Developing Initiatives for Social and Human Action DISHA

DISHA is a people and membership based organisation. It has developed a structure of membership based unions and village groups as people's organisations. It has taken up developmental and advocacy programmes. The main purpose of DISHA is to organise people in order to change power relations in favour of poor. Among the major activities, it has demanded enforcement of minimum wage for the forest labourers and agricultural labrours and regularise the forest land which was cultivated by tribal farmers, since they were treated as illegal encroachers and faced harassment.

Purpose:

Labour, Rural Development

Aim/Objective/Mission:

- DISHA is a people and membership based organisation. It has developed a structure of membership based unions and village groups as people's organisations.

- It has taken up developmental and advocacy programmes.

The main purpose of DISHA is to organise people in order to change power relations in favour of poor.

- Among the major activities, it has demanded enforcement of minimum wage for the forest labourers and agricultural labrours and regularise the forest land which was cultivated by tribal farmers, since they were treated as illegal encroachers and faced harassment.

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