About Bhagavatula Charitable Trust
Nearly five decades of dedicated service transforming rural and tribal lives in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
Our Organisation
Bhagavatula Charitable Trust (BCT) is a non-profit organisation working with tribal and rural communities across Andhra Pradesh since 1976. Through integrated programmes in education, agriculture, disability rehabilitation, vocational training, and livelihoods, BCT has touched 1,30,000+ lives across 137 villages.
With its focus on ‘Rural prosperity for India’s growth’, Bhagavatula Charitable Trust (BCT) is a non-profit, non-sectarian social service organization involved in transforming rural Andhra Pradesh.
Established in 1976, our four-decade-long journey has centered on diverse aspects that impact development and enhance the quality of life for people in rural Andhra Pradesh, especially in the Visakhapatnam district. Working with a participatory approach, our integrated rural development programs nurture change agents within villages and create a paradigm for replication both nationally as well as internationally.
Founded by Dr. BV Parameswara Rao, BCT has conducted over 100 pilot programs, a few of which have become models for replication across the country. These include women's self-help groups (precursor to DWCRA & SHG), rural banking, wasteland development, development of literacy primers etc. Today BCT continues to focus its energies on education, livelihoods, support to specially-abled, agricultural communities and rural entrepreneurship models.
Our Mission
To promote continuous self-improvement in the quality of lives of the villagers by generating their own leadership in solving their problems and by creating opportunities at their doorsteps for utilizing their resources most efficiently.
Our Vision
To transform the villages of Visakhapatnam region into models of learning in a manner that all people, physically challenged and able bodied are gainfully employed. Also, to cause substantive improvements in the state of literacy, health and economic sustenance. Finally, to harness not just natural resources but also human resources through leadership and motivation.