Accomplishments

HESCO developed and installed a technologically advanced version of a watermill into many mountain streams of the Himalayas, which brought lights and excess power to over 2000 villages.

HESCO introduced a joint-venture with the Indian Army known as TIP (Technology Initiative for Peace), which brought their watermill to thousands more deprived villages on the borders of Jammu and Kashmir and Arunanchal Pradesh.

HESCO introduced botanical methods to control soil erosion and landslides, which was subsequently adopted by the Border Roads Organization throughout the northern Himalayas.

HESCO initiated WISE (Women's Initiative for Self-Employment), which serves as a platform for about one thousand women from all over the mountains of Uttarakhand to generate employment and marketing opportunities for income generation in their villages.

HESCO has delivered training in post-harvesting technologies to about 500 villages to maximize the use of their natural resources such as local fruits, aromatic plants, and botanical fibers, etc.

Through HESCO's R&D, a local invasive weed, Lantana, has been turned into a resource for producing furniture, construction materials, many household items, etc. thereby setting up hundreds of employment opportunities for village draftsmen and youth, which is continually expanding through trainings sponsored by successful entrepreneurs.

HESCO, by tapping several of the undeveloped natural resources of their mountain region, has inspired and trained around ten thousand village families to develop sustainable small enterprises such as fisheries, organic forming, animal husbandry, beekeeping, milling of grains, and baking, etc.

HESCO introduced and collaborated recently on a joint-venture project with the renowned Doon School (a private highschool) to "adopt a village" for development. The students, with guidance, successfully constructed a water-flour mill with added power-generation, a fishery, toilets, a makeshift school, and road connecting the village to the surrounding area. HESCO also recently introduced this "adopt a village" concept to seventy additional Intermediate Schools in northern India

HESCO currently publishes two important scientific magazines: TIME (Technology Interventions for Mountain Ecosystems), and Rural Tech., which have a distribution of five thousand villages and Institutes.

Dr. Anil Joshi, HESCO's founder, has authored over 80 research papers and books concerned with sustainable development of the Himalayas.