ORGANIZATION PROFILE



HISTORY


Panchayat Raj Movement (PRM) was established in the year 1989 by a team of youth social activists who has experience in the development sector for a decade. It came into existence from October 20, 1989. It has been registered under the Indian Trusts Act of 1882 in Pudukottai. It has 7 members in the board of trustees, of them, 5 women and 2 men are members. It started its works in Pudukottai, Kunnandarkoil blocks of Pudukottai district. It started with awareness generation, mobilization of grassroots into groups, creation of volunteers, networking interventions. Later it takes sustainable agriculture, environment promotion and women empowerment projects in its target villages.


PRM’s Vision


PRM envisions a society in which every human being live in peace, respect, and harmony with each other, irrespective of their caste, creed, sex, religion or region, that facilitates the sustained development of the grassroots and ensures natural resources conservation for the judicial consumption of the grassroots.


PRM’s Mission


Facilitating the mobilization of the grassroots, women, children, youth, dalits, marginal farmers, unorganized workers, into non-formal systems, that ensures their fullest participation and involvement in the interventions for their empowerment Paving the way for the grassroots to engage in natural resources conservation, sustainable agriculture and organic farm methods and practices, innovative development interventions, build their capacities, skills, knowledge, and work in solidarity with other grassroots at various levels.


To create communal harmony, peace, and unity among various grassroots of different background, into integrated community that live in coexistence and peace, gives space each other.


CURRENT PROJECTS

 Formation of women self help groups.

 Women empowerment program

 Sustainable Agriculture and integrated farming.

 Mobilizing the workers in the unorganized sectors for their rights building.

 Mobilization of dalit farmers and the laborers to promote their rights

 Promotion of ecological clubs.

 Wasteland development.

 Promotion of natural farming practices.

 Cultural yathras/ shows on social themes.

 Rescue and relief measures for the tsunami victims and survivors

 Creation and strengthening of health care volunteers and disaster counseling units in the tsunami affected villages.

 Advocacy and lobbying works for the tsunami affected dalit marginal landholdersand laborers.

 Promotion of reproductive health among women and adolescent girls.


Details:

Name and address of the organization PANCHAYAT RAJ MOVEMENT

86 BALAJI NAGAR,

INDUSTRIAL ESTATE POST,

PUDUKOTTAI – 622 004

TAMILNADU, INDIA.


Phone 00 91 4322 270207

+ 91 94438 71348


E-mails [email protected]


Website www.prmngo.org 


Registration number 179/89


Date of registration 20-10-1989


FCRA registration number 076050044


 Bank account Number 1216101020693

 Name and address of the bank

Canara Bank

East Main Street

Pudukottai – 622 001

Tamilnadu, INDIA


Swift Code CNRBINBBA MFD


 Name of the Bank account PANCHAYAT RAJ MOVEMENT


 Target areas Pudukottai District


Target people Women, Children, youth, Marginal 

Farmers, Landless farmers and dalits


LOCAL BANK ACCOUNT      UNION BANK OF INDIA

ACCOUNT NO 388902010005313

BRANCH PUDUKKOTTAI

IFSC CODE UNI0538892

BANK ADDRESS: 

TS NO 5532 SOUTH OURTH STREET,

PUDUKKOTTAI