Promotion of people's Organisation is the thrust of TASOSS and member societies. In order to bring about new social order, people must be inspired and motivated to mobilise themselves through a process of education and organisation. People's Organisation would mean the oppressed and the disadvantaged becoming aware of the unjust situation, organising themselves, making collective decisions and involving themselves in continuous struggles leading to social transformation. The Diocesan Societies promote the groups of people viz. women, fish workers and agricultural labourer groups, which will ultimately take up a lot of activities for the community. There are altogether nearly 7000 groups of women, fish workers and agriculture promoted by DSSSs. Since the issues and cases are of macro nature, it is not possible for a few women to solve the issues by themselves. It is absolutely necessary for these groups to federate among themselves in order to tackle macro issues as a powerful force. It will then be peoples movement.

NEW THRUST OF TASOSS

      Animation process demands mobilizing the poor, marginalized and powerless through an empowerment process for social justice, human values and their rights as persons and citizens. This process concentrates on creating awareness, organisation, capacity building, self-sustenance and self-reliance. More the number of people greater the power for them. This has to be achieved through horizontal and vertical expansion of people's Organisation and Federation.

DSSSs have been implementing awareness programmes for the past twenty years. Each DSSS had its own goal, thrust and approach in promoting people's Organisations and there were no concerted efforts at macro level to address the issues that concerned the marginalised people. Therefore a need for a combined initiative was felt by all the stakeholders to promote higher-level federations. With the above view, New Thrust was launched on 1st April 1999 and implemented for a period of 3 years as the first phase of the programme.

The first phase concentrated on promoting women, agricultural labourers, and fish workers federations at Panchayat Union, Taluk, and District levels.

Sub-Committees

Forming Sub-committees at the grass-root levels as the Sub-committees enable more members to participate in the programmes, grow leadership qualities among the members, equip with practical experiences in solving the problems and create co-operation among the members of the groups. Types of Sub-committees are:

Bye Law

For the smooth running of a group, the group needs to constitute its bye laws. The bye laws will provide opportunity to each of the group to validly contribute for the betterment of the group as well as for the village. The points to be included in the bye laws are as follows:

Level I Village Groups

These groups at any village level will consist of Members as existing. The groups may make efforts to increase the membership. For better interaction the proposed optimum numbers in a group is 30 in an executive committee of
i) President ii) Vice President iii) Secretary iv) and Treasurer.
The ratio of men and women will be 2:2. In the case of agricultural labourers and fish worker groups, this group can be either one or more in each village as needed. The group will be known as village group (Grama Kuzhu).

Level II Union Federation

The village level groups functioning in each civil union form the union level federation. The office bearers of each village group will be the members of this federation.

Level III Taluk Federation

This taluk level federation will have 4 office bearers from each union level federation as its members.

Level IV District Federation

The representation to district level federation will be the 4 office bearers from each taluk level federation.

The DSSS Federation

The representation will be 4 office bearers from each district level federation.

Regional Federation

Representatives from all DSSSs Federations will form the members of the regional federation. The membership fee will be decided by the members at all levels in view of self reliance of the federation. This also means that there will be expenses for training programme and personnel needed to cater to all levels.

Federation Task Force:

Our target people are encountering various problems in their day-to-day life. In order to get rid of those problems and issues and fulfill their felt needs, they approach various government and non-government departments.

People need to identify the forces that exploit them and chalk out programmes and strategies to encounter them. But in reality, our target people do not know the ways and means to find solutions. People ought to mobilise the positive forces to fight for their rights. In this process, the constructive opinions, ideas, guidance of the experts from various fields, experienced social workers, social activists, democrats etc. are needed:

Monitoring:

Attending the meetings, seminars, and trainings and identifying the strength and weaknesses of the federations.

	Taking steps to grow the identified strength and weed out the weaknesses
	Recommending for the strengthening of the federations
	Monitoring the groups on the maintenance of required registers and files
	Verifying the activities of the federations with the objectives and plans.

Participation:

	Taking part in the meeting, seminar and training pertaining to the federations
	Involving in solving the problems of the federations when they take up issues
	Conducting training, camps etc. according to their expertise
	Evaluating the growth process and activities of federation
	Participating in the efforts of organising new groups and in strengthening of existing federations.