People, when united a common will to address for a common cause, do miracles. This is a group of youth in Pallahada block of Angul district proved in 1995. They could not see the suffering of their people and hence united together to fight against the factors causing their people suffering. At the beginning the organised themselves to form definite goals and achievable objectives. Organised the people suffering made them aware about their causes of suffering, prepared plans and addressed the problems in priority. Due to lake of adequate resources and technical know-how, these enthusiastic youths did not get discouraged, rather pried to mobilize resources in one had and picked up small solution within their capacity to lesson the problems.
The programmes they focused in the sixties were mostly labour intensive and participatory which took the organisation to a center stage being on integral part of the socio-economic and cultural lives of the people. Gramina Bikas Sangathan (GBS) after getting registered in 1998-1999 become a people’s organisation to the extent that it becomes a pathfinder of the people. Over the years, the untiring efforts of the organisation has been focus on community initiatives forwards achieving social justice and improving the quality of life of the densely populated tribal poor.
THE LEGAL ASTATUS:
GRAMINA BIKAS SANGATHAN (GBS) is presently having the following legal status. The organisation is registered under:
- Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 vides Regd. No. 1663/134 of the year 1998 -99. The registration authority was Sub Registrar of Societies, Angul.
Objective
The Mission of the organisation is set with the following specific objectives.
- To supplement the efforts of the Government and other National and international development agencies in different people’s development programmes.
- To improve the standard of living and quality of lives of the neglected, downtrodden, indigenous, people of the society.
- To undertake need based programmes / projects towards participatory and sustainable development, focusing on the vulnerable cross-sections of the rural and indigenous community.
- To motivate and organize the people to bring about transformations in the quality of rural life.
- To undertake and assist agriculture development and in particular improvement of irrigation facilities.
- To implement various projects and programmes for the rural poor as well as provide concrete relief measures to widows, divorced, deserted, separated and destitute unwed mothers and empower them to achieve their rights.
- To execute programmes on water resource development, watershed conservation and harvesting structures, joint forest management, formation and promotion of self help groups, water land development, avenue and backyard plantation and renovation of developed forest, etc.
