Chintan Shivir was organised by Social Security Now (SSN) at the YUVA Centre, Mumbai on September 29-30, 2010. The purpose of the chintan shivir as envisaged during the last meeting of the national working group held in Bhopal (August 6, 2010) was to debate, understand the nuances and work out a concept note on universal social security. Earlier during the national convention of the SSN held at Patna (January 8-11, 2010) SSN had given a call for non targeted, non-discriminatory universal social security. The chintan shivir concluded with a draft text of affirmations on universal social security