Eco Park & Information Center · Padur
Come join the EPIC SS adventure!
A Living Campus for Sustainable Solutions
From a barren 33-cent plot to a thriving biodiversity and learning ecosystem, EPIC SS brings together water, farming, sanitation, clean energy, livelihoods, and ecological restoration in one demonstration campus.
Our direction
EPIC SS is innovating almost every year, every month — building in new practices and refining older demonstration units to achieve sustainability in thought, word, and deed.
Urban biodiversity hub
Sustainable solutions campus
Training & exposure center
Serious learning destination
The transformation story
From barren land to a living campus
What began as neglected urban land evolved into an eco-park, then a biodiversity concentration, and today a place where sustainability is shown as practice — water systems, natural farming, sanitation models, clean energy, and community-linked learning, rooted in the vision of sustained care and experimentation.
Barren plot
A 33-cent urban periphery site — starting point for restoration.
Eco-park emergence
Green cover, soil life, and water thinking take root.
Biodiversity hub
Birds, butterflies, herbs, and small fauna in a compact landscape.
Learning & training destination
Institutions, trainees, students, and practitioners visit for guided exposure.
What you can explore
Campus themes
Working models you can see, compare, and learn from — in one walkable site.
Water resilience
Water & sanitation
Rainwater harvesting, recharge, and low-water sanitation options.
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Decentralized energy
Clean energy
Solar and biogas applications for campus and value addition.
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Livelihood cluster
Sustainable solutions
Pisciculture, vetiver, mushroom, apiary, and more.
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Waste to resource
Solid waste management
Organic waste as productive input — compost-led growing.
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Built form
Sustainable architecture
Naturally built spaces and thermal comfort without excess steel/cement.
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Systems view
Public infrastructure
Nature-based engineering and demonstration beyond the fence.
Know moreWhy institutions visit EPIC SS
Government & SIRD trainees
Rural development institutions
Schools & colleges
Researchers & practitioners
SHGs & panchayat representatives
EPIC in numbers
33¢
Urban campus
40+
Bird species
2,257
SIRD participants (cumulative)
13,200+
Total visitors
2021+
Transformation journey (ongoing)
Figures reflect brochure-era documentation; update via your impact dashboard when confirming latest totals.
Serious learning
Not a place of entertainment. Not a place of casual visits. A place of serious learning — where sustainability is lived in thought, word, and deed.
Visits are arranged for meaningful engagement: thematic walks, institutional orientation, and training-aligned exposure. Share your purpose in advance so we can prepare the right route and depth.
Featured working models
Rooftop rainwater harvesting
Ecosan / low-water sanitation
Solar dryers, lighting & cookers
Biogas from organic streams
Natural farming — Surya Mandalam
Pisciculture & vetiver livelihood demos
Compost-led cultivation
Products & livelihoods
From the campus to communities
Sundried and natural farming-linked products, herbal and forest-linked value addition, Irula partner products, and SHG / MATHI kiosk linkages — demonstrating how ecological care connects to dignified livelihoods.
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Plan an institutional or educational visit
Share your group profile, learning goals, and preferred dates. We respond with visit guidance and thematic routing.