About Us

National Civil Society (NCS) is to be in the capacity and capability of organized and slackly formed citizens associations and groupings to continuously respond to national and international public policy variations, governance deficits, and legal and regulatory policies through coherent and deliberate strategies of mobilizing and effectively utilizing diversified resources, strengthening operations and leadership, promoting transparency and accountability, and fostering the scalability and replicability of initiatives and interventions to occupies an important position in the development dialogue as it provides opportunities to bring communities together for collection action, mobilising society to articulate demands and voice concerns at local, national, regional and international levels to play a key role as an independent watchdog in holding Governments, International Organizations and Multilateral Organization as well as Transnational Corporations which are accountable for their contribution to the implementation for the various development programmes. National Civil Society (NCS) is to be in the capacity and capability of organized and slackly formed citizens associations and groupings to continuously respond to national and international public policy variations, governance deficits, and legal and regulatory policies through coherent and deliberate strategies of mobilizing and effectively utilizing diversified resources, strengthening operations and leadership, promoting transparency and accountability, and fostering the scalability and replicability of initiatives and interventions to occupies an important position in the development dialogue as it provides opportunities to bring communities together for collection action, mobilising society to articulate demands and voice concerns at local, national, regional and international levels to play a key role as an independent watchdog in holding Governments, International Organizations and Multilateral Organization as well as Transnational Corporations which are accountable for their contribution to the implementation for the various development programmes.

NCS will have a presence in public life, express the interests and values of their members and others, based on ethical, cultural, political, scientific, religious or philanthropic considerations and therefore it refers to a wide array of organisations: community groups, NGOs, labour unions, indigenous groups, charitable organisations, faith-based organisations, professional associations, and foundations and shall be active in trying to resolve problems and address issues that are important to society, such as:

  1. Combatting poverty, corruption and economic inequality
  2. Responding to humanitarian crises, including armed conflict
  3. Promoting the rule of law and accountability
  4. Promoting public freedoms
  5. Advocating for transparency of government budgets
  6. Protecting the environment
  7. Realizing the right to development
  8. Empowering persons belonging to minorities and other groups at risk
  9. Combating any form of discrimination
  10. Supporting crime prevention
  11. Promoting corporate social responsibility and accountability
  12. Combating human trafficking
  13. Empowering women
  14. Combating hate speech
  15. Empowering youth
  16. Advancing social justice and consumer protection
  17. Provision of social services

NCS shall have to be the part of the system to push an idea and act like catalyst to support the system to make it more meaningful. It will work to empower women, men and children to engage in activities with the aim of bringing about societal change for the betterment through participation in public affairs using the right to serve as a vehicle for the exercise of many other civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights. At least two imprint of action is required for the decisive move towards a comprehensive democratisation of world politics, first, we will have to manage to influence political decision-makers by giving voice to the voiceless and framing new issues and at the same time we also will have to manage to pressurise global governance institutions so that the overall level of transparency, consultation, outside evaluation and efficiency is measurably higher than it was in the past.

In today’s complex world, traditional institutions have struggled to provide effective and legitimate responses to global issues such as climate change, financial instability, disease epidemics, intercultural violence and global inequalities. As a response to these shortcomings, forms of so-called multi-level, stakeholder governance have been established that involve a combination of public and private actors to balance a deeper impact on society with greater legitimacy and is under pressure to be more inclusive and attentive.

In the above prospective, NCS will act like a leader that provides a bottom-up contribution to the effectiveness and legitimacy of the international system as a whole. In essence, it is democracy in action as power is being held to account by the public, promoting and popularising ideas that are key to the national interest as political vanguards and that can spread a different world view that challenges the dominant order to create an environment conducive to the development activities.

Roles of National Civil Society

National Civil Society (NCS) would have three kinds of roles: firstly, as members of monitoring committees; secondly as resource groups for capacity building and facilitation; and thirdly as agencies helping to carry out independent collection of information for planning and implementation of various welfare programmes.

In their first role, NCS will be working in close, regular contact with communities on food, health, education and employment related issues, especially from a rights-based perspective, would be able to present in various monitoring committees the community concerns, experiences and suggestions regarding improvement in the function of the existing system. In their second role, NGOs with experience of capacity building could conduct orientation of committee members about the process of Community based monitoring including the roles of members. In their third role, it could contribute to the collection of information relevant to the monitoring process at all levels from the village to state. In these processes, an element of community mobilisation may be involved.

National Civil Society (NCS) roles include:

  1. Service provider (for example, running schools and skill development centers and providing basic community health care services)
  2. Advocate/campaigner (for example, lobbying governments or business on issues including indigenous rights or the environment)
  3. Watchdog (for example, monitoring government compliance with human rights treaties)
  4. Building active citizenship (for example, motivating civic engagement at the local level and engagement with local, regional and national governance)
  5. Participating in global governance processes

NCS shall be rooted in a web of social relations and common identities and is to access to important resources (such as people and money) but operate in highly formalised socio-poly-economical systems that shape and constrain their mobilisation and impact through various filters. Transnational networks can also amplify local voices by setting them in the context of global issues and policies, thus strengthening local or national activism. At NCS, we predominantly focused on building socio-poly-economical frameworks with embedded democratic accountability. At present, most global governance bodies suffer from accountability deficits – that is, they lack the traditional formal mechanisms of democratic accountability that are found in states, such as popularly elected leaders, parliamentary oversight, and non-partisan courts. Instead, the executive councils of global regulatory bodies are mainly composed of bureaucrats who are far removed from the situations that are directly affected by the decisions they take. People in peripheral geographical areas and in marginalised sections of society are especially deprived of recognition, voice and influence in most contexts of global governance as it is currently practised.

National Civil Society shall create the space outside of government, family and market; a place in which individuals and collective organisations advance allegedly common interests. It can include community groups, non-governmental organisations, social movements, labour unions, indigenous groups, charitable organisations, faith-based organisations, media operators, academia, diaspora groups, lobby and consultancy groups, think tanks and research centres, professional associations, and foundations. Political parties and private companies can also be counted as borderline cases. The presence of NCS in international affairs has become increasingly relevant. It will play a role in agenda setting, international law-making and diplomacy. Further, NCS shall be involved in the implementation and monitoring of a number of crucial global issues.

Our Members

Rohit Bardawaj

Rohit Bardawaj

Chief Corporate Advisor

Dr. Prashan Kumar Thakur

Dr. Prashan Kumar Thakur

Secretary

Adil Khan (Kotwal)

Adil Khan (Kotwal)

National President

Promoth Kumar

Promoth Kumar

National Vice President

Vikash Kumar Sharma

Vikash Kumar Sharma

General Secretary

Pankaj Kumar

Pankaj Kumar

Treasurer

P.A Malik

P.A Malik

Advisor - Artisan Development Program

Kunwar Mahendra Singh Rathore

Kunwar Mahendra Singh Rathore

Member

Nitu Thakur

Nitu Thakur

Member

Asharaf Thavayil Hamza

Asharaf Thavayil Hamza

Kerala State President

Rohit Bardawaj

Rohit Bardawaj

Chief Corporate Advisor

Dr. Prashan Kumar Thakur

Dr. Prashan Kumar Thakur

Secretary