Bharat Sevak Samaj
Bharat Sevak Samaj (BSS) is the National Development Agency sponsored by the Planning Commission, Government of India to ensure public co-operation for implementing government plans. The main purpose behind the formulation of Bharat Sevak Samaj is to initiate a nation wide, non official and non political organization with the object of enabling, individual citizens to contribute, in the form of an organized co-operative effort, to the implementation of the National Development Plan. The constitution and functioning of Bharat Sevak Samaj is approved unanimously by the Indian Parliament.
Bharat Sevak Samaj is a mission and movement to mobilize peoples’ active participation and the development programs of the Nation was set up in 1952 under the presidentship of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, then Prime Minister of India on the recommendation of the National Advisory Committee on public co-operation of the Planning Commission, Government of India. BSS have developed scientifically as the most powerful National Development Agency in India with its ardent initiative for the reconstruction, resurgence and rejuvenale of the society. BSS presently carries out numerous functional activities and Information Technology and Vocational training programs in various fields all over India through its centres with an idea of tackling unemployment through job oriented education.