Summary

In 1983, Laxmi Chand Tyagi and Shashi Tyagi founded GRAVIS at Gagadi village, 60 km from the city of Jodhpur. The couple came to Rajasthan from Uttar Pradesh in the late 1970s. In the 1960s and 1970s, they had been active in many of the social movements led by prominent activists like Vinoba Bhave and Jai Prakash Narayan. With their first-hand experience in activism and formal qualifications in agriculture and education, they were prepared to build an organization that was scientifically sound as well as sensitive and responsive to the needs of people. They decided to work in regions which lacked basic resources, such as water and where very few development agencies were present. With this in their minds, they moved to the Thar desert in 1980 and that is how GRAVIS was born. Today, it is a leading Non-Government Organisation working in the rural areas of Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh States of India. The journey that began with 20 villages has now r

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