About Us

Pudukkottai Multipurpose Social Service Society (PMSSS) is a Non Profit service organization established under Society’s registration Act. Since its inception in 1988, PMSSS, with its noble objective of Total Development of the downtrodden community based on Justice, Peace and Love, has been rendering yeomen services in the fields of Animation, Education, Health, Socio-Economic up-liftment through Savings, Microfinance, EDP, Livelihood interventions and leveraging of Government welfare measures in favour of the marginalized. PMSSS is empowered with capable leadership, competent staff, appropriate management structure and systems along with adequate training infrastructure and unique identity as one among the reputed and lead NGOs in Pudukottai District. To its credit, PMSSS has organized vulnerable women and children, marginal farmers and traditional fishworkers and excluded communities of Gypsies, Tribals and refugees and operates in more than 600 hamlets spread over 10 blocks of Pudukottai civil district. It has organized 400 micro groups of women, fish workers, farmers and children and reached out to 1000 differently able women and children, trained 500 plus women leaders, built 1270 shelters for Tsunami victims, mainstreamed hundreds of school dropouts in to formal schools. It is democratically governed by a board headed by Rev.Dr.Devadass Ambrose, its President and Bishop of Thanjavur Catholic Diocese under the progressive and active leadership of Fr. S.Arulananthu Secretary of PMSSS and P.Yagappa Rajarethinam Director of PMSSS supported by an able and experienced team of 10 staff with specialization in Animation, Organization building, Health, Non-formal education, Legal Education, Negotiation Skills etc.