Facts & Figures gives you the headline trends. This page is the full underlying dataset — every project, every centre, every year we have a report for — organised by where the work happens rather than by topic.
Our oldest and largest centre — a free polyclinic with up to nine departments, plus a baby care unit and crèche for children of working parents. Closed for seven months in 2023–24 while our FCRA bank account was frozen.
All departments combined, by financial year
| Department | 2018–19 | 2019–20 | 2020–21 | 2022–23 | 2023–24 (4 mo.) | 2024–25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Medicine | 9,415 | 9,679 | 3,810 | 7,452 | 209 | 1,208 |
| Chest / Pneumology | 1,610 | 2,103 | 1,650 | 2,060 | 129 | 724 |
| Gynaecology | 1,241 | 1,329 | 0 | 465 | 7 | — closed |
| Paediatrics | 2,530 | 2,388 | 973 | 1,950 | 43 | 287 |
| Dental | 2,368 | 2,740 | 1,448 | 3,092 | 402 | 1,225 |
| Eye + Optometry | 1,656 | 1,759 | 1,278 | 1,708 | 223 | 626 |
| ENT | 1,005 | 1,151 | 794 | 1,101 | — | — closed |
| Skin | 2,883 | 4,148 | 3,230 | 4,164 | 325 | 1,506 |
| Physiotherapy | 3,420 | 102* | 1,092 | 2,566 | 178 | 860 |
| Total | 26,128 | 25,297* | 14,275 | 24,558 | 1,516 | 6,436 |
*Physiotherapy in 2019–20 was logged as 102 patient-visits separately; the report's "Total" row of 25,297 sums the other eight departments only, so we've kept that convention here rather than re-adding it. Gynaecology started in March 2022 (Dr Pampa De Paul) and has been paused since Dec 2023 along with ENT, following the departure/death of the respective specialists.
Methodology shifts year to year — see notes below each figure
| Year | Figure | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2019–20 | 360 (Ricket Home) + 504 (Crèche) | Annual child-admissions; plus 324 outside children given weekly milk/Cerelac |
| 2020–21 | Closed (COVID) | 1,608 milk/Cerelac/Complan packets still distributed to outside children; ~130 families given monthly ration |
| 2022–23 | 16 in-house + 29 locality babies (Baby Care); 38 children (Crèche) | Point-in-time enrolment, not an annual total; 2,339 milk/Cerelac/Complan packets distributed across the year |
| 2023–24 | 464 (Crèche only) | Jan–Mar 2024 only, 62 working days — Baby Care Unit closed permanently this year for lack of funds, Crèche reopened in a reduced form |
| 2024–25 | 1,694 (Crèche only) | Full year, 263 working days, average 8 children/day — tie-up with a corporate funder in discussion for next year |
2018–19 figures for this unit weren't broken out separately in that year's report.
Ran monthly at the Medical Centre for Baby Care/Crèche parents and other patients through 2022–23. Suspended in 2023–24 due to the fund crisis and not yet restarted as of the 2024–25 report.
Our registered office runs free after-school coaching for local children and a monthly ration / family welfare programme. The coaching programme grew substantially from 2023–24 onward.
Student-enrolments by subject and year
| Year | Bengali | English | Other subjects | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018–19 | Informal Bengali-only class, 15–20 students | ≈15–20 | ||
| 2023–24 (Jan–Mar) | 100 | 122 | 18 | 240 |
| 2024–25 (full year) | 478 | 593 | 81 | 1,152 |
"Other subjects" covers History, Geography, Science, Mathematics and Social Studies. English coaching and the multi-subject expansion both began as new offerings in 2023–24, alongside the long-running Bengali class.
Children/families receiving rice, atta, pulses, oil, soap and similar staples
| Year | Households / children covered |
|---|---|
| 2020–21 | ~130 families/month (plus 30 Anand Bhawan families) |
| 2022–23 | 76 children |
The 2023–24 and 2024–25 reports don't restate a ration headcount for this programme; the coaching-class expansion appears to have become the primary Watkins Lane activity in those years.
A free primary school (KG–Class IV), a tailoring/embroidery training programme, and a free charitable dispensary — all running from the same Banipur facility, for 26+ years.
Calendar-year snapshots; earlier years recorded only as totals
| Class | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KG | 27 | 27 | 23 |
| I | 17 | 16 | 15 |
| II | 19 | 13 | 11 |
| III | 12 | 11 | 11 |
| IV | 11 | 11 | 11 |
| Total | 86 | 78 | 71 |
Earlier point-in-time totals: ~90 students reported for 2018–19, and 80 students for 2019–20 (no class breakdown given in either report).
Women and girls completing the year-long course
Two sewing machines donated by Inner Wheel Club of Dhakuria and Rotary Club of Kolkata. Anand Bhawan's separate tailoring stream (Salkia) closed in 2022–23 when its Spanish donor withdrew funding; Banipur is now the only active location for this programme.
Open Mon/Wed/Fri, 3–5pm — never closed, even through COVID lockdowns or the 2023–24 FCRA freeze
| Year | Male | Female | Children | Tetanus inj. | Dressing | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022–23 | 327 | 1,023 | 448 | 29 | 47 | 1,874 |
| 2023–24 | 383 | 1,063 | 344 | 12 | 23 | 1,825 |
| 2024–25 | 471 | 1,354 | 432 | 4 | 2 | 2,263 |
Female patients consistently make up roughly two-thirds to three-quarters of dispensary footfall across all three years with a full breakdown available.
A free primary school (Nursery–Class V) housed inside our cyclone shelter, serving a remote rural catchment. Funding from the Spanish donor Mundos Unidos ceased in 2022–23, but enrolment has remained the most stable of all our programmes.
Calendar-year snapshots
| Class | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nursery | 17 | 12 | 11 |
| KG I | 23 | 23 | 26 |
| KG II | 23 | 22 | 22 |
| I | 17 | 21 | 21 |
| II | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| III | 10 | 13 | 13 |
| IV | 12 | 15 | 11 |
| V | 7 | 11 | 6 |
| Total | 122 | 130 | 123 |
Earlier totals: 248 students reported for 2018–19, 256 for 2019–20, and a fiscal-year total of 125 students (with 9 teaching + 1 non-teaching staff) reported separately for 2022–23 — that figure uses a slightly different snapshot date than the calendar-year comparison above, so the two shouldn't be read as contradictory.
Built in the 1990s to shelter roughly 5,000 people and their livestock during Sundarbans storms. 2022–23 was reported as a cyclone-free year for the area. Improved concrete river dams have reduced the frequency of emergency use compared to earlier decades, though the Centre remains on standby and doubles as the school building.
For context, two other locations that once ran similar programmes are currently defunct: Nafarganj (Kumirmari) — basic health care and a women's tailoring programme, both stopped when foreign funding ceased; and Anand Bhawan, Salkia — a residential girls' hostel and tailoring centre, closed since COVID after Fundacion Colores de Calcuta withdrew sponsorship in December 2020.
Every figure on this page comes directly from our audited annual reports — nothing here is estimated or rounded up.