Nandini Azaad: Mission for deprived people

Daughter of a South Indian social worker, daughter in law of a political family and a wife of an IPS officer has indulged in new vision with dedication for unprivileged people of the society. She understands that without going to rural areas you could not change the life of the poor peoples. She convinced, doing seminar in Delhi and discussion in English is no use because these seminars are away from the realities. Her mission for the last twenty years to uplift the social & economic status of rural women those are living in the destitute conditions. For that she has constituted a NGO “The Independent commission for Peoples”. In this NGO she is working as a secretary and at this capacity she giving the impetus to succeed the mission who lives in the remote areas. She is sympathetic from her childhood for those who are even not getting basic necessities in their life. Her mother Arunachalam was a social worker and she understands her mother’s mission towards unprivileged societies. Without any second thought she has selected this field as her career. To understand more about the social sector she has opted Sociology as her subject and research in this subject she want to understand physically the work for that she goes into the rural areas for witnessed the realities and incorporate her experiences in her research. After marriage she has continued her work and tries to balance her married life. She married in a political family so initially every one noted her social activities as political and no one takes it seriously but after sometime everything has settled down. She has given more stress on formulated cooperative based programmes, her role in this area as a visionary. She has made few training programmes for self employment in minimum investment for the rural women for their livelihood. How much she succeeded in social sector mission? The answer is the most successful marketing strategy of Mumbai Dabbawala concept of well organised association “Annpurna Mahila Sangathan”. She was one of the key members to establish this organization. At one stage Mumbai factories were shut down and unemployment has reaches on top, at that stage she organised the unemployed people and started home or work place delivery food chain and it succeeded and its success set an example in the world. For social work she has not stick at one place or an activity. Her NGO is working in Bihar along with Orrisa, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhara Pradesh and Keral. Now she involves in her prestigious programme to train over 550 NGOs who are working in this field. She has worked in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and apart from that she has work for war widows in Combodia for their rehabilitation and self employment training programme also assist them in getting loan to start their small business for over two years. Although she has made lot of efforts for the weaker section of the society and admits that for social balance self sufficient is important. She also admits that government has doing enough work but apart from that people also come forward to join in poverty alleviation efforts and to guarantee to implement the development programmes.