About Us

Who We Are

The Sai Institute of Rural Development (SIRD) - An ICT Enable R & D Institute for Empowering People - is an initiative of Yuva Gramya Vikas Samiti (YGVS) registered under Societies Registration Act 21, 1860 and Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 1976 with a view to take care of interests and overall development of rural populace in India. The inception of Sai Institute of Rural Development (SIRD) derives spirit from Gandhi ji’s ardent advocacy of village reconstruction. Gandhi Ji in one of his daily thoughts said “Just as the whole universe is contained in the self so is India contained in the villages”. To serve the India therefore was according to him to serve the villages. Social Media Quick Links About Us OUR WORK Gallery Career Contact Us Address Phone No. Email The Sai Institute of Rural Development (SIRD) has been founded by a strong team of professionals who have sufficient exposure in the public domain as well academics, social work and private sector at the higher echelons with a commitment to translate their knowledge and expertise in to endeavour to accelerate the pace of rural development. SIRD works on the paradigm of collaborative research in the task of deployment relevant and sustainable technologies and culturally appropriate solutions and bringing them to the daily lives of people and engaged to facilitate innovation and deployment of ICT based solutions and spread awareness in the area of ICT solutions to promote the digitization in the new era.

VISION

To grow into a self-sustaining world class “Centre of Excellence” with global certifications, having state-of-the-art infrastructure for offering excellent working environment and ambience to promote and develop human skills and entrepreneurship and appropriate attitudinal reorientation in order to cater to the needs of education, health and livelihood opportunities for all in the society in consonance with the imperatives of changing State level National and Global environment. To attain recognition of premiere knowledge institute in the country dedicated to the cause of Education, Health and livelihood opportunities for everyone.

OBJECTIVES

 To generate & deploy sustainable technology base by way of bending appropriately the modern “science and technology” with traditional knowledge.
 To carry out research to bring about development in spheres of appropriate technology for strengthening enterprising rural artisans and evolving ideas and concepts appropriate for rural development interventions.
 To identify and encourage potential entrepreneurs and subsequently train and develop them for setting up rural, micro small or medium enterprises with a view to accelerating enterprise/industrial development and expanding existing productive employment.
 To sponsor and conduct training programmes, seminar, conference and workshop etc. for any institution or groups of individuals, directly or indirectly relating to policies and programmes of over-all holistic development of the society.