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Bhartiya Gramotthan Sanstha

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Working since 1989 on poverty relief, education and women's self-reliance in hill villages.

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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.

Rishikesh, UttarakhandSince 1989

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Who founded Bhartiya Gramotthan Sanstha?
Bhartiya Gramotthan Sanstha was founded by Late Shri P. M. Chandola in 1989. Bhartiya Gramotthan Sanstha states this on its own website.
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