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Introduction : |
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Drawing inspiration from Tagore's philosophy of rural development to "bring back life in all its completeness - making the villagers self reliant and self respectful..." and Gandhi's development doctrine, it was people like Pannalal Dasgupta and Loknayak JayPrakash Narayan who were instrumental in shaping the vision of the Society.
When Panalal Dasgupta visited the tribal areas of Bolpur in 1969, he felt the need to initiate development work in the region. Jay Prakash Narayan arranged a small fund of Rs 20,000.00 from the Bihar Government's Relief Fund to commence drought relief work near Tatanagar. These initial steps gave birth to a long term development initiative called the Tagore Society for Rural Development. |
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The Society intervenes deep inside areas where mainstream development is virtually non
existent and the local people are denied basic services and access to social justice,
specially in the the rural areas.
Development initiatives are strategically designed to break "the culture of silence" by
facilitating a participatory approach.
The interventions are generally comprehensive in nature endeavoring to achieve holistic
human development.
The present Secretary, Tushar Kanjilal is widely recognised for his pioneering work both as
a teacher and as a development leader.
The national journal "The Week" awarded 'Man of the Year' to Sri Tushar Kanjilal, Secretary
of our Society for his contribution to the cause of underprivileged and the depressed
section in the Sunderbans. Later, "Prophets of New India" published by Penguin, included his
biography for life of thousands people of Sunderban. He has also received the 'Padmasree'
and 'National Teacher' awards. |
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