experience the struggle for
environmental freedom..
serving the community
with research & activism..
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Basic overview
Experience Environmental freedom
Vasundhara Foundation, shortnamed Vasundhara, means 'the earth' has been formed by a group of environmental specialists and activists to carry out research and social action in the field of environment. It is a no-profit organization. It started to work since 1999. It tries to help community-based initiative by providing # Carrying out Environmental Research # Developing Scientific approach to environment among students # Technical assistance # Monitoring and Surveying # Environmental counselling # Preparation of pollution episode document # Literature for environmental awareness # Audio-visual documentation # Organise workshop and training programme.
Urban Waterbody
An extraordinary effort of ordinary people
They happened to witness the shaping up of an apparently impossible effort into a success. The effort was of retaining the significance......Read more
Target Green Boulevard
Saving trees on Southern Avenue
In November ’99 the local residents in and around Gariahat junction in South Calcutta and the passers by were astonished to find that some big trees have been...Read more
Medical Waste
how Kolkata handles it...
Calcutta people might still remember those huge hoarding proudly put up by Calcutta Municipal Corporation announcing that the city to be the first in the country....Read more
Bikramgarh Jheel
Turning into a dumping ground
Have you seen the latest map of Kolkata published by National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organisation, Govt. of India? One of the few blue patches in that map...Read more
Industrial Pollution
at Behala and Community Action
On 21 February,1997, there was an unusual scene in the Calcutta High court. A number of housewives from east Behala were narrating their experiences ...Read more