JANAKALYAN AN INSTITUTION FOR INNOVATION INTEGRATED INSPIRING INTERVENTIONS
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Annual Report
2012-13
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About Janakalyan Janakalyan is a society registered under Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960 on 2nd July 1997 at Raichur with a team of dedicated rural people to serve the rural communities in general and four holy mothers (Manavimata, Bhoomata, Gangamata and Gomata) in particular.
Vision Statement Creation of an enabling healthy environment where all individual has equal access to and control over the Social, Cultural, Educational and Political institutions with an economically secured livelihood
Mission Statement Janakalyan exists to empower four holy mothers so that an economically secured healthy atmosphere is developed where all individual identity has their deserved status through institution building by 2020
Goal of Janakalyan To serve four holy mothers viz. Manavimata (woman), Bhoomata (soil), Gomata (animals) and Gangamata (water)
The Objectives 1. To implement developmental programs for child, woman & weaker sections. 2. To implement programs for socio-economic status improvement of the communities. 3. To implement programs for disabled, handicapped & street children. 4. To develop & demonstrate new technologies, suitable for rural population in all the related fields and motivating the people to adopt it. 5. To implement programs for healthy environment development. 6. To implement poverty alleviation programs. 7. To open and manage nursery, primary, middle and High Schools and also colleges of various disciplines including UG and PG courses in the field of medical, engineering, computer sciences, agriculture, social works and also in other disciplines, as may be found necessary from time to time. 8. To run technical colleges such as DEd, BEd, ITI, Diploma, Engineering, Medical, Ayurvedic, etc. 9. To run any kind of educational institutions for children, women and farmers of the country including KVK, RSK 10. To conduct teachers training courses 11. To open and manage reading rooms, Libraries with all kinds of facilities. 12. To run adult education programs for the rural illiterate. 13. To conduct skill up-gradation & vocational training programs for unemployed youths, women and farmers. 14. In fulfillment of the objectives, it may seek any kind of assistance from various sources and take up any other activities as found necessary by the Governing Board. 15. It may borrow the loans from various Government and Non-Govt. Organization. 16. Publication of Journals, Magazines and Souvenir etc. in the public interest.
Our Services to the Mankind Over the period, Janakalyan has evolved its own developmental models suitable for its clients, which are now the unique products of Janakalyan; thus Janakalyan has confined all its activities to these products- 1. Jan Sanghatan: An initiative to bring community together on a common platform to resolve common issues 2. Jan Krishi: An initiative to improve the livelihoods of farming communities by improving agriculture sector 3. Jan Jal: An initiative to make judicious use of water for drinking & irrigation using water efficient technologies 4. Jan Raksha: An initiative of Janakalyan to protect health of all animals using appropriate tools and techniques 5. Jan Shiksha: An initiative to reach the unreached through innovative tools of Janakalyan 6. Jan Udyog: An initiative for the unemployed youths of rural areas to create job-creators and not job-seekers 7. Jan Shakti: An initiative of Janakalyan to harness renewable sources of energy for the generations to come
Our Values & Beliefs India lives in its villages and therefore Janakalyan dedicated itself for uplifting rural communities. Janakalyan understand that there are issues in urban slums also, but it restricted itself working for the rural communities only to reduce the gap between urbanized India and rural Bharat Janakalyan believes in empowerment and sustainability strategies and all its programs are designed with these core principles through institution building. Accountability and transparency are core values of Janakalyan and maintained at all levels to its highest degree. Janakalyan never considers itself an alternative to Government but a watchdog for the community. It does believe itself as an assisting agency for the Government in developing the nation and its citizens.
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CONTENT
Sectors Particulars Page No. About Janakalyan 1 Content 2 From Director’s Desk 3 Year at a glance : 2012-13 4 Jan Sanghatan Fight for Rights – Mother tongue education reestablished in Karnataka 6 for Bengali speaking communities Jan Krishi Create Multiple Sources of Income in Small Farms – Inculcate a habit of 7 diversified cropping patter to distribute risk of crop failure Jan Jal Ensure Water to Ensure Food Security – Provide a water bank to your 8 child than a house; house is for urban child while ‘water bank’ for rural Jan Raksha Total Sanitation Campaign – Participation is the way to real 9 development, 200 toilets built in 25 days Jan Shiksha Rural Education is the Need of the Hour – Education centers must shift 10 to rural areas for true knowledge empowerment Jan Udyog National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme – Knowledge 12 empowerment of rural wage-earners is the way to ensure employment creation Jan Shakti Renewable Sources of Energy Harnessing – Efforts to replace non- 13 renewable sources of energy by renewable sources at home and farm Impacts Impacts on primary target group of Janakalyan – the refugees 14 What next? Journey ahead to Janakalyan 16 Documentation Major Reports brought out by Janakalyan during 2012-13 17 Compliance to Credibility Alliance Norms 18 Resources Audited Financial Statements of Janakalyan at the end of 31.3.2013 20 Footsteps of Janakalyan 21 Management team, donors, bank, auditor and address of Janakalyan 23
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From Director’s Desk
2nd July 2013 Prasen Raptan Shantinagar Executive Director
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th 16 Year at a Glance: 2012-13
16th year (2012-13) is made memorable in the history of Janakalyan by winning the long pending battle of mother tongue education. It is during this year Janakalyan could convince the Government of Karnataka to pass an order to provide the mother tongue (Bangla) learning facility in local government schools. Government of Karnataka issued the order on 31.12.2012 and the day was celebrated on 1st March 2013 wherein delegates participated from 14 Indian States. A Bhasha Vijay Stambh was erected on the occasion in memory of the victory in the presence of delegates from 14 states of India.
Opening of Maa Sarada Pre University College is another important event, which made the year memorable. Government accorded its approval on 22.3.2012 and the formal inauguration of the same was done on 24.6.2012 by Swami Veereshananda Maharaj of Sri Ramakrisna Ashrama, Mysore. The new building of the college was declared open on 4-8 January 2013 by Sri N Shankrappa, the President of Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes in the gracious presence of Swami Muktidanananda Maharaj & Swami Jnanananda Maharaj of Sri Ramakrishna Ashram and other distinguished guests.
