Livelihood generation through rural tourism- Balajee Sewa Sansthan initiated to integrate microfinance with livelihood generation by providing working capital loan to groups formed in village to manage rural tourism. Organization has identified 3 different villages from Uttarkashi district & plans to form Joint Liability Groups of 5 members in each of the villages forming tourism management committee.

The group members will be trained to look after the guests in a much professional way. The initiative will create direct & indirect employment in the village resulting the increase in living standard of the village. Apart from credit Balajee Sewa Sansthan will provide the forward linkage to these tourism destinations by marketing them nationally as well as internationally.

Supporting dairy networks in Uttarkashi & Tehri Garhwal- Balajee Sewa Sansthan is aiming to provide financial support to the members in NGO who are engaged in some productive activities. In this scenario many SHGs of Uttarkashi & Tehri Garhwal are working as small dairy network in the form of co-operatives. Due to the lack of timely access of credit their plans of scaling up has been hampered & a serious question mark has been arises against their sustainability. Identifying this as an opportunity, Balajee Sewa Sansthan has planned to provide support in the form of credit to these dairy networks which due to lack of money are struggling for their existence.

Upgrading watermills producing electricity towards green environment- Upgraded water mills are able to grind grain five times faster, thus helping water miller’s increase their incomes. These new water mills can also be used for de-husking and cotton-combing. Water mills upgraded in this way can generate between 1 KW and 7 KW of electricity. A single kilowatt (1,000 W) of electricity can light five 100 W bulbs and about three fans; with 7 KW, a small village can easily run TV sets, refrigerators, and coolers. Upgrading costs between Rs 38,000 and Rs 60,000 per water mill. Balajee Sewa Sansthan is working to identify the potential watermills & plans to extend micro enterprise loans to mill owners enabling them to invest in the technology 7 infrastructure up gradation of water mills.