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Organizing workers for a Democratic & Secular India: Challenging Power Structures in Rural Bihar Association For India’s Development, MIT & Boston Chapters, Alliance For Secular & Democratic South Asia, TwoCircles.Net and Massachusetts Global Action present a Talk on Organizing Workers for a Democratic & Secular India Challenging Power Structures in Rural Bihar WHEN: Sunday, June 19, 2016 (4-6pm) WHERE: MIT | Bld. 4, Rm 231 We wants to invite you to this talk by our partners Jeevan Saathi Kamayani Swami and Ashish Ranjan. Kamayani and Ashish work full time on labor issues such as temporary/seasonal migration, minimum wage, employment guarantee & pensions for the elderly. They are based in Bihar where Kamayani helped form a trade union of unorganized sector rural workers Jan Jagaran Shakti Sangathan (http://www.jjabihar.org). See the poster attached at the end of the email. About Kamayani: https://conference.aidindia.org/frontpage/speakers/kamayani-swami-work-in-bihar About Ashish: https://conference.aidindia.org/frontpage/speakers/ashish-ranjan About JJSS: Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan grew from an intensive survey on NREGA initiated by the G.B. Pant Institute (Allahabad University) and Prof. Jean Dreze, in May, 2008. The survey focused on assessing ground realities of NREGA in two districts of Bihar, namely Kaimur and Araria. The survey also had related campaign activities like awareness generation, checking if transparency safeguards were in place to check corruption and documentation of irregularities and cases of corruption. The survey showed high levels of lack of awareness about NREGA program. As part of checking the transparency safeguards the survey team also did muster roll verification exercise (kind of social audit) and found a leakage of about 50% in wages that have been paid. These activities generated a lot of interest amongst local groups and people who were genuinely interested in issues of social change. This interest became the basis of the formation of the 'Jan Jagaran Abhiyan', Araria and was later renamed to Jan Jagaran Shakti Sangathan (JJSS). JJSS currently focuses on NREGA, Right to Information (RTI) and issues of justice. Date: 06/19/2016 Location: MIT | Bld. 4, Rm 231 Time: 4pm Organized By: Association For India's Development, MIT and Boston Chapters, Alliance For Secular & Democratic South Asia, TwoCircles.Net and Massachusetts Global Action Cost: Free to the public Contact: info@aidboston.org Web: https://www.facebook.com/events/866630150109797 Email: info@aidboston.org Directions: 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA Discuss about the event, share ride ... | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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