The NSSS project aims to empower and enable excluded communities to analyse, understand and persistently address issues of social exclusion and discrimination.

The project's purpose is organise communities to ensure the rights of socially excluded communities under FRA and revenue land laws, and livelihood security through government schemes.

The NSSS project is working in 505 villages in the Jabalpur, Seoni, Umariya, Sidhi, Shahdol and Damoh districts of Madhya Pradesh. PACS is supporting the project for four years. 

NSSS aims

• Enrolment and possession of job cards for all eligible households from excluded groups under MGNREG.

• Proper maintenance of muster rolls (work list), full wage payment for job card holders and unemployment compensation to households not receiving work under MGNREG.

• Creating natural resource assets for socially excluded communities through proper utilisation of MGNREG funds.

• Eligible claim applications for retention of forest land filed at the District Forest Committee and registration of individual deeds and common property claims through due process through Gram Sabhas (the local self governance mechanism).

• All new deeds will be issued jointly in name of spouses.

• 50% of women participate in decision making on issues of land, forest and village development through membership in CBUs.

About NSSS

Navrachna Samaj Sevi Sansthan (NSSS) was founded in 1987 by a group of young social workers to work among tribal communities in Madhya Pradesh.

The organisation works to ensure land for the landless and peoples' right to and control over natural livelihood resources including land, water and forests, in regions that have an oppressive feudal social system.

Find out more:

• PACS in Madhya Pradesh

• PACS work on sustainable livelihoods

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