LANKA JATIKA SARVODAYA SHRAMADANA SANGAMAYA

(1) To provide, by means of Shramadana Camps and other constructive ways, adequate opportunities and the appropriate mental climate for the realization of the principles, the philosophy and the objects of Sarvodaya by the Shramadana Sewakas and Sewikas who volunteer to engage themselves in village development and community welfare projects.

(2) To provide opportunities to the youth to acquire a correct understanding of the socio-economic and other problems of the country, and to organize educational and training programmes for them to learn ways and means of solving these according to the Sarvodaya philosophy.

(3) To organize programmes with a view to the eradication of distrust and disintegration springing from differences such as of caste, race, creed and party-politics.

(4) To disseminate qualities of selfless service, self-denial, co-operation, self-discipline and dignity of labour among the people of the land.

(5) To encourage the development, especially in the youth of healthy views of social justice, equality, love of one’s motherland and international brotherhood.

(6) To develop self-confidence, co- operation and unity among the urban and rural communities and to evoke their inherent strength to bring about an all- round development in their spiritual, moral, social, economic and educational life.

(7) To train and organize groups of youth who are ready to come forward and render voluntary service in times of national distress as well as in community development and social welfare programmes.

(8) To collect and mobilize the maximum possible resources of the people such as their time, intelligence, energy, land, wealth, specialized skills and technological knowledge which they are prepared to donate of their own free-will, and utilize these scientifically to bring about the general economic and social progress of the people.

(9) To help generally in the realization of the objects of the various institutions of the United Nations and especially to assist in the programmes of the Freedom From Hunger Campaign of the Food and Agricultural Organisation, the UNESCO and the WHO respectively, to eradicate hunger, illiteracy and disease from our world.

(10) To promote the idea of the need for, and the importance of, the establishment of an International Shramadana Corps, under the auspices of the United Nations, through its member nations.

(1) The affairs of the Corporation shall, subject to the rules for the time being of the Corporation, be administered by an Executive Council which shall consist of the office-bearers of the Corporation and other members elected to the Executive Council at the Annual General Meeting of the Corporation.

(2) The Executive Council may delegate any of its functions to one or more Standing Committees or Sub-Committees.

(1) The General Secretary of the Corporation shall keep a register of the members of the Corporation.

(2) The Register of the members of the Corporation shall contain the following particulars:-

(1) The Corporation may, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting at a General Meeting of the Corporation, make rules for admission to, and removal from, membership of the Corporation, for the performance of the duties of the office-bearers and other members of the Executive Council of the Corporation, for the procedure in the transaction of business, and otherwise generally for the management of the affairs of the Corporation and the accomplishment of its objects.

(2) The rules of the Corporation shall not be revised, rescinded or amended except at a special general meeting convened for the purpose and by a vote of not less than two-thirds of those present and voting.

(3) Written notice of the proposed additions, amendments and deletions shall be forwarded to the Executive Council through the Honorary General Secretary, and the Executive Council shall decide by a majority vote of the members of the Council present, the additions, amendments and deletions which should be presented at a special general meeting, for approval.

(4) Subject to the provisions of subsections (1), (2) and (3) of this section, the rules set out in the Schedule* to this Act shall be the rules of the Corporation.