It was more or less a "Status Report" on seva activities conducted by the RSS and several organisations and individuals taking inspiration from the RSS. The said book was well received and acclaimed. 

Indeed, the accolades received for publishing "Seva Disha 95" have encouraged us to improve upon it and compile this second report in its revised format. Needless to mention that the office bearers and workers took considerable pains, putting in hours of hard work. 

Each prant had to fill in literally hundreds of forms, classify them and scrutinise them. It was, therefore, understandable that some prants needed extension of the intended dead-line. 

This report includes data upto 15-8-97, unless stated otherwise. The most significant outcome of these two exercises is that our seva involved workers have realised the importance of "DOCUMENTATION", an activity which many of us had been traditionally taking lightly. 

That is why it was a pleasant experience receiving most of the data meticulously filled in. It is significant to note that a good number of forms were filled in by the grass-root level workers themselves. 

I am sure that some items included in the data collection forms (included, not for any scientific research/investigation, but mainly as a "calling attention" measure) gave a "Teaching" opportunity to the office bearers by bringing to the notice of seva-involved workers, various facets of seva work. 

They now stand alerted about the need to keep a watchful eye not only on the various dimensions of seva work but also on the varied expectations from seva work they do.It is hoped that our Seva-involved workers have now realised that they can do and that they will have to do much more than mechanically implementing routine activities for just a few hours! 

It is only by paying adequate attention to all such ancillary dimensions that a sevakarya centre will achieve the intended social transformation. 

Yet another healthy benefit of these two exercises is that workers have now started documenting and publishing their experiences. Special efforts are now made to pool together morale-boosting, eye opening, exemplary types of experiences gained while implementing seva work or as a result of it. 

A few such experiences are given in this book as samples. "SEVA PATH" a book published in Hindi, Gujarati and English vividly depicts such experiences in a "Classified" presentation. It is expected that each Prant will publish its own mine of rich experiences indicative of favourable social change for mutual sharing. 

Needless to state that such books serve to fulfill the vital need of convincing our workers that sustained, selfless seva is bound to create a healthy impact on the concerned population. It gives me great pleasure in stating that the seva activities have now not only stabilised but are also growing, both qualitatively and quantitatively at an accelerated pace. I feel confident that the day is not too far when we will have reached all the hitherto untouched nooks and corners of our country through sevakarya. 

K.Suryanarayana Rao Akhil Bharatiya Seva Pramukh Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh 

Chennai,Dec 97