ADATS’ beneficiaries are 899 village level Coolie Sangha Units (CSUs) which are membership based organisations of 39,070 small and poor peasant families -- agricultural labourers, migrant workers, self-employed artisans, and small farmers who do not themselves employ wage labour.
Except when responding to rare emergencies, ADATS does not work with the individual poor, within the conventional social work or charitable mode, in any patronising manner.
Since the Coolie Sangha is a membership driven organisation with a strict internal structure and discipline, membership figures tend to fluctuate. Not all the families/villages are active at all times.
As on today 14,911 families, comprising a population of 61,994 adults and 22,068 minors, are active Members in 492 functioning Coolie Sangha Units.
46% of the current membership belong to the Scheduled Castes & Tribes, 18% to Middle Castes, and 37% to the poor from Forward Castes.
(as on 28 January 2010)
| Member Families | Percent in CSUs | Caste Group | Total Families | Ethnic Cover | ||||
| 7,777 | 46% | Scheduled Castes/Tribes | 18,643 | 46% | ||||
| 2,078 | 18% | Middle Castes | 8,256 | 21% | ||||
| 3,336 | 37% | Forward Castes | 12,370 | 33% | ||||
| 14,911 | 100% | 39,269 | 38% | |||||
Ethnic cover comprises of 46% of the SC/ST population, 21% of middle castes and 33% of the forward castes. Overall, 38% of the population of villages with functioning CSUs are in the Coolie Sangha.