VISION & MISSION

VISION AND MISSION

JAGRUTHA MAHILA SANGHATANE (JMS) is a Dalit women agricultural labourers' collective engaged in the protection and promotion of human rights of Dalit Women through socio-economic-cultural empowerment of Dalit women and Dalit communities in Karnataka. The principal focus of JMS mobilisation has been the social-economic and cultural empowerment of Dalit women agricultural labourers in Hyderabad Karnataka through the Community Based People's Organization, JMS.

🎯 Our Vision

A just and equitable society where Dalit women live with dignity, equality and freedom — free from caste, class and patriarchal oppression.

JMS envisions a society rooted in the constitutional values of liberty, equality, justice and fraternity — where every Dalit woman has access to her fundamental rights.

🌟 Our Mission

To protect and promote human rights of Dalit Women through socio-economic-cultural empowerment, community mobilisation, campaigns and reconstruction activities.

To build Dalit women's leadership at the grassroots level and enable them to become active citizens rather than passive victims.


Core Values

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Justice

Social justice for Dalit communities and women

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Dignity

Human dignity for every person regardless of caste

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Solidarity

Collective solidarity among marginalised communities

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Education

Education and conscientisation as tools for liberation


Key Focus Areas

  • Protection of Dalit women's human rights and addressing caste & gender-based violence
  • Campaigns for right to health, right to food, right to work and citizen rights
  • Community mobilisation and collectivisation through village sanghas
  • Leadership development of Dalit women at grassroots level
  • Livelihood generation through Chiguru Enterprises
  • Community education through Chilipili School
  • Research, documentation and building discourses on Dalit women's issues
  • Solidarity with national and global movements for social justice
"Sangharsh without nav-nirman is impotent; nirman without sangharsh is sterile."
Baba Amte

Drawing inspiration from this, the two-pronged strategy has guided JMS — sangharsh (struggle) for rights and navnirman (reconstruction, re-creation) for dignity. The principles of social emancipation and liberation propounded by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar guided the whole process — organise/collectivise, educate/conscientise and agitate/struggle.