Paschim Banga Kheria Sabar Kalyan Samity

Adibasi Gunijan Sambardhana 2024

Adibasi Gunijan Sambardhana 2024, presented by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt of West Bengal, was conferred upon our esteemed secretary, Jaladhar Sabar, in recognition of his remarkable contributions to the Sabar community. Having dedicated the last 50 years of his life to this community, Jaladhar Sabar has made a significant impact through his tireless efforts and unwavering commitment. On November 15, 2024, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, honored him with this prestigious award during a ceremony held at Adibasi Bhawan, Kolkata.

Our Values

172+

12552+

Total Population

Villages Covered

Our Philosophy

Sabars are very timid. They are far behind the mainstream society to claim their entitlements. Instead, they are subjected to discrimination and brutality. Sustainable uplifting of the lives of Sabars and making them self-reliant is our goal. We believe making them aware from the childhood against the evils in their society, namely alcoholism, child marriage etc. is the most powerful and effective approach. We foster leadership and ownership so that they resolve their own issues. We assist them to claim their basic rights and justice. Economic well-being is the basic need, even to promote education. Hence we impart knowledge and training to assist then earning a respectable living. We trust they will be regarded in the society only when they have their own voice; and literacy is the most important avenue to achieve this objective.

Our Vision

The Sabar Samity's vision is the realization of empowered, self-reliant, free from diseases Sabar community with improved socio-economic conditions preserving their cultural and ethnic identity.

Our Mission

We formulated a comprehensive and sustainable development plan and implementing it at the grassroots level. The focus is all the areas of weakness including health, education, livelihood, environment, rights, entitlements etc. We provide the community with the appropriate tools and knowledge to help themselves.

Working Districts

Purulia

20+

3472+

Bankura

Empowering the Sabar Community

Livelihood Support

Providing resources and training to enhance sustainable income opportunities for the Sabar community members.

Education Support

With the help of Individual and institutional donation we are running 17 Community Learning Centres (CLCs), Forest Edication, Sabar Girls' Hostel and Promoting Higher education for the 1st Generation Learns.

Socio-legal support

The de-notified Sabar community has been the focus of our socio-legal support initiatives. We aim to empower this community by providing related training and access to legal rights.

Our Major Targets

Empowering the Sabar community through Educational Support, Livelihood Support, improvement of Health-Hygiene Conditions, Assistance in Entitlements & Socio-legal Rights, Youth Development and Fellowship Program and Diversity & Agroecology Initiatives.

Educational Support

Enhancing education through 17 CLCs, running Sabar Girls' Hostel and Forest Education.

Livelihood Support

Promoting Sabar Handicrafts, support in sustaainable Kitchen Gardena and Agricuture

Imrovement of Health-Hygiene Condition

PBKSKS is dedicated to improving the health and hygiene of the Sabar community through various initiatives aimed at raising awareness and providing essential resources.

Assistance in Entitlements and Socio-legal Rights

Working in more that 168 villages to make proper documentation throght many entitlement drive camps. Sabar Samity plays an important role in accuring Socio-legal Rights for this De-notified Sabar Community.

Youth Development and Fellowship Program

Working in more than 168 villages, our fellows help to make proper documentation of every Sabar person through many Entitlement drive camps. Sabar Samity plays an important role in acquiring Socio-legal Rights for this De-notified Sabar Community.

Sabar Girls' Hostel

Support in Agriculture

Forest Education

Community Learning Centres (CLCs)

Kitchen Garden Initiative

Promotion of Sabar Handicrafts

Community Health Volunteer Training

Awareness on Uncultivated Wild Food

Water Testing in Sabar Hemlet

Village level meeting for creating Documentation

Socio-legal Volunteer Training

Entitlement Campaigns

Our Visionaries

Two persons with ideas about what the future will or could be like

Gopiballav Lal Sing Deo

Son of Rajkishor Lal Singhdeo, belonging to the royal family. He was a visionary man who did mammoth work for the establishment and functioning of Sabar samity. He was well connected with intellectuals and activists. Commonly known as Raja and Gopida was also a teacher who taught Political science. He was also a renowned writer. Till his last breath Gopida served for the betterment of Sabar samity and people, hence received love as "Sabar Pita" (Father of Sabar).

Mahasweta Devi

The aboriginal Kheria Sabar people used to be oppressed, the reason Mahasweta Devi, the writer -activist who won the Magsaysay Award, stepped into their lives. Mahasweta Devi fought on behlf of the Sabars, questioning their "inborn-criminality", trying to lift them from utter poverty and alienation. She was the working president of Sabar Samity from 1983 to till her demise in 2016. At the Sabar Mela in Purulia in 1983, she was bestowed "Sabar Maa". (Mother of Sabar)