Bandhan has its registered office at the 99 H/2 Haran Chandra Banerjee Lane, Konnagar, Hooghly, West Bengal. Its Head Office, is currently located at Kolkata of the state of West Bengal.
- Bandhan has 9 members as its Governing Body who take statutory and policy decisions as well as provide overall guidance. The Board meets once in every 3 months.
- A team of staff members, led by a Executive Director (ED) who coordinates the overall operations and team meets once in a month.
- Branch is a field level office to execute the micro finance program, along with six members in a team, one is a Branch Manager (BM), Five are Community Organizer (CO) and also a Peon-cum-cook to assist the staff members and take care of the office, including cleaning, cooking and serving. Branch manager is a team leader of the branch. Every branch along with all members meets on weekly basis.


Bandhan is at present operating in the districts of Hoogly, Howrah and North 24 Parganas in West Bangal. The promoters envisage reaching out to the neighbouring districts, inclusive of some specific districts at North Bengal and other potential areas in India.


Bandhan belives that the poor can themselves make a difference in their own lives provided they have the right opportunities and support. It also recognizes the fact that women belonging to the poorer section of the population suffer most due to lack of access to resources, health care and education. Hence Bandhan's micro credit interventions is an integral part of its holistic approach to development. The experienced gained over the years has led by Bandhan to realise that in addition to access to financial resources, the poor also need other interventions like inputs and technical assistance, help in marketing their product, health care and social development programs for raising awareness for facilitate empowerment.Hence these also became essential components of the credit program.


Following a "Holistic Approach", Bandhan has initiated a number of programs for economic and social development of the poor. These developmental programs may be represented through the following schematic diagram:



Institution Building
In order to bring the poor into the mainstream of development, Bandhan focuses on institution building as a strategy of participation in development activities.
The Self Help Group (SHG) is set up to:
- Develop a well-disciplined organization of the poor with particular emphasis on women's participation;
- Develop the capacity of the poor for sustainable development
- Enable the poor to participate in the national development process
These objectives are approached by implementing such steps as forming SHGs, conducting regular weekly meeting on a fixed day of the week, at a designated place and time in the evening and imparting training on human resource and skills development.

Education and Nutrition
The purpose of the Non-Formal Education Program (NFPE) is to provide basic relevant education to poor unsaved children, along with a provision for balance nutrition. Recognizing the fact that female education is very important for poverty alleviation and empowerment. Bandhan has been created based on the belief that better education children become better-educated parents. Among the poorest this has important ramifications in employment opportunities, productivity, literacy, health, child survival, equity and the role of women. Educated parents seek better education for their children.

Community Health
From this year Bandhan have been started his Medical service facilities, to extend regular health checkups of the child-beneficiaries and Pre and post natal after care treatment for their mothers on monthly basis. The service chain includes - Weight measurements, providing easily available medicines, and necessary referral services in case of emergent needs.

Afforestation and Awareness Generation

The organization has contributed for environment upgradation through Afforestation programs in the nearby localities of its operational area, and conducted several One-day camps on consumer awareness, AIDs & STD control, Citizenship Rights with special focus on women etc.

Women Empowerment
Since the organization believes on sustained community development can only be introduced through the means of sustained development of its Women members, almost all the programs and schemes, which are designed and implemented on the field are focused towards their empowerment. The empowerment mechanism is well-built through the steps of formation of Self Help Group (SHG) of women, building up the capacity of the members and their economic sustenance, which ensures their participation in the decision making process within family and community level.


Income Generation
Animal Husbandry
Lives Development
Fisheries