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Legacy & Journey
Bipin Kumar Bal
Co-Founder & Secretary
Since its founding in 2000... The Institute of Rural Development Programme (IRDP), co-founded by Mr. Bipin Kumar Bal, has empowered marginalized communities all over India through education, healthcare, livelihoods, and environmental conservation.
What began in Odisha has grown into a nationwide movement, driving eco-tourism, disaster relief, clean water initiatives, and climate-resilient agriculture. By fostering inclusion and economic growth, IRDP continues to build a self-sufficient rural India with dignity and sustainability.
Mission
To drive sustainable development... by empowering communities with education, healthcare, and economic opportunities. We promote innovation, renewable energy, environmental conservation, and inclusive growth, ensuring dignity, resilience, and self-reliance for all.
Vision
A future where every individual... thrives in a just, sustainable society. We envision empowered rural communities with access to quality education, healthcare, clean energy, and economic stability, preserving cultural heritage and environmental balance.
Core Values
IRDP brings solar-powered smart classrooms to villages with digital boards and e-learning content. These ensure uninterrupted education, even during power cuts. Local teachers are trained, and communities support upkeep. Students benefit from better learning and attendance. IRDP’s initiative bridges the digital divide in rural schools.
Donate for Education
IRDP offers rural youth career guidance, aptitude testing, and soft skills training. Exposure visits and job fairs expand opportunities. With support for vocational training and placements, many youth start jobs or businesses. This reduces migration and promotes self-reliance through mentorship and local links.
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IRDP trains rural girls in digital skills like MS Office, internet use, and cyber safety. Safe learning spaces and female instructors encourage participation. Certification boosts job prospects in data entry and clerical roles. This helps delay early marriage and promotes independence through digital empowerment.
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IRDP trains school dropouts in trades like tailoring, carpentry, and mobile repair. The program includes discipline and hygiene modules, toolkits, and startup support. Graduates receive help starting businesses or getting jobs. IRDP enables marginalized youth to regain confidence and earn through practical skills.
Donate for Skills
IRDP holds free health camps in remote villages, offering doctor consultations, basic tests, and medicine distribution. Mobile vans with pharmacy units reach underserved areas. Special care is given to elderly and disabled people. Local health workers support follow-up care. IRDP ensures health access for all through consistent, inclusive medical outreach.
Donate for Health
IRDP’s mobile labs conduct basic blood, urine, and sugar tests in rural areas. Staffed by trained technicians, they generate digital reports sent to local centers. Regular visits enable early diagnosis and reduce travel needs. Prioritized screenings improve rural health. IRDP delivers timely, mobile-based diagnostic access.
Donate for E. Restoration
IRDP organizes camps with pediatricians, gynecologists, and other specialists in rural areas. Local health workers help with pre-checkups and follow-ups. Transgender and marginalized people receive inclusive attention. Patients needing advanced care are referred to city hospitals. IRDP brings expert treatment closer to rural communities.
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IRDP holds wellness workshops on stress, nutrition, hygiene, and yoga. Counselors help with anxiety, depression, and trauma. Sessions are held in local languages and include schools and elderly care. Traditional methods are blended with therapy. IRDP builds mental resilience through accessible, community-based outreach.
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IRDP helps rural women form SHGs focused on savings, loans, and small businesses like tailoring and pickles. Training in bookkeeping and marketing is provided. IRDP links SHGs to bank credit and schemes. These groups build confidence, improve income, and promote leadership. IRDP empowers women as local economic contributors.
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IRDP supports goat, poultry, and duck rearing for marginalized families. Training covers feeding, healthcare, and shelter. Starter kits are distributed, and families are linked to vets and markets. Managed mostly by women, this model provides steady income and food security. IRDP turns livestock into lasting rural assets.
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IRDP revives crafts like weaving, pottery, and embroidery by training artisans and supplying raw materials. Marketing help and exhibition exposure boost sales. Youth and women are engaged in eco-friendly production. IRDP blends tradition and innovation to turn heritage crafts into sustainable livelihoods.
Donate for Crafts
IRDP trains young women in business planning and offers seed funding for ventures like tailoring and food units. E-commerce links and microfinance access are provided. Life skills and confidence-building are part of the program. Transgender participants are included. IRDP nurtures inclusive rural entrepreneurship.
Donate for Entrepreneurs
IRDP runs mobile vans with diagnostic tools, surgical kits, and life-saving equipment like ECGs and oxygen. Staffed by trained teams, they offer basic care and checkups in remote areas. Regular schedules ensure access, especially for maternal and elderly care. Linked to PHCs, these vans also support disaster relief.
