Archana and Katrina Gorakshan Trust and Animal Rehabilitation Home

About us

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.