Summary

In 1976, a group of youth who were passionate about justice and rights got together to address the case of exploitation of coolies (hamalis or loading and unloading workers) working at the Secunderabad railway station in Telangana (formerly in Andhra Pradesh), whose job was to load and unload materials such as steel plates and steel poles that would come in the wagons. Their work in Hyderabad through 1976 to 1985 and success in the case led to other calls for help from further and further afield, mostly from urban slum communities where the urban marginalised and oppressed lived. In 1981, the group formally registered a society, Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA), in Hyderabad.

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