ADATS’ beneficiaries are 1,165 village level Coolie Sangha Units (CSUs) which are membership based organisations of 50,683 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 11,506 families, comprising a population of 169,602 adults and 28,717 minors, are active Members in 470 functioning Coolie Sangha Units. Another 10,563 non-CSU families benefit from the CDM projects that we implement.
(as on 31 January 2012)
| Member Families | Percent in CSUs | Caste Group | Total Families | Ethnic Cover | ||||
| 6,233 | 27% | Scheduled Castes | 32,425 | 18% | ||||
| 3,041 | 13% | Scheduled Tribes | 14,507 | 12% | ||||
| 3,988 | 18% | Backward Classes & Minorities - A | 20,756 | 16% | ||||
| 9,361 | 41% | Backward Classes & Minorities - B | 31,252 | 53% | ||||
| 364 | 2% | General | 2,936 | 1% | ||||
| 22,987 | 100% | 101,876 | 32% | |||||