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Seva Mandir |
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| Orignial
content |
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| Legal
Status |
Registration
No : 149/1967 – 68 dated 12.02.1968
Registered
in :
1968.
Registered under :
Society Registration Act 1958,
Founder : Dr Mohan Singh Mehta
Present Leader : Mr Ajay Mehta
Tax Exemptions : u/s
12A of the Income Tax Act, 1961, and under
Section 10(23)(C)(iv), DIT (Exemptions), 1976
FCRA : 125690002 dated 11.02.1985 |
| Mission |
Seva
Mandir’s mission is to make real the idea of society
consisting of free and equal citizens who are able to come
together and solve the problems that affect them in their
particular contexts.
The commitment is to work for a paradigm of development and
governance that is democratic and polyarchic. Seva Mandir
seeks to institutionalise the idea that development and governance
is not only to be left to the State and its formal bodies
like the legislature and the bureaucracy, but that citizens
and their associations should engage separately and jointly
with the State. The mission briefly, is to construct the conditions
in which citizens of plural backgrounds and perspectives can
come together and deliberate on how they can work to benefit
and empower the least advantaged in society. |
| Board |
(As
on 31st March 2007)
Shri Ajay S. Mehta : President
Smt. Neelima Khetan : Chief Executive
Shri H.R. Bhati : General Secretary
Shri Ajay S. Mehta
Shri V.B. Eswaran
Shri M.S. Kothari
Shri Jagat S. Mehta
Shri P.L. Agrawal
Ms. Indu Capoor
Dr. Kanchan Chopra
Shri Vijay Singh Mehta
Shri M.L. Mehta
Shri Anupam Poddar
Smt. Chandra Bhandari
Dr. (Ms.) Vinaya Pendse
Shri K.L. Bapna
Shri G.L. Maheshwari
Ms. Rama Dashora
Shri Vimal Kumar Agrawal
Shri Manoj Paliwal |
| Focus
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Seva
Mandir operates in the southern part of Rajasthan which encompasses
626 villages and 56 Urban Settlements. In total the organisation
reaches out to around 70,000 households, influencing the lives
of approximately 360,000 persons. |
| Objectives |
Seva
Mandir seeks to institutionalise the idea that development and
governance is not only to be left to the State and its formal
bodies like the legislature and the bureaucracy, but that citizens
and their associations should engage separately and jointly
with the State.
This is achieved through the following overlapping strategic
objectives:
- To create and strengthen institutions for development (at
the village, organization and society levels)
- To enhance people’s capabilities for self-development
(both at individual and community level); and
- To create sustainable improvements in the livelihoods base; |
|
Programes |
Strengthening
Sustainable Livelihoods involves working with rural communities
and individuals to enhance the various productive activities
in which they are engaged. This includes a variety of both
traditional land-based activities and alternative IGAs. Land-based
livelihoods are used to bind communities together and maximize
the productivity of available natural resources in a sustainable
manner, while involving women in alternative IGAs contributes
directly to the process of women’s empowerment.
By
Building People’s Capabilities, particularly in terms
of working with them to create systems through which their
health and education status can be enhanced and to transform
social relations, particularly gender relations, Seva Mandir
seeks to support the evolution of a society that is better
placed to work for its own development. In addition to directly
supporting communities in providing services, this work includes
creating spaces where dialogue around critical issues can
take place and through which all sections of society can take
ownership of their own development process, be it social,
cultural, economic or political.
The
work on Empowering Village Institutions centres on creating
autonomous spaces at the village level through which villagers
are able to participate in an empowering process that enables
them to exercise responsible leadership and collective action
in order to address their development challenges. The village
institutions supported and strengthened by Seva Mandir are
founded on the principles of participatory democracy, transparency,
justice, and accountability, and serve to promote an alternative
paradigm of development. Through these village institutions,
communities are able to take ownership of, and thus manage,
their own development process.
