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Description
Dakshinayan was set up in 1991 by Siddharth Sanyal who volunteered to take over a rural development project in Jharkhand, which was being managed by Service Civil International - India (SCI), the Indian branch of an International volutary service organization.
Siddharth had agreed to assist in the winding up operations when SCI decided to close down the project in 1985. Instead of closing down the project, he stayed on and continued to work in the area. In 1991, he registered a new organization called Dakshinayan.
Dakshinayan (pronounced "Dak-she-naa-yun") is registered as a non-profit Trust managed by a Board of Trustees, comprising a group of concerned individuals who are mostly involved in policy formation and fund raising. However, Dakshinayan's C.H.E.O Project is managed entirely by a team of local villagers. C.H.E.O is an acronym for Child, Health and Education Organization but it is also the name of the village where the project started in 1979 by SCI.
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