In 1999 Jan Mitra Nyas (JMN) was founded to provide the direct support to the marginalized and excluded communities. JMN work to ensure basic rights for marginalized groups in the Indian society, e.g. children, women, Dalits and tribes and to establish rule of law through participatory activism against extra judicial killing, police torture, hunger, bonded labour and injustice by the caste system. JMN ideology is inspired by the father of the Dalit movement, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi who struggled against patriarchy and the caste hierarchical system prevailing in India.