltd., the organization has launched a significant initiative to transform Niwai rural sector b creating Model Anganwadi centres that will have essential infrastructure, improved nutrition services, and early childhood education support. The initiative includes building repairs, provision of furniture, development of nutrition gardens, and distribution of educational materials and utilities. Training camps for Anganwadi workers have been conducted to enhance service delivery. Two centres in Pali village have already been developed as models, and the remaining 30 will follow soon.
Apart from Niwai, the organisation is also working in Kumher block of Deeg district, where the organisation is strengthening Anganwadi Centres with support from Shri Krishna Sudarshan Urja Pvt. Ltd.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES
Economic Development enables rural poor to break vicious cycles of debt, poverty and backwardness and enter into virtuous cycles of growth and prosperity. Various socio- economic measures and interventions involving productivity and income enhancement, technology transfer and diversification were taken up in the sectors of agriculture, animal husbandry, rural industries promotion through skill building and financial inclusion. These activities collectively aimed at poverty eradication, enabling people to come out of vicious poverty cycles and bringing about economic development of the adopted areas.
Transforming Agriculture
Targeting Income Poverty Converging on productivity enhancement, crop diversification, credit support and technological infusion, SBA Trust has managed to purposefully leverage the various factors of production to ensure that the farm sector brings happiness on the face of rural poor. Crop diversification is promoted for adaptation with variations in the climate and market. With systematic effort, suitable support of alternate farming techniques and 5 appropriate technologies along with timely credit and exposure, farmers are quickly adopting to market oriented productive cropping pattern. SBA Trust is widely recognized as an organization that pioneered and promoted bee-keeping in the adopted area. It has turned Bharatpur into leading producer and exporter of honey in the country.
Boosting Rural Economy through Supplementary Livestock Income
For farmers in rural India, livestock presents vital source of income for sustenance. However, the unproductive discreet animal breeds primarily responsible for low productivity in India. Hence, SBA Trust focuses on inducting improved breed. Further, by providing animal health services, ensuring fodder security and introducing advanced cattle management practices, livestock productivity and rural incomes are enhanced. Diversification in the sector is promoted through promotion of backyard and commercial Poultries, Goat units, Fisheries and biogas plants. Holistic model of sustainable cycle beginning from improved breed, advanced cattle shed management along with biogas plants to provide cooking fuel for home and organic fertilizers to farm have been developed by the organisation in the adopted areas on a massive scale.
Livelihood security through Skill and Enterprise Building
Rural India is skill deficit due to migration of skilled persons to urban areas. Therefore, SBA Trust focuses on skill development and credit support. Effort is to identify as many different skills as possible to enable beneficiaries to either gain job or self- employment. Systematic training hones inborn skills – and in a few months, professional carpenters, blacksmiths, bangle makers, potters, stone-carvers, leather workers and basket weavers are in business. Consequently, the villages in adopted areas are buzzing with diverse livelihood activities, catalyzed through vibrant strategies emanated from gut feelings, enterprising acumen and courage to innovate of the initiators.
INNOVATIONS CARRIED OUT – (LOCAL MODELS OF AGRICULTURE, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AND NON-FARM SECTORS)
Agriculture for High Income – Tripling the income of farmers:
Agriculture in the poor area is mainly based on traditional practices and mostly dependent on rain. It is essential to introduce improved high value crops, improved varieties of seeds, infusion of technologies for enhancing the incomes from agriculture. High value crops such as vegetables, fruits, medicinal plants need to be encouraged by providing the conducive facilities. The farm implements such as power tillers, tractor drawn land levelers, cultivators, seed drillers, spray pumps, harvesters, threshers are required to promote in rural areas to increase the incomes from agriculture. Value addition through gradation, processing & storage in the agriculture produce is very essential to increase shelf life of produce and receive better price. Surplus vegetables & Fruits along with honey and egg can be used to serve during mid-day meal (MDM) for the students for improving addressing the problem of malnutrition, which counts around 33% in our country.
Natural farming
Reduction in chemical fertilizers & pesticides by introducing natural farming practices are now required to protect the environment. Natural farming is farmer-friendly, environment-friendly, totally free from any chemicals, cost-effective, healthy to the mankind, besides giving optimal yield and higher market price to the farmers. The input cost of crop cultivation can be minimized by 30% to 40% (mostly depends on type of crops). The agriculture produces grown by using natural farming practices have high demand for the family consumption and have price 1.5 to 2 times higher than the usual produce. The chemical fertilizers & pesticides are easily available in the market due to which the adoption of natural farming practices by the farmers seems slow. Considering the overall benefits to the ecosystem, we must promote natural farming at larger scale. SBA Trust is promoting natural farming practices since last three years and this number is increasing gradually. The farmers have seen the benefits and are now coming forward to adopt it for entire crops grown in the year.
