Our Journey · 2017–2022
From Rural Entrepreneurship to Smart Sanitation.
Eight years of grassroots discipline — identify a real local problem, build a simple technology-enabled solution, train the community to run it, and measure the outcome honestly. Explore each chapter below.
Timeline
A chapter at a time.
2017–18
The Foundation Year
Co-founders leave Cisco to pursue social entrepreneurship; goal of 10,000 rural entrepreneurs in five years. Based in Puducherry; work begins in border districts of Rajouri & Poonch, J&K.
2018
The Udyam Programme
First Gramonnati Kendra in Jabalpur. NCC cadets trained in digital, financial and self-employment skills.
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Vidya-Jyoti — Rural Education
Technology-enabled learning across four border-district schools in J&K, with Maths, Science and English video content.
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Jal Sanchaya — Water Security
Low-cost rooftop rainwater harvesting in the hills of Rajouri-Poonch, with TERI and the Indian Army.
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Sarpanch Yatra — Mission Samriddhi
20 panchayat leaders taken on an experiential tour of India's model villages.
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Project Ravi Kiran
Solar livelihoods at scale — image-rich case study lives on its own page.
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The Smart Sanitation Pivot
The bridge into the Woloo Programme and Clean & Divine India — same dignity-first workforce, new infrastructure frontier.
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"From a single Kendra in Jabalpur and rainwater tanks in the hills of Poonch, to a nationally scaling smart-sanitation movement — Gramonnati's journey has been one of consistent grassroots discipline."