Since 1989, the Institute for Indian Mother and Child, with its dedication, patience, faith and honesty, has been relentlessly continuing the work of education, health, social and economic development and advancement of the most backward people in villages and cities with about 700 volunteers, in line with the current trend. It goes without saying that this work flow is being flowed  and expanded in various districts in West Bengal, like North and South 24 Parganas including the Sundarbans. Institute for Indian Mother and Child is one of the largest social welfare institution in West Bengal and other parts of India, which is located in Sonarpur, Kolkata. The Director of this institution, Honorable Dr. Sujit Kumar Brahmachari is making tireless efforts to improve the education, health and socio-economic infrastructure of the weak, backward, neglected, underdeveloped marginal villages and families in very remote areas,through his far-reaching work, and to provide a developed village, happy family and their better social life. In addition to these, he added another new idea to his social welfare idea – called ‘Voluntary Social Work’. This new idea has been given  another dimension to his dream of social welfare.

On this occasion, a 2-days  convention on voluntary social work was organized on 8th and 9th November 2024, the main topic of discussion was ‘Past, present and future of voluntary social work’. The 2-days convention was attended by the keynote speaker, Dr. Kunal Sarkar, retired police officer Shri Arindam Acharya, IIM director Dr. Sujit Kumar Brahmachari, Chip Secretary of Golpark Ramakrishna Mission Swami Suparnananda Maharaj, Professor Jagadindra Mandal, Social Welfare Department, Shri Ashok Roy, Shri Mrinal Biswas, Dr. Madan Sarkar, Shankar Halder and other distinguished guests. Officials of more than 50 small and big voluntary organizations from different districts of West Bengal like Kolkata 24 Parganas, Nadia, Howrah, Hooghly, Malda, Murshidabad, Birbhum, Bankura, Dinajpur, Jalpaiguri Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Medinipur, Cooch Behar, have been participated in this seminar. More than 120 participants were present at the seminar hall of  IIMC head office, on November 8 and 9. The main topic of discussion of this two-days seminar was ‘Past, Present and Future of Voluntary Social Workers’ along with the aim and objective of this convention to create a developed, liberal, enlightened society with a new social ideology and to spread that ideology at all levels.