The Trust is helping with several public awareness programs on dowry, female infanticide, child marriage, nutrition of mother and child.The trust also has done several training programs on skill development, on crafts and weaving. The beautiful and mesmerizing Sunderbans is a home not only to one of the greatest mangrove vegetation of the world and many endangered species of tigers, dolphins, re
ptiles and birds but also is a residence to half a crore people. The people inhabiting the Indian Sunderban Delta (ISD) are in constant fight with the nature for their daily needs. The people of ISD struggle everyday for their very basic hand-to-mouth existence. Though farming is the main source of income for these people, the cultivation of their lands has been degrading since long. The main factor which plays the villainous role is the salty lands in the region. Due to frequent storms and cyclones in ISD, the land of ISD become salty
and can never be cultivated. For this reason, most of the people here tend to enter the forests. forests which consist of dangerous animals such as man-eating tigers make the daily lives of these forests going population, quite hazardous. Most of the time, these forest going people return critically injured by animal attacks or in some cases never return back alive. Established on 20th April2012, Sonar Bangia Surakha Trust (SBST) is being led by a group of experienced and highly spirited people. The core team consists of President- Subrata Mridha, Vice President- Amitra Sudan Saha, Secretary- Suchandan Mridha, Assistant Secratary- Sukumar Mondal, Treasurer- Debarata Das and Project Director- Soumyadeep Chatterjee & Subhodeep Chatterjee, Cultural Secretary – Rajan Nath, the group has pledged to get reforms in the lives of the most forgotten people of ISD. As recorded in several events, the dangerous animals, mostly the Royal Bengal Tiger barge into the human habitat of ISD and kill or seriously injure human beings (8 to 12 every month). Also their domestic animals are eaten up by the Tigers. Several man-eating Tigers inhabit the forest of ISD which makes it highly hazardous for humans and domestic animals residing on the human inhabited lands. We have pledged to bring about a balance and more so a truce between the natw'e of Sunderbans and the people residing in it.
