Tribal Self Rule Initiative

Jan Chetna Sansthan has initiated long-term work on Tribal Self Rule Initiative (hereafter referred to as TSRI) in South Rajasthan. The initiative seeks building tribal assertion for basic rights through the use of provisions under "The Panchayati Raj Extension to Scheduled Areas Act 1996" (PESA Act).
The TSRI seeks to encompass all the Scheduled Areas of Rajasthan through extensive capacity building and networking activities. TSRI involves taking up intensive work on community mobilization and organization building in selected blocks of Sirohi, Udaipur, Chittorgarh, Dungarpur and Banswara and provide networking and capacity building support. Advocacy and lobbying for policy intervention is the integral part of this programme. It enthusiastically acts upon the issues, which has vital affects on the life of tribals.
PESA Act passed by the central government in the year 1996 gives all the power to the Gaon Sabha (Village Assembly). And in order to avail all the powers, Gaon Ganrajya should be announced i.e. the village should declare itself as republic whereby the works in a particular village be decided by the villagers and not by the government bodies. Jan Chetna Sansthan is actively involved in making the villagers aware about this Act and helps them in establishing Tribal Self Rule in their villages and thus declaring it as republic. The rationale behind establishing self-rule or self-governance in tribal village is to stop any intervention from the outside world in their otherwise peaceful and just governance of the village as per PESA.

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