I am happy to inform that the16th issue of BASK annual report is now all set for your precious reviews and reading. The release also marks our triumphant arrival at another year of unperceived goodness and wonder. Long ago we decided on a course in social reconstruction, keeping in view the remoteness of the people of our region in sectors of education, health, livelihood and rights. Our plan of action was a three-pronged approach. It was, in the first place, to merge into their social system as a natural, neutral and ubiquitous transformation element; secondly, to use our information and skill to avail resources for transformation, and finally, to build up a pressure for change through persistence. It is due to your shaping influence and enthusiastic identification with ourselves we have been steadfastly moving toward our cherished goal. The symptoms of change are already evident across the region. By reciprocation, it has also transformed our organization into a distinctively professional and democratic institution of our time.

Gopal Chandra Dash
President

I extend my heartiest congrats to our friends and partners on the release of the 16th issue of our organization’s Annual Report. May your trust and encouragement guide us as ever as we cross one level after another with our treasured humanitarian goals.We have distinguished ourselves for our consolidative approach to the problem of development in the region.Our specialty lies in our teamwork and communicative skills. We have been working in the sectors of health,livelihood, rights and education since long addressing specific issues with a multitude of developmental tools that lends us with occasions for better intervention and synergy.

We took cognizance of the seriousness and urgency of humanitarian interventions in widely scattered areas of the district. The overly rural-tribal complexion together with topographical inaccessibility, uperstitions and communal taboos were a menace to any developmental initiatives. Health indicators for incidence and death in malaria and tuberculosis, IMR and MMR were very dismal, and so were the other indicators regarding livelihood, literacy, drug abuse and standard of living. Obviously enough, despondency and ruin poised menacingly over the life of these folk and their posterity, and it was also clear that any odd or one-off initiative in this context would soon be beleaguered by the mess from surrounding sectors.

Mr.Ashok Ku. Panigrahi
           Secretary