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Rural Social Services
Rural Social Services (RSS) The RSS project was launched as a pilot project in 1974 in 19 selected Thanas of 19 Districts. In 1984, Upazila Social Service Offices were established in all Upazilas. Later on under these offices, the RSS Programme was introduced all over the country. The RSS Programme is particularly designed for the vast majority of by-passed groups to organise them and to build their capacity to fight against poverty, illiteracy, ill health, unemployment and the population explosion. The direct target groups of the RSS are the children, the youths, the women, the landless families and other disadvantaged groups who do not directly get benefit from other development activities in the rural areas. Objectives of RSS Identifying the target people (the disadvantaged and by passed community groups) through socio-economic survey with a view to bring them within the orbit of development activities of the Programme Organizing the identified target people through the survey into functional groups, create awareness and help promote leadership and provide opportunities for their active participation in development activities. Creating self-employment and increase income by giving interest free micro-credit, motivation savings and income generating and economically profitable activities Providing informal education on health, nutrition, mother and child care, sanitation, use of safe drinking water, motivation on family planning, social aforestation, literacy etc. for the improvement of the living standard of the people Establishing democratically functioning Village Based Institutions (VBI) of different target population and form Project Village Committee (PVC) and Village Executive Committees to identify the problems, needs and resources of the village and plan and implement development activities to improve their socio-economic conditions Providing skill training for increasing the income capabilities and productivity of unemployed and underemployed persons Motivating the target people, particularly the fertile couples to keep the size of their families small with a view to raise the standard of their life and remain the same by adopting family planning practices.