Sirupazhaverkadu - Department of Science and Technology's Model Village Programme:

One of the unique programmes in Pulicat is the model village development programme. The village comprises of 84 marginalised SC families and the objective is to improve their quality of life and lead them towards a sustainable livelihood. The programmes involved:

Pond de-silting works for additional crop
Sinking of wells,
Community based social forestry –avenue trees and fodder trees
Improved agriculture,
Micro enterprises- tailoring, electrical wiring, four wheeler driving
Homestead horticulture plants, Animal husbandry and poultry.
Capacity building of six women's self help groups, who have now Rs.1,19,530 in the banks
Community health and veterinary care,
Establishment of a multipurpose work shed, non formal education and motivating the people to enlist other Government schemes.

This village is now being covered under the Bio-Technology programme for improving the livestock.
Establishing Drinking Water Supply And Ground Water Recharging

This project was launched in December 2004 will cover seven villages around Pulicat region. The project will help people to form people’s water development committees and through these committees de-silt minor ponds, repair old drinking water wells, establish dispersion pits, develop community health and sanitation programme and implement vegetation programme for better moisture retention and augment fodder stocks.

Mari-culture Project at Coastal Chennai:

This Pilot project was initiated at Neelangarai Kuppam and at Injambakkam Kuppam in 1987 to find out the feasibility of establishing artificial reefs in the sea to increase fish catches. Artificial reef materials like tree branches , truck tires, granite boulders, and concrete well rings were experimented. Amongst them it was found that concrete well rings were fetching good catches. The technology was adopted by the Periya Neelangarai Kuppam fishermen and they installed a large reef with about 150 concrete rings. After four years it was observed that they have sustainable fish catches and they are harvesting from this large reef. The pilot programme proved that durable artificial reefs and the older it is, produces better fish catches and there is sustainability as the artificial allows a good breeding environment especially in areas were the natural reefs are degraded and where there is bottom trawling by large boats.