Ganadarpan `formed in the year 1977 and registered with the Registrar of Societies in the year 1980. It conceived the idea of Donation of Posthumous Body For The Promotion Of Science & Technology And Scientific Temperament in the year 1985 and floated the programme of pledging for donation of bodies on 5th November 1986, on the 95th birth anniversary of eminent scientist Prof. JBS Haldane.

Being asked by the then Health Minister of West Bengal Shri Prasanta Sur, Ganadarpan drafted a Bill for Legislation and handed over the same in the month of September 1987. On 12th November 1987, Kumari Saroj Khapare, Minister of State, Govt. of India, declared on the floor of the Indian Parliament that her Government is going to place a bill on THE TRANSPLANTATION OF HUMAN ORGAN ACT. Ganadarpan, meeting the Hon'ble Minister on 1st December of that year, handed her over the copy of the draft bill, which it prepared.

Bill on THE TRANSPLANTATION OF HUMAN ORGAN has actually been circulated in the year 1992 and both houses of the Indian Parliament passed the same in June 1994. The President of India gave his assent on 8th August 1994. The Rules on the Act been formulated in February'95. There were some exercises on the bill. Ganadarpan participated in two of it, one at Calcutta and at New Delhi. Before enactment, Maharashtra, Goa, Himachal Pradesh and the Union Territories had endorsed the bill. West Bengal accepted the Act on 11 August 1995.

In West Bengal, transplantation of Kidney (live) and Cornea are in vogue. But other organs/tissues have neither retrieved, nor transplanted. Ganadarpan in association with Susrut Eye Foundation & Research Centre and Govt. of West Bengal formed the ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION CO-ORDINATION CENTRE (OTCOCEN). On 5th November 2004 on the occasion of 113th birth anniversary of eminent scientist Prof. )BS Haldane and 50 year of First Human Organ Transplantation, the Centre's work has been launched at HB36A/ 1, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700 106.