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Ajji Kai Tuttu – Jnanavikasa Programme

In the earlier times every family was a joint family. They used to live together under the guidance of elder member of family. Grandparents used to tell moral and mythological stories to their children’s and hand-feed meals to them. Now a days the joint family is disappearing and everyone living in a nuclear family. To […]

Handover of Donation to Temple

The Regional Director of Udupi Sri. Dugge Gowda handed over the DD amounting Rs. 5 lakh sanctioned from Shri Kshethra Dharmasthala to the temple administrative for the renovation of Brahmalingeshwara Temple at Kanajuru, Karkala Taluk.  During this, the Project Officer, SHG Federation members, Supervisors, Sevaprathinidhis and Villagers were present.

Directors and Project Officers Progress Review Meeting

The Executive Director of SKDRDP Dr. L. H. Manjunath inaugurated the progress review meeting organized for Directors and Project Officers at Bangalore and reviewed the progress done in the year 2023-24 and appreciated the works. He set targets to be achieved in the year 2024-25 and gave guidance to them. Later, he distributed the appreciation […]

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Testimonials

"Smt. Prathima resident of Honnalli, Davanagere, member of Sri Laxmi Sangha, has availed loan from SIDBI and invested it in setting up a shop of manure, cement and cattle feed."

"Kempayya gowda, resident of Indabettu village of Belthangady taluk, has involved himself in agriculture and also makes homemade bakery items all with the periodic loan of Rs.5.50 lakhs from Pragathi Nidhi. Today he has a monthly income of Rs. 45,000."

"Belthagady resident Laurence D Souza took periodic loan of Rs. 10 lakhs from Pragathi Nidhi. He did agriculture, dairy farming, house repair, Bio gas, constructed cow shed and grows jasmine and vegetable all with amount availed from Pragathi Nidhi."

"Smt. Yamuna a member of ShriNidhi SHG, resident of Laila took periodic loan of Rs.3 lakh to buy 4 cows and constructed cow shed. Today she sells 30 liters of milk and she says all this was possible after joining Dharmasthala Rural Development Group."

"Smt. Sajitha, resident of Charmadi is self-employed. She knows tailoring, and also does agriculture and dairy farming all with the periodic loan of Rs. 10 lakhs from Pragathi Nidhi. Today she gets a profit of Rs. 15,000 per month."

"Nagesh Gowda member of Swami sangha of Siddakatte sells SIRI products. He took Rs. 1,00,000 Pragathi Nidhi loan and started a general store. From the Rs. 2.25 lakh Pragathi Nidhi he improvised his store and started selling SIRI products, Nandini Products, vegetables and groceries. Today he has a daily income of Rs. 5,000-6,000."


Success Stories

Food Cart Business for Life

Smt. Nagarathna is the resident of Maruti Nagar, Ranebennur Taluk.  Twelve years ago, she faced financial problems.  She worked as coolie to pay her children’s school fee. Later, she joined Shrama self-help group and borrowed first loan of Rs. 10,000 /-. Next, she borrowed loan from bank and started a small mobile hotel business. After […]

Hotel Business became a life changing for Smt. Jayalaxmi

Smt. Jayalaxmi is a resident of Sheshadripura Village, Shimoga Taluk.  She has two sons. She joined self-help group and borrowed loans. She was a housewife and wanted to start self-employment so that she can re-pay the loan instalments. She was interested in hotel business and started a small-scale hotel business and now she is earning […]

Life Improvement Through Self-Employment

Mr. Jaya Shetty is a resident of Guruvayanakere Village, Belthangady Taluk. He is a member of KrishnaJyothi Self-Help Group from past 3 years. His wife Smt. Prabhavathi is a member of Sugama-A Self-Help Group. They have two children, son studying in Chennai and the daughter studying MSc. Jaya Shetty had studied upto 7th standard. Before […]

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Our Board

Dr. D Veerendra Heggade

President

Smt. Hemavathi V Heggade

President, Jnanavikasa Programs

Sri. Surendra Kumar

Trustee

Sri. Uday Kumar Shetty

Trustee

Sri. Sampath Samrajya

Trustee

Sri. Shyam Bhat

Trustee

Sri. Y Nageswara Rao

Trustee

About Us

The Shri Kshethra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP) was founded with single important purpose of "Inclusive Rural Development". To achieve this we created 3 main things for Individuals. They were Loans, Insurance & Pensions which ushered Financial Stability.

  • Linkage to banks (earstwhile Pragathi Nidhi)
  • Sampoorna Suraksha Health Insurance
  • NPS now Atal Pension Yojana (APY)

To enable people to inculcate the habit of helping others, we started organizing Self-Help Groups which are called as Pragathi Bandhu Groups (PBG). Our lending and Training programs are geared towards members and their families. As every family has 3 types of people, we have special programs focused these 3 focus groups.

  • Family Head - huge array of programs under Agriculture division.
  • Women Empowerment - Jnanavikasa to make them self-sustainable.
  • Children  SujnanaNidhi scholarship.

Apart from family, Community also matters, hence we have a special division called as CDP (Community Development Programs) to develop the Rural Infrastructure.