Appeal to All
The aims and objects of the association stipulate the welfare of the adivasi community. We are considering Santal as a model community to work and experiment with in the beginning as this community is progressively pursuing to preserve its culture and endeavouring to establish its identity. Membership is not confined to Delhi or nearby places only. It is one of the few registered Adivasi Social Associations with an All India status formed by any Adivasi group. Any person with a vision is expected to contribute by associating him/herself for the welfare of the community from any place of the globe. We believe that unless a member is convinced about the need of his/her actions and his/her role in the matter, he/she will not be in a position to contribute in a constructive way. In our view, Santals' endeavour to achieve something through formation of association requires a review and suggest that they have to concentrate on very important and genuine issues rather than only to chit chat or organise annual get-togethers as the present trend goes. We are still in search of persons who could think about the welfare of Santals beyond their immediate neighbourhood, locality. There is a need to mobilise manpower, resources to think and do something constructive and meaningful in near future for the community as a whole. Thus it is required to change the frame of mind and we, therefore, reiterate our request to give a thinking to this aspect. The size of population and associated problems dictate huge responsibility on the members of the society and as such members need to act in a disciplined and sensible way. On the contrary, it is experienced that gradually age old traditional systems and institutions are unable to instill a sense of discipline, punctuality among the people. Thus arose the necessity to streamline and strengthen systems and institutions in order to retain specific identity of a community spread over many States in India. All India ASECA is precisely created for this purpose as stated in its mission statement to grow as an apex institution to cater to these needs. In the making of an Institution dedication of and donation from the members are the basic and important inputs. However, it has not been possible to build up matching resource base required for undertaking the envisaged responsibility. Therefore, we give emphasis to identify, motivate and enroll new members to the association in order to increase and improve the representation base and to transform it to a viable institution. Moreover, it is the members' response to the social reality that prompts them to contribute something in some form for the development of the society. Lastly, all programmes hinge on one question, "Do we have that determination?"