About Us
Who We Are
The Sai Institute of Rural Development (SIRD) - An ICT Enable R & D Institute for Empowering People - is an initiative of Yuva Gramya Vikas Samiti (YGVS) registered under Societies Registration Act 21, 1860 and Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 1976 with a view to take care of interests and overall development of rural populace in India. The inception of Sai Institute of Rural Development (SIRD) derives spirit from Gandhi ji’s ardent advocacy of village reconstruction. Gandhi Ji in one of his daily thoughts said “Just as the whole universe is contained in the self so is India contained in the villages”. To serve the India therefore was according to him to serve the villages. Social Media Quick Links About Us OUR WORK Gallery Career Contact Us Address Phone No. Email The Sai Institute of Rural Development (SIRD) has been founded by a strong team of professionals who have sufficient exposure in the public domain as well academics, social work and private sector at the higher echelons with a commitment to translate their knowledge and expertise in to endeavour to accelerate the pace of rural development. SIRD works on the paradigm of collaborative research in the task of deployment relevant and sustainable technologies and culturally appropriate solutions and bringing them to the daily lives of people and engaged to facilitate innovation and deployment of ICT based solutions and spread awareness in the area of ICT solutions to promote the digitization in the new era.
VISION
To grow into a self-sustaining world class “Centre of Excellence” with global certifications, having state-of-the-art infrastructure for offering excellent working environment and ambience to promote and develop human skills and entrepreneurship and appropriate attitudinal reorientation in order to cater to the needs of education, health and livelihood opportunities for all in the society in consonance with the imperatives of changing State level National and Global environment. To attain recognition of premiere knowledge institute in the country dedicated to the cause of Education, Health and livelihood opportunities for everyone.
MISSION
To augment and foster the capabilities of Purvanchal in Uttar Pradesh and the nation in general to develop its competitiveness and entrepreneurial potential and thereby contribute effectively to the nations socio-economic vitality.
OBJECTIVES
To generate & deploy sustainable technology base by way of bending appropriately
the modern “science and technology” with traditional knowledge.
To carry out research to bring about development in spheres of appropriate
technology for strengthening enterprising rural artisans and evolving ideas and
concepts appropriate for rural development interventions.
To identify and encourage potential entrepreneurs and subsequently train and
develop them for setting up rural, micro small or medium enterprises with a view to
accelerating enterprise/industrial development and expanding existing productive
employment.
To sponsor and conduct training programmes, seminar, conference and workshop
etc. for any institution or groups of individuals, directly or indirectly relating to
policies and programmes of over-all holistic development of the society.
LEADERSHIP
Management Committee
Dr. AJAY KUMAR, IAS
Patron-SIRD
Former Defence Secretary,
Govt. of India
Prof. S. N. Upadhyay
President-SIRD
Former Director, IT-BHU
Prof. Saket Kushwaha
Vice Chairmen-SIRD
Vice Chancellor,
Rajiv Gandhi University Iatanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
Members
Prof. D. C. Rai
Vice-Chancellor, BRA Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar
Prof. B. Jirli
Head, Extension Education, IAS, BHU, Varanasi
Dr. Sangita Deodiya
Head, Dept. of Home Science, V.K.M. P.G. College, BHU, Varanasi
Dr. Virendra Kamalvanshi
Professor, IAS, BHU, Varanasi
Dr. Anshu Shukla
Asstt. Professor, Deptt. Of Home Science VKM PG College-BHU Varanasi
Dr. Garima Upadhyay
Asstt. Professor, Deptt. Of Home Science VKM PG College-BHU Varanasi
Sri Jawahar Lal Dubey
President, YGVS, Varanasi
Team
Mr. Ajai Kumar Singh
Director/ CEO, SIRD, Varanasi (U.P.)
Secretary of YGVS, Varanasi
N. A. Khan
Director (Admin)
Mr. Sunil Roy
Director (Marketing)
VIKAS GAURAV
SR. IT HEAD
Aditya Kumar
Project Manager
Mr. M. S. Faridi
Sr. Research Faculty (E&M)
Mrs. Priya Singh
Sr. Research Faculty (Bio- Technology)
Mr. Aman Kumar Singh
Sr. Research Faculty (IT)
Deeksha Singh
Research Faculty (Health)
Rajesh Kumar Vishwakarma
Research Faculty (Agriculture & Agree business)
Rajesh Kumar
Field staff
Ravi Shankar Rai
Guest faculty
Anupam Dubey
Design cum Livelihood Coordinator
Dr. Akash
Guest Faculty & Associate Professor, Sri Agrasen PG College, Varanasi
Sanjay Rastogi
EDP Faculty
Kanchan Pathak
Faculty of Textile, Handloom & Handicrafts
Smirti Singh
Faculty of FASHION DESIGNER