Farmer’s Producer Organizations (FPOs)
FPOs are now emerging as one of best model to bring change in agriculture. Most of the FPOs are involved in providing the quality input materials to the farmers on lesser price, however, now there is need to expand the role of these FPOs for value addition, storage and marketing of the agricultural produce to extract more benefits to their members. For marketing of agricultural produce, it is essential to promote the rural haats at the cluster levels in the blocks. This will address the issue of establishing the market linkages and reduce exploitation of farmers in the market.
Rural Haats (Weekly Markets)
At every village, rural hatts should be set up to provide a marketplace for local communities. Nowadays permanent shops and markets are opening in many rural places, but historically the HATT was a temporary market which allowed people to purchase goods they could not easily access.
Rural Haats will help the people to buy and sell their products within their villages itself, besides promoting local entrepreneurship. The government should take up this initiative in a big way to ensure sustainable income generation for the poor people.
Animal Husbandry to be boosted for high income
Diversification of income sources are required to cope up with climate change issue. Along with agriculture, promotion of dairy animals, goat & poultry units have emerged as good livelihood options especially for small, marginal farmers & ultra-poor families to provide assured supplementary incomes even after failure of crops.
Value Addition in Animal Husbandry
Machines such as milk byproduct machines (like Khoa, Paneer, Cream Separator) will also help to earn more due to value addition. Desi cow ghee, which helps to increase the immunity & strengthen the bones, has huge demand in cities and receiving at least three times more price than the normal ghee. This can be one decent source of income for the rural farmers. In addition to this, desi cow is the most useful to promote the natural farming. Therefore, we need to focus on increasing the number of Desi cows to fetch more income and also promote the better health simultaneously.
Creating of Model Block – the methodology we adopted
Since independence of India, we have lot of experiences in the development sector and conventionally our development unit is always a village. Though it is good to develop a village holistically it seems that there are some limitations as many aspects of development are dependent on outside influences. e.g. Block level Govt. departments, PHC, Banks, MLA, market places etc. There are many external influencing factors on which a village can perform for its development.
It means we have to scale up our unit of development from village to Block level. So that we can think development of all villages in the block. With this we can also consider all aspects of development which includes external factors for a village.
Block development will ensure development of all villages in the block by handling development issues at block level. We can sort out issues of many villages with an intervention at block level which might be not possible to sort out when we intervene at village level.
We can achieve development of mass population on fast track with the approach of Block development. Model block plan is an effort to provide a holistic development of block which is in our opinion should be replicated for other blocks of Rajasthan state. Such as effort will provide hand on information to plan the development.
Holistic Model of District Development
A district which is Atma Nirbhar/self-reliant should include economic and social development work putting simultaneously not in any consequential orders. Identification of latent potential of the district foremost work to be done in the district. How the problem is converted into potential which needs critical thinking to make it happen.
Climate Change and Net Zero Pathway
Net Zero Pathway: Pre carbonizing the district economy to reach net zero emission involving broad deployment of low emission technologies. Using solar as the main source of alternative energy, right from home to farm to factories through government schemes. This is necessary to build the future for young generation.
Water: More than 75 % of climate disasters are water related. By 2030 half of the global population will be served water stressed. Unsays climate change is primarily a water crisis, particularly for developing nations.
HEALTH & EDUCATION
Eye Vision Centre at Deeg
The organization has been operating an Eye Vision Centre at Deeg Town, Bharatpur district in collaboration with Dr. Shroff Charity Eye Hospital, New Delhi, has achieved remarkable milestones in eye care over the past five years. This Centre conducts primary diagnosis for various ophthalmological conditions such as cataracts, childhood blindness, refractive errors, low vision, and glaucoma using modern equipment like retinoscopes.
As on March 2025, the centre has examined a total of 22,326 patients, and 2,168 cataract patients have undergone successful, free-of-cost surgeries at Dr. Shroff Charity Eye Hospital in Vrindavan. Additionally, around 3,000 patients have been provided with subsidized glasses. In addition, the patients receive comprehensive support, including transportation, accommodation, meals, medicines, surgery, and post-operative glasses — all provided completely free of charge, from Deeg to Vrindavan and back. Furthermore, regular follow-up examinations are conducted through special medical camps organized at the Eye Vision Centre in Deeg to ensure proper recovery and care.
This centre has become a boon for financially weak and elderly patients who otherwise cannot afford treatment. All cataract patients visiting the centre receive surgery completely free of cost, offering them a new lease on life.
Development of Sub Health Centre, Turkia (Niwai, Tonk)
We always encourage the corporate to join in the development work. In this direction, the partnership with M/s. Shri Krishna Sudarshan Urja Pvt. Ltd., Niwai demonstrates how collaboration between the private sector, civil society organizations, and local administration can bring about transformative changes in rural healthcare infrastructure. The organization remains committed to driving such collaborative efforts to introduce innovations and improvements in health, nutrition, and education in other regions as well. Strengthening rural health services is not just a necessity today but also a shared responsibility. The organization has set an exemplary benchmark in this direction by implementing a comprehensive improvement project to transform the Sub Health Centre Turkia, located in Niwai Block of Tonk District into a model facility.
