PRERANA, the IAS Officers Wives’ Association is a registered association of the state of Assam, and befitting its name, it provides inspiration, hope and help to all associated with it. Prerana has been actively engaged in various social causes like women and child welfare, flood relief and charitable works for the poor and destitute covering entire Assam.

Since its inception, it has been actively engaged in work to meet its stated objectives of helping the needy, handicapped and destitute, rendering financial and other assistance to those affected by natural or man-made calamities, as well as in the sphere of organising lectures, seminars and workshops on current issues, organising debates, quiz programme and other competitions for school children and women and arranging entertainment programmes with themes that increase public awareness and help in the eradication of social evils. Prerana also seeks to promote social and cultural activities among all communities, to foster a sense of harmony, tolerance and well-being.

As part of our work, Prerana intends to empower women belonging to BPL category by creating self-employment avenues for them. We have identified 50 needy women of Nagaon District for distribution of looms (Tat Saal). The beneficiary selection has been done with the help of Handloom & Textile Department, Government of Assam. The criteria followed for selection of beneficiaries’ were: belonging to BPL Category; one family one loom; and should not have availed any other benefit under similar scheme. We are planning to ceremonially distribute the looms to the beneficiaries in a public function on the 10th of February, 2018 at 11:00 am in Nagaon.