The idea germinated in Sevagram itself. Hence, it is called the Sevagram Initiative. The Sarva Seva Sangh workers went three months ago to a village near Sevagram to assess the political climate. To their horror, they found that the villagers had decided not to vote for anyone because it was the same old exercise over which they had gone many a time without any improvement in their lives or environments. Roads remained broken and drinking water wells distant. There was no healthcare. A high school, which they had demanded from all the candidates who sought their vote, was not even on paper.