About Us:-
CONCEPT
People’s Rights and Social Research Centre (PRASAR) works for Occupational & Environmental health, education and for the rights of people to the extent it can. It is engaged in the activities to provide the rights of the people, and making them self dependent by showing them the path to be followed to achieve their rights who don’t know their rights.
Education is also the main area on which PRASAR is working in a larger perspective. With believe on the Right to education need of quality education has been the prime motive of the organization and are has taken the initiative to achieve the motive.
PRASAR is committed to supporting workers, communities where we live. Our focus areas aimed at influencing legislators and policy makers to frame worker accessible policies, which impact positively at ground level. PRASAR has been creating awareness on Occupational health and disseminating the knowledge about the occupational health hazards to the workers in the stone crushing and mining units in and around many areas.
HISTORY
Mr. S. A. Azad, a social activist has been working on this issue under the banner of People’s Rights and Social Research Centre (PRASAR) since 1999. That was the struggle period for him as well as PRASAR. During the period when few young professionals visited to Lalkuan village situated in south Delhi area to work in the field of education amongst the people staying there, they found the meager situation of the people, living in a deprived situation, very hard to survive. In such a situation, health problem has been major question of survive. Generally the prime residents of this area are workers in the local stone crushing units. Poor conditions in sanitation, health standard, and education and nutrition levels were noticed by the development professionals at that time. The overall situation was very grim.
They also found that people died off tuberculosis very often. An obvious question came to their mind, “WHY?” Why people are dying of TB and so often. Why there is unprecedented occurrence of death and ill health among the residents of the area? They started inquiring into the root cause of the fatal problem. They found an astounding result. Those who have died earlier due to tuberculosis were all working in stone crushing units near Lal kuan.
On that journey they came across a man who changed the way of thinking of the development professionals associated with the team. The man was Dr. Muralidhar, a Health Expert. He was the one who pointed at the possibility of another disease, other than tuberculosis. Fresh chest ‘X- ray’ of the victims were taken and the diagnosis was made afresh in Lala Ram Swarup TB & Respiratory Diseases Hospital in Mehrauli, New Delhi. After the diagnosis, all the people who were previously considered as TB patients were found to be suffering from ‘Environmental and Occupational Health problem’, a different disease and an after-effect of continuous exposure to stone dust. Janswasthya Abhiyan-Delhi in the leadership of Navjyoti Development Society with collaboration of PRASAR took issue to the National human rights commission.
Thus, People’s Rights & Social Research Centre (PRASAR) came into being as an organization working to eradicate the occupational health problem in the area. Later, it spread out its wings to help as many victims as possible.
OBJECTIVES:
- Engaging with the state governments and central government at various levels in getting recognition for the widespread existence of environmental and occupational health (such as Silicosis)
- Making the government agencies and public/private companies responsible for the ill-health and environmental problem of those engaged in different forms of mining and stone crasher.
- Holding these agencies accountable to nation and people
- Preventing occurrence of Environmental and Occupational Health related issue among mining and related activities workers, through a prolonged strategy of awareness spreading and availing precautionary mechanisms and safeguards
- Providing Social and Economic Security to workers at large.
