Chairman’s Desk

On this Silver Jubilee Year of society, I recall with gratitude the support and encouragement we received from many friends in India and abroad.

The affection and confidence of our friends, sustained by our team of dedicated and competent people prodded us to cross many barriers in our lonesome journey.

Our lonesomeness is on our own volition. We could not join the mainstream schemes for the development of the poorest and the most marginalized. We endeavored to innovate alternative development systems based on emerging scientific knowledge to demonstrate that the poor can adopt and adapt new technologies for a fuller human life. We did not confine ourselves to support their income generation and approached holistically for enhancing the dignity of man.

Our task is not easy. It combines the whole range of knowledge, science & technology, tempering it with the passion and ethos of our village poor. Our effort empowers the people to come out of the web of poverty and marginalization on the strength of their own conscious decision and technical acumen. It becomes their own work.

We carefully avoid to take the role of a benevolent Charity or Philanthropist organization. We become partner in their development, sharing their joys and sorrows. In the process, we at SRI are also marginalized.

Our dream that every human being, independent of the social and economic status, shall take charge of living a complete human life with dignity, utilizing the knowledge of whole mankind, needs the support of many people, individuals and organizations.

I look forward for support from all, for our small effort to build a more just and a more human world for ourselves and for the generations to come.