Confirmation Letter for Registered Participants

KISAN SWARAJ SAMMELAN 2026 (Western & Northern India)
LOK NIKETAN RATANPUR – JANUARY 11-13, 2026

PARTICIPANT CONFIRMATION LETTER

हिंदी का पत्र आप यहां पढ़ सकते हैं: https://kisanswaraj.in/2026/01/02/प्रतिभागी-पुष्टि-पत्र/

Date: 2nd January, 2026
Dear Friend,

Namaste. Thank you for registering for the Kisan Swaraj Sammelan. Through this letter, we confirm your participation in the 6th Kisan Swaraj Sammelan (for Western & Northern India) during January 11-13, 2026.

For exhibition stall registrants also, this is a Confirmation Letter for your participation in the Sammelan, while a decision on the exhibition space that you are likely to occupy and what will be kept there will be taken after phone conversations with you by our volunteers.

1. YOUR ARRIVAL INTO LOK NIKETAN CAMPUS IN RATANPUR

Lok Niketan is a nai talim educational institution for needy students running with a missionary zeal and enthusiasm, with the spirit of non-violence and non-coercive practices, aspiring to contribute to humanity through sincerity, honesty, humility and fearlessness. The campus of Lok Niketan is a clean, serene and peaceful setting, running on disciplined systems. This venue is around 7 kms from Palanpur Junction railway station and bus station on Palanpur-Kheralu-Ambaji Highway. It is about 150 kms from Ahmedabad airport and Ahmedabad/Sabarmati BG(SBIB) railway stations. Travel time by road would be around 3.5 hours to Lok Niketan.

Here is the link to reach the venue: https://tinyurl.com/Lok-Niketan-Location

THE VENUE IS EASY TO REACH! Shared Auto will charge Rs. 20 from Palanpur Bus Depot/Railway Station to reach the venue. Special auto will charge around Rs. 100 in the day time and maximum Rs. 150 in night time.

A reception booth will be set up from 4 pm to 10 pm on the 10th and 5 am to 11 am on the 11th with following details:
Palanpur New Bus Depot:
Near Inquiry Counter adjoining to Sardar Soda Centre: Contact No. 98797 06194
Palanpur (PNU) Railway Station:
In a parking lot near the ticket window: Contact No. 96018 01288 / 63781 58001

For any genuine additional queries after your arrival into Palanpur or Ahmedabad or for any unexpected emergency, you can contact 94270 29431 (Mahendrabhai). Please do not ask for information which is already mentioned here.

2. YOUR ACCOMMODATION:
All participants will be accommodated in Lok Niketan campus itself. It will be simple, shared accommodation in a dormitory with shared bathrooms/toilets. Those who want to opt for staying in Palanpur can do so at their own expense by searching for suitable hotels online. Organisers are unable to provide any assistance on this front.

3. WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING WITH YOU:

WARM CLOTHES: Ratanpur is expected to have maximum temperatures of 27o C during the day, with the temperatures dipping to upto 9o C in the nights. Please bring woolen clothes with you, especially for the night time.
UMBRELLA/RAINCOAT: There is almost no possibility of rains, but in the last three sammelans some showers have blessed us.
A BEDSHEET AND A WARM COVER: Organisers will provide you with a clean sheet on the cot/mattress and blanket. However, please bring a bedsheet and another warm cover along with you for the sake of personal hygiene.
PERSONAL TOILETRIES & MEDICINES: Bring your personal toiletries with you – your towel, soap, mosquito repellent, tooth brush-paste, medicines etc.
CLOTH BANNER THAT IS ALREADY THERE: If there is a cloth banner of your organisation that you already have and want to bring along, please do so along with some string/rope. There will be enough space to display the same.
NOTEBOOK AND PEN: In ASHA events, notebooks are not distributed to be scribbled upon for one or two pages and thrown away.
LOCK & KEY FOR YOUR LUGGAGE/ROOM: Please do not bring any valuables like ornaments, camera etc. Otherwise bring a lock for your luggage.
TORCH IS A MUST: THE BATHROOMS AND TOILETS ARE LOCATED A BIT FAR FROM THE DORMITORIES AND A TORCH WILL BE REALLY HELPFUL.

4. REGISTRATION DESKS: Please keep your registration number (given at the time of booking) handy. There will be a separate registration table for those who are registering through fee payment in grain form, or through cheques. The Registration Kit will give you a copy of the programme schedule and meal coupon,

5. PARALLEL SESSION TOPICS OF INTEREST TO YOU: Discussion Notes on the 8 parallel session topics will be available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1G02zfOQOwhZqEEHXuuocVwoZF8tKiVMc?usp=sharing as a soft copy in Hindi, Gujarati and English. We request you to use soft copy, to save on paper usage.

6. DURING THE SAMMELAN:

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE: The penultimate version of Programme Schedule of the Sammelan as it stands today is available in Hindi, Gujarati and English here: https://kisanswaraj.in/kisan-swaraj-sammelan-2026/. As you can see, it is an exciting and intense programme packed into 3 days, with several parallel events happening at the same time. Please start figuring out where you would like to be during the parallel sessions! A lot of experts are going to be present in the sammelan, with important contributions that they have made to “Kisan Swaraj” over the years. We hope we will all collectively benefit from the interactions.

MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION: The Sammelan proceedings will be in HINDI. We would also advise you to locate beforehand other people from your state who can help in translations if required. During parallel sessions, small group direct translations are expected to take place.
PROHIBITION: Tobacco and alcohol consumption, of any kind, is strictly prohibited.

CLEANLINESS: We are planning for the Sammelan to be a zero-waste, zero-plastic event, without any littering. Kindly comply with this norm. Please make sure that you wash your plate and glass with minimum water. Use drinking water judiciously.

RETURNING YOUR GLASS: In the Registration Kit, we have placed a glass and hired from the tent house vendor. You are requested to carry your own glass throughout the 3 days, wash it and return it at the time of departure.

SILENCE DURING PARALLEL SESSIONS: Since these sessions will be happening next to each other, we urge all participants to be sensitive to disturbance caused to other sessions by loud conversations, or loitering in the passageways etc.

EARLY ARRIVALS BEFORE 6PM ON 10TH JANUARY 2026 & DEPARTURES BEYOND 13TH JANUARY 2026 6PM

Participants are expected to arrive in the evening of 10th January and depart before 6pm on 13th January. You are required to inform the organisers beforehand if your arrival and departure timings are different from this norm by writing to kisanswarajsammelan2026@gmail.com.

OUR CONSTRAINTS & OUR ENTHUSIASM:

The response to the Sammelan announcement enthuses us, and renews our commitment to the cause of farmers and ecological farming in India. However, given some inherent limitations as a movement, there may be some hardships faced by some of you in terms of the logistical support we are able to extend. Any shortcomings from our side will be sought to be improved, if not now, for the next Sammelan.

Meanwhile, if you come prepared for participating in a huge family gathering, of many citizens who are working towards social equity, environmental sustainability and economic justice in our food and farming systems, if you are ready to celebrate and spread the alternatives in a collective effort, we believe that any hardships during the Sammelan can also be overcome collectively.

We are eagerly looking forward to seeing you all very soon.

Sincerely,
Organising Team
6th Kisan Swaraj Sammelan