The year is memorable for many other reasons too! Some of the important events are placed here for the readers to realize why and how important the 16th year was for Janakalyan and its target communities. 1. Credibility Alliance accredited Janakalyan under Desirable Norms (highest standard) of good governance and accountability of voluntary sector 2. A video for 3 minutes prepared and screened at Development Dialogue 2012 on water-harvesting interventions of Janakalyan. Development Dialogue is an international event of Deshpande Foundation at Hubli organized every year in the month of January. 3. Janakalyan Sexual Harassment Policy-2011 was adopted by Governing Board w.e.f. 11.11.11 4. A publication “An Obscure Hope” on Refugees has been brought out. 5. Participated in 3-days Dharna cum Procession at Jantar-Mantar, New Delhi from 21-23 Nov 2011 on refugee issues; meeting with Sri H D Devegouda, the former PM of India on refugee issues at his residence in Delhi. 6. Participated in Annual Report Award of CSO Partners and was shortlisted among the top 10. 7. More than 100 staffs of 5 NGOs from North Karnataka were trained on microplanning at Janakalyan 8. Participated and organized Vivekananda Jyothi Yatra in Raichur on the eve of 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda 9. Process initiated for land purchase permission from DC and conversion of land as Non-Agriculture 10. Prof Ravivarma Kumar, senior advocate of Karnataka High Court consulted for refugee issues 11. Sri Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, Primary & Secondary Education Minister consulted for Bengali language and college permission 12. Applied for a Rural ITI in Janakalyan campus 13. Linguistic Minority status was declared for Bengali communities by local administration. 14. Training on water budgeting at Cooperative Training Institute of Hyderabad to the Solidaridad supported Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) project partners. 15. Initiated the process of Payment Gateway registration for www.jankalyana.org for online donation. 16. Organized “Jana Spandana” Program – a grand success in R H Colony No.2 on 7.4.2012 17. Designed a new website for Janakalyan i.e. www.jankalyana.org instead of www.jankalyan.in and launched it on 5.5.2012. 18. More than 200 toilets have been sanctioned by Infosys Foundation for communities and about 3 institutional toilets. Constructed 200 toilets in 25 days with the community cooperation.
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19. Refugee rights like caste, language, voter ID, ration card, land rights, etc. issues are taken up at appropriate level. Regular meeting with community leaders on refugee issues 20. May Day celebrated at Devaragudi with WE (Wage-Earners) groups in the presence of MLA Sri Venkatarao Nadagouda was a grand success. 21. Swami Shivananda Maharaj of Jadeshiddheshwar Math, Davanagera visited and addressed the students on 11.7.2012 22. Sri Dandin Maharaj and Satpriyananda Maharaj of Goudiay Math addressed the students on 12.7.2012 23. Swami Tyageeshwarananda Maharaj of Bangalore Ramkrishna Ashram and Swmai Archananda Maharaj of Rayagad addressed the students on 27.7.2012 24. Participated in SDTT workshop in Prakriti, Nagpur on NREGA between 6-8 August 2012 25. Meeting with Sri Jairam Ramesh, Union RDPR Minister on toilet and Nirmal Gram Purashkar on 19.8.2012 at Gulbarga 26. Jnanavahini of Sri Ramakrishna Ashram, Mysore visited our college and other schools/colleges of Sindhanur between 21-29 August 2012. Swami Veereshananda Maharaj addressed the students and lead the Jnanavahini. 27. All India Refugee Convention was organized at Mavalankar Auditorium, New Delhi on 29-30 August 2012. Submitted memorandum to Rastrapathi and PM about refugee issues on 31.8.2012. 28. Teachers Day cum Welcome Function was celebrated on 5.9.2012 29. About 200 toilet lokarpan program with Sri Basavaraj Patil Sedam, MP as chief guest on 14.9.2012. 30. Mau, MP team visited Janakalyan for learning exposure on 19.9.2012 about NREGA. 31. Mr. Tauqueer Sabri, PO of SDTT visited Janakalyan on 20.9.2012 for program evaluation. 32. Ms Archana, GiveIndia visited Janakalyan on 24.9.2012 for field verification 33. Meeting with Sri Narayanaswami, Social Welfare Minister (27.11.2012), Sri Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, Education Minister (28.11.2012) and Sri Aravinda Limbavali, Health Minister (28.11.2012) for refugee issues. 34. Swami Jitakamananda Maharaj, President of Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mangalore addressed the students on 2.12.2012 on the eve of 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. 35. Government of Karnataka issued a gazette notification on 26th March 2013 bearing number SWD 157 SAD 2009 to constitute a high level committee chaired by the Additional Chief Secretary; the committee shall recommend the points to be considered to issue SC certificate to Namasudra communities of Karnataka.
Copy of the Government Order on SC certificate of Bengali refugees
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Jan Sanghatan Fight for Rights – Mother tongue education reestablished in Karnataka for Bengali speaking communities
Thanks to Government of Karnataka for finally a national umbrella of Nikhil Bharat Bangali for responding to one of the long pending issues Udbastu Samanvay Samiti. of rehabilitated communities in Sindhanur taluk of Raichur District! Out of several constitutional demands of these Bengali communities, Government of Karnataka has finally issued an order to teach ‘Bangla’ as second language in local government schools (Government Order No: ED 34 PMC 2012 date 31.12.2012).
It was not that easy but a long struggle of more than 15 years of Janakalyan which yielded result in 2012-13 and generations of Bengali communities residing in Karnataka would study their mother tongue and retain the language and culture outside Bangla border. It made Janakalyan team proud and happy. The achievement was celebrated on 1st March 2013 Matribhasha Vijay Divas – left view as “Matribhasha Vijay Divas” in the presence of delegates of 14 states of India including poets, writers, intellectuals and activists.
The government officers of education department and elected representatives who cooperated during the fight were felicitated on the occasion. A ‘Bhasha Vijay Stambh’ was erected to remember the day.
