Ghanshyam Lukhi is a Founder of Tapi Food Products which is India’s first food processing company based on Solar Steam Generating System. Established in the year 1999, Tapi Food Products is pioneering itself as a major manufacturer of Papaya Tutty Fruity in the country. Within a decade Tapi Food Products has developed into a key player across numerous categories of fruit based products such as Fruit Jam, Fruit Jelly Bar, Syrups, Squash, Karonda Cherry, Fruit Jelly Cuts etc. in the Indian food industry. Under the great enthusiasm and visionery approach of Mr Ghanshyam Lukhi, Tapi Food Products has measured a journey of success while maintaining all the nature friendly standards. website: http://tapifood.com/

Sarvodaya Parivar trust is established in the year 1968, for the overall up liftment (SARVODAYA) of poorest among the poor people residing in the hilly tract of village PINDVAL village and its surrounding area of dharampur and kaprada talukas, situated 50 Km interior to VALSAD of south Gujarat-INDIA. Trust is inspired by Gandhi, Vinoba, Ravishankar maharaj, Jugatramkaka, Pujya Mota etc.Four, devoted gandhians and sarvodaya workers named Dr. Navneetbhai Fojdar, kum. Kantaben, Kum. Harvilasben (well known as HARISHCHANDRA) and Shri Kantibhai shah laid foundation stone of the trust. They devoted their whole lives for the benefit and up liftment of poor tribal people of dharampur-kaprada area. They are inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and vinoba. Website: http://www.sarvodayaparivartrust.org

In remote villages in southern and eastern Gujarat, poor families struggle against limited access to health care and schools. Complex political and economic forces threaten residents’ rights to their land. ARCH (Action Research in Community Health and Development ) is dedicated in improving the lives of the tribal population through grassroots action and community-level research in health, education and development. Website: http://archgujarat.org

SSVT was founded in 1959 with inspiration from Vinoba Bhave's movement and in association with Jugatram Dave, Swami Anand, Kakasaheb Kalelkar, Ravishankar Maharaj and others. SSVT works to support small farmers, developing renewable energy technology, bio-gas, smoke-less cook stoves and organic farming. SSVT runs the projects with cooperation from Khadi Village Industry Commission (KVIC) and Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR). Ram Kumar Singh Director (SSVT), an alumnus of Nagpur-based National Institute of Technology, has reduced the drudgery of farmers, especially women, in south Gujarat by designing agriculture tools. He has combined his engineering skills with traditional knowledge of farmers in the region to improve the agriculture productivity. Among a number of indigenously designed tools, SSVT has developed a plant puller that enables women to pull out the cotton plant from land in standing position.

If Baben village, which is located 2km from Bardoli town in Surat district, is today considered one of the best villages of the state Baben was declared the best village in the state when Bhavesh Patel was its sarpanch in 2010-11. And this year, his wife Falguni Patel has been elected sarpanch of the village. Baben village, which is located near Bardoli typifies development. Here villagers enjoy all the facilities that one living in the city does. The 2-km road from Bardoli to Baben gives a commuter the feeling of passing through a highway. This is because the village road is 12 metre wide and is well lit with street lights. This road has not been laid with government money, but the fund for it was raised through various ingenious schemes by the villagers. "We take contributions from real estate developers, who come to develop land and houses in the village and use that money to develop basic amenities for the residents of the village," said Baben gram panchayat president Bhavesh Patel. The village panchayat collected Rs 3 crore in the past five years from the real estate developers and used that money on roads, street lights, a lake, public toilets, drainage and water system for the 15,000 people of Baben. The village also has a degree and diploma engineering college, a school and a restaurant. A developer is charged Rs 2,000 per plot. The buyer of the plot, too, is charged the same amount by the village panchayat. "When someone buys a flat or plot worth Rs 25 lakh in Baben, he doesn't mind paying Rs 2,000 as development fund for the village," said Iswar Parmar, Bardoli MLA, who is a former gram panchayat member. Dilip Patel, who developed Avadh Lake City in Baben, said, "When we wanted to develop this farmhouse scheme in the village, some farmers did not want to sell their land initially. However, they came around and sold their land to us after some time. "Our maximum emphasis is on cleanliness," said Patel. Baben village got the best gram panchayat of the

Profile Dharampur Project is now a long journey of 25 years, in a hilly-forest region. This area remained untouched by main – stream development. Hence Vedchhi Pradesh Seva Samiti [VPSS] jumped into action, with education as an entry – point. VPSS launched other need-based socio – economic programs also, one after another. The project gradually turned out to be a phased growth, on holistic lines. It now touches around 100 scattered villages, covering 100000 poor tribal population, of this isolated block.