Chatra Physically Handicapped and Social Welfare Institute

The institute has been set up to work in the areas of child labour and handicapped children.

With this agenda, the Chatra Institute runs a school for handicapped children, has a cotton khadi production unit, a creche, provides vocational guidance and non-formal education to children, brings out a quarterly newsletter as well as a monthly magazine `Manal Sampad', and conducts seminars and workshops.

The institute has touched the lives of 500 families from ten villages so far and nearly 5000 children have participated so far in its various activities.

Contact:
Achintya Kumar Shil, Milan Kumar Das
secretary, president
P.O. Chatra, P.S. Islampur, via Daulatabad
Dist. Murshidabad: 742302
West Bengal