From

Secretary’s Desk

Arun Bhowmik Secretary, Ushagram Trust, January 2021

Our Village Development Plan charts an ambitious path to transform the lives of our people. The process of preparing the Plan gave the villagers, from school children to elderly people, the opportunity to think about the kind of future they want for themselves and for future generations.

The vision which sprang from people’s participation in the planning process encapsulates all that is fundamental to development – peace, security, freedom, tolerance, equity, improved health, education, access to jobs and food security. Making the vision real is a bold and challenging task. It will require a sustained and combined effort from the public and private sectors and from the civil society. It will also require the sustained help of our development partners.

The objective of our Village Development Plan is to focus on financial inclusion and also to develop the villages in an integrated manner. This would include economic development, infrastructure development and other aspects of human development i.e., education, health, drinking water supply, etc., besides access to credit.

The Broad Roles and Responsibilities of Ushagram Trust as the Implementing agency are as follows:

I am honored to have led the consultation with our people which fed so directly into the Plan and now, as Secretary of this institution, I am committed to ensuring that this Plan and all that it represents be translated into actions that will transform people’s lives. I hope that we will look back with pride on the development path we followed from our Independence.