Ramakant Keshav Deshpande

Founder

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Ramakant Keshav Deshpande is the founder of Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (1952)^[1], an Indian non-profit working on tribal welfare, education and healthcare from Jashpur.

Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram

One of India's oldest and largest tribal-welfare organisations, founded by Balasaheb Deshpande in Jashpur. It runs hostels, schools, hospitals, sports promotion and village-development projects across tribal belts nationwide.

Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram reports the following, on its own site:

22,101 service projects across 64,814 villages
12,37,197 students reached through education programmes

Organisations: 1
Based in: Jashpur
Founded: 1952
Press: 4

References

[1] “Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram was established by Mr. Ramakant Keshav Deshpande (popularly known as Vanyogi Balasaheb Deshpande ), on 26th December 1952 at Jashpur” — Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram. Source

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