CSR funds was spent on repairing and painting of Sub Health Centre building, installed Air Conditioner in Labour Rooms, provided coolers in wards and OPD, installed TV in the wards, provided cushioned Beds for Patients, provided Seven beds were fitted with comfortable mattresses to enhance patient care, particularly benefiting elderly, maternity, and critically ill patients, Seating Arrangements for Attendants, high quality Tables and Chairs for Doctors and Staff, computer Printer and Inverter/stabilizer
Due to this intervention, the quality of service improved, the morale of staff enhanced, increased public trust. This facility now stands as a model for Niwai Block and surrounding rural areas, inspiring similar improvements elsewhere.
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT & WELFARE ACTIVITIES
Since the social development is equally critical, several interventions are planned and implemented for women empowerment, community health management, sports activities, education and training in the adopted areas. Economic growth has to go along with social development. Poverty manifests in several forms and Social Development is necessary to address those.
Women’s Leadership through SHG movement
Self-help groups (SHGs) have emerged as the trigger as well as the core mechanism of SBA Trust for women empowerment in the area under operation. Their strengthening and building of linkages with the financial institutions and banks have ensured that all the women below poverty line in the area have easy credit access. Setting up of 6 successful self-enterprises by women through SHG loans have opened businesses, what is visible in the adopted areas of SBA Trust is developed women leadership. Women have discovered their voice and confidence, which is ultimate empowerment for any section of the society.
Enhancing Learning Levels through Quality Education
Different innovative programmes are being implemented to make education enjoyable to enhance learning levels, retention and reduction in dropout rates. SBA Trust provides such amenities and equipment to the schools in the adopted area to enable the students to have quality education. Consequently, in many rural and tribal residential schools e-learning systems and interactive science laboratory models are being established, which have made education exciting phenomenon for the students and teaching smooth for the teachers.
Beti Ki Library at Kumher
In order to inculcate reading habits among the girls thereby empowering women and girls through education, the organization has established a ‘Beti Ki Library’ in Kumher. This library is dedicated to providing a suitable study space to women and girls from poor and marginalised families who aspire to prepare for competitive examinations but cannot afford expensive coaching classes and books. The library will remain open daily from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, allowing women and girls to study at their convenience despite their household and family responsibilities.
The library offers comfortable study rooms with high-quality furniture, quiet, well-organised atmosphere for focused learning, dedicated spaces for individual and group study, Air-conditioning for comfortable study during the summer, Clean drinking water through RO, Free Wi-Fi access, Computers to access online study material and practice tests, Comprehensive resources for competitive exams such as State Public Service Commission, UPSC, Banking, Railways, Police Recruitment, Teacher Recruitment, and other government exams, Books and materials available in both Hindi and English, Daily newspapers and magazines to stay updated, Guidance from experienced trainers and mentors to help students plan their preparation and learn effective question-solving techniques, and regular mock tests and group discussions facilitated by dedicated trainers.
‘Beti Ki Library’ – A step towards educational empowerment and brighter futures for thousands of our daughters.
The organisation also runs a skill development centre for women in the area aiming to promote self-employment and economic empowerment.
Extending Health Services at the Doorstep
In rural India, quality health service that can provide early diagnosis and timely care is critical, particularly for the poor. Hence, the concept of “Health Services at the doorstep” has been embraced by SBA Trust in its adopted areas, which has made health services available even in the remote parts. SBA Trust is also complementing governmental efforts to reduce IMR and MMR in the adopted areas. SBA Trust is implementing partner of Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) in one block and its performance has been validated.
Timely help to most needy and destitute
Timely financial help was provided to needy families right from the funeral work, to fire victims, to medical help to patients, to organizing marriages and promotion of sports through Judo Club etc. These were provided to needy ones to instill hope and share of humanity in the society.
Inculcation of Values: Reforms in Jails
Three Jails in two districts Bharatpur and Deeg were provided with books and libraries were opened. In winter season, warm jackets from Ludhiana were provided to the inmates.
The Mahila Jail has been made a model one in the State of Rajasthan to start income generation program through stitching and Tulsi Mala making and provided with benches to sit and making the environment green through provision of Gamlas in the Jail.
The way ahead ……………………………….….
As we are committed to a Samriddh Bharat (Prosperous India), SBAT aims to expand and strengthen financial inclusion, ICDS, and sustainable agriculture while promoting FPOs, skill development, and rural entrepreneurship. Education and healthcare will remain a priority. Leveraging technology, aligning with government schemes particularly central government & its flagship programs on priority and implementing robust monitoring systems will ensure impactful and sustainable development across our focus areas