With the conviction that, the involvement of the common people is absolutely necessary for furtherance of the mission of protecting the medicinal plants of each and every locality, a group of persons, with varied educational and occupational background, christened as "Thinking Laymen", having very little or no expertise in the subject, yet concerned about the importance of these apparently useless, unfancied and neglected plants, occurring around us, in preserving biodiversity and ecological balance, has voluntarily taken up the task of compilation of relevant data on the Medicinal Plants of Bengal.
Dr.H.Biswas
