Legal capacity building
1. Focus Areas
- Agricultural workers, bidi workers, mandi workers, fataka workers, stone crushers.
2. Legal Training & Advocacy
- Covers topics: Labor laws, minimum wage law, NREGA, Atrocity Act, Bonded Labor Prevention Act, Child Labor Prevention, Human Trafficking Prevention.
- Advocate groups organize district-level training yearly in 7 districts.
- Harda District: Conducted 542 one-day legal trainings (2022-25) on wage security & safe migration.
- 1079 cases of unpaid wages (2022-24) handled, recovering ₹59.45 lakh for migrant workers.
Supported people in Districts
Muslim families enrolled their children in government schools
End of Untouchability in schools
Advocate groups in districts
cases of unpaid wages
Recovering Lakh for migrant workers
Atrocity Cases addressed
Worker Entitlement
More than 50 million migrant workers from India migrate interstates due to lack of livelihood opportunities at home. Some ongoing problems related to the working conditions, working hours, water, sanitation, women safety, safety equipment and forced labor are very common sufferings of the workers and their families.
Mahad has been working with many communities for two decades for their safety and social protection. Mahad aims to reduce the prevalence of forced labor conditions and resolve issues with worker centered approach through— Prevention- dissemination of information in the community, providing access to social security schemes; Response- technology based tracking of workers, immediate case relevant assistance; Rehabilitation- linking to welfare mechanisms;
and System reform- working with government departments and private agencies for large scale policy and practice changes.
Million Migrant Workers
applications submitted
worker families
worker documents rectified
Advocacy
•Garima Abhiyan & Dalit Adhikar Abhiyan Partnership in Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan 2004-2005- Eradicated manual scavenging completely from Harda District of Madhya Pradesh. 335 families became free from this inhuman practice.
•Partnership with actionaid in Dalit Adhikar Abhiyan-2006-2016.
Dalit Muslim women started new employments as they use to get tuberculosis from making bidis.
Families became free from this inhuman practice
Advocacy
•Garima Abhiyan & Dalit Adhikar Abhiyan Partnership in Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan 2004-2005- Eradicated manual scavenging completely from Harda District of Madhya Pradesh. 335 families became free from this inhuman practice.
•Partnership with actionaid in Dalit Adhikar Abhiyan-2006-2016.
Dalit Muslim women started new employments as they use to get tuberculosis from making bidis.
Families became free from this inhuman practice
Active citizenship and Constitutional values
Promoting Constitutional Awareness
- Mahad integrates constitutional discussions into women’s and workers’ group meetings.
- Between 2022-2025, 1,255 meetings were conducted to educate women and youth on their civic rights.
- Trained 255 volunteers to spread legal awareness and social justice.
Eliminating Discriminatory Practices
- Through Jaati Chhodo Bharat Jodo Yatra, 4,560 public spaces (schools, Panchayats, Aanganwadis, hand pumps) were freed from untouchability.
- Ended discriminatory rural practices such as drinking tea in broken cups and eating in cattle sheds.
- In 118 schools across 8 districts, 2,345 children now enjoy equal education rights.
volunteers to spread legal awareness
lakh people migrating from Madhya Pradesh annually
rectify worker documents
Jaati Chhodo Bharat Jodo Yatra public spaces