Bheraldi Rural Development Association

BRDA had voluntarily choosen five Gram Panchayats namely –Bhella , Keotkuchi, Radhakuchi , Chenga M Para , Roumari pather, Dakshin Sarukhetri of Barpeta district to carry out its services under the aegis of Deptt. of Public Health Engineering (Tech). It has sorted around 425 families on the ground of economy and constructed for them Individual Household Latrine (IHHL) in their house hold as guidelines and plan estimates. On the basis of priority it has constructed as many IHHL as stated in the list.

BRDA and Nehru Yuva Kendra launched skill building programmes to capacitate the poor rural women. Vocational training centres on cutting and tailoring with participation of 30 women in Barpeta was initiated in 2016. Through this three month programme, the focus was to build skills of the beneficiaries to make them self-independent.

BRDA had actively implemented the Nai Roshini programme in 2017-18 in Barpeta.Nai Roshni is a Central sector scheme for leadership development among the women of minority communities aged 18 to 65 years. The scheme empowers minority women with the help of NGOs and various other civil societies nationwide. The Ministry of Minority Affairs Government of India runs the Nai Roshni scheme. The key objectives are:

1.Develop leadership qualities in minority women.
2.Address gender inequality.
3.Empower minority women to advocate for their social and human rights.
4.Promote social, intellectual, economic, and financial empowerment.
5.Enhance women's participation in nation-building. Through this scheme, BRDA is committed to serves the rural marginalised poor, destitute women and children with basic thrust and concentration upon over all socio-economic development, women empowerment, awareness generation and skill and entrepreneurship development etc.