ORGANISATION PROFILE
1. NAME OF THE APPLICANT
ADDRESS
; PARIVARTHANA
Parivarthana, Rural Development Society
Near Govt. Hospital, H K Road,
SHIRALAKOPPA 577428,
Shikaripura TQ, Shimoga District
Karnataka State, India
: 08187-233330, Cell:9880444749
TELEPHONE
: d_shankarappa@yahoo.com
Email
2. RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUAL
(Name and Designation)
: Mr. D. SHANKARAPPA
Secretary / Project Director
3. ORGANIZATION REGISTRATION :1.Registered under KSSR Act 1960,
[LEGAL STATUS]
No. 9/SOR/SMG/1994-95 dt:04/04/1994.
2.Registered Under 12A and 80G IT Act
1961-PAN: AAATP 4564 C.
3.Registered Under FCR Act 1976
No; 094620027, dt: 26/12/2003
4. BANK DETAILS;
Bank A/Cs in the name of Parivarthana
S.B; A/C NO; 54041140993, SBM – Shikaripura
IFSC; SBMYOO40137.
S.B.A/C NO; 54045609587. SBM-Shimoga [FC]
IFSC; SBMYOO40132.
5. ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE : Administrative staff
Field staff
Technical staff
TOTAL
03
16
01
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6. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ORGANISATION;
PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHMENT;
PARIVARTHANA is a registered organization established in the year 1994 having an
aim to serve the community in terms of social, economical, education and environment
promotional activities and to build a good socially responsible society. It aimed to
look for the development of the rural poor, empower them towards their sustainability.
MISSION: Literacy and social awareness, self-reliance and self supported Community,
community health and wealth liberation, Leadership development, Relief and
Rehabilitation, Empowering women and encouraging people.
VISION: To create a new world where there is no caste, creed, race, Religion
discrimination but only humanitarian ship.
AIM: Motto of organization is to create on environment of socialization and cultural
Understanding, equitable distribution of wealth and mutual help, social justice,
peace, love and humanity.
OBJECTIVES:
 Create awareness among rural community - Organize people to participate in
social action process for village self reliance
 Promote all round development of rural poor with social Justice
 Promote youth & women groups towards poverty eradication and sustainable
development process through - Skill development; Promote primary and adult
education; Promote general health of villagers about Government; Development
programmes and encouraging people to exercise their rights to access the
programmes
 Develop healthy working relationship between villagers, Government and
voluntary organizations.
 Promote participatory exercise for the conservation and sustainable use of
natural resources.
Strategies: To initiate socio-economic, educational and health development
programmes in rural areas.
ACTIVITIES / BACKGROUND;
Core competencies: promoting savings & credit managements in SHGs, IGP,
women & Child Development, Rural Literacy, Environment conservation, Natural
resource management, community Health & Hygiene, Sustainable Agriculture,
RCH, HIV/AIDS prevention, awareness on Child Labour & other various
developmental issues since the last 15 years.
 PARIVARTHANA development activities are spread over 59 villages of which 44
villages is in Shimoga district and other 15 villages in Haveri district of Karnataka.
 The project villages are situated in the semi hill region with an average rainfall
about 130-mm/ year. The project villages are located around 15 –20 kms radius
from the nearest small town Shiralakoppa.
 The target people covered under the project are Lambani, Bhovi, Koracha,
Adidravida, Adikarnataka, valmiki, Kurubas, lingayaths and muslims who are
weaker sections of the society. The socio – economic conditions of the target
groups are far behind of satisfactory level and the project villages are lacking the
primary infrastructures.
 Parivarthana as part of its comprehensive holistic approach to improve the
quality of life of the rural communities is facilitating a number of need based and
people centered activities in the project area. Some of the main activities are:
Community organizing, promoting savings and credit managements among
SHGs, Income Generation Programmes, women and children development, rural
literacy, natural resource management, community health and hygiene,
sustainable agriculture, awareness on child labour from the past 15 years.
It has been the philosophy of Parivarthana to identify committed women and
youth leaders from among the community for planning and implementing of all
the development programmes and to involve the community in each and every
step. This has, over the years, ensured that the participation of the community
is full-fledged in all our activities and the communities feel a sense of
ownership to the project. Thus all the initiatives and development programmes
of Parivarthana are aimed at facilitating the vulnerable communities attain selfreliance.
MAIN ACTIVITIES;
1. Women & Child Development Activities.
2. Natural Resources Management & Watershed
3. Youth Development Activities.
4. Comprehensive Community Health.
7. AWARDS THAT HAVE RECOGNISED PARIVARTHANA WORK.
1. Grant Assistance Award 2007-2008, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Govt
of JAPAN, Consulate General of Japan –Chennai. Dt; 31-08-2007.
2. Swami Vivekananda National Samaj Ratna Award 2007; Shree Laxmi
Institute for women & Rural Development–Dharwad. Dt; 29-12-2007.
3. Kittur Rani Channamma Award 2004-05; Dept of Women & Child
Development, GOK- Bangalore. Dt; 08-03-2006.
4. Micro Finance Process Excellence Award 2006; ABN-AMBRO & PLANET
Finance- New Delhi, Dt; 07-04-2007.
5. India Leader For Tomorrow award 2003 ; Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Mumbai
and Indian Social Services- New Delhi, Dt;12-11-2003.
6. Rajiv Gandhi Environment award 2003 – 2004; Ministry of Forest
Environment and Ecology, GoK- Bangalore, Dt; 05-06-2003.
7. Shadaksharappa & Tara Charities - USA Award 2002;
Shadaksharappa &Tara Charities-USA, Dt; 01-01-2002.
8. ‘Dist Youth Club Award 1996-97;NYKS Dept. of YAS,GoI–Shimoga;Dt;20-01-1998.
8. RECEIVED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM DIFFERENT AGENCIES;
The organization received funding for its activities from the following agencies of Government
and international organizations.

