🌲 First campaign · Uttarakhand · Live before 2027

देव भूमि बचाओProtect 100 sq ft of Himalayan forest for ₹1 a day — and watch every rupee travel, on a public ledger, from your phone to the village council that guards your patch.

₹1 a day keeps 100 sq ft of Devbhoomi standing. Every donation, verification and payout is anchored to a public blockchain ledger anyone can audit — from your phone to the Van Panchayat that guards your patch.

Start my pledge — 3 taps See the forests

Pre-launch · Donations open once the charitable trust & payment rails are verified · Parcels shown are illustrative demo profiles

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Forest parcels
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Acres of standing forest
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Raised toward this year's stewardship
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Daily donors
Why now

In 1973, villagers in Chamoli hugged the trees.
Today, we pay the village council that still guards them.

The Chipko movement was born in Uttarakhand — ordinary hill people wrapping their arms around deodars to stop the axes. Fifty years on, the threat hasn't gone away; it has changed shape. Forest parcels near roads and towns are quietly cleared and converted — a resort here, a plot scheme there.

Hugging trees bought time. Funding the people already guarding them keeps the trees standing. Uttarakhand's Van Panchayats — statutory village forest councils since 1931 — are the exact people for the job. Devbhoomi means land of the gods; the dev vans, the sacred groves, have always had a keeper. ₹1 a day is a daily offering to that same tradition — paid in rupees, proven on a public ledger.

Ancient deodar grove above a Garhwal village
The model

Simple. Verified. Public.

One person can't guard a forest. A Van Panchayat can — if it's paid to. Your ₹1 a day (₹365 a year, one patch) funds that stewardship, and every step — donation, verification, payout — is anchored to a public ledger anyone can audit.

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You donate

₹1/day (₹365/yr) or any amount — recorded against a named 100 sq ft patch on a specific parcel.

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Funds reach the council

Money routes through the charitable trust to the Van Panchayat that guards your patch.

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Stewards guard & verify

Steward photo + GPS, cross-checked against satellite imagery, before any payout releases.

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Payout, publicly logged

The Van Panchayat is paid. The payout — and the verification behind it — is anchored to a public ledger.

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You watch it live

Your Van Patta deed and the parcel's ledger update as the forest is stewarded, season after season.

Coming — not live yet

Your Van Patta — a living, soulbound deed

When donations open, every donor will receive a Van Patta — a digital acknowledgment of the 100 sq ft patch they fund, anchored to a public ledger. It's blockchain-verified and non-transferable by design at the protocol level: it can't be sold, traded or gifted away, which is exactly why it's an acknowledgment of your stewardship, not a product or an asset.

Its imagery is meant to stay alive: monsoon green-up, winter snow, a wildlife-cam moment from your own patch, updating with the real forest as your steward's reports come in. Not a certificate you file away — a window you check on.

VAN PATTA · PREVIEW SOULBOUND
ParcelKedar-1
Your patch100 sq ft
Location30.41°N, 79.32°E
Ledger statusNot yet minted — illustrative preview
The other side

This is what happens to forests nobody funds to guard

Satellite imagery over Uttarakhand tells a quiet, repeatable story: canopy that thins along a new road cut, a slope that goes from green to bare between two dry seasons, a spring that stops running a few years after the trees above it are gone. No single dramatic event — just forest with no one paid, and no one watching, to stop it.

A funded steward and a public ledger are how a parcel stays on the "green" side of that story — visibly, verifiably, one patrol report at a time.

Campaign one · देव भूमि बचाओ

The forests we're funding stewardship for

Every parcel shows exactly what your money does — its location, the Van Panchayat guarding it, and how many daily donors are needed to fully fund this year's stewardship. No vague "plant a tree" promises. Real parcels, real stewards, published in public.

⚠️ Demo mode: the parcels below are pilot profiles and every figure shown — including steward names — is test data for functionality review. Final sites and verified stewardship figures are published before donations open — and real counters start at ₹0, in public.
Illustrative — not live

The stewardship leaderboard

Illustrative — real leaderboard goes live with donations. Counters start at ₹0, in public.

