Connecting Village
knowledge to Villages
Palle Srujana has
completed 8 years of its
service to grassroots
innovations. In the
process, we collected a
lot of innovations, best
practices related to
health, animal
treatment, farming and
other livelihood tasks.
This knowledge is being
disseminated through
“Palle Srujana” magazine
bi-monthly in Telugu
language. We are into
eighth year of
publication.
We feel that each
village of both the
Telugu states should
know about such palle
gnanam as it would make
them think, experiment
and share among the
rural community. This
would pave way for an
effective horizontal
communication from palle
to palle , farmer to
farmer and land to land.
Imagine what a sharing
and cross sharing of
livelihood knowledge
would occur if Palle
Srujana reaches each
village.
As part of this “Gnana
Yagnam”, it should be
our resolve to ensure
each village of all 23
districts get palle
Srujana magazine for
atleast one year. That
would make the villagers
aware of a platform-
Palle Srujana, tmke them
conscious of their own
knowledge and provoke
them to experiment and
share.
A beginning is made by
Dr Sudha and Dr Nageswar
rao from Vijayawada by
subscribing for 972
villages of Krishna
District.
What we need is Rs 200
per year per village for
an estimated 1000
villages in each
district of remaining 22
districts of both Telugu
states. Estimated amount
required is Rs 2 lakh
per dist.
We need Champions per
district to muster this
amount for each
district. Target date is
31 December 2014.
There are many ways
of doing. Some
suggestions are:
1. Spread the word to
20 NRI from a district.
Let each contribute 340
USD (10000 INR). That
makes Rs 2 lakhs per
dist.
2. Identify and motivate
1000 students. Ask their
parents to contribute
for one village each.
That makes Rs 2 lakhs.
3. Write to your alumni
and ask them to
contribute for 100
villages each. If you
can connect to 220
alumni, the task is
complete.
4. Approach PSUs, local
big companies,
Industrialists to
subscribe for their
district. Four such
banks/ Companies will
take care of Rs 2 lakhs
with Rs 50000 each.
5. Approach generous
individuals in each
district and ask them to
provide Rs 2 lakhs
through their influence.
That makes for one
district.
6. SCCL can be asked to
subscribe for four
districts in which it
operates. Similarly,
Amaron, ITC, Navayuga,
Lanco, PVP etc can be
approached for
subscribing for a
district(s) in which
they are operating.
7. And many more
innovative approaches
you may think of
The contributor may give
the names of villages,
mandals or district.
Else we will select from
the database available
in Govt postal
website/official
district wise websites.
I am sure you believe
that the above proposal
is doable. Then, let’s
do it.
I also believe that if
we decide it can be done
by this year end.
Kindly nominate yourself
as Coordinator for a
district(s) of Telangana
or Andhra Pradesh.
Let us all be part of
this indigenous Gnana
Yagnam.
Prematho
Brig P Ganesham
www.pallesrujana.org
Ph: 9866001678
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