Dr Ambedkar Sheti Vikas Va Sanshodhan Sanstha

The organization has been working on the issue of land for the last 37 years. During the British era, some castes of the Scheduled Castes and nomadic communities were given land as gift. Since the land tenure was very small per family, they were not cultivated. After creating community wells, pipelines and pumps for cultivation, 1500 acres of land in 12 villages have been produced. The organization is doing watershed development work in drought-affected villages, repairing old wells and putting them into use, arranging fodder water for animals in drought conditions, etc. With the help of some organizations, fruit trees have been distributed to farmers. The organization is continuously doing this initiative. Small-scale farmers are being supported with implements and seeds through the Agricultural Support Center. Various experiments are being conducted through organic farming. Providing an environment and biodiversity perspective to farmers and students is an important aspect of the organization's work. The organization is experimenting with community goat farming and agriculture-based production for women.

From 1987 to 1992, awareness work was done to bring women in rural areas out of the traditional customs. The main focus of the organization's work from 1992 to 2005 was on anti-dowry campaign, girls' education, gender equality, and self-help groups. From 2006 to 2012, the organization worked hard to create change agents on the issue of gender equality. 10,000 change agents were created in Western Maharashtra. Finding the truth in cases of atrocities on women, providing them with legal assistance. The organization continues to work on women's property rights. The organization is taking the lead in creating women's leadership and demanding land rights, land for houses, and providing them with information about government schemes and getting them the benefits of the scheme. It has been linked with organizations working for women's rights in the state and the country.

The main working area of the organization is Sangola taluka in Solapur district, which is always drought-prone and in the rain shadow. It is surrounded by 13 talukas of Satara, Sangli and Solapur districts. The average rainfall is 450-550 mm. Annual. Severe drought occurs every 3 years, where the organization has carried out many activities for watershed development. Repairing dams on streams, CCT, farm bunding, repairing old wells, etc. The organization is continuously doing this work. Since farmers have to sell their livestock at low prices during droughts, the organization started a cattle camp and followed up with the government to make a policy, this problem has been solved permanently.
After 2019, it started working in flood-affected Kolhapur and Sangli districts. This includes helping flood-affected families, helping schools and anganwadis and reducing mental stress. The organization has provided disaster management training in 37 villages out of 129 in Kolhapur district and 65 in Sangli district and provided necessary materials to the Gram Panchayats. The organization is working with various organizations on the causes and solutions of the floods for a long time. The organization has also provided assistance to a village affected by a landslide in Ratnagiri district. In the future, the organization will work for the livelihood of landless families in flood-affected villages, disaster management training and animal husbandry in the remaining villages.

The organization has worked in drought-affected areas to address the issue of out-of-school children from migrant families. It has started temporary shelters for them and has made it a government policy. The organization is working in Kolhapur and Sangli districts to make districts free from child marriage and child labor. The organization has discouraged the parents of 287 girls from child marriage. Similarly, to end child labor among backward children in poor settlements, it is necessary to connect them with schools. There is a need for the organization to start child resource centers in such settlements.

Some people are deprived of getting the benefits of government schemes. The main reasons for which the schemes do not reach them are lack of information, incomplete documents and delay in filing the documents, therefore the organization organizes camps at the village level to provide information about the schemes and searches for the deprived families and helps them prepare the documents and tries to get the benefits of those schemes by filling the forms of the schemes. So far, 3000 beneficiaries have been provided the benefits of the scheme in Kolhapur district. In the future, the organization will work to provide the benefits of the schemes by setting up social security facility centers in Solapur, Kolhapur and Sangli districts and work to eradicate poverty of the deprived families.

There are socially exploited and deprived sections of society. These include Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and liberated nomadic castes. According to the Constitution of India, the government has made some provisions for their development. Women are discriminated against and atrocities are committed in the family and society, for which the organization is working. The organization is working to make a law that provides budget according to population for Scheduled Castes and Tribes, to make a budget law for nomadic and liberated people as well and to make a separate anti-atrocities law to protect them. The organization is working to create social harmony so that religious and linguistic minorities are treated with respect. The organization aims to create a society in which there is no injustice, atrocities, and discrimination in society on the basis of gender, caste, and religion.