GRAVIS: Oasis in the Thar Desert
When Laxmi Chand Tyagi and his wife, Shashi, moved to Rajasthan in 1983 at the behest of Acharya Kripalani, they knew the many challenges they would face. Their work with Jayaprakash Narayan’s Sarvoday movement in the 1960s and 1970s, in some of the most backward villages of Uttarakhand and Bihar, had made them aware of the difficulties of community development. But they chose to dedicate their life to the cause, charged with the Gandhian vision that development is about strengthening communities and making them self-sustaining.
