Jayprakash Narayan

Founder

Founder of Tagore Society for Rural Development

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Jayprakash Narayan is the founder of Tagore Society for Rural Development (1969)^[1], an Indian non-profit working on rural & agriculture, livelihood and disaster relief from Kolkata.

Tagore Society for Rural Development

The Tagore Society for Rural Development, registered in 1969, is one of the oldest and largest civil society organisations in eastern India. Guided by Tushar Kanjilal's work at Rangabelia, it runs rural development, mangrove restoration, health and alternative livelihood programmes across the Sundarbans, West Bengal and Jharkhand.

Tagore Society for Rural Development reports the following, on its own site:

Works across 1,950 villages in 42 blocks of 10 districts in West Bengal and Jharkhand
Around 10,00,000 beneficiaries/farmers directly involved in TSRD projects

Organisations: 1
Based in: Kolkata
Founded: 1969
Press: 3

References

[1] “TSRD was founded by the then Ghandian leader Sri Jayprakash Narayan and freedom fighter Sri Pannalal Dasgupta imbibing the philosophy of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.” — Tagore Society for Rural Development. Source

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