Service Up gradation & Encouragement Program

SERVICE UP GRADATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT PROGRAM - Here we have created the backup plan. In our backup plan we have added mobile clinic bus where we can overcome the people traveling issues. we have added van for our tool kits promotion. Also we have added sweatness through jaggery food product for daily consumption. At last through encourage programe mapping we can encourage sand stone craft through different sectors like health, food, law, science, technology, culture, business and education.

Service Upgradation

service upgradation chart is shows the future upgradation plans of our service. with the steps and priority for the service expansion.

from the bottom to top it has map as coming future updating and working areas of Shwas Foundation. It has included the Heath service upgradation, new products add in the service. making our service reachable to globally and expand the areas to work on.

1- Backup plan for Health camp structure

  • Need to upgrade the Free Health checkup camp -

If we will have no good response of this type Free health camp or get low response, we need to upgrade our Camp system. This Health camp we are advertising our service through various media also going door to door for the survey and registration and convey people to attend Free health camp. In case these people have not attended the heath camp because of any reason - may be traveling issues, may be other important work, may be don't want to attend etc.


Also the place for Health camp has to arrange, every time arrange the setup it could be bothering us. Advertising, survey need to be paid money and efforts.


  • Prepare a Doctors team -

we will have our Doctors team which will work for us. that include the Practitioner doctors to Senior doctors. Also we will have all technology and machinery with us.


Mobile clinic bus -

We have upgraded the Free health camp as a mobile clinic bus, which travels to places where we have to arrange the health camp according to Sand stone work, Industries. Our whole set up of clinics will travel to the place and will do the advertising of the Health camp. When the Free health checkup camp will be at their workplaces or around their living places people will not hesitate to attend the Free health checkup camp.

Out side view of the Mobile clinic bus
In side view of the Mobile clinic bus

2- Backup plan for Safety tool kit promotion


  • Safety tool kit promotion and Demonstration -

At the first stage we are going to prompt our product with a Tool kit through the digital media, news channel, Holding, Posters, brochure, Door to Door survey and visit to Stone industries. After all we will advertise through the ‘Demo advertising van’. It will travel with our tool kit demo pies to give live demonstrations at the Stone Industries and stone work places. That will help to understand our products among the users.

3- Backup plan for Safety prevention

We have a Safety tool kit to prevent silica dust particles from going into the body. But most of the time Artisans do not use it properly and regularly. In that situation we are supposed to work on their behavioral patterns and their premises.

PREVENTION AND CONTROL MEASURES

  • Control of the source:


  1. - Elimination of the Dust

  2. - Substitution of materials if any possibilities

  3. - Substitution/modification of processes and equipment

  4. - Maintenance of equipment - wet methods

  5. - Work practices apart from traditional methods

  • Control in the transmission path:


  1. - Stone Industries working format

2. - Stone craft artisans work places


  • local exhaust ventilation Measures related to the worker:

  1. - Education (risk communication) and training to Stone craft artisans

  2. - Personal hygiene

  3. - Personal protective equipment ( up gradation of safety measures)

  4. - Health surveillance ( frequently checkup and treatments)

  • Other measures related to the work environment:


  1. - Reform the lay-out of work places

  2. - Increase in housekeeping system

  3. - Storage, loading and transportation system up gradation

  4. - Warning signs and restricted areas rules

  5. - Environmental monitoring/alarm systems


4- Health service provide up gradation

  • Second stage Health camp service -

  • Diagnosis of silica-related diseases by board-certified occupational lung specialists

  • Treatment of the complications of silicosis

  • Careful attention to protecting personal health information

  • Medical guidance for removal from dust exposure


  • Clinical services for second stage Health camp attendees.


  • Detailed exposure and medical history-taking

  • Physical Exam

  • Lung Function Testing

  • Chest X-Ray with B reading (a specialized interpretation for dust disease of the lung)

  • QuantiFERON Tuberculosis (TB) blood testing

  • Other diagnostic testing (such as high resolution chest CT scan, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, arterial blood gas testing, laboratory testing for autoimmune, kidney and infectious diseases)

5- Add sweetness in their life who lives in the Silica dust area and face lung disease.