Reservation: Major share of the rehabilitated Bengali communities are from Namasudra, Rajbanshi and Poundra communities; these Matribhasha Vijay Stambh unveiled castes are recognized as Scheduled Caste (SC) in West Bengal and other 5 states but not in Karnataka. The fight started long back in 1996 and various strategies adopted during these long years. It is during this year, Government of Karnataka has issued a gazette notification on 26.3.2013 bearing number SWD 157 SAD 2009 through which a high level committee chaired by Additional Chief Secretary is constituted. The committee shall recommend the government the points to be considered to issue SC certificate to these communities. This is another big achievement of Janakalyan in its 16th year of intervention. In order to fight for these rights, Janakalyan has brought these communities under Introductory speech to Matribhasha Vijay Divas
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Jan Krishi Create Multiple Sources of Income in Small Farms – Inculcate a habit of diversified cropping pattern to distribute the risk of crop failure
Thanks to NABARD for supporting a farm based innovation under the Farmers Technology Transfer Fund (FTTF) to create a model for tail end farmers of Tungabhadra Irrigation Project! Growth of population and land fragmentation has reduced the per capita land availability. This posed the food insecurity to the small farmers. This is also because of the mono-cropping and inadequate irrigation at tail end of Tungabhadra irrigation project. Though we have enough runoff generated during the rainy season for which make way out of our farm and later blame God or Government for not providing irrigation.
Multiple Sources of Income – risk distribution To enhance the productivity and income level of these farmers, Janakalyan developed a model to inculcate the habit of diversified cropping pattern to distribute the risk of crop failure. To begin with, the intervention started with 5 farmers while it is planned to demonstrate with another 10 farmers. The productive units demonstrated in the farms are – 1) Fish in the Water Bank 2) Fodder with milch animals 3) Vermicompost for soil fertility improvement 4) Vegetable cultivation
In addition, some fruit and firewood trees are also planted on the bunds of the water bank. The model is tested with more than 50 farmers in Vermicomposting – recycling the wastes past and has come up as a replicable model for any tail end of irrigation project in India.
Concept of cost sharing is introduced to develop the sense of ownership among the farmers on the assets created.
NABARD has played an important role in reducing the wastage of food grains with the Grameen Bhandara Yojana by promoting of rural go-downs. Similar scheme needs to be promoted by NABARD in order to harvest this runoff by creating “Water Bank” to reduce wastage of every drop of water.
Cotton grown as part of IFS intervention
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Jan Jal Ensure Water to Ensure Food Security – Provide a water bank to your child than a house; house is for urban child while ‘water bank’ for rural
Thanks to Give2Asia (Deshpande Foundation fund) for supporting a farm based innovation to create a model for tail end farmers of Malaprabha Irrigation Project in Gadag district of Karnataka! All tail ends of any irrigation projects in India are exposed to 2-extremes of water availability. The farmers lose their standing crop due to inundation in rainy season while it gets dried up during peak season for lack of irrigation. In order to bring the farmers out of this trap, Janakalyan has developed an innovative model to create a “water bank” in all such farms to harvest the excess water during rainy season and use it for lifesaving irrigation during peak season.
Janakalyan believes that if water security is Water Bank excavated to store excess water ensure to the farming communities, they will ensure the food security of the nation. Therefore, urges the farming communities to create a water bank for their children instead of a house for them. With the support of Deshpande Foundation, Janakalyan has already created about 45 water banks in the Gadag district in the last 3 years as provided in the following table- Number of 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Total water banks 10 27 8 45 Various other productive units are added after excavation of these water banks in the farms. Partners Meet at Deshpande Foundation
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Jan Raksha Total Sanitation Campaign – Participation is the way to real development, 200 toilets built in 25 days
Thanks to Infosys Foundation for the support through Kottala Basaveshwara Bharatiya Shikshana Samsthe for supporting construction of 200 toilets in Sindhanur Rehabilitation Project! It was to our wonder that community participation could ensure completion of construction of 200 toilets in only 25 days without investing a single rupee. It is the credibility of Janakalyan that without any formal documentation, 200 families invested more than Rs.40 lakhs to construct 200 toilets believing that Janakalyan would certainly give the 200 toilets lokarpan – cheque distribution promised grant of Rs.8000 per toilet. On the
contrary, the same community is not ready to invest for the toilets to get grant from Gram Panchayat though the amount is higher (Rs.9800) than what Janakalyan has promised.
The lokarpan of these 200 toilets was done in the presence of Sri Basavaraj Patil Sedam (MP) and Sri Vasudevrao Deshpande of Infosys Foundation along with cheques for each beneficiary. The intervention did not stop there but it is ensured by Janakalyan team that each of these 200 toilets is being used hygienically. The senior citizens, the pregnant women and
Lives in hut but constructed toilet adolescent girls have thanked the foundation for this kind assistance.
Volunteers made it to complete 200 toilets in 25 days – Satyajit Majumdar and other volunteers are being felicitated on Lokarpan & Cheque distribution Program Using it hygienically for whole family
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Jan Shiksha Rural Education is the Need of the Hour – Education centers must shift to rural areas for true knowledge empowerment
Thanks to www.giveIndia.org for assisting hundreds of rural children to ensure their primary and secondary education through online donation supports! The primary target groups of Janakalyan are rural small and marginal farmers from lower strata of the society. Being Scheduled Caste (SC) in their original place of abode and 6 states of India, they are deprived of these constitutional benefits in Karnataka after their rehabilitation. Thus they neither get economic benefits of various government schemes nor do their children get education/employment benefits. Therefore Priya avoids her child marriage with education status of these communities is very GiveIndia support poor.
