History

Jagruthi Rural Development Society (JRDS) was registered in 2000 as a non-profit voluntary service society at Mohammadabad in Ranga Reddy district, Telangana, India. JRDS was a need-based awakening by a group of like-minded social working youngsters to help the needy in times of urgency. Mohammadabad and nearby areas’ socio-economic and educational conditions were so backward and had never experienced voluntary service or any of such development facilitating support as of the other places in the district or the then State. Seeing the much rearward conditions of the people and the areas, we thought and decided to support the people and the areas through a process of participatory aspects – JRDS and rural people’s-collective works for their development. JRDS is working for the poorest of the poor. The JRDS has been working in the field of child health and nutrition, safe water and sanitation, quality education & skill building and we organize Health, Environment, Women Empowerment, Rural Development, Agriculture, Culture, Skill Development, Community Development, Housing, HIV prevention and the protection of children and adolescents from violence and exploitation, rural skills up-gradation, income generation, child labour elimination etc.

Thus since inception focusing on rural issues conducting studies and finding condign solutions to address them, JRDS, and facilitating development opportunities holistically and sustainably. Thus JRDS has a mission, which is to capacitate and facilitate the rural people of all categories to have actions among themselves for their development and to protect the environment that the JRDS never kept away and forgotten throughout these all years of its struggle for rural people’s development. That’s the guiding principle and motivating factor for JRDS to go forward even in its financial constraints to free the rural people from their bondage of ignorance, inability and misfortunes.

JRDS since commencement productively carries out various activities/programmes/projects in the areas of Child Development, Education, Labour & Employment, Environment, Women Development, Research & Documentation in rural issues, Rural livelihoods, Child Welfare & Rights, Agriculture, Health & Sanitation, Rural income generation, awareness creation on Acts/Rights, Child Labour eradication, Indian Culture, Heritage & Language Development etc. JRDS intimately work with line departments, Govt. Agencies/organizations/departments like NCLP, NABARD, ASCI-GHMC, SSA(RVM), ICDS, SNAPS, CIIL, OTF-FEO International, Govt of TS, MoF&E, MHRD, RVM and many reputed agencies like Vitamin Angels, Muthoot Group, OTF International Assistance Committee and other like-minded voluntary institutions and well-wishers/social activists etc.