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Manbhum Ananda Ashram Nityananda Trust

Manbhum Ananda Ashram Nityananda Trust is a non-profit organisation, established in 1960 that works primarily in the domain of Education, Health, Employment, Art & Culture, Water, Gender, Child & Youth Development, Technology, Tribes, Impact Analysis and Eco-system enabler. Its primary office is in Kolkata, West Bengal.

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  • 80G
  • 12A
  • CSR-1
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About

  • Headquarters

    Kolkata, West Bengal

  • Since

    1960

MANT is a non-profit, non-racial, non-political, and non-religious organisation that, since 1960, has been working in development, livelihood promotio Read moren, research, advancing community action for the preservation of local ecology, promoting the adoption of community media like community radio, health service delivery, and health behaviour change to reduce the massive health burden in the poor and marginalized sections of society. We primarily work in the eastern and northeastern parts of India and have a team of 120 trained workers and 12 volunteers. We have been touching almost 1.5 million lives, mostly tribal, annually through our different activities.


Issue

Education: Addressing language barriers in tribal education, establishing non-formal schools, and integrating tribal folklore into pre-primary education. Health: Providing healthcare through mobile medical units, training tribal women in neonatal care, and establishing a surveillance system for health indicators. Social Enterprise: Empowering tribal women through initiatives like PRANTIK, creating value chains, and promoting micro-enterprises. Climate Resilience: Promoting climate-smart practices, restoring degraded lands, and setting up a Peoples’ Science Centre. Culture and Communication: Preserving tribal culture through documentation, community radio, and cultural centres. Centre for Public Health Research (CPHR)- Impact Assessment (Including Social Return on Investment, Cost Effectiveness, modelling and simulation), health data for surveillance, doctoral training, Australia Award Fellowship, health research, evidence synthesis and implementation, JBI affiliate centre.


Action

Education: Running 50 non-formal schools Introduce primary education in indigenous languages Build the capacity of the tribal youths to facilitate these informal schools Health: Reach out to one million people for providing reproductive and child health care, curative, diagnostics, x-rays, and free medicines through Mobile Medical Units (MMUs) Reach out to one thousand underserved villages in eastern India to control outbreaks of infectious diseases, prevention and management of Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) Train and engage young tribal women to promote neo-natal care, run vaccination and immunization program Livelihood Promotion: “PRANTIK” (means marginal or terminal) owned and managed by 378 tribal women, trained in weaving, using natural dyes, producing hand-woven fabric, with hand embroidery, and promoting tribal motifs in their designs on 100% linen / cotton / tussar fabrics. Train and engage tribal women in preparing yoga mats out of Madur Kathi as a part of NTFP value chain. Climate Resilence: Share inputs with farmers to integrate different subsystems to increase the total varied farm output and yield. Restore degraded forest land through rewilding and agro-forestry Culture of endangered and nutrition-rich fish varieties along with excavation and renovation of water bodies. Community Media and Culture: Preserve and perpetuate life and traditions - document folklore and tribal dance forms, exhibit tribal arts and paintings, hold festivals Run a community radio station - Nityananda Janavani 91.2FM, which broadcasts 7-8 hours of edutainment in Santhali language. Train tribal girls and utilize their storytelling skills and cultural nuances to create dramatized award-winning audio-visual content which fosters awareness, dialogues, and positive change. Ensure the participation of people to express and exchange views starting from program inception, implementation and feedback. Established an indigenous tribal cultural center - Adivasi Lakchar Talma (ALT).

Demographies Served

Cause Area

Sector

Sub Sector

Impact

Healthcare Services: Over 15 million people have received healthcare services. Community Media: Reaching more than 200,000 people monthly through media initiatives. Cultural Activities: Engaging over 1 million tribal people in cultural activities and festivals. Adolescent Programs: Covering over 150,000 adolescent girls. Evidence Generation: Establishing effective systems for evidence generation and implementation in public health. Education: Established an educational complex from nursery school to a degree college. Community Radio and Video- First ever tribal woman radio jockey from our radio station and many videos prepared by tribal women shown in different international film festivals. MANT has implemented a public engagement project through community media action to promote Antenatal and Child Care in the tribal areas of Purulia with support from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine under IMPRINT during 2020-21. It has been selected as a case study that was presented on 6th and 7th February 2023 at the Annual Networking Meeting held in London, UK. It has also implemented a project on human rights promotion through community media action (Radio programmes, community videos, narrow-casting, community screening in village assembly meetings) by tribal youths with support from Gothenburg University, Sweden (January 2022 to June 2023). This project's success was presented at the International Conference on Social Work Research, Education, and Practice: NASSW/FORSA 2024, held in Gothenburg from June 17th to 19th, 2024

Programs

  • SFURTI Project in respect of Prantik Handloom & Handicraft Cluster, Purulia, West Bengal.