With the support of GiveIndia, Janakalyan has initiated 4 interventions to improve the education of these communities as briefed below- a. Provide ‘Education Kit’ to poor children to ensure continuity in schools throughout the year in addition to what government provides in the schools. b. Provide ‘Artisan/Agriculture Kit’ to the parents of the poor children so that they earn and support education of their children in school/college Nisha received support of GiveIndia to c. Provide stipend to adolescent girls / rural postpone age at marriage thru post-metric youth for college education to ensure post- education metric education to avoid child marriage / child labor and its deadly consequences d. Provide ‘Hygiene Kit’ to poor families so that the hygienic condition is maintained at home to reduce hospital expenditures and thus support their children in school/college
Mohit pursues his post-metric education with giveIndia support
10 Decentralized Education: Ancient India had gurukul education centers in rural areas whereas in modern days the education centers are concentrated in urban cities. The rural poor do not have access to such education due to various factors including economic reason. Janakalyan initiated a reverse trend to provide higher education to the rural poor at their doorstep. The Swami Muktidananda Maharaj, President of Maa Sarada Pre University College started Ramakrishan Ashrama, Mysore with Swami during the year and the new building was also Jnanananda Maharaj of Tamil Nadu and other inaugurated in the same year in the presence of distinguished guests during opening of new building Swamijis from Ramakrishna Ashrams. About 57 of Maa Sarada Pre University College. students are learning in this institute, major share being adolescent girls from rural areas. Otherwise, these girls are generally married at the age of 14-16 years. This institute basically caters to the needs of these adolescent girls.
The formal inauguration of the college was held on 24th June 2012 in the gracious presence of Swami Veereshwaranand Maharaj of Ramakrishna Ashrama, Mysore. About 200 mothers and senior citizens were honored to get their blessings with clothes on this auspicious occasion. Students of Maa Sarada Pre University College performing cultural programs during the 1st Annual Swami Jitakamananda Maharaj of Mangalore Day of the College Ramakrishna Ashrama, Swami Tyageeshwaranand Maharaj of Ulsoor Ramakrishna Ashram and other spiritual persons addressed the students during the year. Sri Basavaraj Patil Sedam, MP (Rajya Sabha) also addressed the students on 14.9.2012.
Innovative competitions to retain the culture and tradition among the parents are conducted during the Annual Day ceremony from 4-8 January 2013. All these days were named as Cultural and spiritual education to students under- 4.1.2013 : Holy Mothers Day 5.1.2013 : Parents Day 6.1.2013 : College Day 7.1.2013 : School Day 8.1.2013 : Annual Day
The institute has recruited qualified teaching faculty who have 3-10 years of experience in teaching.
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Jan Udyog National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme – Knowledge empowerment of rural wage-earners is the way to ensure employment creation
Thanks to Sir Dorabji Tata Trust for supporting to bring 9878 wage-earners (WE) under a common umbrella so that their rights and entitlements under Nation Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), 2005 is ensured! WE groups are promoted amongst the lower strata of the society; they are trained about the provisions of the NREG Act, empowered to demand for their rights, applied for job, ensured execution of these works through the WE groups, completed documentation in time, ensured release of payment without any leakage, demanded the unemployment allowances wherever applicable, compensation on delayed payment of wages, worksite facilities, and such other entitlements through these WE groups. Several agitation, WE groups working on a site allotted to them dharna, rally were also organized through these WE groups in order to ensure their rights and entitlements. Finally these WE groups are linked to a state level organization called GraKooS keeping sustainability in mind.
About 9878 wage-earners from 4409 families of 57 villages from 8 GPs of Sindhanur taluk has been covered so far; of these 4933 members of 2178 families have availed employment of 31545 person-days in the reporting period with an average of 14 person-days per family. The total wages received by these WE groups is Rs.48,90,870 in the reporting period while the cumulative amount for the project period is Rs.1,23,65,745. The average benefit per family is about Rs.5678/-. Other worksite where WE groups are engaged . . . . . Kalmangi 1389 205 122 447 774 32 863 917 1780 568 545 380 3354 519870 Bappur 1782 150 193 115 458 20 472 496 968 153 72 0 0 0 Tidigol 1890 297 99 109 505 14 546 578 1124 426 197 325 4055 628525 Devargudi 2500 212 180 375 767 31 839 944 1783 521 353 512 7810 1210550 Umloti 1600 108 365 353 826 32 896 935 1831 629 580 607 9806 1519930 Gunda 2240 82 176 280 538 21 634 676 1310 424 417 354 6520 1011995 Gududur 1950 0 142 0 142 7 142 142 284 0 0 0 0 0 Kolbal 1690 0 399 0 399 18 399 399 798 12 4 0 0 0 24% 38% 38% 29% 49% 51% 62% 49%
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Jan Shakti Renewable Sources of Energy Harnessing - Efforts to replace non-renewable sources of energy by renewable sources at home and farm
Thanks to the peasant communities for accepting the ideas of Janakalyan to cope up with the challenges of global warming and climate change! Several self supported efforts have been tried with the farming communities to replace application of non-renewable sources of energies with renewable sources. Introduction of pedal pump, pressure pump to lift water from the tanks without electricity or fuel is one such effort. Recycling of crop wastes and cow excreta for soil fertility improvement in place of chemicals, improved chullah, biogas plants, etc. are some of these initiatives to promote usage of renewable sources of energy. Growing more and more firewood trees is another way to cope up with the climate change by replacing what the farmers take out of the environment for own consumptions.
Windmill developed using local materials Otherwise, this effort could be termed as balancing the environment.
Pressure pump used to lift water from the Water Bank; Sri Subhash Palekar, father of zero cultivation is in Janakalyan project area with local MLA & DySP
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Impact Assessment Impacts on primary target group of Janakalyan – the refugees per annum. In addition, it is providing fresh Thanks to the selfless Board and dedicated vegetables to the families of these colonies. team of Janakalyan for their repetitive efforts to 3) Exposure: Several rounds of interactions do something good for the primary target group with the external world, training to these of Janakalyan, the refugees! For all these 16 communities, exposure trips to outside years, the team is putting selfless efforts for the world, bringing outsiders to these colonies wellbeing of these people to ensure their for various programs, creating an interface fundamental & constitutional rights without any with the refugees and local people, sharing funding support. It has become possible the expertise of these communities with the because of the selfless Governing Board of external world, etc. has linked them with Janakalyan who permitted Janakalyan Team to the external world. Some of them are in work with these communities. formal sector too. Today, the younger
Before intervention of Janakalyan in these generations go out of the colonies in colonies, the economy was purely agriculture construction field, also as operators for based, which is nothing but gambling without harvesters, and in such other sectors and assured sources of irrigation. Mono-cropping bring in resources for economic resulted total breakdown in the year when a improvement. particular crop grown by them failed. More than 90% families used to purchase old clothes (dresses) from the market for their family members, last quality rice and rotten vegetables on market-day. They had no exposure to external world and thus no other sources of income than wage-labor.
