Ekta :  Need of the Hour

                                           Helping Hand of  Rural  Artisans

Ekta Foundation Trust (E F T) is a charitable non-profit organisation, registered in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh in 2001.

E F T was founded by Shri. Rajagopal P.V. a well known Gandhian philosopher, who function as its chairman, and also the founder of  Ekta Parishad  Movement.  Ekta Foundation has a board of five trustees from different part of India.

E F T audit its accounts in both contributions and payments, production and marketing, export yearly by a well known chartered accountants firm called M/s. S.L.Chhajed & Co, Bhopal.

The purpose of  E F T  is to preserve and promote the handicrafts industry and generate employments for rural/urban slum people and most of them are women.  E F T providing marketing services through out India and European countries there for we kept a brand name i.e. EKTA.

At present Ekta working in near by village and slums of Bhopal City for production of different craft items. And also involved in production of tassar silk materials in champa district of Chhattisgarh state. The project involves more than 100 peoples in different area. 

Goods are sold at E F T out lets or by export and every order will –placed through Ekta Fountion’s office.

Today ekta marketing fashion bags, conference files, tassar scarf, tassar stoles, tassar shawls, Jute bags and show pieces. Ekta also have a broad net work of production groups in different states  like uttaranchal where producing handmade greetings cards (natural leafs & flowers pasted in hand made paper cards), Orissa where producing screw pine products, Karnataka where producing reliable jute and cotton mix bags, chhattisgarh for famous in tassar silk production, Kerala where producing bamboo pens. All this products are hand made and from different villages and the focus of Ekta’s activities is income generation for women and rural artisans. More than 80 percent of Ekta’s artisans are women s, many of them from rural villages.

EFT work as a bridge between the producers and buyers.

Surplus money from E FT’s commercial activities fund utilize for ekta parishad’s land struggle and also creating a corpus fund for this producers welfare.