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Respectful felicitations to Rev. Shri. D. Veerendra Heggadeji.

The Trustees, Management, Staff and Stake holder of SKDRDP wish Rev. Shri. D. Veerendra Heggadeji who took oath as Rajya Sabha Member.

Bhoomi Puja of New Project Office at Holalkere Taluk.

Bhoomi Puja of New Project Office at Holalkere Taluk, Chitradurga was done by Executive Director of SKDRDP, Dr| L. H. Manjunath. Later, Motivated farmers, rural women to form Pragathibandu Self-Help Groups under SKDRDP to avail facilities of the project and become self-employed and improve financially.    

Handover of donation to temple.

SKDRDP officials handed over the donation worth Rs. 1,50,000 to the committee officials of Sri Ishwar Temple at Korategere Taluk.

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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

Leading Self-reliant life from tailoring.

Mrs. Tejaswini Shankar Badigera, resident of Hirebagewadi Taluk, joined Self-Help Group in 2018 and started saving money, after some time she started a small scale business. They are 6 members in a family. Before joining the Self-Help Group, she was housewife and her husband is a driver. With their financial condition, it was difficult for […]

SKDRDP helped Mrs. Renuka to lead a better life.

Mrs. Renuka Shetty is house wife who joined Jayalakshmi Self-Help Group 7 years ago and started saving Rs. 20. Later with the Project’s information and financial corporation she is leading life by making jasmine and vegetable cultivation. She lives with her husband and 3 children. Her husband works as a mason. After joining the Self-Help […]

Self-Help Group motivated Asha to become self-employed.

Mrs. Asha resident of  Sonnamaranahalli, Doddaballapura zone lives with her husband and 2 children. Husband works as a daily wager. She got to know about Self-Help Groups through Jnanavikasa Center and got motivated to be self-employed. She joined Sneha Self-Help Group, started saving money and bought millet flour mill machine. From the group she periodically […]

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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.