Continuous interventions have brought many changes in the lives and livelihoods of these refugees; few of these are briefed below for the readers- Milky way of economic empowerment 1) Animal Husbandry: About 1500 liters of
milk is sold daily from these colonies @ Rs.22 per liter accounting Rs.1.2 crore of income per annum; these communities had never sold milk as a culture which Janakalyan broke with repeated hammering and also providing all backward and forward linkages to establish the milk chain. This is a huge inflow of funds at the cost no outflow than the fodder grown in the area. 2) Vegetable Cultivation: More than 50 farmers grow vegetable today after intervention of Janakalyan with diversified cropping pattern after water harvesting. Vegetable fetches her more than Rs.850 Each of these farmers earning not less than per day throughout the year Rs.600 per day accounting to Rs.1.09 crore
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4. Reduction in Inputs Cost: Application of Bengalis scattered across the country. A timely inputs is very critical in agriculture national body called Nikhil Bharat Bangali and investment plays an important role in Udbastu Samanway Samiti is created at all assuring the same. Cost of both these India level and its Karnataka Chapter is (inputs & investment) was too high as the created with the initiative of Janakalyan.
farmers used to borrow credit from money There are many other impacts of our lenders / traders. It was with the interventions on these primary target groups in introduction of SHG movement, the rate of terms of improving the physical infrastructure interest of credit has come down to Rs.2 like road, drinking water, irrigation water, per month from Rs.10 and that has veterinary facilities, medical facilities, drastically changed the trader-farmer government facilities of various schemes and so relationship. Today, the farmers do not on….. It is Janakalyan which intervenes during borrow loan from the any critical points of these communities and moneylenders/traders but these SHGs play resolve such issues. the same role. This has increased the profitability of farm to the greatest extent.
Today, none of the families purchase used clothes from the market, eat farm fresh vegetables every day, send their children to private schools/colleges and live a happy life with their family members.
In addition, efforts of Janakalyan has also brought following important changes in the lives and livelihoods of the communities- 1) Mother Tongue Education: Government of Karnataka has provided the mother tongue learning facility to these Bengali communities from 2013-14 in all government run schools in the area. This will help them to retain their identity, language and culture. 2) Social Reservation: The Namasudra, Poundra and Rajbanshi communities of these refugees are considered as Scheduled Caste (SC) in their original place of abode while not in Karnataka. Efforts of Janakalyan all through these 16 years has made Government of Karnataka to issue a gazette notification on 26.3.2013 to constitute a high level committee chaired by Additional Chief Secretary of Karnataka to recommend the points to be considered to issue them SC certificate. 3) National Alliance: It is with the efforts of Janakalyan, these extinct communities have been federated with a national alliance of
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What Next? Journey ahead to Janakalyan
Lots have been achieved during the last 16 years of development journey of Janakalyan with the support of our esteemed donors and cooperation of the target communities; however, there is long way to go to make these communities empowered and self reliant!
Janakalyan plans few important interventions in the days to come which are briefed below- 1) Decentralized Education: In ancient days, the gurukul education system prevailed wherein the students used to go to Ashram (usually located in neighborhood of villages) to gain knowledge and experience from the nature. But in present days, the education centers are concentrated in urban cities beyond the reach of rural children. It is therefore the gap between urban India and rural Bharat is increasing day by day. Janakalyan proposes to reverse the present trend and draw the attention of urban children to the rural areas by creating state of art education centre in rural areas. This will not only provide practical experience to the students but also the fresh environment for their growth. In addition, the rural children will have the access to the education of equal standard. 2) Water Bank: Water is life and assured water to the farming community can ensure food security the whole nation. We have enough water but lack in storage structures. We make way to water when have in excess but blame God or Government in scarcity. Janakalyan plans to create Water Bank for each farm to harvest each drop of water and make effective use of it. Janakalyan urges the community, government and developmental agencies to ensure that each farmer creates ‘Water Bank’ for his child than a house. 3) National Alliance: Janakalyan team has enough expertise in addressing the issues of refugees and managing natural resources for livelihood improvement, especially in the tail ends of irrigation projects in India. Janakalyan plans to deploy its expertise in similar contexts all over the country through a national alliance of likeminded agencies and communities. 4) Human Resource for Rural Development: There are unknown numbers of institutions in the country who are creating human resources; but none of them are oriented to work in rural areas having no or little infrastructures. Even the person from rural areas starts job hunting in urban cities. Janakalyan wishes to establish a Human Resource Development Centre where the person would be trained in rural development and oriented / motivated / brainwashed to work in rural areas with deprived communities.
The estimated cost of these proposed interventions are tabulated below- Sl. No. Proposed Project Period (years) Amount (INR) 1 Decentralized Education 6 years 21,00,00,000 2 Water Bank 7 years 18,00,00,000 3 National Alliance 5 years 5,00,00,000 4 Human Resource for Rural Development 10 years 10,00,00,000 Total fund requirement 54,00,00,000
Janakalyan has a dedicated team to transfer your resources to the deserving groups and needs about Rs.54 crores to accomplish the above targets. We urge for your generous support ONLINE and/or request you to deposit the same in our State Bank of India account No.30168833165 having IFSC SBIN0007861 in favor of Janakalyan. You can also donate online through the following links: http://www.jankalyana.org or http://www.giveindia.org/m-1155-aapna-janakalyan.aspx. Your support could be as small as Rs.100 to any amount you like to donate for a cause.
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Documentation Major Reports brought out by Janakalyan during 2012-13
Like every year, progress reports for various projects were published during the year 2012-13 as a policy of Janakalyan and also as per the requirements of supporting organizations. The following are those reports and all these area available on our website www.jankalyana.org and can also be obtained from our office by request.
