Late Shri P. M. Chandola

Bhartiya Gramotthan Sanstha

Bhartiya Gramotthan Sanstha was founded on 23 December 1989 by the late Prakash Mohan Chandola, a recipient of Uttarakhand's Shilp Ratna award, and operates from Dhalwala near Rishikesh. Starting with just two handlooms, it has organised more than 3,000 hill women into self-help groups producing handicrafts from wool and natural fibres, alongside three decades of work on poverty relief, education, health and environmental protection in Uttarakhand's remote hill areas.

Bhartiya Gramotthan Sanstha reports the following, on its own site:

• 3000 Total Women Trained Served In 36 Years.
• 500 Number of SHGs Formed By BGS