Bharat Sevak Samaj

[pic] http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/1st/1planch8.html 17. The constitution of the Bharat Sevak Samaj and the National Advisory Committee for Public Cooperation in August 1952, are important preliminary steps recently taken for securing public cooperation on a nationwide basis. The National Advisory Committee, which is representative of different sections of opinion in the country, is expected to : 1. review and assess the programmes of public co-operation in relation to national development ; 2. advise the Planning Commission from time to time regarding the progress of public co-operation in relation to the fulfilment of the National Plan ; 3. receive reports from the Central Board of the Bharat Sevak Samaj and consider such specific matters as may be referred to it for advice by the Central Board ;and 4. make suggestions and recommendations to the Central Board of the Bharat Sevak Samaj on matters of policy and on programmes relating to public eo-opera-tion.
Bharat Sevak Samaj
18. The Bharat Sevak Samaj has been conceived of as a non-political and non-official national platform for constructive work. The primary objects of the Samaj are—
(1) to find and develop avenues of voluntary service for the citizens of India to— a. promote national sufficiency and build up the economic strength of the country, b. to promote the social well-being of the community and to mitigate the privations and hardships of its less favoured sections ; and
(2) to draw out the available unused time, energy and other resources of the people and direct them into various fields of social and economic activity.
The work of the Samaj, which is being undertaken on a nationwide scale, is at present in the initial stages of its organisation. The Bharat Sevak Samaj provides a common platform for all who wish to give their share of time and energy to developing the people's own effort in relation to the National Plan and, at the same