JVV - Education
With
the strength of several thousands of teachers as its members, the JVV organizes
teacher training to make them enjoy teaching and promotes pedagogic innovations
to make learning an enjoyable activity for children. It also assesses
curriculum and textbook contents and concepts and organizes children’s science
festivals, such as balotsavs, srijanotsavs, joyful learning, bala melas, etc,
frequently on massive scales. Further, it has developed PowerPointÒ slideshows
and software modules in several subjects of academic interest besides lecture
notes and booklets. To promote quest for knowledge and bent of socio-scientific
and technological awareness among school children, the JVV has been running the
largest circulated Telugu children’s science monthly magazine, Vidyarthi
Chekumuki, since 1990. It conducts Chekumuki Science Talent Test every year for
high school children. As many as 5 lakh students have participated in this test
this year.
JVV - Health
Over the last
few decades, JVV has actively been campaigning for people-oriented health
policies and medicare. Led by a band of dedicated doctors and activists, the
organization conducts surveys and analyzes the ground realities of healthcare
at all levels while preparing village level health plans and cost-effective and
lasting solutions. As an active partner of Jana Swasthya Andolan (People’s
Health Movement), JVV has been critically examining the health policies of the
governments and formulating alternative health policies while cooperating on
certain areas.
Many were
baptized to JVV when there was a Prohibition in the state of Andhra Pradesh. It
was the Literacy Movement, spearheaded by JVV, and one of the many short stories
written by JVV (Sri V. Balasubrahmanyam, its former General Secretary and
Executive Member of the AIPSN) for the illiterates, that sparked the Anti
Arrack Movement. It has been a milestone in the successful chronology of events
of Jana Vignana Vedika.
JVV - Publications
One of the major strengths of JVV
is its publication wing. It has been publishing and circulating different kinds
of books on science, culture, history, education, health, etc. for all levels
of people. Promoting reading habit from the childhood is a regular and ongoing
activity of JVV. It organizes book exhibitions, reading festivals and readers’
clubs. Most importantly, it publishes and circulates booklets, pamphlets,
bulletins contextually too whenever socio-scientific, natural or astronomical
events take place.
JVV - Science Communication
Our Constitution prescribes
Developing Scientific Temper, Humanism and Spirit of Inquiry and Reform as some
of the fundamental duties of citizens. Popularization of science and
inculcation of scientific temper among the people is one of JVV’s major tasks
and priority areas. Its modes of popularization of science among people include
folk arts, street plays, dance, magic, sound and music and other art forms
besides the usual speeches, book exhibitions, demonstrations, debates,
presentations, etc.
JVV - Superstitions
Jvv is taking up several
programmes against this, It is specially
concentrating on some of the problems such as Banamathi , chetabadi(sorcery) that
is severe in 8 of the 9 districts of telangana and 2 districts in coastal areas
of Andhra Pradesh. roblem is addressed
by Jvv Teams consisiting of psychiatrists, hypnotists, magicians, medical
practitioners and social activists by giving live demonstrations in the
affected areas.
They will explain people, the
reasons behind the abnormal behaviour of the victims i.e. extreme poverty,
harassment from own family members, ill health like mass hysteria but not due
to the handy work of the black magician by his/her chants or supernatural
powers.
As per the records of the
police, the crime rate related to the above incidents has been reduced to a
large extend because of the JVV's campaign .
JVV - Agriculture
Jvv could
involve few experts in the field of agriculture, to assess the crissia ridden
agriculture in the state. The sub-committee took up group meets , seminars and
press. meets to enlighten the subtie on relevant issues like WTO agriculture,
GM crops, Tanks as saviours of local resources, companiy cool-drinks that
aggrevate the crisis in the agriculture, voice of victims (suicide farmers)etc.
during the past 15-20 years .The sub -committee members supported the cause of
the experts committe on agriculture. Farmers who suryeved the state during
2004-05 and submitted reports to guide the administrative for better planning .
Jvv involved few of its volunteers to take up
studies on the growth and development of various sections in the villages of
the state, so that a comprehensive integrated development plan can be proposed
through them. Thin activity is still going in the districts. JVV could brought
out few pulications during the past two decades of its activities in the state.
JVV - Women
SAMATHA is the name of the women’s wing of
JVV. It strives to empower women so that they are aware of their rights and
sensitive to their problems and become prepared for the remedial measures. They
are encouraged to be able to tackle their problems boldly and amicably.
Personifying woman with weakness, meekness and subjugation besides projecting
her as a symbol of evil have become a typical aspect of TV serials and
storylines of entertainment. JVV condemns all such savagery against woman while
organizing suitable programmes and extending solidarity to the struggles waged
by democratic woman organizations. JVV also holds frequent counseling and
teachings to educate adolescent girls. Vanita Kala Jatha, awareness of PNDT
Act, workshops on abuse and misuse of modern healthcare technologies, campaign
against sex determinations, gender discrimination in domestic, public,
political and other socio-economic aspects and abject marginalization of
womanhood for commercial and other nefarious and cultural brutality of
feudalism in the garb of modernism, are some of the major activities, Samata
wing steers.
