About Us

Grih Kalyan Kendra ( referred to hereafter as ‘the Kendra’ or ‘GKK’ ) is a welfare organisation, registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, working under the aegis of Department of Personnel & Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions with the objective of helping needy Government servants, especially those belonging to the lower income group by providing to their dependants, who are in genuine financial and psychological need of temporary rehabilitation, opportunities of gainful work or training during their leisure time.

The idea of setting up to the Kendra came up in 1957 in then Ministry of Home Affairs
as a staff welfare scheme to promote the welfare of the Central Govt. Employees and their depandants. It was felt that the schemes of welfare should have a pronounced socio-economic bias covering the facilities to the employees in their residential colonies,
particularly comprising Group ‘C’ and ‘D’ staff. The basic principal that had been adopted was to build up the morale of the lower income staff in their homes, covering particularly women and children.

From its inception, a steady stream of such needy dependants was required to be accommodated in order to provide equal opportunity to all as far as possible to supplement the meager income of the family and at the same time help acquire skill and experience for better prospects elsewhere. The objective of the Kendra was not to open or establish another wing of the Govt. in which full-fledged employment would be offered according to the age and qualifications etc.& desserts of the needy dependants drafted for whatsoever be the assignment in the organisation.

For pursuing the activities of the Kendra, the dependants of low-paid Central Govt. Employees were drafted from various Govt. colonies for the scheme Grih Kalyan Kendra. There was no rigid criteria for age and educational qualification for drafting such people. This flexibility enabled to draft workers who were in genuine financial or psychological need of temporary rehabilitaiton.If any worker could get a better job outside, he/she was freely allowed and encouraged to leave and improve his/her position by getting employment outside.