about us
Empowering communities, creating lasting positive change.
Dedicated to Empowering Communities and Creating Lasting, Positive Change Through Collaboration, Advocacy, and Innovative Solutions.
Empowerment Community Collaboration Change
Where it all began
Who are we?
USHGRAM TRUST is a multipurpose, multifaceted voluntary organization founded in the year 1980. It has an alternative and integrated outlook on rural development. All activities are essentially non-profit, non-political and voluntary. Its twin approaches of awareness dissemination and development interventions provide an innovative model for change with people’s participation, local leadership, high standards of accountability and transparency.
The Trust was formed with the following Trustee members
Trustee Members
Gopal Chakraborty
Treasurer
Jyotirmoy Bose
Secretary
Charu Chandra Joarder
Member
Gurudas Mustafi
Member
Monotosh Biswas
Member
Dilip Kumar Mukherjee
Member
Arun Bhowmik Secretary, Ushagram Trust, January 2021
Secretary’s Desk
USHGRAM TRUST is a multipurpose, multifaceted voluntary organization founded in the year 1980. It has an alternative and integrated outlook on rural development. All activities are essentially non-profit, non-political and voluntary. Its twin approaches of awareness dissemination and development interventions provide an innovative model for change with people’s participation, local leadership, high standards of accountability and transparency.
The vision which sprang from people’s participation in the planning process encapsulates all that is fundamental to development – peace, security, freedom, tolerance, equity, improved health, education, access to jobs and food security. Making the vision real is a bold and challenging task. It will require a sustained and combined effort from the public and private sectors and from the civil society. It will also require the sustained help of our development partners.
The objective of our Village Development Plan is to focus on financial inclusion and also to develop the villages in an integrated manner. This would include economic development, infrastructure development and other aspects of human development i.e., education, health, drinking water supply, etc., besides access to credit.
The Broad Roles and Responsibilities of Ushagram Trust as the Implementing agency are as follows:-
To create awareness in the village and play effective leadership role in building People’s Organization/ Groups for various developmental activities.
To facilitate convergence/integration of various programmes of NABARD, State/Central Government and other agencies in the village.
To help/prepare a Village Development Plan to ensure socio-economic and livelihood advancement with enhanced credit support and financial inclusion of all families in the village.
To identify capacity building needs of the villagers.
To assist in infrastructure development in the village through participation of people / local institutions.
The plan focuses on protecting forests, preserving the village ecosystem, and conserving soil health and natural resources. Progress will be regularly monitored to ensure effective implementation and sustainability
Our Present Board of Trustee members
Present Board of Trustees
Dr. Ardhendu Biswas
President
Sri Avijit Singha
Trustee Member
Sri Partha Ranjan Das
Trustee Member
Dr. R. Bhattacharjee
Trustee Member
Dr. Rita Dutta
Trustee Member
Sri Krishnalal Talukdar
Treasurer
Sri Arun Bhowmik
Secretary
Dr. Ardhendu Biswas
President