About
Education, health, child development, horticulture, development of medicinal plants, environmental Badrish Kirti Jan Kalyan Samiti is a society registered as a non Governmental organization under society registration act 21-1860.Foreign Contribution regulation act, 1976, and section 12A &80 G of Indian Income Tax act 1961. Working in the remote and inaccessible areas in Uttarakhand, a province in Indian Himalayas, the area we work is remote and underdeveloped part of Uttarakhand. This is a state which itself has been historically neglected and marginalized within India. Geography has determined the life condition of these villages in many important ways, Life in the mountains is difficult-to fetch water and collect firewood requires climbing up and down narrow trails over long distance. The challenge of the terrain has complicated the serving of the area.Most families in the area where we work live off animal husbandry and farming their own small plots. This is sufficient for sustaining themselves only for eight and nine month of the year, during the rest of which they have to by their food. Apart from selling their small quantities of milk and vegetables on the market, about a four hour jeep drive way, t