Donate for Medical Vans
IRDP upgrades rural health centers with solar panels, sanitation, and critical equipment like autoclaves and delivery tables. Staff receive training in usage and hygiene. Water purifiers and waste systems ensure cleanliness. IRDP engages local committees to monitor progress and boost public health trust.
Donate for Health Centers
IRDP supplies hospital beds, oxygen concentrators, and related infrastructure to rural and tribal hospitals. Equipment meets national safety standards. Local authorities are supported in installation and emergency use. Transgender-inclusive wards are also supported. IRDP improves critical care capacity where it's needed most.
Donate for Hospital Support
IRDP improves biomedical waste handling in rural health centers using proper bins, PPE kits, and training. Hygiene sessions promote handwashing and sanitation awareness. Authorized waste services are linked with facilities. IRDP ensures safer environments through infection control and visual guides in local languages.
Donate for Hygiene
IRDP installs solar systems in rural clinics and schools to power lights, fans, and digital tools. Local youth are trained for maintenance, and women form repair groups. Supported by government schemes, this reduces carbon emissions and ensures reliable energy. IRDP makes solar power a rural necessity.
Donate for Solar Energy
IRDP promotes smokeless stoves and biogas units to reduce indoor pollution in poor households. Training in biofuel use and composting is provided. Women’s SHGs handle last-mile delivery and repairs. IRDP encourages safe, clean cooking while creating micro-enterprise opportunities from organic waste reuse.
Donate for Clean Cooking
IRDP runs eco-clubs in schools to promote tree planting, water saving, and waste reduction. Activities include composting, kitchen gardens, and green fairs. Solar lamps aid night study. Teachers get climate education training. IRDP fosters early environmental responsibility and builds future eco-leaders.
Donate for Green Schools
IRDP organizes workshops on climate resilience and green farming. Villages plant trees, restore wetlands, and adopt renewable tools like solar dryers. Local action plans include women and indigenous voices. IRDP empowers communities to tackle climate change through practical, inclusive solutions.
Donate for Climate Action
IRDP provides emergency kits with food, clean water, and medicines during disasters. Packs are tailored to local needs and reach children, elderly, disabled, and transgender people. Hygiene and dignity are prioritized. IRDP works with local authorities for timely, inclusive distribution and sets up mobile kitchens as needed.
Donate for Relief Kits
IRDP builds quick-deploy shelters with toilets, lights, and bedding for disaster-hit families. Designs are inclusive of gender and disability needs. Community kitchens and child-safe spaces are added. Post-relief follow-ups ensure safety and support. IRDP restores dignity through safe, temporary housing solutions.
Donate for Shelter Support
IRDP helps villages create disaster plans with evacuation maps, warning systems, and trained response teams. Women and youth learn CPR and first aid. Local committees manage safety drills and risk reduction. IRDP promotes flood-safe homes and cyclone-ready schools to build community resilience.
Donate for Village Planning
IRDP offers trauma care through counselors, safe spaces, and mobile therapy vans. Group sessions support emotional recovery. Teachers and health workers help identify PTSD cases. Special attention is given to children, women, and transgender survivors. IRDP ensures mental health support after every crisis.
Donate for Trauma Care
IRDP installs borewells, water purifiers, and rainwater systems in rural and tribal areas. Projects are tailored to local needs and tested regularly. Women are trained for upkeep, and schools and anganwadis are prioritized. IRDP ensures clean, accessible water reaches every community, especially the most vulnerable.
Donate for Water Projects
IRDP builds toilets in homes, schools, and public areas with water-saving and hygiene features. Special designs include transgender-friendly and child-safe units. Menstrual hygiene awareness and waste disposal units are added. IRDP promotes dignity and disease prevention through safe, inclusive sanitation.
Donate for Sanitation
IRDP leads campaigns on handwashing, waste management, and toilet use using posters, street plays, and digital tools. Sessions focus on schools and women’s groups. Hygiene kits and visual SOPs are widely shared. IRDP encourages behavior change that improves community health and hygiene habits.
Donate for Hygiene Education
IRDP installs greywater filters and promotes eco-drainage systems in rural areas. Compost pits and bins support solid waste segregation. Women-led teams manage daily operations. IRDP trains local masons and builds awareness on eco-impact. Cleaner villages grow from simple, community-led waste solutions.
Donate for Waste Management
IRDP helps marginalized people, including transgender individuals, get essential documents like Aadhaar, voter IDs, and gender certificates. Legal aid camps with officials ensure access to welfare and education. Awareness on rights is shared, and helpdesks are set up. IRDP promotes dignity and inclusion through legal identity.
