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ALTERNATIVE FOR INDIA DEVELOPMENT

Chennai, Maharashtra, India

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Alternative for India Development (AID) is a national level NGO that emerged as an umbrella organisation for several small community organisations.

AID was founded in the year 1982 by a group of Chatra yuva Sangarsh Vahini ( Student Youth Struggle Force ( SYSF) activists and social scientists who felt the need to have a registered institute to provide support and technical assistance to the volunteers and many other non-registered peoples organisations working for total transformation.

SYSF - the youth movement emerged in 1974 first in Bihar and later in other parts of India - under the banner of Chatra Yuva Sangarsh Vahini to fight against injustice, corruption, illiteracy, poverty, exploitation, unemployment and other social economic evils.

The uniqueness of this movement is that it has been functioning completely free of ties with any established political parties. It is strictly interested in spreading the message of peaceful total revolution to create an equalitarian and communitarian socio-economic order.

It is committed to creating a mass movement for overhauling the social system to free the society from the grip of mass problems. Its ideological basis is grass roots democracy consisting of non-violence, decentralisation, egalitarianism and anti-casteism.


The volunteers of the movement were working without compensation or remuneration. They depend on the poor people for food and work with them to fulfill their mission. They did commendable job in organising, mobilising and educating them to fight against the injustice meted out to them and their community. But the limiting factors were that they were neither trained nor having a broader analysis of the society with a national perspective. Many failed to link micro level realities to macro situation.

Further while working at the micro level, they faced threats and intimidation's from the local landlords, politicians and corrupt government officials. Further outside social moral and legal support to such groups were not forthcoming which frustrated many committed organisers. In the context of these factors and also to give an institutional, financial and social and technical support to the movement groups and also to propel the movement on the planned and systamatised basis the umbrella institution Alternative for India Development ( AID) was established.

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AID works closely with the local community & the form of support given will vary depending on the needs of the community & its priorities. Here are some of the main areas in with which AID is concerned: - Community Development - Education Schools for deprived & tribal children Special schools for working children Special schools for girls Supplementary schools Construction of schools buildings Mobile science education for rural children Rural librariesTechnical college for working childrenAdult & non-formal education - Health Community health & reproductive health Mobile health unit for rural communities Training of rural health workers Education on Sexually transmitted diseases/HIV/AIDS for truck drivers - Women Vocational training centre for womenComputer training for women? Plus women?s groups. - Income Generation Micro-credit self-help groupsPromotion of co-operativesFood processingMinor forest produce co-operatives: oilseed, tendu leaves, lac & mahuaSpinning & weaving. - Water & the Environment Safe drinking waterWatershed management with appropriate technology Social forestry Campaigning.

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ALTERNATIVE FOR INDIA DEVELOPMENT

Plot No.1 V.G.N. Nagar,
Iyyapanthangal

Chennai - 600 056 (Maharashtra) India

Phone(s) : +91-44-6272336 / 6490014
Mobile :
Fax : +91-44-6272340


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