Annual Report 2011-12
nd Annual Action Plan - SDTT Final Report to SDTT 2 Interim Report to G2A
Feedback Reports to GiveIndia Parishuddha Yojana Report Maa Sarada P U College
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Compliance to Credibility Alliance Norms Identity: Janakalyan is a registered organization under Karnataka Societies Registration Act, 1960 (No. SOR/28/97-98 dated 2.7.1997) at Raichur, Karnataka and committed for people’s empowerment.
Janakalyan is registered u/s 12A of Income Tax Act, 1961 (F.No.12A/26/CIT/GLB/02-03) and also with Commissioner of Income Tax u/s 80G of Income Tax Act, 1961 and is valid for lifetime (Registration No. F.No.76/80G/CIT-GLB/07-08).
Janakalyan is registered under Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976 (No. 094610029)
PAN of Janakalyan is AAATJ5178Q and TAN is BLRJ02258E
Visitors are welcome to visit us at the address given in the back cover of this report or in our website www.jankalyana.org; all certificates, annual reports, audit reports can be viewed on the website.
Name and address of Bankers: SBH (ADB), Sindhanur-584128 for FC and SBI, Sindhanur & Syndicate Bank, Jawalagera, Sindhanur-584143 for domestic contributions
Name and address of auditors: M/s P.K.Subramanian & Co, Bresthwarpet, Raichur-584101
Vision, Aims/Objectives and Achievements: Janakalyan has well defined and written Vision, Mission, Goal & Objectives and the same could be referred in “About Janakalyan” section of this report. Achievements during the year could be referred in “Year at a glance” & “Footsteps of Janakalyan” sections of this report.
Governance: The details about the Governing Board members as on 31.3.2012 are listed below- Relation to Designati Participation Name Age Sex Occupation Area of expertise other on in Meeting member Dr. Sharanagouda 36 M President Asst Prof in Agril Expert in food & milk 5/5 Not related S Hiregoudar Engg College processing technologies Smt Kalpana Roy 47 F Vice Teacher, Education expert; 5/5 Not related President Meenakshi women empowerment, Public School, rural development Sindhanur Sri Santosh Sutar 37 M Secretary Program Officer, Expert in environment, 4/5 Not related CEE, South hygiene and school Regional Office, education projects Bangalore Smt. Anima 49 F Member Housewife, Social works in rural 4/5 Not related Majumdar Sindhanur area, especially with women Sri M V N Rao 59 M Member ED in reputed All round management 1/5 Not related NGO, Kolar of NGO programs Sri Ramappa K T 38 M Member Asst Prof in Agril Soil & Water, Irrigation, 4/5 Not related Engg College Drainage expert Smt Renuka Patil 40 F Member Program Officer, Women empowerment, 3/5 Not related Mahila health, hygiene, Samakhya sanitation
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The Janakalyan board met 5 times during the year on 22.4.2012, 22.7.2012 (AGM), 22.7.2012, 9.12.2012 and 8.1.2013; the minutes are documented and circulated
The Board members are elected every year in the AGM by the General Body; this year it was 22.7.2012.
The Governing Board of Janakalyan approves programs, budgets, annual report and audited financial statements; the board ensures the organization’s compliance with laws of the land.
Accountability & Transparency: Total sitting fees to the General Body members during the year is Rs.8000/- and expenditures incurred towards food, accommodation and travel for AGM and GB meeting is Rs.21031/-
The remuneration to ED is Rs.475320/- during 2012-13
Three highest paid and lowest paid employees of Janakalyan are Highest Paid Employee Lowest Paid Employee Prasen Raptan M Basavarajaiah Swami Sudhanya Sikdar Umesh Sarkar Rs.39610/- p.m. Rs.24997/- p.m. Rs.8997/- p.m. Rs.3305/- p.m.
Staff Details as on 31.3.2013 is given below as per the desirable norms of Credibility Alliance Name Designatio Year of Years of Remuneration Benefits Gender n Joining Experience (Rs p.m.) (Rs p.m.) Sri Prasen Raptan E D 1997 16 39610 780 M Sri Basawarajaih M P O 2010 24 24997 780 M Sri Sudhanya Sikdar DN 2006 6 8992 780 M Sri Umesh Sarkar Supervisor 2008 4 3305 231 M Smt Shivamma T GPO 2011 4 5659 614 F Sri Manojith Biswas Accountant 2007 6 6610 780 M Smt Indira B GPO 2011 4 5027 481 F Sri Basawaraj H Operator 2011 4 8000 - M Sri Raghavendra Principal 2012 3 10000 - M Sri Husenappa Lecture 2012 5 4000 - M Sri Ravi B Lecture 2012 3 4000 - M Sri Nagaraj Lecture 2012 6 4000 - M Sri D Ramesh Lecture 2012 6 4000 - M Sri Lakshimikantha Lecture 2012 6 4000 - M Sri Praveen Kumar Lecture 2012 5 4000 - M Sri Shivaraj Patil Lecture 2012 4 4000 - M Sri Kalyan Reddy Lecture 2012 2 4000 - M Sri Narayan Raptan Lecture 2012 21 2500 - M
The total cost of national travel by board members as well as personnel is Rs.NIL
The total cost of international travel by board members as well as personnel is Rs.NIL
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Abridged Financial Statements Audited Financial Statements of Janakalyan at the end of 31.3.2013
JANAKALYAN Income Tax Assessment Year 2013-14
Receipts & Payments Accounts for the period ended 31.3.2013 RECEIPTS 2011-12 2012-13 PAYMENTS O/B of Cash Balance 0 13865 Expenses incurred for project 8728671 6264966 O/B of Bank Balance 471166 794531 Statutory Audit Fee (PKS & Co.) 16545 17978 O/B of FD 2295215 2065084 Employee benefits 73234 37494 Grants from Indian Donors 5183020 2180727 Bank service charges 4438 3890 Grants from Foreign Donors 2727785 17369 TDS deducted by Bank from FD 1553 3650 Donations 745799 3414315 Payment of loan 200000 0 Membership fees 63776 36410 C/B of cash 13865 10192 Interest earned 209960 131240 C/B of Bank 794531 382315 Loan and Advance Received 200000 3511930 C/B of FD 2065084 140000 TDS on salary payable 3650 21712 Work advance to staff 2450 50220 Other Receipts 0 56620 Assets Creation 0 4333098 Total Receipts 11900371 12243803 Total Payment 11900371 12243803
Income & Expenditure Accounts for the period ended 31.3.2013 Expenditure 2011-12 2012-13 Income 2011-12 2012-13 Expenditures for all programs 8622770 10929909 O/B of unspent amount of donors 157219 788494 Unspent amount of donors C/B 788494 360485 Grants from Foreign sources 2727785 17369 Administrative expenditures 1266538 721539 Grants from Indian sources 5183020 2180727 Work advance written off 2450 0 Membership fees 63776 36410 Excess of income over 0 139207 Contributions from individuals 792699 2353834 expenditure Interest from FD and SB 200091 141107 Farmer Share 372320 448600 Fees 33000 182801 Application fees/ Hitachi revenue 5400 426880 Loan & advance 497118 0 Loan considered as income 669 0 Overspent amount of donors 0 5498205 Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) 0 21713 Sale of old assets 0 55000 Excess of expenditure over income 647155 0 Total Expenditure 10680252 12151140 Total Income 10680252 12151140
