Seva Samiti was founded in 1914 by Hridyanath Kunzru in Allahabad. Hridyanath Kunzru was a prominent member of the Servants of India Society.
It worked for improving the status of the suffering classes through social service, education.
The Seva Samiti had as its objective to organize social service during natural disasters like floods and epidemics, to promote the spread of education, cooperation, sanitation, to uplift depressed classes, reform criminals and rescue the fallen.
Seva Samiti