Archana and Katrina Gorakshan Trust and Animal Rehabilitation Home (AKGTAARH) is a Public Charitable Trust dedicated to the cause of animal welfare and protection of trees, plants and environment, founded on 23rd June 2005 by Ashish V Pradhan as Founder Trustee and President with younger sister Anupama V Pradhan as First Trustee and Vice President.
Both brother and sister have long experience in the field of animal welfare are chemists by qualification with Anupama writing articles and letters on environmental and animal welfare issues and is involved in feeding and caring for animals on daily basis and also had worked successfully as a nominee on the Institutional Animal Ethics Committees (IAEC) of different institutions using animals for experimentation on behalf of the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA) which is a committee under the control of central government and formed as per the provisions of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (PCA) of 1960.
And here it would not be out of place to mention that our trust believes in the three Rs of Reduction, Refinement and Replacement as far as experimentation on animals is concerned so that their sufferings are reduced. That is reduction in the number of animals used, refinement of experiments/experiment protocols so that animal use is continually turned redundant and finally replacement of animals with non animal models/applications like analysis of available clinical data, computer simulations and models etc wherever possible. Our trust has so far completed fifteen successful years with untiring efforts to mitigate the sufferings of animals and betterment of environment. Shri Ashish is also a writer, acted as a CPCSEA nominee and is an animal welfare trainer having been trained at the Master’s Training Programme conducted at Madras Veterinary College, Madras in Feb- March 1995 under the auspices of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) and the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI which is a statutory autonomous body of the Govt of India formed under the PCA Act. He thereafter conducted successfully several district level training programmes on animal welfare in the states of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
Our trust was established with the slogan of ‘Service to Animals is Service to God,’ since we believe that all animals big and small are children of God.
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The important objective of our trust is to promote the cause of animal welfare and humane and compassionate treatment to animals and to protect the abandoned, physically handicapped and injured cows, buffaloes, goats and their progeny as well as other animals like stray dogs etc. And to provide for food fodder and medical treatment to abandoned, sick, useful as well as unwanted animals of all types.
Another objective of our trust is to undertake tree plantation programme for improvement in environmental conditions as well as to work for the conservation of nature, water bodies, forests, birds and wildlife.
We feel that it is utmost important to protect rivers and streams and conserve them in their natural form and all commercial interests which are inflicting massive denudation of rivers for extracting sand should be controlled and penalised by the authorities for such open destruction of nature which is affecting aquatic and amphibious life forms tremendously.
