Master Unit
Master Units are models of self-sufficiency, sustainable development, cooperative management, environmental consciousness and service-minded spirituality.
Master Units are models of self-sufficiency, sustainable development, cooperative management, environmental consciousness and service-minded spirituality. The concept of Master Unit was envisioned by P.R. Sarkar as a way to implement the Progressive Utilisation Theory (PROUT), a socio-economic system that is based on cooperative enterprises, bio-regional resource sovereignty, and guaranteed minimum requirements for physical, intellectual and spiritual development. The minimum requirements include food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, and education, and the ideal requisites for a Masture Unit include:
Schools, including primary, post-primary and higher secondary schools.
Hostels, including junior hostels, senior hostels and higher hostels.
Children’s homes, including junior homes, senior homes and students homes.
Medical units.
Cottage industries, including bakery, flour mill, apiary, textiles, butter production and bio gas plants among others.
Dairy Farms.
Plantations.
Today Master Units are located in many countries around the world.
“In a nutshell, a Master Unit is a self-sufficient zone, based on all-round service, that inspires and offers a more balanced, healthy and proactive lifestyle. Using an economical sustainable model (PROUT), it acts as a nerve centre for the local community, and demonstrates new technologies for environmental sustainability while providing guidelines in order to facilitate its replication.” - PR Sarkar
This Master Unit (Ananda Viplava) is a home where residents and visitors can fully utilize their potentialities and learn to work cooperatively to promote harmony with nature, with each other and with the surrounding local communities.