Jalpaiguri Seva Sadan (JSS)
District : Jalpaiguri
Theme :
Non-discriminatory access to livelihood rights through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).Non-discriminatory access to right to basic services through health and nutrition. |
The JSS project aims to improve the socio-economic condition of the marginalised and socially excluded communities through non-discriminatory access to health, nutrition and livelihoods.
The project is supported by PACS for four years and will work in four tea-gardens in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal.
JSS aims
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Non-discriminatory access to MGNREGA by excluded communities, especially tribal women.
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Non-discriminatory access to Janani Surakhsa Yojna (JSY) scheme for institutional delivery as well as regular ante-natal Care (ANC) and post natal care (PNC) care for the eligible women within the socially excluded communities.
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An increase in exclusive breast feeding during the first six months and timely introduction of complementary feeding.
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An increase in non-discriminatory access to supplementary nutrition under Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS).
About JSS
Jalpaiguri Seva Sadan (JSS) is a social and charitable wing of the Catholic Diocese of Jalpaiguri, working for the development of people. They particularly work with scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST); within these groups they work with children, girls, women, widows of tea garden workers, farmers, other marginalised communities and people living below poverty line.
The organisation started work in 1971 during the Bangladesh war, doing relief work and distributing food. JSS registered itself as a social development organisation in 1987.
JSS undertakes various socio-economic development activities in two districts of Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar, specifically on issues of education, health, disaster management, livelihood support, migration and the prevention of human trafficking.
Find out more:
Post office Dangapara,
Jalpaiguri -735102,
West Bengal, India
