BADLAO FOUNDATION

Badlao means Change.  Badlao Foundation is committed to bring about fundamental changes in the lives of the excluded people; Dalits, OBC, Minorities and Tribals and ensure economic freedom for a happier future. It strives to strengthen the capabilities of an individual and community capability as a type of freedom that enables one to choose a lifestyle s/he wants to live. Its involvement in the socio-economic transformation of the tribal people who were uprooted, marginalized and forced to live the life of poverty and destitution in the wake of the construction of Maithon dam is a testimony to its commitment.

Badlao owes its birth to the displaced tribal’s agitation against the hegemony of the state and it basically questions the qualitative and ethical approach and concept of the development. When Maithon dam was constructed over river Barakar the uprooted tribals of 39 villages were marginalized and turned paupers. That triggered Badlao’s action. The Foundation then expanded to remote, interior and underdeveloped areas of Santhal Paraganas which do not have access to other agents of change. Badlao Foundation currently works in Jamtara, Dumka, Deoghar, Godda, Sahebganj and Pakur districts of Santhal Paraganas of Jharkhand. The programmes of Badlao Foundation include women empowerment and gender justice, sustainable rural livelihoods, agriculture, health nutrition and sanitation, advocacy and lobby, education, building institutions, and child development.

Badlao Foundation was set up by Mr. Bajrang Singh, who pursued MA in Labor and Social Welfare. As a student in 1966 he was active in political movement led by Socialist Leader Dr. Ram Man Lohiya and was member of United Socialist Party and its youth organization. After 1980, he made special effort for liberation of bonded laborers in Santhal Pargana Region and organized Tribal, Dalit backward and minority women for empowerment.

Contact details:
Registered office address:
Chittaranjan Railway Station Road,Mihijam,
District: Jamtara, Jharkhand, 815354
Year of Establishment: 1982

Geographical Presence: Dumka, Jamtara, Godda, Deoghar

Areas Of Operations: Livelihoods, Women Empowerment, Infrastructure Development, Health-Community Development, Education for Slum and rural poor

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