    District

    State

    Building a common facility center
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    Procurement of equipment
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    Capacity building
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    Technology transfer
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    Agency building
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    Forward linkage establishment

  • Antenatal and Neonatal Care among tribal people in India

    District

    State

    Community radio broadcast
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    Community video and screening at the village level
    •
    Use of tribal language for communication
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    Forum theatre on air

  • Promotion of youth participation in Civic Management

    District

    State

    Community radio broadcast
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    Community video and screening at the village level
    •
    Use of tribal language for communication
    •
    Forum theatre on air
    •
    Community media lives
    •
    Engagement of traditional tribal leadership and village assemblies

  • Study on Tobacco Litters

    State

    Tobacco Litter Assessment

  • Observational study on Tobacco Advertisements, Promotion and Sponsorship Ban

    District

    State

    Compliance Study

  • Operation of Mobile Medical Clinics

    District

    State

    To provide primary health care services in hard-to-reach areas to the last-mile population

    Curative services

    Diagnostic services

    RCH services

    Radiology services

    Family planning counselling

  • Tobacco Control Programme

    District

    State

    Capacity building of government officials, elected representatives, media and the like
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    Evidence generation through research
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    System strengthening

  • SAG-Kanyashree convergence Programme

    District

    State

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    Awareness about health, hygiene & nutrition, including Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) and family and child care;
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    Upgrade their home-based skills, life skills
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    Mainstream out-of-school adolescent girls into formal/non formal education; and provide information and guidance about existing public services such as PHC, CHC, Post Office, Bank, Police Station, etc.

  • Access to justice – Prevention of child marriage, child labour, child Sexual Abuse

    District

    State

    Guidance and facilitation for access to entitlements among the targeted population
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    Awareness campaigns and pledges
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    Capacity building
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    Networking

  • Study on BIDI rolling

    District

    State

    Research on Socio-economic Profile of Bidi Rollers
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    Having champions for ensuring rights of women bidi rollers

  • Social Return on Investment (SROI) study

    State

    SROI Study on CSR Project interventions

  • Challenge Facility for Civil Society Round12- TB Prevention

    District

    State

    Community radio broadcast
    •
    Community video and screening at the village level
    •
    Use of tribal language for communication
    •
    Forum theatre on air
    •
    Community media lives
    •
    Engagement of traditional tribal leadership and village assemblies
    •
    Operation research and SROI

  • Nationwide study to estimate incidence, mortality, morbidity and economic burden due to snake bite in India

    District

    State

    Data collection, analysis and incidence of snakebites in respective topographical areas
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    Treatment pattern for venomous and non-venomous snakebites, which may help strengthen the national protocol and find out the gap between regular reporting and reporting from project districts.
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    Medical attention seeking behavior pattern among the snakebite victims (preference for modern medicine vis-à-vis alternate systems of medicine)

Impact Metrics

  • No of People Received Treatment

    Program Name

    Operation of Mobile Medical Clinics

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2018-19 767748
    • 2019-20 601717
    • 2020-21 513532
    • 2021-22 359583
    • 2022-23 167440

  • No of People Trained

    Program Name

    Tobacco Control Programme

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2023-24 7500

  • Gainful Employment

    Program Name

    SFURTI Project in respect of Prantik Handloom & Handicraft Cluster, Purulia, West Bengal.

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2021-22 55
    • 2022-23 122
    • 2023-24 378

Leadership Team

  • Dr Nirmalya Mukherjee

    Director

  • Dr Paramita Bhattachariya

    Assistant Director- Research

  • Anirban Roy

    Assistant Director

  • Dr Biswajit Mahapatra

    Research Officer

  • Dr Sajda Khatoon

    Research Officer

  • Kaushik Guha

    PR Officer

  • Basudeb Mandal

    Community Media Manager

  • Bandana Mandal

    Senior Coordinator

  • Barsha Nandy

    Regional Coordinator

  • Samarprita Sanyal

    Project Coordinator

  • Soumya Chandra

    Research Coordination

  • Pritha Das

    Research Associate

  • Tanya Sharma

    Research Associate

Demographics & Structure

  • No. of Employees

    100+

M&E

  • Internal, External Assessors

    No

Policies

  • Ethics and Transparency Policies

    No

  • Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy

    No

Political & Religious Declarations

  • On Affiliation if any

    No

  • On Deployment Bias if any

    No

Registration Details

  • PAN Card

    AAATM7627B

  • Registration ID

    Registration No-S/3863

  • VO ID / Darpan ID

    WB/2009/0006624

  • 12A

    AAATM7627BE20214

  • 80G

    AAATM7627BF20216

  • FCRA

    147070029

  • CSR Registration Number

    CSR00000046

Location

Other Details

  • Sister Organisation

    Manbhum Prantika

  • Type & Sub Type

    Non-profit
    Society

Website

Financial Details

 Income / Expenses

  • 2020-21

    Income
    Rs.86,267,749
    Expenses
    Rs.76,638,564
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.3,864,453
    Program Expenses
    Rs.72,774,111
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  • 2021-22

    Income
    Rs.82,122,293
    Expenses
    Rs.62,517,941
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.4,972,331
    Program Expenses
    Rs.57,545,610
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  • 2022-23

    Income
    Rs.49,531,614
    Expenses
    Rs.48,370,316
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.12,522,509
    Program Expenses
    Rs.35,847,807
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