RankDonorPatches pledged
1Founding Donor A demo12
2Founding Donor B demo9
3Founding Donor C demo7
4Founding Donor D demo5
5Founding Donor E demo4

Illustrative rows only — no real donor data exists yet. Patches pledged, not ₹ paid.

The founding 1,000

Be one of the first thousand

Before the first verified payout, there will be a founding thousand — the people who moved first, when it was just an idea and a map. Their names go (with permission) on this wall, and they'll be first in line for the first Van Pattas ever minted.

952 places remain in the founding 1,000 (demo count)

Start my pledge — 3 taps

Not ready to pick a patch yet? Join the list with just your email.

The honest fine print: we'll email you only when donations open and when the first parcel's stewardship is verified. No spam, no sharing your address, unsubscribe anytime.

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Coming soon

Gift a patch

A 100 sq ft patch of Devbhoomi, given in someone's name — for a wedding, a birthday, or a memorial grove in memory of someone who loved these hills. Gifting isn't open yet, but it's coming once donations are.

Radical transparency

Follow every rupee, from donation to payout

Most campaigns ask for your trust. We'd rather show proof. Every event — donation, verification, payout — is anchored to a public ledger, so you never have to take our word for anything.

1 · Donation received

Instant receipt with your contribution logged against a specific parcel and patch. Live public totals on every parcel page.

2 · Anchored to the ledger

The donation event is hashed and anchored to a public blockchain ledger — timestamped, tamper-evident, checkable by anyone.

3 · Steward verifies

The Van Panchayat's steward photographs and GPS-tags their patrol; it's cross-checked against satellite imagery before payout.

4 · Payout to the Van Panchayat

Verified stewardship is paid — and that payout is anchored to the same public ledger as the donation that funded it.

5 · Long-term stewardship

Quarterly field updates, steward reports and annual audited accounts — all public, all linked back to the ledger.

Our transparency commitments

  • Every donation, verification and payout anchored to a public ledger
  • Live funding counters — never edited, never inflated
  • Exact location of every stewarded parcel, public
  • Annual independent audit, published
  • Quarterly steward & stewardship updates to donors
  • Admin costs capped & disclosed on every parcel
🔎 Verify a record (testnet demo) →
The larger vision

Citizens as the funding force behind India's forest stewards

Dev Bhoomi Bachao is campaign one. The platform beneath it is built to scale — a community-funded mechanism for paying the people who already guard India's natural heritage, with proof that they were paid, in public, for it.

Before the 2027 elections

Built for partnership with the Government of India and the Uttarakhand Forest Department — live and building public awareness ahead of the state election period, when forest protection is on the agenda.

Dev Bhoomi first

Uttarakhand is the land of the gods — and among India's most ecologically vulnerable states. Springs, corridors and old-growth stands are being lost parcel by parcel. We fund the councils already positioned to guard them.

Then, all of India

Every parcel proves the model: donor funds → verified stewardship → public ledger. Western Ghats, Northeast, Aravallis — the mechanism travels. Land acquisition is a possible future phase once stewardship is proven.

Campaign ledger

Updates — the public record

Every milestone, honestly logged as it happens. This ledger is the campaign's memory; nothing gets edited after the fact.

Where we are

The road to the first verified payout

You're early — that's the point. Here's exactly where the campaign stands, updated honestly as each step completes.

✅ Step 1 — Platform live

You're looking at it. The public home of Dev Bhoomi Bachao is up.

🔄 Step 2 — Charitable trust & 80G registration

In progress. The legal entity that will receive donations and route stewardship payments, with tax-deductible donations.

⏳ Step 3 — Payment rails verified

A dedicated, audited donation account — separate from everything else.

⏳ Step 4 — Van Panchayat agreements & ledger anchoring live

Stewardship agreements signed with pilot Van Panchayats; donation, verification and payout events anchored to the public ledger.

⏳ Step 5 — Donations open

Counters go live at ₹0, in public, and the first verified payout goes out.