Subject(s): Attapadi -- Eco restoration project in attappady and its context, project concepts and strategies, peoples organizations for implementation, human resource development, soil and biomass management, infrastructural development, international consultancy, income generation activities, THDP as a tool of empowerment, emergence of Thaikulasanghams, president's visit -- Socio economic factors and development expenditure : Socio economic dimensions, education, land holding pattern, cropping patterns, Infra Structure, drinking water and sanitation -- Expenditure analysis -- Technological innovations : Evaluation of hamlet development, technological survey, acceptability and adoptability of technologies, skill development in youth, economic progress of people, evaluation of planning of Hamlets, roads, pathways and cross drainage works, sanitation, water supply system, soil conservation measures, lighting system, construction management system -- Mamanna - case study- Mamanna hamlet earlier, development under THDP -- Eradication of poverty, people's participation, eliminating corruption, development of inaccessible area, neglect of own lands by ST owners, preference for rice & dependence on trade channels for food items, afforestation of appropriate technology, institutional setup, ecological restoration- afforestation, sustainability and replicability