The Integrated Villages Program focuses on a comprehensive effort towards self sustainable smart villages, adopting 30 villages in a specific geography and integrating communications and operational channels for maximum impact.
Integrated Village Development is a cluster of 30 villages and this program includes the following key components:
IVD Centers
Beneficiaries in December 2025 qtr.
Total IVD beneficiaries to date
With a goal to create centers of economic activity, Ekal has created a hub and spoke model for implementation and monitoring. 13 Community Resource Centers serve 50,000 people in 100 villages, with a cumulative total of over 1 million.
The Centers have become the go to resource for villagers to learn sustainable farming, micro-entrepreneurship, gain access to markets and become vibrant centers for rural innovation, creating systemic indigenous solutions.
Education is Ekal’s flagship program. Since 1989, the organization has brought literacy and economic opportunity to over 10 million students in 102,000 villages and tribal areas in rural India.
Telemedicine Enhanced Healthcare is a community program that provides rural communities with critical medical services and preventive health education.
Ekal takes a 360 degree view to ensure primary school education links with high school and enables job creation within every village's ecosystem.