INTERNATIONAL Donor Agencies ;OXFAM – UK, ICA – USA, IGSSS – Germany,
EU/GAA –OUTREACH-Bangalore, MoFA, Govt of JAPAN [GGP].

Central Government; (Govt. of India) Ministry of HRD – New Delhi, Ministry of youth
affairs and sports – New Delhi, Ministry of Environment and Forest – New Delhi, Ministry of
Health and Family welfare – New Delhi, Ministry of Shipping Road Transport and Highways
– New Delhi, NYKS – New Delhi, NABARD – Mumbai/Bangalore, Ministry of Law & Justice
(National Legal Service Authority) New Delhi and UII – Sagar.

State Government (GoK) Department of Watershed Development-Bangalore, Department
of women and child development – Shimoga, Karnataka state women development
corporation – Bangalore, Department of youth services and sports – Shimoga, Zilla
Panchayath – Shimoga, Karnataka State legal service authority – Bangalore, Karnataka
Forest department – Sagar, and Haveri.
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Others. Search- Bangalore , KRVP – Bangalore, St. Johns Medical college and Hospital –
Bangalore, Sangamithra – Mysore. Akshara Foundation-Dharwad. YVK-Bijapur. Pratham-Mysore.
9. COLLABORATION WITH NGO‘S / NET WORKS, GOVERNMENT
DEPARTMENTS & OTHER AGENCIES.
Parivarthana is closely associated with and affiliated with various stakeholders and
working groups / networks.
 Coordination with NGO’s and Networks: Parivarthana collaborated with various Ngo’s
/ technical partners like JFPM; FEVORD – K; FEVOS; INGO; INSAF,CACL –K and
MICNET. KPFLR.
 Coordination with government agencies:
Central Government (Govt. of India) Ministry of HRD – New Delhi, Ministry of
youth affairs and sports – New Delhi, Ministry of Environment and Forest – New
Delhi, Ministry of Health and Family welfare – New Delhi, Ministry of Shipping
Road Transport and Highways – New Delhi, NYKS – New Delhi, NABARD –
Mumbai/Bangalore, Ministry of Law & Justice (National Legal Service Authority) New
Delhi and UII – Sagar.
State Government (GoK) Department of Watershed Development-Bangalore,
Department of women and child development – Shimoga, Karnataka state women
development corporation – Bangalore, Department of youth services and sports –
Shimoga, Zilla Panchayath – Shimoga, Karnataka State legal service authority –
Bangalore, Karnataka Forest department – Sagar, and Haveri.
Others. Search- Bangalore , KRVP – Bangalore, St. Johns Medical college and Hospital
Bangalore, Sangamithra – Mysore. Akshara Foundation-Dharwad. YVK-Bijapur.
Pratham-Mysore.
 Co-ordination with district District Administration, District Police Department:
The program of Road safety was organized and conducted in the District level &
Taluk level spheres with the involvement by the District Administration, District
Police Department, Regional Transport Authority of Shimoga District and such
program was supported by the Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport, Government
of India, New Delhi.
 Co-ordination with district forest department:
Parivarthana has been collaborating with the western Ghats project supported by
DFID, New Delhi through Oxfam India; and the Eastern plains project supported by
JBIC through KFD.
 Co-ordination with Sri Sakthi associations: 40 SHG’s training was conducted with support from
NABARD and department of women and child development.
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Co-ordination with Banks:Parivarthana has established linkages with a number of nationalized
banks.Canara bank. Shydrigramina bank.NABARD. Syndicate bank & Sangamitra.