# Swechha

> Swechha is an environmental NGO in Delhi, working since 2000. Air, the Yamuna, schools, journeys and a five-acre farm — every figure with its source.

Swechha We for Change Foundation is a registered Indian NGO (Societies Registration Act, 80G, 12A, FCRA) founded in 2000 by Vimlendu Jha, based in New Delhi, India.

## Key facts

- Founded: 2000
- Founder: Vimlendu Jha — https://swechha.in/about#vimlendu-jha
- Legal name: Swechha We for Change Foundation
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Registration: Societies Registration Act, 80G, 12A, FCRA

## Pages

- [Delhi environmental NGO. We keep the record.](https://swechha.in): Swechha is an environmental NGO in Delhi, working since 2000. Air, the Yamuna, schools, journeys and a five-acre farm — every figure with its source.
- [About Swechha — an environmental NGO in Delhi](https://swechha.in/about): Founded in 2000 as We for Yamuna. Swechha is an environmental and community organisation in Delhi — who does the work, who governs it, what is on record.
- [The work](https://swechha.in/work): Everything Swechha runs, in one view: every project, campaign, journey and event, by name, with the kind of work it is set on the row beside it.
- [Swechha Farm — school camps and stays near Delhi](https://swechha.in/farm): Five acres in the Aravallis, ninety minutes from Delhi. Day trips, overnight school camps for a hundred students, retreats and stays. One tree became 5,000.
- [Delhi’s air](https://swechha.in/now/air): Delhi’s AQI read hourly from CPCB, worst monitor named and the mean beside it; NCR towns, India’s air standards against WHO’s, and the GRAP schedule.
- [Get involved — give, volunteer or partner](https://swechha.in/act): Volunteer in Delhi, give to an NGO with 80G and 12A, or bring us a ward, a river stretch or a cohort. Three ways in, and every ask on this site lands here.
- [Impact](https://swechha.in/impact): Every figure Swechha holds, on one page, by programme and by the span it counts. No single total: the figures count overlapping groups of people.
- [Publications](https://swechha.in/publications): Three things Swechha has published, free and whole, with no address asked for: a book about a neighbourhood, a shopper's guide, and one piece of research.
- [Stories and films](https://swechha.in/stories): Films made with the people in them, and a poster series that said the same things on paper, in a city that reads walls before it reads reports.
- [Learn](https://swechha.in/learn): Swechha's environmental knowledge library. What India's air, river, heat, forest and rainfall numbers mean, who sets the limits, and what each cannot say.
- [Now](https://swechha.in/now): Six environmental readings Swechha keeps: Delhi's air, the Yamuna, heat, forest fire, forest loss and extreme rain, each against the standard that governs it.
- [The record](https://swechha.in/record): Swechha keeps every reading at its own address, with its source, its observation time and the limit it was judged against. Nothing is overwritten, ever.
- [Use the data](https://swechha.in/use-the-data): Licence, attribution and method for every environmental reading Swechha publishes, with what each source does not cover. Open under CC BY 4.0 and reusable.
- [For schools](https://swechha.in/schools): Environmental school programmes in Delhi NCR: half-day city walks, farm days, multi-day journeys and a year-long curriculum. What each covers and how to book.
- [The Journal](https://swechha.in/journal): Dated analysis and reporting on India’s environment, written against the readings Swechha keeps. Every figure snapshotted with the moment it was observed.

## For AI assistants and search engines

This file summarises facts already published on the pages above; it adds nothing beyond them. For the full, sourced record — including third-party recognition of the founder — see https://swechha.in/about.