Jana Sanghati Kendra (JSK)
In 1984, an NGO called Jana Sanghati Kendra (Centre for People's Solidarity) began working in West Bengal. Its primary aim was to support and encourage people's movements and people's organisations that are non-partisan. Jana Sanghati Kendra (JSK) believed that the lack of strong, self-reliant people's organisations was one of the chief reasons for the persistence of poverty. It aims:
- To assist the landless poor and marginalised poor farmers to build a strong organization and to inform them about their rights.
- To organize and develop community and collective based programmes to strengthen people's organisations.
- To organise working class women with special emphasis on women from agricultural labourers' families and to inform them about their rights.
- To undertake joint campaigns on local and national issues in solidarity with similar non-partisan organizations.
- To establish a process of dialogue in society.
Last updated on Friday, November 14, 2008.