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| Natural
Resource Development Programme |
To date, through its work on Natural Resource Development,
Seva Mandir has treated 12,343 hectares of degraded common
and private pastureland. It has also worked on the protection,
plantation and management of more than 1,000 hectares of forestland
under the Joint Forest Management scheme, in collaboration
with the Forest Department. atershed treatment work has been
completed on 8,959 hectares of land spread across 27 sites.
Seva Mandir has also constructed 3 masonry anicuts (water
harvesting structures) and helped to establish 33 community
managed lift irrigation systems. Through its agricultural
extension work, Seva Mandir has helped farmers establish more
than 1,000 vermi-compost units and hundreds of horticulture
nurseries. The organization has also conducted close to 100
animal camps.
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Non
Farm Income Generation |
Education
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Seva Mandir started its interventions with Adult Literacy Programme
in late 60s. However, overtime Seva Mandir’s interventions
became more integrated and comprehensive. Within the Education
Programme, the focus shifted to children’s education,
especially since there were a large no. of children who were
deprived of schooling.
The
objectives of the Education Program are:
- Ensure
quality education to enable children in the age group of 6–14
years who are deprived of education to read and write independently
with comprehension.
- To enable communities through these interventions on quality
education to experience an alternative and meaningful education.
- To work proactively towards enabling communities to demand
quality education from the government. The
Education Program works along 3 lines:
1. Children’s Education
2. Youth Education
3. Continuing Education
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Health |
Seva
Mandir’s activities in the area of health focus on preventive,
promotive and curative health needs. The activities of the health
programme are planned under areas of preventive, promotive and
curative health needs. Core activities across these programmes
include creating awareness, providing critical care through
village functionaries and two referral centres, capacity building
of community level health service providers, and linking people
to state facilities.
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Women's
Empowerment |
While
the women’s group and federations enable women to begin
to address a wide range of social and political issues that
affect them, the 546 savings and credit groups that Seva Mandir
has helped the women to form are enabling them to address
the economic dimension of women’s empowerment. Today
some 9,307 women have managed to amass a total saving of Rs.6,172,957.
EARLY CHILD CARE & DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
At present there are 165 Balwadi centres in Seva Mandir’s
work area, reaching out to a total of 3,806 children.
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Child
and Youth Development |
Village Institution
Building |
Empowering
people’s institutions
The first step in Seva Mandir’s strategy for rural and
tribal development is to create spaces for participation of
stakeholders both, at the village level and in the development
sector at large. The vision that Seva Mandir hopes to realise
by empowering people’s institutions is:
A social base in which value-based and just development can
take place.
Spaces for participation of stakeholders both, at the village
level and in the development sector at large.
The presence of strong and robust village institutions which
can become the base for local development.
village
institutions
organisation
institution building |
| People’s
Management School |
Organisation
level institution-building
The People’s Management School (PMS) was formed in 1991
with an objective of capacity building and creation of systems
at various levels in the development sector to enable effective
bottom-up development.
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| Other
Interventions |
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Kaya rural training centre.....
- Delwara urban governance project......
- Child representative program......
- Capart.....
- District proverty initiatives program......
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| Sadhna |
In
1988, the second consecutive year of a severe drought, Seva
Mandir launched its “Patchwork Programme” as an
income generation project for rural, tribal women, largely belonging
to the economically and socially disadvantaged sections of society.
Since this area does not have significant traditional crafts,
unlike many parts of Rajasthan, patchwork was introduced. The
programme began with a small group of 15 women, and today there
are more than 200 trained women, who are involved in producing
some of the finest specimens. These products are sold under
the brand name `Sadhna’. Please visit www.sadhna.org |
| Annual
Report |
Year
2006 - 2007 |
| Address |
Seva
Mandir
Old Fatehpura, Udaipur - 313004,
Rajasthan, India
Phone: +91 294 2451041/2450960
Fax: +91 294 2450947
Email : info@sevamandir.org |
Website
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www.sevamandir.org |
