Healthy & Educated Villages Programme         

Confederation of Indian Industry (Cll) in partnership with Indian Healthcare Federation (IHCF) has constituted a Task Force on Rural Health under the leadership of Dr Naresh Trehan. The thrust area for this task force is to help reduce the disease burden in the rural areas of the nation.

The task force aims to achieve this through its 'Healthy & Educated Villages Programme'. This Programme aggregates the corporate social responsibility efforts of several corporates and creates a scalable functioning model of adopting villages across the country. The adopted villages will be supported by:

• Proving potable drinking water
• Developing storm water and sewage disposal system
• Developing garbage disposal system
• Preventing vector borne diseases including Dengue and Malaria
• Building and upgrading the primary education system
• Creating health and hygiene awareness
• Developing basic infrastructure for water and sanitation
• Organising the Health check-up camps

Core Methodology

The plan aims to operate at three level model:

• Apex Committee:CEO of the participating organisations
• Executing Committee: Representatives from the participating organisations Who would be involved at the planning and co-coordinating level
• Implementation and Evaluation Committee: Full-time dedicated employees who will engage in group work and complete the assigned tasks within stipulated guidelines roles of principles and support partners are envisages as being interchangeable.when the support partner adopts a village, it becomes the Principal partner and others take the role of supporting it and vice-versa.

Evaluation and Maintenance

• During and after implementation, a team of professionals would evaluate the progress on a regular basis to make sure that the resources are used to their fullest
• Upon completion of the project the responsibilities would be allocated for:



1. Maintenaence of the village-village panchayat
2. Supervision by a Task Force consisting of representatives from industry

			Identify villages in their vicinity Provide funds(approximately 10-12 lakhs for a village Provide a contact person at the execution committee level as well as the dedicted people at the working committee level
	Principal Partner

			Support the principle partner in developing the village by taking responsibility for specific area in the project such as educational aids safe drinking water, etc
	Support Partner

Village Joniawas Pilot Project