Formation: MUKTI, a socio-economic development organization, registered with Government of India Trust Act 64, 12A, 80G and FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 1976), has been working for Sunderban people in the Delta region of South 24 Parganas, WB, India with the programs of Health, Water and Sanitation, Education & Empowerment, Agricultural Reforms, Livelihood & Economic Empowerment, Envi
ronment, Rights & Governance, covering 23000 households of the last miles. In 10 Gram Panchyaets (Local Governments) of the Sunderban, Mukti is working with almost 40 communities are in catastrophes of climatic hazards resulting in penury, vulnerability and violence where the Sunderban grassroots are subjected to such menaces. The communities contain plural society of 28% Schedule Caste (SC), 12% Schedule Tribe (ST) and 60% General caste, the people of SC and ST are customarily excluded as stereotyped as socially outcast strata where womenfolk of the section are in extreme vulnerability for double discriminations of gender and race making livelihoods effete and impasse. Legal Status: Mukti is registered under the Government of India Trust Act Section 64. It has an executive board that frames the policies and passes down action items to the ground level working committee. There are several different wings of the ground level working committee and every wing has several general members who implement the policies and work items of the board. A general body meeting is held every year. The executive board is elected for a two-year term and is dissolved and newly elected by and from the members by an electoral process. Vision: Mukti’s Vision is to create such an environment whereby any and every individual is able to sustain with change-environment and look forward to a promising future. Mission: Mukti's Mission is to implement programs for uplift of poor and downtrodden people of Sunderban region by way of motivation and human resource
