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Project : Baikunta Taruna Sangha
State : Kultali Block,  West Bengal
Development Focus: Health Care

About the NGO*:  Baikutha Tarun Sangha has been established since 1993 and its mission is to provide sustainable development to downtrodden in the area. Activities include child care, education for girls/rural children/agriculture/health care. In the health care area, they have conducted a pulse polio program successfully.

Existing Health Care Condtions:  Backward with no internal communications and no primary health clinic (PHC) in the area. River water route to carry the patients to distant health care with the cost of about Rs 800.

Objective of Project: (a) Establish a health clinic to provide basic preventive and curative health care services.  (b) Establish a mobile boat to provide emergency care at 60% of existing cost to patients to transfer them to main PHCs and (c) Establish sustenance of the project without external aid. 

Requested Budget: $14,000, Phase II : $15300
Status: Approved $4000, Phase II $2150
              TimeLine

Project Coordinator: Chandrika Ramanujam, Madhulika, Aparajita Durga
Contact Email: cramanujam@austin.rr.com, madhulika@mail.utexas.edu, adurga@mail.utexas.edu

BTS_Phase_II:
AID-Austin approved 4000$ for the recurring costs of the clinic for the first phase which lasted till February, 2003. During this period, a clinic was established with a doctor working for 5 days a week. Six village health workers were identified and they are being trained on various aspects of preventive and curative health.
In February, 2003 BTS submitted the proposal for second phase for the following components.
  1. Establishment of the clinic infrastructure
  2. Making the Revolving Medicine bank sustainable
  3. Holding Awareness Camps
  4. Recurring costs of the clinic.
The project is being co-reviewed by AID-San Diego. The funding for this phase should enable BTS to move towards a self-sustaining model. BTS plans to introduce Family Health Cards scheme, which would require people to contribute Rs24/- per month per family to use the clinical services.

Additional Information
Project Proposal:  proposal.doc
Presentation Slides:  Phase 2 Proposal
Visit Report:  BTS-site-visit.doc Presentation_Aparajita Presenation(2) Presenation(3)
BTS PHASE2_Proposal:  BTS PHASE2_proposal.doc
PROJECT STATUS REPORT:  PROJECT STATUS REPORT(PSR)-I.doc
PROJECT STATUS REPORT-II:  PROJECT STATUS REPORT-II(CHP-AID).doc
Correspondence Notes:  Notes1   Notes2   Notes3   Notes4   Notes5   Notes6   Emails   Phone
Update  BTS update - Oct11.ppt BTS update - Jan2003 Update      
Relevant Minutes: aug 01, aug 18, sep 01, oct 06, oct 10, [2002] dec 07, [2003] feb 08, [2003] May 07th, Oct 11th, Dec 6th,
Documents  Annual Report    Reco Letter    Initial Info    Activity Plan    Exp Sheet 1    Funds requested    Health Status Study    Survey Analysis    Budget(PhI)    Budget(PhII)    Use of funds