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True but Tragic, even after 55 years of Independence India’s more than 80 million (eight crore) our Tribals brothern’s life is still in dark though, unbelievable but fact that 84% men and 95% women are still illiterate, 90% people neither have seen the electricity light nor concrete Road.

Friends of Tribal Society (FTS), a society registered under the West Bengal Societies Act, was established in 1989 as an All India Organisation. This Society for the last 12 years is engaged in the onerous task of spreading literacy and providing health service to the tribal people living in the remotest area of our country through its network Ekal Vidyalayas (One Teacher School). We firmly believe that “a literate nation is a prosperous nation” we made a humble beginning in 1990 and have been able to cover more than 4200 villages with almost 1,50,000 tribal children in the State of Assam, West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh and Maharashtra.

However our efforts for last 12 years is still a drop in the ocean. There are still more than 75000 villages to be covered and we are aiming to reach 10000 villages by 2005.

FTS has evolved a cost effective non-formal primary education system where the One-teacher school operates in a village under a tree (without incurring cost for school building). The teacher is recruited from the same village or surrounding village, and he has to have a minimum qualification of Class-Xth. He is then given extensive training and provided with necessary teaching aids to run the school for 3 hours a day at a time convenient to him and the children of the village.

The annual revenue expenditure for running a One-teacher school is Rs. 10,000/- only.

So far the Society has been raising financial resources from benevolent people in large cities like Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi etc.

We enclose herewith a literature briefly highlighting our activities. We shall be pleased to furnish you any further detail that you may desire.

We would also like to inform that Donations to the Society for this noble cause is exempted U/s 80G of Income Tax Act.

We appeal to you to come forward and support our efforts.