One lakh villages. One preventable disease.
Project Bharat is our flagship mission: reach 1,00,000 Indian villages with structured preventive oral health care — and leave behind a trained local champion in every single one.
What "adopting a village" actually means
Not a one-day camp with a banner. A three-year commitment with a defined start, a defined handover, and numbers we publish either way.
Adopt
A household-level baseline oral-health survey, done with the panchayat's consent. We learn the tobacco pattern, the water fluoride level, the school roll and who the trusted local voices are.
Educate
School sessions, anganwadi workshops and a gram sabha talk — all in the local language, with printed material families keep.
Screen
Quarterly camps. Every adult over 30 gets an oral-cancer check. Every child gets a documented examination and a referral card.
Empower
Two village health champions — usually an ASHA worker and a schoolteacher — trained and equipped to carry the work between our visits. This is the part that makes it last.
What a graduated village looks like
We do not stay forever. We stay until these are true, then we hand over and move to the next village.
- Every household surveyed at least twice, three years apart.
- Every school-age child screened annually, with referrals closed.
- Every adult over 30 offered an oral-cancer check each year.
- Two trained health champions active and in contact with us.
- A measurable fall in untreated decay against the baseline survey.
Sponsor a village
A full three-year village adoption — surveys, twelve quarterly camps, materials, champion training and referral follow-up — is costed and sponsorable as a single CSR or philanthropic unit.
Sponsors receive the baseline survey, quarterly field reports, the year-three outcome comparison, and named recognition if they want it.
Project Bharat runs on other people
We are deliberately small at the centre. The reach comes from partners who already have standing and trust where we are going.
Dental colleges
Interns and postgraduates get supervised community-dentistry field experience that counts. We get clinical hands at scale.
NGOs
Organisations already embedded in a district open the door, handle mobilisation, and stay after we leave.
CSR partners
Corporate social responsibility funding converts directly into adopted villages, with reporting built for their compliance needs.
Government
District health administrations, ASHA networks and government schools give us the only route to genuine national scale.
Volunteers
Dentists, students, doctors, hygienists, photographers and organisers who give weekends. The backbone of every camp.
Panchayats
No village is adopted without its local body agreeing. Consent at village level is the first step, not an afterthought.
The road to one lakh
Honest arithmetic: at 1,000 villages a year this mission takes a century. It only works if the rate compounds — which is what the partner network, the mobile units and the champion-training model are for.
| Year | Villages adopted | Cumulative | Key unlock |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 135 | 135 | Method proven; protocol standardised |
| 2026-27 | 1,000 | 1,135 | Ten mobile dental units; college partnerships |
| 2027-28 | 4,000 | 5,135 | State-level government MoUs |
| 2028-29 | 12,000 | 17,135 | Champion-trains-champion model |
| 2029-30 | 30,000 | 47,135 | National CSR consortium |
Targets are planning figures from the brief, not commitments. Replace with board-approved numbers before publishing.
Put a village on the map
Sponsor an adoption, bring your CSR budget, or send us into a district you know. Project Bharat only moves as fast as its partners.