Palli Samgathana Vibhaga (Institute of Rural Reconstruction), of Visva-Bharati University, was established at Sriniketan in 1922, by the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

Village Welfare Department took initiative for public works like road repairing, tank cleaning and maintaining a circulation library.

A number of Co-operative Health Societies provided medical treatment at a low cost for the villagers…" [1] In 1921 Rabindranath bought a large manor house with surrounding lands in Surul, 3 km from Santiniketan, from the Sinhas of Raipur.

The present eligibility criteria for attending to any of the courses is the candidate must have completed class 12, and appear to CUET-UG to enroll and depending upon the percentage of marks/ ranks they are selected.

[8] The Indian Council of Agricultural Research established the Krishi Vigyan Kendra mandated for the district of Birbhum, West Bengal in 1994 under the administrative control of Palli Siksha Bhavana.

It was named as Rathindra Krishi Vigyan Kendra to pay tributes, homage and regards to Rathindranath Tagore, the man who was the guiding force behind the whole "Sriniketan Experiment".

For instance, Sriniketan pioneered the manufacture of hand-crafted leather purses and handbags, a cottage industry which has, since then, taken off elsewhere as well and now exports products to many parts of the world.

[11] "The small scale cottage industry and handicraft items of Sriniketan are identified as special ethnic and traditional products, recognised nationally and even internationally with high esteem.

These items involve most of the women of the villages from mainly minority and backward classes who have developed unique skills through repetitive and voluminous productivity.

It is very interesting to note that now-a-days this particular occupation has taken a systematic mass engagement pattern where a number of self-help groups with cluster of at least 9 to 11 or more women together, earning their daily wages and even forming a co-operative for financial support through micro-finance.

[12] "NIFT, the nation-level textile organisation has been working on this model and a good number of NGOs are also coming forward for utilising these rich resource of skilled artisans.

These products fortunately earned reputation not only in the local and national markets, emporiums, shops and exhibitions but they are also exported outside to attract a special focus on ladies and gents fashion statements.

The modern architectural interiors, wall designing, roof and floor tiles and decoration pieces are mostly crafted with this material capturing the craze of the modern designers… the thermocole Durga, Ganesha, replica of temples of repute exhibit amazing signs of excellence and signature expertise… Plants and plantation export-based programmes are expanding due to the fertile soil and a number of people are working on it which may convert the important destination Sriniketan into a piece of Green Earth where florists and agriculturists tirelessly dedicate them into creating beautiful nurseries of plants and flowers of special types including orchids and medicinal plants and thus toiling on lush greenery of crops and harvests…"[12]