The foundation step of the organization was laid by a group of seven young and energetic people in the year 1978 but it was formally registered in the year of 1981-82. All seven members have the past history in alliance to the social and economic development of the state and nation.

Individually, all the members were associated with tribulations of countryside proletariat. They involved in the mass mobilization of seventies and taken up various social awareness steps against various hurdles of socio-economic development.

And in late seventies these people associated to frame Jan Jagran Kendra with a vision to establish an egalitarian, non-exploitative social order with justice and economic self-reliance. Since then the organization is working with an approach of integrated development of rural mass.

The organization has been working on the pillars of social developments such as education, health, women empowerment and on environment. Child development has been one of the prime issues of Jan Jagran Kendra through out the last two-decades. At present, the organization is coordinating from Hazaribag but its efforts to eradicate poverty are spread almost all over the state Jharkhand in India.