Registered Non-Governmental Organisation
Al-Mansoor Educational & Welfare Trust
A registered non-governmental organisation working across Darbhanga district on education, child welfare and community development — and the press behind the Darbhanga Times and a shelf of regional Urdu literature.
- Registration No. 12704, Darbhanga
- Registered office Laheriasarai, Darbhanga
- Mandate Education, welfare & publishing
- Open Mon–Sat, 10:30–18:30
Who we are
A district trust that both serves and publishes
Al-Mansoor Educational and Welfare Trust is a registered non-governmental organisation based in Darbhanga, Bihar. It works at the scale of the neighbourhood and the district — supporting schooling, the welfare of children at risk of labour, and the modest local development work that rarely reaches a headline.
Alongside that welfare mandate the Trust runs a publishing arm. It brings out the quarterly Urdu journal Darbhanga Times together with regional literature, criticism and research writing — work that would otherwise struggle to find a press in Mithila.
The Trust is registered at Darbhanga under registration number 12704 and is led by Dr. Mansoor Khushtar as Chief Functionary and Secretary.
What we do
Six strands of work
The Trust’s activity divides between direct welfare in Darbhanga district and a publishing programme that keeps the region’s Urdu writing in print.
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Educational Assistance
Support for students and for schooling in and around Darbhanga, so that circumstance is not the reason a child’s education stops.
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Child Labour Welfare
Welfare programmes for children at risk of, or already drawn into, labour — working with families to return them to the classroom.
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Community Welfare
Assistance for families across the Trust’s working area, at the level of the neighbourhood rather than the headline.
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Local Development
Practical, small-scale development work of the kind that measurably improves daily life across the district.
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Publishing & Literature
Darbhanga Times, the Trust’s quarterly Urdu journal, along with regional literature, criticism and research writing.
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Cultural Work
Literary and cultural publishing that keeps Urdu writing, poetry and scholarship in public life in Mithila.
The Trust’s All India Mushaira and Kavi Sammelan brings poets, scholars and readers to Darbhanga.
In the field
The Trust at work
Literary gatherings and seminars, book launches, honours for writers, and relief distribution across the district.
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All India Mushaira and seminar, held under the Trust’s own banner -
A full hall for the Mushaira and Kavi Sammelan -
Poets and guests on stage -
Guests welcomed with bouquets -
The evening session, under the pandal -
A book launched on stage at the Kavi Sammelan -
Writers and journalists with their citations -
A senior guest honoured at the Trust office -
A working meeting in Darbhanga -
Relief rations delivered by handcart -
Weighing and packing family rations -
Staples sorted into individual packs
Leadership
Dr. Mansoor Khushtar
Chief Functionary & Secretary
A journalist, editor, critic and social worker from Darbhanga, Dr. Mansoor Khushtar founded the quarterly Darbhanga Times and later its fortnightly newspaper edition.
He directs both sides of the Trust’s work — the welfare and education programmes across the district, and the publishing programme that carries the region’s Urdu writing into print.
- Founder and editor, Darbhanga Times
- Chief Functionary & Secretary of the Trust
- Journalist, author, critic and social worker
The publishing arm
What the Trust puts into print
Darbhanga Times is the Trust’s flagship — a peer-reviewed quarterly of Urdu research and literature. Alongside it the Trust publishes books by writers from the region.
Visit us
Where to find the Trust
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Registered Office
Purani Munsafi, P.O. Lal Bagh Laheriasarai, Darbhanga Bihar – 846004 -
Branch / Operational Office
Dr. Aftab Hussain Complex Subhash Chowk, Darbhanga Bihar -
Get in touch
+91 92347 72764 mansoorkhushter@gmail.com
Opening hours Monday to Saturday, 10:30 AM – 6:30 PM
Closed on Sundays