JANASREE MISSION

                                                                             JANASREE MISSION

"SOCIAL UNITY THROUGH FAMILY UNIONS"
Janasree Mission has held this slogan high on its mission to eliminate poverty and unemployment from our society. With 50000 units in a mere Two years span, Janasree Mission has evolved as the largest NGO in Kerala.

Shashi Tharoor, Union Minister of State for External Affairs, will inaugurate the Congress for Empowerment of the People-2009. Janasree Sustainable Development Mission organized it and the inauguration will be held at Kaloor renewal Centre on Saturday. In two years, around 50,000 self-financing units have been formed in the state due to the efforts of the mission. Janasree is a movement against unemployment and poverty. It has a computerized office, 14 block union officers, over 100 mandalam sabhas and 1500 Janasree units under its control. It deals with micro-finance, micro-insurance, micro-enterprises, organic farming and energy conservation activities. It also takes up social, educational and cultural activities at the regional-level.

 Janasree Mission chairman M.M. Hassan, has called upon the government to extend encouragement and support to the mission and its society-oriented activities instead of creating hurdles to its development initiatives.Mr. Hassan was addressing a reception accorded to a State-wide vehicular campaign for sustainable development of the Janasree Mission.According to him, the Janasree Mission has got as many as 40,000 self-help groups across the State and those who oppose it were afflicted with ‘political cataract’.He said the ongoing campaign for mobilising popular support for a sustainable development perspective had been getting very good public response.

“Deliverance from dependence to self-reliance is the motto of the Janasree Mission. It has no politics at all and was not formed to promote the interests of a political party. Development of the State and society is its main agenda,” said Mr. Hassan.Prof P.J. Kurien, Rajya Sabha Member, inaugurated the meeting. Anto Antony, MP, released a development plan prepared by the Janasree Mission district unit on the occasion.Fr. Abraham Mulamootil, principal of Mar Athansios College For Advanced Studies Thiruvalla (MACFAST); P.S Nair, entrepreneur; and Ratheesh Namboodiri, farmer; were presented with Janasree Mission Awards on the occasion.Mannar Abdul Latheef, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee secretary; Lathika Subhash, Janasree Mission central committee member; and Prof. Satheesh Kochuparambil, District Congress Committee vice-president; were among those who spoke.  Satheesh Chathankary, Janasree Mission block co-ordinator, presided over the function.
Defense minister AK Antony stated that UDF would encourage Janasree and Kudumbasree equally. Various missions should co-operate for the development of state, he added.Focusing on the need for small-scale industries, Antony pointed out that the state lacks sufficient land in order to implement large-scale industries. Every village should become a small-scale industry unit, Antony said. Oommen Chandy has said that a silent economic revolution was taking place in the State through micro financing programmes which would give financial independence to those who need it most. Inaugurating the district-level loan distribution scheme and ‘kudumba sangamam,’ (family get-together) of Janasree Susthira Vikasana Mission here on Tuesday, he said that mission was not trying to compete against Kudumbasree, the poverty alleviation programme of the State Government.Mr. Chandy said that Kudumbasree aimed at the uplift of women in the Below Poverty Line (BPL) category where as Janasree Mission aimed at the welfare of family members. Though, Kudumbasree has undergone changes with non-BPL members also joining it, the LDF government failed in taking any concrete step to strengthen Kudumbasree, he said and added that the fund allotted by the UDF government in 2005- ’06 remained unutilised. He alleged that the Finance Minister Thomas Isaac was trying to sabotage Janasree Mission which has wide appeal among the masses. He said more funds and operational freedom should be given to Kudumbasree. 
Janasree Susthira Vikasana Mission State chairman M. M. Hassan presided over the function in which bank representatives and members of the mission attended. Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) secretaries Benny Behnan and E. M. Augusthy and Idukki district president P. T. Thomas spoke at the function.

Prof. John Kurakar