Jan Sarokar was established in the year 2000 by a group of young and energetic people who were Rural development professional and highly motivated and committed for contributing their skills, time and energies for the development and empowerment of socially disadvantaged and vulnerable communities in India due to their concern for issues of rights and control over resources of marginalized communities, need for lending a voice of voiceless in order a holistic development with a positive thinking and progressive outlook for a collective effort to negotiate from a position of strength.