The Sai Engineering Foundation is a voluntary organization working towards promoting cooperatives in the field of construction and development, providing electrification in remote rural areas. The goal of the project is to evolve a replicable and cost effective model for marginal land development by exploiting the potential provided by local geo-physical, meteorological specificities and by enhancing capacity building at grass roots. The specific objectives of the project are harnessing surface, rain and ground water to improve the productivity of marginal land including wasteland, grazing land and range land and ensuring food security and livelihood sustainability though farm based and non-farm income generation activities.