Kolkata, IN AQI
Rural Development
Focus Area

Rural Development

Pucca roads, clean water, dignified livelihoods — building the Bengal of tomorrow.

The Reality

What is the problem in West Bengal?

Issue 1

Only 47% of rural Bengal households have piped drinking water (Jal Jeevan Mission, 2024).

Issue 2

Migration from Murshidabad, Malda and Birbhum is rising — youth leave because farming alone cannot sustain a family.

Issue 3

Poor road connectivity isolates Sundarbans islands during monsoon and cyclones.

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The Plan

What can be done?

1

Promote integrated farming — paddy + fish + duck + horticulture — to triple smallholder income.

2

Install solar pumps, drip irrigation and community RO units in arsenic-affected blocks.

3

Build vocational hubs in every block so youth need not migrate to Kerala or the Gulf.

Together

How can you & I solve this?

Source mustard oil, gobindobhog rice and honey directly from SKNM farmer producer groups.

Fund one solar pump — ₹75,000 turns one hectare of barren land green.

Spend your annual leave on a 'rural immersion' — live a week, learn a lifetime.

Our Stand

"We don't lift villages out of poverty by airlifting them to cities. We make their soil, water and skills work harder."

— SKNM Trust Programme Council

Be the Change

Volunteering Opportunities

Agri-extension Volunteer

Seasonal

Trains 25 farmers in modern practices.

Apply

WASH Survey Volunteer

2 weeks

Maps water sources for 1 Panchayat.

Apply

Youth Skills Trainer

Weekend

Skills 30 youth in 3 months.

Apply
Lead Locally

Open an SKNM Branch in your Panchayat

Open a Krishi & Livelihood Branch — SKNM provides seeds, fingerlings and market tie-ups. You mobilise 50 farmer families.

Contribute

Projects ready for your support

₹75,000

Solar Irrigation Pump

Irrigates 1 hectare for 8 families.

Fund this project
₹3,50,000

Community RO Plant

Safe water for 1 village (500 people).

Fund this project
₹5,00,000

Farmer Producer Org Seed

Onboards 200 farmers, doubles income.

Fund this project