Bijapur Integrated Rural Development Society
Bijapur Integrated Rural Development Society (BIRDS) was established on 2nd October 1989 on the day of Gandhi Jayanti and registered on 1st February 1990 under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act 1960. Mr. Mahantesh Agasimundin is the founder of the organization. BIRDS has been working with the vulnerable target group of families especially - landless, physically challenged, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/STs), small and marginal farmers, women on socio-economic issues, and development of rural poor through diversified developmental activities.[1]