Image Credit: Deccan Development Society
Today’s Satyagraha discussion features PV Satheesh and Jayasri Cherukuri of Deccan Development Society (DDS) from Sangareddy district of Telangana, who are in conversation with Dr Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay Awardee and national Vice President of Socialist Party (India).
Deccan Development Society (DDS) is a three and half decade old grassroots organisation working in about 75 villages with women’s Sanghams (voluntary village level associations of the poor) in Sangareddy District of Telangana. The 5000 women members of the Society represent the poorest of the poor in their village communities. Most of them are dalits, the lowest group in the Indian social hierarchy. The Society has a vision of consolidating these village groups into vibrant organs of primary local governance and federate them into a strong pressure lobby for women, the poor and dalits. A host of continuing dialogues, debates, educational and other activities with the people, facilitated by the Society, try to translate this vision into a reality.
