Tagore Society for Rural Development (TSRD)

Tagore Society for Rural Development (TSRD) is one of the oldest and largest civil society organization in the eastern India engaged in rural development since 1969. The organization was founded by the then Gandhian leader Loknayak Jai Prakash Narayan, the freedom fighter Pannalal Dasgupta, Justice Sabyasachi Mukherjee, Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta Sushil Mukherjee. TSRD is working in more than 1950 villages spread in 42 blocks of two states viz. West Bengal and Jharkhand & the branch offices are named as Rangabelia Project, Hingalgunj Project, Sagar Project, Bolpur Project, Tapan Project, Rajnagar-Khoirasol Project, Patamda Project & Maheshpur Project. Name of the projects indicates their operational head office only but each of them covers numbers of villages and blocks and also works with different thematic areas. All the project areas of TSRD are situated in the remotest corners of the states like islands of Sundarbans or at the international border of Banglades...