Jal Bhagirathi Foundation

Works to provide drinking water for humans and animals in the desert of Rajasthan

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About

  • Headquarters

    Jodhpur, Rajasthan

  • Since

    2002

The Marwar region is the most densely populated arid zone in the world. It is a part of the great Thar Desert in Western Indian and is characterised b Read morey harsh physical geography and a fragile ecology. Jal Bhagirathi Foundation (JBF) has developed an innovative model of water management. With a meagre annual rainfall of 200 MM and saline groundwater, life is an endless struggle in Marwar. With the changing climate, droughts have become more frequent with the region witnessing six drought years in the last decades. The temperature reaches 50+°C in summer. The challenges facing the people of the Thar Desert are manifold. Water scarcity has resulted in chronic poverty and vulnerability for the population, forcing people to compromise on the quality of drinking water and consume water having high levels of nitrates and fluorides adversely affecting the health of the people in the long term. Drinking water scarcity is an economic strain on communities as they have to buy water, transported through tankers from vast distances. To address this, JBF seeks to revive and construct rainwater harvesting structures through community mobilisation. The goal is to manage water resources sustainably within the environmental constraints, creating water security by decentralised and adaptive water resource management resulting in improved resilience to climate change.

Demographies Served

Impact

550,000 beneficiaries with water security and sanitation. 500+ villages covered by programs 2000+ water harvesting structures revived 4000+ million litres harvested every year 2100+ homes equipped with toilets 100+ hectares of land reclaimed

Programs

  • Safe Water

    Under a public-private-community partnership paradigm, JBF has piloted community-driven micro-level water enterprise initiatives to show how new technology and skill development can lead to safe drinking water solutions. In addition to guaranteeing the provision of clean drinking water, this project enhanced the villagers' self-help groups' (SHG) prospects for employment.

    The campaign places a strong emphasis on empowering local communities to adopt suitable drinking water filtration technologies. Water purification plants and distribution networks can be operated and managed by entrepreneurs and community-based organizations like Jal Sabha.

  • Water for Schools

    Helping schools build and maintain rooftop rainwater-harvesting systems to guarantee that kids have access to clean drinking water all year round. Indirectly, JBF entails collaborating with the community at large to build new rainwater gathering systems or revitalize existing ones to address water scarcity in rural areas. Children are freed from their household chore of getting water, which raises their enrollment and attendance rates in school. Jal Dal children's groups are set up to supervise the upkeep and management of school water-harvesting tankas, guaranteeing volunteerism and community service, and enabling kids to gain practical environmental knowledge while being exposed to regional water management customs.

Leadership Team

  • Ankita Bhandari

    Program Specialist

  • Mahesh Bohra

    Accounts Manager

  • GAJ SINGH Chairman

  • RAJENDRA SINGH

    Vice Chairman

  • PRITHVI RAJ SINGH

    President

Demographics & Structure

  • No. of Employees

    21-50

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

    AAATJ2932L

  • Registration ID

    06/2002/JODHPUR

  • VO ID / Darpan ID

    RJ/2017/0171354

  • FCRA

    125610038

  • CSR Registration Number

    Not Available

Location

  • Headquarters

    D-66 (B) Sawai Madho Singh Road Bani Park, Jodhpur, 302016

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Other Details

  • Type & Sub Type

    Non-profit
    Trust