Core value - Capable -

Make them capable of preventing silicosis disease and be a stronger front of this health problem with the positive attitude.

Goal -

Make them come together to help each other to keep a healthy environment around them.

Silica dust badly affects the mining worker, Sandstone carver and around people. Sometimes they feel bad about that, they are suffering from these doses and they have a pain in their life. Also outside people approach them for health related conditions.


With the Health service we want to make them smile and happy in their life. We want to add sweetness and happiness in their life, with the sweet products. According to the medical and food research Jaggery is the best sweet for those who live around Silica. We are coming with the Sweet which is made by Jaggery to help them for the lungs cleaning in some amount.

Action - Jaggery food products making and distribution to the Silica dust area people.

6- Modern technology learning workshop

Core value - Encouragement to act :

encourage Stone craft artisans to use the safety gears and tool kit while working with Stone also the Villagers to use safety gears to prevent silica.

Goal -

Make Stone craft artisan responsible for the regular use of safety kits.

Stone craft artisan works by traditional hand tool techniques but sometimes they can use machinery as per requirement. Also they are not used to wearing safety gears. When they will attend the workshop by us we will provide them all safety gears and try to make them used to working with the wearing safety gears. For the formalities they will use the Safety gears during the Stone carving work at the workshop. Hopefully we will make them habitual to wear safety gears while stone work through multiple workshops.

Action -

Collaboration with Stone craft Institute / workplace of modern technology for stone work, and arrange the workshop for Sandstone artisans.


7 - Reduce the fear about Lungs disease amongst the stone work area

Core value - Capable :

Make them capable of preventing silicosis disease and be a stronger front of this health problem with the positive attitude.

Goal -

Make them come together to help each other to keep a healthy environment around them.

According to the research report, Lungs disease from Silica dust is in large numbers all over the world. Stone Industries, stone carving work, mining industries and all areas where magerly stone work happens these all have the fear of lung disease.

As a well wishers we want to decrease the fear of the Lung disease among these Stone work areas people through our foundation.





Action -

Produce and promote the video of Interview of lung specialists to interact with the people and convey them to be positive and strong.

Doctor will describe in the Interview -

  1. How silica dust affects our lungs?

  2. How can we prevent Silica dust?

  3. What safety measures can be used for silica dust?

  4. What will happen after the lung disease?

  5. What will be the treatments for these diseases ?

  6. How can we come out from the fear of lung disease?

Encouragement program mapping

Priority 1

Encourage sweet shop / general store to keep jaggery products as a sweets

  • Making awareness about jaggery benefits

  • Encourage through advertise as jaggery is a medicine

  • Free distribution of some of sweet at industry

  • Subsidy / Loan for the jaggery production

  • To teach student in school about importance of jaggery for them and their parents

National award for Best safety Stone Industry

  • Encouragement to the Stone industry for the using safety measures

  • Becoming healthy competition with the other Stone Industries

  • Opportunity to the building national Identity for the Best Stone industry


Water purification plant at water dam to decrease the Silica dust content from water

  • Create the Community based water source and connecting with the Water -purification plant through pipeline

  • Providing the drinking water to villagers trough community water source

Priority 2

Exercise programmer / Yoga sessions for the Sandstone craft artisans artisan

  • Regular attendance will give Paid holidays for Stone craft artisans

  • Rewards will depends on the performance of yoga activities

  • Progress in yoga will give them more benefits

provide nutritional support to the artisan

  • Provide the nutrition for the immunity building to Stone craft artisan through Gov. hospitals.

  • All gov. Hospitals and clinics will have available these packages of nutrition to distribute as per the need and maintain their health report.


Campion through slogan

  • To Promote the use of safety kits while working on Sandstone

  • describing the importance of the jaggery

  • To Importance of Health checkup regularly

Educational visit to Sandstone craft cluster

  • To give live experience of making Sandstone craft work to the students.

