Mewat Development Society

A group of social activists of mewat working in diverse fields joined hands on voluntary basis to fight against backwardness in the rural areas & as a result among other efforts one such effort was formal registration of the mewat development society (mds) in 1987 under the societies registration act of 1860. It is now working in different states and union territories of india through various thematic cells like cultural educational health historical monuments? itc legal matrimonial mass media panchayat research spiritual & women etc. It is also registered under fcra and life member of confederation of ngos of rural india (cnri). Mds has skilled workers to carry out activities like surveys studies and field work. It has developed a network of high-level specialists in the different areas including science and technology studies action research on technology delivery system for rural workers particularly artisans craftsmen and entrepreneurship development and application of geo-informatics including geographic information system (gis) global positioning system (gps) and remote sensing (rs). It has specialized capabilities in socio-economic studies on land-use/land-cover environmental issues healthcare education energy planning and rural development. It has also developed expertise in creation of computerised databases mapping and customised software generation. The mds carries out its projects and activities through networking. For this it has established a network which includes research and academic institutions besides local national and international agencies civil societies and ngos. The mds prefers to work jointly with other agencies so as to synergize activities and initiatives for development of rural people.