Donate for Legal Rights
IRDP hosts workshops in schools, panchayats, and offices to challenge bias and promote gender equality. LGBTQIA+ leaders share experiences, and sessions use case studies and roleplay. Respectful communication and shared responsibility are emphasized. IRDP builds inclusive mindsets through community sensitization.
Donate for Equality
IRDP runs short-stay shelters and partners with NGOs to support abuse survivors, transgender individuals, and the elderly. Services include counseling, legal help, and medical aid. Outreach vans and helplines reach remote victims. IRDP ensures safe, inclusive care for those facing crisis and displacement.
Donate for Shelter
IRDP supports education for marginalized children, girls, transgender youth, and disabled students. Bridge schools, tutors, and digital classrooms are offered with scholarships. Teachers are trained in inclusive methods. IRDP promotes school retention and equal opportunity through community-focused education.
Donate for Education
IRDP offers startup kits and training for families to launch small businesses like tailoring or food carts. Kits include tools, branding, and seed funding. Women, tribal youth, and transgender individuals are prioritized. IRDP links entrepreneurs to microcredit and mentors. Small enterprises become engines of self-reliance.
Donate for Start-Up Kits
IRDP supports artisan clusters in crafts like bamboo, handloom, and embroidery. Inclusive of transgender and disabled artisans, clusters receive tools, raw materials, and design training. IRDP connects them to online platforms and fairs. Traditional skills are revived and turned into profitable livelihoods.
Donate for Artisan Clusters
IRDP trains farmers in organic cultivation, poultry, and herbal gardens. Youth are guided in agri-business and group-based farming. Cold storages and mobile vans support production. With inclusive support for transgender farmers, IRDP makes agriculture a respected, income-generating livelihood.
Donate for Agripreneurship
IRDP creates tech-based livelihoods through training in digital skills like graphic design and mobile servicing. Rural digital hubs offer tools and internet access. Youth and transgender participants join freelancing platforms and serve local clients. IRDP opens doors to remote income through digital inclusion.
Donate for Digital Livelihoods
IRDP revives folk arts like Chhau and Baul music by forming artist collectives and offering training, grants, and stage exposure. Women and transgender youth are mentored by local masters. IRDP documents oral traditions, links artists to welfare schemes, and brings rural talent to national platforms.
Donate for Folk Art
IRDP trains youth to map monuments, oral histories, and crafts, including gender-diverse narratives. Outputs include trails, booklets, and school content. IRDP partners with tourism boards to promote local heritage through eco-cultural circuits. These efforts foster pride, preservation, and inclusive storytelling.
Donate for Heritage Mapping
IRDP supports culture-based enterprises like embroidery and folk theatre with training and market access. Transgender and Dalit youth co-create and sell crafts online and at fairs. Revenue supports collectives and training programs. Culture becomes a dignified source of livelihood and self-expression.
Donate for Cultural Livelihoods
IRDP organizes inclusive street art, theatre, and murals on social issues like gender and health. Transgender artists lead performances across schools and markets. Mobile vans carry these campaigns statewide. Art becomes a tool for empathy, change, and community connection through creative activism.
Donate for Art Campaigns
IRDP trains farmers in organic farming, composting, and natural pest control. Demonstration plots and seed kits are provided, including for transgender and marginalized farmers. Peer learning and expert advice support better yields and soil health. IRDP promotes eco-farming for sustainability and food security.
Donate for Organic Farming
IRDP promotes resilient crops, smart irrigation, and climate-aware planting schedules. Farmers learn zero-tillage, mulching, and mixed cropping. SMS alerts share weather data for timely decisions. Inclusive training supports smallholders and transgender farmers. IRDP boosts climate readiness while protecting rural incomes.
Donate for Climate Resilience
IRDP develops agroforestry systems blending crops, trees, and livestock. Native species enhance biodiversity and reduce erosion. Women and transgender farmers are trained in nursery and herbal plant cultivation. Green corridors connect land for climate benefits. IRDP restores ecosystems through productive farming.
Donate for Agroforestry
IRDP supports farmer cooperatives and eco-markets for chemical-free produce. Mobile carts, CSA models, and packaging support help reach urban buyers. Digital tracking ensures quality and fair prices. Women and transgender-led farms are prioritized. IRDP creates sustainable income through green supply chains.
Donate for Green Markets
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National Hydrology Project
LIC Golden Jubilee Foundation
Coal India Limited
Indian Oil
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BSES Rajdhani Power Limited
Container Corporation of India
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National Highways Authority of India
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