Grameen Vikas Vigyan Samiti launched a programme of building Khadins in 1983 to develop alternate rural development strategies for the villages of the Thar desert.
Kundi at Jalwali village. This kundi is of the sarpanch of Jalwali, and his is the only kundi to be plastered by cement. In the background is a Khejri tree, and a Nadi, Jalwali village, Bikaner district.