Baikunthapur Tarun Sangha
An Integrated Development Organization
Who We Are
History
In 1978, a group of youngsters started a club for recreational activities for the youth in Kultali block. The major floods that hit the island in 1982 made the youngsters undertake a series of relief measures, physically helping victims to reach safer places, pleading the government and administration for relief support and organizing the relief camps. This was the turning point in the history of the Club.
The youngsters were struck by the extent of poverty amongst the people on one hand and total lack of apathy and support from other quarters. They realized the vulnerability of the people and the need to contribute towards organized community development . Thus the resolve to work towards building better facilities for the people in need but who didn't know how to obtain. Thus, Baikunthapur Tarun Sangha was born, popularly known as BTS .
Challenging Growth
BTS was registered under the West Bengal Society Registration Act in 1983 and later received the certification under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 1976 of Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India in 1996..
BTS is also registered U/S 12A & 80G(E) of Income Tax Act, 1961 , Govt. of India and has a status to receive donations/contributions from all national as well as International sources of development-interest.
BTS started off focusing on Education as a fundamental to empower and liberate people. They started a KG & Nursery School in a hut but the school collapsed down on a cyclone-hit night, thus destroying the only shelter!
However, BTS had the good fortune to meet Geeta Venkadakrishnan, who introduced BTS to Edith Wilkins of the Hope Foundation, Kolkata. They were recommended to the Embassy of Ireland where Pat Scullion, the First Secretary & the Dy. Chief of Mission, was strongly moved by the need to support BTS in the reconstruction of the School Building and thus bore the cost for 3 Classrooms.
Coincidentally, around the same time, BTS came in contact with Kumar Bhattachaya & Shruti Lakhotia of the Seattle Chapter at Asha For Education, USA who after a careful consideration of the fact considered funding for BTS-PathBhavan, the school for the neglected working children engaged in Prawnseed catching from crocodile infested rivers and collecting NTFPs from the Reserved Mangrove Forest infested with the carnivorous Royal Bengal Tigers…
Thus, with the kind support of the initial partners, the eventful journey of BTS begun….
In 1978, a group of youngsters started a club for recreational activities for the youth in Kultali block. The major floods that hit the island in 1982 made the youngsters undertake a series of relief measures, physically helping victims to reach safer places, pleading the government and administration for relief support and organizing the relief camps. This was the turning point in the history of the Club.
The youngsters were struck by the extent of poverty amongst the people on one hand and total lack of apathy and support from other quarters. They realized the vulnerability of the people and the need to contribute towards organized community development . Thus the resolve to work towards building better facilities for the people in need but who didn't know how to obtain. Thus, Baikunthapur Tarun Sangha was born, popularly known as BTS .
Challenging Growth
BTS was registered under the West Bengal Society Registration Act in 1983 and later received the certification under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 1976 of Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India in 1996..
BTS is also registered U/S 12A & 80G(E) of Income Tax Act, 1961 , Govt. of India and has a status to receive donations/contributions from all national as well as International sources of development-interest.
BTS started off focusing on Education as a fundamental to empower and liberate people. They started a KG & Nursery School in a hut but the school collapsed down on a cyclone-hit night, thus destroying the only shelter!
However, BTS had the good fortune to meet Geeta Venkadakrishnan, who introduced BTS to Edith Wilkins of the Hope Foundation, Kolkata. They were recommended to the Embassy of Ireland where Pat Scullion, the First Secretary & the Dy. Chief of Mission, was strongly moved by the need to support BTS in the reconstruction of the School Building and thus bore the cost for 3 Classrooms.
Coincidentally, around the same time, BTS came in contact with Kumar Bhattachaya & Shruti Lakhotia of the Seattle Chapter at Asha For Education, USA who after a careful consideration of the fact considered funding for BTS-PathBhavan, the school for the neglected working children engaged in Prawnseed catching from crocodile infested rivers and collecting NTFPs from the Reserved Mangrove Forest infested with the carnivorous Royal Bengal Tigers…
Thus, with the kind support of the initial partners, the eventful journey of BTS begun….
