About us

The Association for PARIVARTAN of Nation (APNA) is a non-profit policy implementation organisation committed to translating rights-based legislation into meaningful action through evidence-based interventions. Incorporated under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, APNA was established in 2019 in the State of Jharkhand by a collective of legal practitioners, social researchers, educators, and grassroots practitioners committed to dismantling structural exclusions and facilitating the justiciability of socio-economic rights.

Rooted in a rights-based approach to development, APNA’s mandate is to enable sustainable and equitable access to legal entitlements. It operates at the intersection of law, governance, technology, and community engagement, functioning as an intermediary institution that bridges statutory entitlements with on-the-ground implementation.

Central to APNA’s praxis is the repositioning of marginalised individuals not as passive recipients of welfare, but as active rights-holders and co-architects of entitlements, accountability, and inclusive institutional frameworks.

The organisation’s founding vision was shaped by the lived realities of its members, who, through prolonged engagement with peripheralised communities, identified a persistent disjuncture between the normative frameworks of law and their practical enforceability. In response, APNA was conceived not merely as a service provider, but as a decentralised rights-claiming platform, facilitating legal consciousness, catalysing civic agency, and embedding accountability within the architecture of welfare governance.