What is ADATS?
ADATS is a secular Non Government Organisation (NGO) working with 38,615 small and poor peasant families in 915 villages of the 5 taluks of Chickballapur district, Karnataka, in South India for the past 31 years, since 14 December 1977.
We have a socio-political presence in 31% of the villages that comprise Chickballapur district. Overall population coverage is 19% in these 5 taluks. Within villages with functioning Coolie Sangha Units, coverage is very high at 34% of the population.
Main Activities
ADATS is a comprehensive rural development organisation working in the fields of Community Organisation, Adult Literacy, Children’s Education, Community & Referral Health, support to issues and struggles with Legal Aid & Aid Distress, Dry Land Development, Agriculture, alternate Credit, Women’s Programmes, etc. We also work on issues of gender justice, secularism and democratisation.
All these are efforts to empower the Coolie caste-class in village society, and build an authentic people’s organisation, the Coolie Sangha, at the Village, Cluster and Taluk levels.
Process Map
Click here to view the ADATS/Coolie Sangha Process Map
What is the Coolie Sangha?
The Coolie Sangha is a membership based people’s organisation comprising of small and poor peasant families who struggle to rid themselves of Ryot exploitation and take control of their own lives in order to undertake grassroots planned development activities.
Who supports ADATS?
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ADATS is supported by NGOs in Europe and New Zealand with grants to carry out Coolie Sangha building activities. As on 27 April 2008, we have received a total of Rs 606,494,544 in cash and Rs 3,743,856 in the form of vehicles.
Where is Bagepalli?
Bagepalli town is situated 100 kms north of Bangalore on the Bangalore-Hyderabad National Highway. The region is just below the southern border of the Rayalaseema desert belt in Andhra Pradesh, South India. It is semi-arid and drought prone with 560 mm of erratic and spatial rainfall.