About Margastha Research Foundation
Margastha Research Foundation is a Section 8 non-profit organization registered under the Companies Act, 2013 in West Bengal, India. We are dedicated to promoting education, research, biodiversity conservation, eco-tourism, cultural preservation, and community empowerment for sustainable development.
🌍 Our Mission
To empower communities through inclusive education, research, and sustainable practices that protect our environment, culture, and future generations.
✨ Our Vision
To create a society where knowledge, sustainability, and compassion drive progress, ensuring equal opportunities and a resilient environment for all.
Core Objectives
- Quality Education: To establish and operate schools, colleges, and educational institutions in India for imparting non-profit education at all levels in fields such as arts, science, commerce, engineering, medical, management, and other allied areas and to conduct vocational training, certificate programs, and skill development initiatives for public welfare and charitable purposes.
- Skill Development: To promote education, skill development, and social empowerment by setting up educational and training centres, with a focus on underprivileged communities, solely for charitable and public welfare purposes.
- Biodiversity Conservation: To conserve, protect, and restore biodiversity, including flora, fauna, and natural ecosystems, through field projects, community involvement, capacity building, and collaboration with academic, governmental, and non-governmental institutions, solely for environmental and public benefit.
- Research and Surveys: To conduct social, economic, educational, environmental, and scientific surveys and studies for the purpose of data collection, public awareness, policy support, and community development, and to disseminate findings for the advancement of education, research, and public welfare, without any profit motive.
- Scientific Innovation: To establish and support research labs for scientific innovation and to share knowledge for advancing education, health, environment, and public welfare, without profit motive.
- Sustainable Management:To promote conservation and sustainable management of forests, water bodies, and ecosystems to preserve biodiversity and support climate resilience, with community involvement and no profit motive.
- Eco-Tourism: To promote conservation and sustainable management of forests, water bodies, and ecosystems to preserve biodiversity and support climate resilience, with community involvement and no profit motive.
- Volunteerism: To promote volunteerism and internships for students and professionals to foster civic engagement, skills, and community service, without profit motive.
- Cultural Promotion: To promote literary, cultural, religious, and scientific education through institutions, events, publications, and community programs for heritage preservation and social harmony, without profit motive.
- Green Spaces: To develop, maintain, and promote public parks, green spaces, and recreational areas with the objective of enhancing urban and rural environmental quality, promoting biodiversity, and providing eco-friendly community spaces for education, recreation, and public well-being, without any profit motive.
- Welfare Centres: To establish and manage hostels, shelters, rehabilitation and counseling centers for women, children, elderly, addicts, and needy persons, without any profit motive.
- Museums and Heritage: To establish and maintain museums to preserve and promote heritage, culture, science, and art, and to run educational and awareness programs for public benefit, without profit motive.
- Public Welfare: To promote the general welfare of the public, particularly the underprivileged and marginalized, by providing essential services such as food, shelter, healthcare, education, livelihood support, sanitation, and disaster relief; and to undertake community development and social empowerment initiatives in collaboration with governments, NGOs, and other stakeholders, without any profit motive.
- Food Services: To serve food to homeless and needy people.
Legal Identity
Margastha Research Foundation is incorporated as a Section 8 Company under the Companies Act, 2013.having CIN U85500WB2025NPL280595. The organization operates strictly on a non-profit basis, with all income applied solely for its objectives, ensuring transparency and accountability in all activities.
What We Do
📚 Education
Schools, training, and scholarships for skill development and empowerment.
🌱 Environment
Biodiversity protection, forest and water conservation, and climate resilience projects.
🏛 Culture
Preserving heritage, literature, museums, and cultural programs for community harmony.
🤝 Social Welfare
Providing shelter, healthcare, food, and livelihood support for vulnerable communities.
Our Team

Shri Ranjan Shaw
Director and President

Shri Ajay Verma
Director and Secretary

Shri Dipanshu Singh
Treasurer

Ms. Sutrishna Halder
Project Coordinator
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Ms. Priyanka Hazra
Field Officer
Our Partners and Collaborators