Balance Sheet as on 31.3.2013 Liabilities 2011-12 2012-13 Assets 2011-12 2012-13 Capital account 5106600 9554461 Fixed assets 3065360 7374012 Reserve Fund 25543 25543 Cash in Hand 13865 10192 Unspent amount of donors 788494 360485 Cash at Bank 794530 382315 P K Subramaniaim&co Payable 22472 16494 Fixed Deposits in Banks 2065084 140000 Accrued Interest receivable 9869 0 TDS recievable from IT Dept 17789 16169 TDS on Salary Payable 3650 0 Overspent amount 0 5498205 Caution Deposit 0 2200 Work advance to staff 0 50220 Loans and advances 0 3511930 Total Liabilities 5956628 13471113 Total Assets 5956628 13471113 As per our report of even date
For P K Subramaniam & Co. For Janakalyan Chartered Accountants
Partner Date: 14.4.2013 Place: Sindhanur Secretary Executive Director
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Footsteps of Janakalyan
Janakalyan took birth in July 1997 with an objective to assist the refugees & repatriates to raise their income level through intervention in the field of agriculture. It started working with farming communities with its own resources. The strategy adopted to work with these peasant communities was ‘awareness generation’ among the mass about the mistakes that they have already done and the ways to rectify it. Training & exposure were 2 tools adopted to convince these farmers about the proposition that Janakalyan was propagating about organic farming.
Year 1998 began with new hopes. The concept of raising income level of the farmer was added with land reclamation (soil fertility / health management and preserving it for the generations to come). It also worked out for subsidiary sources of income for these communities and found animal husbandry as a viable option; started promoting the same along with agriculture. By the end of the year it realized that raising the income level through its different approaches would not serve the purpose if proper mechanism is not adopted to save the earned income; thus, started promoting Self Help Groups of men and women. And thus the objective of Janakalyan was formulated as “to serve 3 holy mothers i.e. Manavi Mata, Bhoo Mata & Go Mata”. It also started working with children, keeping education as the focal point through ASHA & Child Labor Schools.
The year 1999-2000 could be termed as Capacity Building Year for Janakalyan. Maximum effort was put to train the staff of Janakalyan at various NGOs and Institutions through training and exposure. Awareness generation, training and exposure for the community (woman & farmers), relation building with local officers, etc. were the major activities during the year. Fund flow also started from this year. Women Development & Empowerment Program, Mahila Arthika Swavalambane Yojana, Participatory Technology Development in Cotton, Dairy Development Program, and Child Labor Elimination Program were the programs of the year. The important innovation of Janakalyan was Sansar Pathshala, Kishori Vikash Program, Shree Shakthi Sabha and Sangha Darshini Samittee. The fourth mata i.e Ganga Mata was added to the objective upon suggesting it by most of the distinguished visitors to Janakalyan.
The year 2000-2001 is an important year for Janakalyan wherein the top management of the organization undergone various training at renown Institutes. Therefore, the same programs were continued during the year without much difference. However, the major step initiated during the year was formation of a Cluster Level Federation of SHGs and starting a Milk Marketing Center at Sindhanur through this Federation. Kitchen Garden Program was another innovative program to recycle the water to grow vegetable in the house-yard. Most of the activities / programs got hindered during this year due to improper management as the staffs were deputed for higher studies. However, a research study was undertaken during the year in the Rehabilitation Project by the staff. The area of operation got extended to outside Rehabilitation Project.
The year 2001-2002 is the year of transformation. After proper training of the top management, it realized that till date Janakalyan was functioning without proper planning. Planning Meeting was introduced for the first time in the organization to organize the activities in a systematic way after assessing the needs of the community in a participatory way. The organization also gave emphasis on professionalizing the approach by recruiting the qualified employees like B.V.Sc., M.Tech., MSW, M.Com., MA graduates. A detailed Service Rules for Janakalyan was also adopted during the year. A few sets of innovative programs also got introduced during the year. The year is termed as Mass Mobilization Year because lot of efforts was put to organize the community in demanding their rights from the concerned authorities.
The year 2002-03 is the year for sustainability of the organization. Sustainability of an Organization is nothing but having a dedicated professional team of Human Resource and a constant flow of Financial Resources. Towards this, Janakalyan put all the effort to have a competent team by recruiting a set of fresh graduates because they could be tuned according to the vision and mission of Janakalyan. Many efforts were put to see that the programs as well as the organization become sustainable. The year is also most Planned Year in the history of Janakalyan; also received the FCRA registration and exemption under section 12A of Income Tax Act, 1961. We received first foreign grant for the Cotton Based Integrated Farming System development program. Janakalyan got lot of publicity during the year through its program called Jana-Udyog. The area of operation was extended to outside the block as well as district. The administrative Office was established at Jawalgera keeping the conveniences like Bank, Post, Transportation and area of operation in mind.
The year 2003-04 is the year of confidence building. An organization working with all sections of society as target communities for the past 8 years has developed self-confidence in achieving maximum success in its target. Looking to our professional management, dedicated team of human resource and judicious use of financial resources another two big projects JSYS and HIVOS were added in our list. We also see considerable change in conditions of our target community resulting because they have started believing in themselves and our propositions.
