जीवन धरोहर संरक्षणIn Service of Heritage and Humanity
Rural Infrastructure
A missing community hall limits gatherings. Distant staff housing keeps teachers from their schools. Poor sanitation affects public health. ASSF starts with what a space needs to enable, then builds or facilitates it.
Understand the request from a community or institution, then assess the site.
Establish what the facility must enable, and for whom.
Develop plans with appropriate architectural and technical input.
Undertake the work directly, or help connect communities with public authorities.
Focus on what stays useful to the community after the project ends.
The Yarnal Gram Panchayat identified the absence of a community facility as a real gap. ASSF developed a multi-purpose hall on donated land — for gatherings, cultural programmes, discourses and guest accommodation.
An existing hall had deteriorated with no comparable space nearby. ASSF renovated and expanded it into a functioning space with a reading library, restored for family gatherings and cultural events.
Teaching staff were commuting from distant towns for lack of housing. ASSF converted an existing building into 14 rooms of staff accommodation, following a site assessment.
Responding to resident requests, ASSF surveyed the need and worked with the Zilla Panchayat to fund toilet blocks with running water and proper sewage disposal — on land provided by the local Jain Mandir committee.
Rural infrastructure can also carry cultural memory forward. ASSF constructed the Shanti Stambh at Yarnal in memory of Pratham Acharya Shri Shantisagarji Maharaj — a six-foot statue above the stambh, with engraved panels depicting his life on all four sides.
It was inaugurated on 8 February 2020, in the presence of Acharya Shri 108 Vardhaman Sagarji Maharaj and his Sangh, with Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade participating.
