Laxmi Chand Tyagi
FounderFounder of GRAVIS (Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti)
Laxmi Chand Tyagi is the founder of GRAVIS (Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti) (1983)[1], an Indian non-profit working on water & sanitation and rural & agriculture from Jodhpur.
GRAVIS (Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti)
GRAVIS has worked for over 40 years to improve water security, health, education and livelihoods for small and marginal farming communities in the Thar Desert region of Rajasthan. Headquartered in Jodhpur, it builds traditional rainwater-harvesting structures, runs mobile health units and works on agriculture, sanitation and disaster preparedness in some of the state's most water-scarce villages.
GRAVIS (Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti) reports the following, on its own site:
- 2.7 million+ people reached
- 2,50,000+ families food secure round the year
- 2,00,000+ families supported in water conservation
- 2,000+ villages across 3 states
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Jodhpur
- Founded
- 1983
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “In 1983, Laxmi Chand Tyagi and Shashi Tyagi founded GRAVIS at Gagadi village, 60 km from the city of Jodhpur.” — GRAVIS (Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti). Source
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