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The 9th year (2004-05) is recorded as the year for diversification. Janakalyan has expanded its area of operation and reached each and every village of Sindhanur taluk as well as neighboring taluks also. Further, the activities have also been diversified to health, education, sanitation, nutrition focusing child and mother. Linkages with UNICEF established and it became the major donor for Janakalyan. The year 2005-06 could be termed as year of HRD wherein Janakalyan had to recruit more than 150 staffs at various cadres and train them in various sectors to carry out the activities undertaken in the district. The staffs are recruited in each and every village of the Sindhanur block. Similarly the project inflow was also very high and many activities had to be implemented in parallel. The year (2006-07) is the year of recognition wherein Janakalyan built a strong network with government as well as non-government agencies. Government assigned many planning tasks to Janakalyan in the district such as perspective plan for NREGA, Suvarna Gramodaya, Kugram Suvarna Grama, etc. and the plans prepared by Janakalyan was appreciated in the state level meetings by Sri Srinivas Murthy, the Principal Secretary of RDPR in Hotel Atria, Bangalore. Janakalyan was also invited to train the NGOs of Mandya district in preparation of perspective plans for Suvarna Gramodaya. In the district also, it could build an image and for any developmental initiatives, Janakalyan is provided with the first opportunity. Janakalyan has developed a corpus during this year. Janakalyan also established a campus of its own. The year (2007-08) is the year of expansion both in terms of area of operation as well as its role change. UNICEF appointed Janakalyan as the nodal agency for its programs in Raichur district and the prestigious national flagship program viz. Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) implementation through the NGOs was assigned to Janakalyan. Janakalyan implemented the TSC in 300 villages of all 5 taluks of Raichur district through local NGOs. Janakalyan also participated in various national and international programs, activities, meeting and workshops. The state level CRC convention was hosted by Janakalyan and represented Karnataka in National level CRC convention. Janakalyan celebrated 10th Foundation Day on 12th January 2008 as mark of 10 years of contribution to the society. The year (2008-09) is the 12th year of operation in Raichur district and at this juncture Janakalyan board felt that Janakalyan needs to compress its activities in Raichur and move in some other area. It started trimming its staff-size from the beginning of the year as well as programs. Study in other districts of Karnataka as well as research on potential donors started during the year. Janakalyan also done major surgeries to its operational strategies, amended its byelaws, changed its board structure and composition and many more. To sum up, it could be said that Janakalyan took new birth with new spirit. The year (2009-10) marked completion of 13 years in the sector of rural development; in its history of these 13 years, never entered into emergency management activities. Janakalyan initiated gradual phasing out from Raichur district during previous year but due to an emergency call of the nature in the operational area, Janakalyan had to initiate disaster management activities in the flood affected villages of Sindhanur on humanitarian ground. The intervention concentrated on ensuring rights of children and women in flood affected villages and successfully implemented in 10 villages. The year (2010-11) marked completion of 14 years in the sector of rural development; Janakalyan started replication of its innovative models demonstrated successfully during the journey of development in other similar context. Identification of similar area and donors continued during the year and succeeded to initiate intervention in Gadag district. Similarly, the other major initiative taken up during the year is towards online fundraising through GiveIndia registration, accreditation by Credibility Alliance, affiliation to Bharat Welfare Trust, lifetime renewal of 80G of IT Act, etc. The year 2011-12 being 15th year of existence of Janakalyan, to make it meaningful it is declared as “Child Care Year” and accordingly the activities were focused on child empowerment. Supporting refugee girls’ education, providing education kits to the children, major operation of a cute girl and above all, opening a new college for the refugee children are notable activities during the year. Developed Sexual Harassment Policy 2011 and relooked at all operational policies of Janakalyan like Service Rules 2001, Procurement Policy 2005, Gender Policy 2007, and Investment Policy 2011. Credibility Alliance accredited Janakalyan under desirable norms of highest standard in governance, accountability and transparency. The website new website designed with www.jankalyana.org instead of www.jankalyan.in. Janakalyan Annual Report 2010-11 was selected as top 10 best annual reports in the country by CSO Partners. National Alliance of refugees initiated in Karnataka. The year 2012-13 is 16th year of Janakalyan existence! It was earmarked for fighting for the rights of its primary target groups, the Bengali refugees. Accordingly, succeeded to ensure Bengali teaching in government schools and the day was celebrated on 1st March 2013 as Matribhasha Vijay Divas and a Matribhasha Vijay Stambh was unveiled. Maa Sarada PU College building was inaugurated on 8th January 2013 on the eve of 160th Birth Anniversary of Holy Mother Sarada. Government of Karnataka issued a gazette notification to consider providing reservation to these Bengalis.
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Our Partners Give2Asia (Deshpande Foundation) GiveIndia Sir Dorabji Tata Trust
Prasen Raptan M Basavarajaiah S Manojit Biswas Infosys Foundation (Kottala Basaveshwara Bharatiya Shikshana Samsthe)
Our Banks State Bank of Hyderabad (ADB), Sindhanur
Sudhanya Sikdar Indira B Shivamma T State Bank of India, Sindhanur Syndicate Bank, Jawalagera
Our Auditor M/s P K Subramanian & Co Chartered Accountants
Raghavendra Shivaraj Patil Lakshmikant Desai # 11-5-23, Kartik Complex Bresthwarpet, Raichur-584101 Email: [email protected]
Head Office Address
JANAKALYAN Shantinagar, R H Colony No.4 Nagaraj Mukkunda Narayan Raptan Praveen Kumar Sindhanur – 584143, Raichur Karnataka, India Tel: +91 8535 264488, 264140 Email: [email protected] Website: www.jankalyana.org
Kalyan Reddy Ramesh Jeenoor Ravikumar B S Branch Office Address
JANAKALYAN Veeresh Nilaya, Saraswati Nagar, Naragund Taluk, Gadag District, Karnataka, India
Email: [email protected]
Husenappa A Yankappa Basawaraj R
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