BTS – Baikunthapur Tarun Sangha, South 24 Parganas

BTS is a community-based development organisation working for the poor and the helpless, disadvantaged and the weaker, marginalized and the vulnerable in riverine-island blocks of south Sunderban. Bts believes people’s active participation with an aim to mobilize local and natural resources. The birth of this ngo is the result of a post-flood situation in the year 1982-83 and since continues to gift a holistic support to the needy and the suffering. Promoting basic education with no child left-outside schools in rural sunderban, sustainable agriculture promoting bio-fertilizers and pesticides in place of chem-pesticides and fertilizers, promoting medi-herb and medicinal-plants culture to enhance alternative indian system of medicines; protection of child rights and elimination of domestic child-labourers/working children with an aim to rehab them into schools; women empowerment through shgs and micro-finance, community health care where there is no hospital to serve the suffering people in need.