Project Swarajya

ogue among the concerned key players to tackle the complex human rights issues that the society is confronted with. Besides this campaign it also then took up the particular demand of legislating and implementing Employment Guarantee Act for rural unskilled labour in Orissa along Maharastra lines. Orissa being a predominantly rural-tribal society, the women in villages who among others have been marginalized due to one-sided development programmes needed most of all guarantee of job round the year by the State a thing which has been experimented since mid-70s in Maharastra. Fortunately enough, after a lapse of a decade and half, the Common Minimum Programme of the present UPA Government at the Centre has given a definite assurance to legislate a National Employment Guarantee Act for the whole country. The Organisation has happily prepared itself to conduct a campaign of earlier type for ensuring the foolproof pro-people orientation to the promised legislation.