Yuva Sankalpa · Nagarik Seva

Youth who walk where files stop.

A volunteer movement across Odisha. We listen to people the system forgot, document their cases, and walk with them to panchayat, Tahasil, and BDO — until ration, housing, and dignity are restored.

ଯୁବଙ୍କଦ୍ୱାରା ନାଗରିକ ସେବା — Youth serving citizens.

01 — The Forgotten Edge

This village wakes before the office opens.

In forest lanes and mud-hut colonies, elders wait years for a fingerprint to work, a roof to hold, someone to answer. Government cannot always reach on time. Citizens can.

Her story begins here

Scroll — descend into one real life.

What follows is not a film script. It is the pattern behind thousands of cases Yuva Sankalpa volunteers carry every week — and why more young people must join.

Scroll to begin
Continue to site
02 — The Closed Door

Ration is her right. The machine said no.

Her fingerprint failed at the PDS ration shop. Without monthly raashan, an elderly woman in rural Odisha has nothing between her and hunger — though her name sits on every government list.

The voiceless

No official had seen how she lived.

Cracked walls. No proper bed. No family to fight for her. The system had a form — not her story. This is where most cases end. Unless someone walks the last mile.

Why we exist

Someone had to become her voice.

Yuva Sankalpa does not replace government. We reach the citizen when the file will not move — and we stay until Tahasil listens.

This is citizen service, not charity.

03 — They Came to Her

No family. Two cats. Now, someone asked.

She slept on a damp floor in a broken mud room — nowhere fit for a human being. Her only companions were two village cats. No relative, no neighbour with time to listen.

Nagarik Seva

Two volunteers walked to her door.

Young men from her own district — not with food for a photo, but with questions. They asked about her life, wrote it down, and made it a case the administration could not ignore.

The movement

Listen first. Then file. Then stay.

When you join Yuva Sankalpa, you learn that citizen service begins with showing up — not with a form, but with your presence.

  • 0Founded
  • 0Members
  • KanpurStarted from
04 — The Work

Serving people, by the people.

Volunteers escorted her to Tahasil — not because she could not walk alone, but because a citizen with a documented case and a witness beside her is harder to turn away. This is how change happens in Odisha: one file, one walk, one refusal to leave.

01

Volunteer

Walk to the last mile. Listen. Document. Escort citizens to panchayat and Tahasil.

Join Yuva Sankalpa
02

Nagarik Seva App

File a complaint from your phone. Track status. See resolution — transparent, citizen-first.

Open the app
03

Report Injustice

Ration denied? Home collapsed? No one listening? Raise it — we help carry it forward.

File a case
04

Spread the Sankalpa

12,000+ volunteers across 30 districts. One more voice in your block changes everything.

Follow our work
05 — Light in the Rain

Light for those the map forgot.

When rain collapsed her mud hut, she had nowhere — only the veranda of a forest range office, deep inside green darkness.

Listen · Reach · Stay

Someone refused to stop looking.

Yuva Sankalpa volunteers found her in the rain — not because a form told them to, but because a citizen in distress deserves a witness beside her.

Your district

Be that person where you live.

One volunteer with a lantern in the rain changes what darkness means for an elder with no one left. That could be you.

06 — The Sankalpa

Volunteers walked with her — to Tahasil, to BDO.

Young men from Yuva Sankalpa raised her case, filed the complaint, and stayed until someone in authority listened. Not a NGO handout — citizens using the law.

Ration restored

Her raashan returned. Quietly. With dignity.

One jute bag in weathered hands. One elder who can eat this month. This is what Nagarik Seva looks like when it works.

A roof on the way

BDO approved her home under Awas Yojana.

Cement bags and a brick foundation — hope made visible. She will have a proper roof soon. Now imagine 12,000 volunteers doing this across Odisha. That is Yuva Sankalpa. That is why we need you.

Join the Sankalpa Open Nagarik Seva App