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of several commercial units like Tea, Spice, Sahyadri, B& C etc.During the annual General
body meeting the General body Members will select 9 members who constitutes the
Governing body. The Governing body members will select the Secretary/Executive
Director,Program Director ,Joint directors, Unit directors. Program Director ,Joint
directors & unit directors are under the strict supervision of the Executive Director.Each
unit director is in charge of the commercial unit.For PDS there are mainly four commercial
units each of them are autonomous units. In this Organisation Study more significance is
given to these four commercial units.Program director controls the 18 departments of PDS
OF which most of them are concentrated on rural development. Joint directors are in charge
of the 3 reginal centres of PDS.All these are mainly based on SHS, VDC’S and Families.
Sahyadri Ayurveda Franchise Scheme is a unique service providing system to support the
entrepreneur to start an Ayurvedic Treatment facility centre. The scheme provides the services of
qualified and experienced Doctors, Ayurveda Nurses and Therapists. Supply of quality Ayurvedic
Medicines, Ayurvedic Treatment Equipments, Technical Advice and Periodical Supervision also falls
under the ambit of the scheme. The entrepreneur has the facility to avail him self of a full package
services from a single point and it will helps maintain the quality of services. We offer our services to
the following establishments
1. Hospitals
2. Hospitality Industry
3. Health Spas
4. Health clubs
5. House Boats / Passenger Ships
Sahyadri Ayurveda Pharmaceuticals
A total of 352 staff distributed in different departments takes care of the various
programmes and projects of the above mentioned departments.Fifty of them are
purely technical/professional staff in various disciplines of medical science,
engineering, agricultural sciences, anthropology, geology bacteriology etc.with
excellent academic records. PDS owes a great deal to the committed and dedicated
staff who contributes a lot to its growth.
Tribal development
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Women Development Programme
The community development thrust of PDS received streamlining and better direction
with the launching of a specially designed Women’s Development Department. The
positive indication from the part of the government offering special provisions for
women in Panchayat Raj Institutions also acted much in favour of launching the
department placing due emphasis on empowerment through capacity building in the first
place. About 32000 women have been organized into 1800 Self Help Groups. Skill
training programmes like umbrella making, quail farming, book binding, rabbit rearing,
soap making, plant nurseries, wool knitting, electronic goods repairing,electric
embroidery and screen printing are frequently conducted. A large number of women participate in these programmes
with great confidence. Having obtained legal status and other linkages, the women groups have now started small
enterprises and income generation activities.
Micro Enterprise Development
The emergence of micro finance has been crucial in the evolution of micro enterprises. Availability of credit for the
poor resulted in the emergence of a large number of micro enterprises especially in rural areas. But mere provision of
credit does not foster self-employment amongst women in the absence of facilitation and comprehensive micro
enterprise development support. Realising this PDS has been rendering need based support to the prospective
entrepreneurs for the past many years. Our efforts in this sector can be broadly classified into four areas.
1. Promotion of SHGs
PDS recognizes the importance of SHG promotion as the first step towards micro
enterprise promotion. It will facilitate the linkages with different agencies on a
permanent basis and will ensure the sustainability of enterprises. As on March
31, 2006 there are 1840 SHGs affiliated with the society.
2. Capacity development
After the training the facilitation support is given to the trainees towards linking
with various Govt. sponsored schemes like PMRY, REGP, Kerala State backward
classes Development Corporation, various banks and others for setting up
enterprises.
4. Networking
PDS is publishing a quarterly newsletter GRAMODAYAM for circulating among the SHGs.
Major objective of this newsletter is to bring out success stories and case studies of successful
SHGs and to promote their unique activities. The subscribers of the newsletter include SHGs
promoted by other agencies along with those promoted by PDS.
Family Sponsorship Programme
The programme is supported with finance and guidance by Save a Family Plan
-Canada, Family Care Programme - Austria, Akiton Erzengel Rafael-Austria, and
German Sponsorship Programme Germany. A total of one thousand three
hundred and thirty needy and deserving families are being helped through this
project to meet the basic minimum amenities.
Insurance Programme
it is a joint venture of PDS and New India Assurance Co. Ltd. to provide medical
assistance, personal accident coverage and fire insurance to the families of our
operational area. This programme covers the entire family and proved to be very
helpful to the people.
Consultancy Services
For many years, PDS had been rendering consultancy services to many voluntary
organizations and departments in the areas of watershed development, housing
and sanitation, microfinance, research and documentation, Ayurveda, animal
husbandry and organic farming.
This is a unit of PDS that propagates Ayurveda and other traditional branches of
medicine in its true spirits. PDS’ concern in indigenous health has found great
support and encouragement from people. Today we have an ethno-medicinal
forest, herbal nursery, seed and raw drug museum and a community programme
participated by 4000 families.