Late Shri P. M. Chandola
Founder Director & Former PresidentFounder of Bhartiya Gramotthan Sanstha
Late Shri P. M. Chandola is the founder director & former president of Bhartiya Gramotthan Sanstha (1989)[1], an Indian non-profit working on rural & agriculture, women & children and livelihood from Rishikesh.
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
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Rishikesh
- Founded
- 1989
- Press
- 0
References
- [1] “History Or Life Sketch Of Late Shri P. M. Chandola Founder Director & Former President Of Bhartiya Gramotthan Sanstha From 23/12/1989 to 13/09/2019.” — Bhartiya Gramotthan Sanstha. Source
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