Payir: Rural empowerment

Plans

Year	Plans
1	Formation of core and working team Focus on skill development and appropriate training in areas of health care, office administration and building technologies Phase I Infrastructure development including Out-Patient Clinic, Pharmacy, Lab, Reading room, library and administration office Phase I roll out - Out Patient Clinic and Alternative Learning center Focus on improving the yield of the coconut trees
2	Phase II Infrastructure development including In-Patient Clinic, Labour & Surgery units and training centers Opening of In-Patient Clinic, Labour room and rural kiosk Launch full scale children based learning activities Focus on skill development and appropriate training in areas of bio and eco farming, live-stock care, rural and alternative technologies Introduction of bio and horticultural farming at Payir farm First level deployment of live-stock at Payir farm Facilitating improvisation of local sanitation system
3	Opening of Surgery unit and vocational training centers Introduction of mobile health clinics and specialty health camps Need based expansion of existing infrastructure, core and working teams Expansion of Payir farm into research areas specifically on hybrid varieties, manuring, milk and egg production Focus on skill development and appropriate training in areas of micro & rural financing, water shed and irrigation management Study tours to neighbouring villages to understand civic & social structure and their primary need
4	Inter-linking with Government and non-governmental agencies specifically agencies working in areas of rural infrastructure development, rural employment generation and social change organization Facilitating better water-shed and energy management in the village Launching of social change activities specifically on empowerment of women and focused development of youths Facilitating creation of self-help groups Launching of independent profit generating units/rural industries
5	Focus on skill development and appropriate training in areas of Panchayat Raj system Facilitating changes to village agricultural and live-stock care practices Expansion of all social change activities specifically on empowerment and all-round improvement in living conditions of socially most backward section Expansion of Payir activities into rural governance Study tours to identify a village in Tamil Nadu for re-creating the Thenur model