page_title: Tarun Bharat Sangh
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Tarun Bharat Sangh / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Rajendra Singh educating the students of Teri University, New Delhi about his projects at Alwar, Rajasthan.
context_page_description: Tarun Bharat Sangh is a non-profitable environmental NGO; with headquarter in Bheekampura, Alwar, Rajasthan. Dr Rajendra Singh is the incumbent chairman of TBS since 1985. TBS started their work with mobilizing communities around the issue of water, and supporting them in reviving and revitalising the traditional systems of water management through construction of ‘Johads’, ‘Anicut’, and ‘Bands’ for rain water harvesting from shramdan and partly by TBS. TBS has built on existing cultural traditions of the area to revive the feeling of oneness with nature which existed in the village communities and to create an understanding and ethos of integrated ecosystem development. At Present the contribution of the organisation is spread around 1000 villages of 15 districts of the state of Rajasthan. The organisation has been part of rejuvenating and reviving 11 rivers in the state of Rajasthan naming, Ruparel, Sarsa, Arvari, Bhagani, Jahajwali, Shabi, and establishment of about 11,800 johads. As a result of these contributions TBS was awarded with STOCKHOLM WATER PRIZE in 2015.
context_section_description: Tarun Bharat Sangh was founded in 1975 in Jaipur by a group of students and professors from the University of Rajasthan. In 1985 the direction of the organization changed when four young members of the organization went to live in the rural area of Alwar to teach rural children and do rural development. Of those four, Rajendra Singh stayed when the other three left. He asked the local people what they needed most, and he found that they needed easier access to water. With the villagers he organized the building of a johad, which is a traditional rainwater storage tank.
caption: Rajendra Singh, founder of Tarun Bharat Sangh NGO explaining the use of Johad to the students of TERI University in Alwar district of Rajasthan
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