The Social Service League was a social reform organisation in colonial India that focused on labour welfare and social improvement through peaceful and constructive methods rather than political agitation.

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• The Social Service League was founded in 1911 at Bombay (now Mumbai) by N. M. Joshi with the objective of addressing social problems of workers through organised and systematic welfare activities.

• The organisation mainly worked for improving the living standards of industrial labourers by focusing on education, sanitation, housing facilities and access to basic healthcare services.

• It believed in non-political and constitutional methods of reform, relying on cooperation with employers, municipalities and government authorities to achieve gradual social change.

• A key activity of the League was adult education, which included running night schools, mobile libraries and reading rooms for working-class people with limited access to formal schooling.

• The League actively promoted civic awareness among labourers by educating them about hygiene, responsible citizenship, social duties and the importance of community welfare.

• It played a significant role in the early labour welfare movement in India by highlighting the importance of social reform alongside economic and industrial development.