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PRADAN

PRADAN (Professional Assistance for Development Action) is a premier rural development organisation working with tribal and Dalit communities across Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Bihar.

Ranchi, Jharkhand Founded 1983

About

PRADAN (Professional Assistance for Development Action) is a premier rural development organisation working with tribal and Dalit communities across Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, and Bihar. Its model of forming women's self-help groups linked to livelihoods — farming, NTFP collection, and microenterprises — has lifted hundreds of thousands out of poverty. PRADAN's professional staff model attracts IIT and IIM graduates committed to rural development.

Team size: 100-500
Funding type: Grants + Donations

Registration & compliance

80G registered 12A registered FCRA registered

Programs

Programme details for this NGO are being compiled. Check back soon.

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The News Minute3 Aug 2026

RSS rolls out its Gen Z-Gen Alpha outreach, Mohan Bhagwat to meet 2000 students

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat is slated to meet over 2,000 high school students from across the country in Mumbai on August 6, in what is being presented as a major outreach to Gen Z and Gen Alpha. The event, themed ‘The Role of Youth in Uniting the World, the Indian Way,’ comes close on the heels of the student protests led by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, which culminated in the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradan.

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ThePrint24 Jul 2026

No meeting with Pradan, only attended conference of state edu ministers: Samsudheen

Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 24 (PTI) Kerala General Education Minister N Samsudheen on Friday said the meeting he attended with Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan was a conference organised much earlier for education ministers from all states to discuss various academic-related issues. Samsudheen said that the issues discussed in the meeting included a review of the Samagra […]

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