Pragati Gramin Vikas Samiti (PGVS)

About us

Pragati Gramin Vikas Samiti (PGVS) is a non-governmental Organization, registered under society registration act 21/1860. It works on Gandhian methods. It has started its journey in 1985 in 6 villages of Naubatpur block of Patna district with a thrust for changing the livelihood of disadvantaged / neglected people of the society particularly the women and children

Our Vision: The organization envisions an equity based society where no one should be discriminated on the basis of religion, caste, or gender. Our vision is to build a society where women and other marginalized communities will become a part of mainstream society, where, no children will be left from formal education and where all will be educated and all will be access to humanistic job opportunity.

Our Mission: To build an equitable society through upliftment of rural poor population through capacity building of socially and economically weaker section of the society, education of children, health of women, adolescent girls and youth. It also visualizes linking the marginalized to the Government programmes.

Programs:
• Education
• Water Sanitation & hygiene ( ensure water quality)
• ICRG( infrastructure of climate resilience growth )
• Livelihood
• Digital literacy program
• Musahar empowerment
• Wash on Wheels

Key Achievements:
• Set up of land rights front (Bhumi Adhikar Morcha) in all 18 districts of Bihar, which is connected with approximately 1000 villages (as a community based organization). These fronts are led by community leaders of excluded community.
• The set up of Mahila Manch (Women Forum) which focused women land rights campaign at local as well as State level based on extensive membership of 5000 women in Bihar. This also linked with the national campaign for women land rights.
• Being a People‘s Movement for the socio-political development of Mushar community, PGVS get significant success for building leadership base of this community with a large strength of 2000 people in Bihar; which is also linked with the Dalit Rights Movement at national level.
• PGVS has success fully organized several ‘Youth & Development Camps‘ in Bihar, which always resulted in ‘Village Development Plan‘ like Ahar-Pyne Rejuvenation in South Bihar. This brought about 8000 acres of barren land under productive for agriculture in Gaya, Nalanada, Nawada and Jahanabad districts.

Pradeep Priyadarshi is the Secretary of Pragati Gramin Vikas Samiti (PGVS).

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