  • Encourage to learn Sandstone craft

  • Connecting Sand stone craft to the new generation

Guidelines for the school ( Silica dust zone)

  • Add the Stone craft in the Art and craft practical subject

  • Include the Silica dust safety prevention awareness in School assembly

  • Arrange the demonstration of Silica dust prevention and safety at the Parents meeting

  • Use as a platform of Social gathering of schools to create awareness about safety and health precautions.

Tree plantation program / green zone

  • Tree plantation around the mining industry and Stone industry

  • Tree plantation all over the Silica dust area and converting to the green zone


Sandstone Dust product manufacturing company

  • Company will make products out of waste material (SILICA dust) of Sandstone industry

  • Silica dust will Collect from the Sandstone Industry and Artisans

  • Opportunity to make money out of waste material

  • Indirectly work on reducing Silica dust from the air, it will convey to collect the dust while working and use safety measures, dust collector , vacuum etc.

Research and innovation department

  • To give live experience of making Sandstone craft work to the students.

  • Encourage to learn Sandstone craft

  • Connecting Sand stone craft to the new generation


Mining training program and permission to legal mining

  • Training program certificate will allows to get stone from mine in free of cost

  • Community based mining area distribution by the training program

  • Traditional artisans can get sandstone for their own art work

Priority 3

Basic need policy

  • Unemployed person can get the support for basic needs

  • Rewards will depends on the performance of yoga activities

  • Progress in yoga will give them more benefits


Sandstone Dust product manufacturing company

  • Company will make products out of waste material (SILICA dust) of Sandstone industry

  • Silica dust will Collect from the Sandstone Industry and Artisans

  • Opportunity to make money out of waste material

  • Indirectly work on reducing Silica dust from the air, it will convey to collect the dust while working and use safety measures, dust collector , vacuum etc.


Mining training program and permission to legal mining

  • Training program certificate will allows to get stone from mine in free of cost

  • Community based mining area distribution by the training program

  • Traditional artisans can get sandstone for their own art work


Campion through slogan

  • To Promote the use of safety kits while working on Sandstone

  • To describing the importance of the jaggery

  • To Importance of Health checkup regularly


Appreciation through media

  • Making story series of the Safety kit using artisans

  • Opportunity to Interview and the experience sharing on various platform

  • Exposure through Local channel, newspaper, radio, FM


Water purification plant at water dam to decrease the Silica dust content from water

  • Create the Community based water source and connecting with the Water purification plant through pipeline

  • Providing the drinking water to villagers trough community water source


Beautification of the Government premises with applying Sandstone craft

  • Creating opportunities for the artisans / industry to make some sandstone craft around or inside the government building that will make them feel proud of their work .


Artwork credit board

  • Formation of the reorganization of the Creativity and hard work through the display.


  • Who is working / making some part of a temple or monuments , from that temple charity or organization has to give the artisan personally credit to build their confidence.


provide nutritional support to the artisan

  • Provide the nutrition for the immunity building to Stone craft artisan through Gov. hospitals.

  • All gov. Hospitals and clinics will have available these packages of nutrition to distribute as per the need and maintain their health report.


Transportation policies for the Migrant Stone craft artisan

  • To get the concession in the traveling to stone Industry all over the country


Artisan adoption program for the Government servant

  • Government servants will get credits for the artisan adoption.

  • Increment or promotion rewards by the Artisan adoption

National award for Best safety Stone Industry

  • Encouragement to the Stone industry for the using safety measures

  • Becoming healthy competition with the other Stone Industries

  • Opportunity to the building national Identity for the Best Stone industry


Educational visit to Sandstone craft cluster

  • To give live experience of making Sandstone craft work to the students.

  • Encourage to learn Sandstone craft

  • Connecting Sand stone craft to the new generation


National Competition of Sandstone Artwork

  • Encourage to the Sandstone artisans to be more creative and hardworking

  • To make the More recognitional Craft on the global level

  • Giving an opportunity to the Sandstone craft artisans to show their skills

  • Getting Rewards, benefits and support to the Sandstone craft artisans


Arrange tour for the group of artisan

  • Interaction and visit - different cities , different craft cluster , industry people to built their own connection /community /contact

  • Exchange the knowledge and skills also new techniques for the craft