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We believe in building self-reliant and inclusive villages through community participation and collective growth.
Secretary, TSRD
In 1969, when much of India's rural landscape was invisible to policy and development, a small group of thinkers set out with a singular conviction that the villages of Bharat could and must lead their own transformation.
Founded under the guiding light of Rabindranath Tagore's humanism, Mahatma Gandhi's Gram Swaraj and the moral force of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, TSRD was created to walk with rural communities rather than for them.
More than five decades later, that vision has evolved into a people-centric movement across West Bengal and Jharkhand, empowering women, strengthening livelihoods, nurturing education and ensuring healthcare reaches those who need it the most.
FOUNDED
INSPIRED BY
GUIDED BY
Six intertwined commitments that shape our work in the field — from classroom to farm, forest to household.
Learning that reaches every child, in every village.
Learning that reaches every child, in every village.
Learning that reaches every child, in every village.
Solutions rooted in ecology, dignity and time.
Learning that reaches every child, in every village.
Learning that reaches every child, in every village.
Learning that reaches every child, in every village.
Learning that reaches every child, in every village.
“Bring back rural life in all its completeness — by making the villagers self-reliant and self-respectful.”
YEARS OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICTS REACHED
BLOCKS COVERED
VILLAGES SERVED
Not executives — changemakers who have walked with villages for decades, listening more than speaking.
30+ YEARS IN THE FIELD
Secretary
Community Institutions · Livelihoods
40+ YEARS OF SERVICE
Chairman
Institutional Strategy · Governance
25+ YEARS OF SERVICE
Joint Secretary
Programs · Field Operations
A six-stage rhythm of listening, building and letting go — refined across five decades of practice.
We arrive to listen — mapping needs, assets and aspirations with the village itself.
Plans are drawn together with women, farmers and youth, never in isolation.
SHGs, FPOs, village committees — the vessels that will outlive any project.
Livelihoods, education, health, ecology — delivered as one integrated fabric.
Skills, leadership, and confidence handed to the community for good.
Evidence-led course correction and quiet, deliberate scaling.
Measured in soil, community change — measured in generations, but in the numbers that together tell the story.
Women SHGs Empowered
INSPIRED IMPACT
Trees Planted
INSPIRED IMPACT
Hectares Restored
INSPIRED IMPACT
Women Farmers Supported
INSPIRED IMPACT
Children Rehabilitated
INSPIRED IMPACT
Families Supported
INSPIRED IMPACT
The moral compass that set TSRD in motion — voices whose ideas still travel with us into every village we serve.
1902 – 1979
“Political freedom must be transformed into economic and social freedom — village by village.”
ARCHIVAL · TSRD INSTITUTIONAL
MEMORY
1908 – 1983
“The freedom of the villager is the true measure of the freedom of the nation.”
ARCHIVAL · TSRD INSTITUTIONAL
MEMORY
