Kalpavriksh

KALPAVRIKSH is a non-profit organization working on environmental and social issues. The group began in 1979 with a campaign led by students to save Delhi's Ridge Forest. We work on local, national and global levels, are registered under the Societies Registration Act (S-17439) and are based in Delhi and Pune.

Environmental policy and planning
 

Kalpavriksh was estabished in 1979 and works on environmental awareness, campaigns, litigation, research, and other areas. It has taken a position on a number of environment-development issues, more often than not confronting the state through measures ranging from protest letters to street demonstrations. Many of its members have been through an intense and diverse learning process: initiating local protests against the destruction of Delhi’s largest green area (the Ridge), treks through the Himalayan region with the Chipko Andolan, the first detailed study of the impacts of the Narmada projects, investigations into police firing in Bharatpur bird reserve, and all this while continuing nature walks and lobbying for wildlife conservation and animal rights. With such a background, it is not surprising that the NGO has continued to participate in mass movements challenging the state and its policies, while episodically supporting elements of the state that have moved progressively on environmental and development fronts.

Kalpavriksh believes that a country can develop meaningfully only when ecological sustainability and social equity are guaranteed, and a sense of respect for, and oneness with nature, and fellow humans is achieved. It is a non-hierarchical organization and the group takes all decisions after appropriate debate and discussion.

 
Contact
Address:
Delhi Office
Kalpvriksha
134, Tower 10, Supreme Enclave
Mayur Vihar, Phase 1
Delhi 110 091
 
Phone:
 (011) 22753714
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