Bishan


Bishan

Bishan Singh Tanwal is Local Co-ordinator and President of the Ranikhet Ecotourism Co-operative Society. His background is in social work and his wife (also a member of the Co-operative Society) is a gram pradhan (village leader). Bishan is actively involved in many local development projects, including starting a small school for young disadvantaged children in Kothiyan village and has run a home stay for the past 9 years. He wants to decrease the migration of local people away from their villages and improve livelihoods through tourism.

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