Singrauli
Conference Invitation/Announcement
Lokavidya
Jan Andolan
First
State Level Conference, Madhya Pradesh
28-30
September, 2012, Singrauli
Venue :
Lokavidya Ashram, Vindhya Nagar, behind Shivaji Complex, Dhoti, Baidhan, Dist.
Singrauli (M.P.)
It
has been decided to hold the first state level conference of Lokavidya Jan
Andolan in Madhya Pradesh in Singrauli between 28-30 Sept. 2012. This
conference will discuss the issues of regular
employment on the basis of lokavidya,
equal distribution of national resources like electricity and displacement of
people from their lands, work, knowledge and other resources. It will also
discuss ways and means of taking this knowledge movement of the people forward
in Madhya Pradesh. You are cordially invited, do come.
The
first international conference of Lokavidya Jan Andolan was held at Vidya
Ashram in Varanasi in November 2011. The Bihar state level convention was
organized in Darbhanga on 31st March-1st April, 2012.
Then on 24-25 May, 2012, a regional conference of Lokavidya Jan Andolan was held in Chirala in Andhra Pradesh.
Lokavidya
resides in society. Peasants, artisans, adivasis, hawkers, pavement and slum
dwellers, people’s artists, fishermen, health workers, and many others
including the women of their families, who have never gone to a college or
university are the people who organize their livelihoods on the basis of lokavidya and also serve society in the
process. They may together be called lokavidyadhar
samaj . These people have no fixed income. They have been kept away from
the national resources and they are the ones who are victims of displacement.
Lokavidya
Jan Andolan is a knowledge movement of lokavidyadhar
samaj which is developing a new paradigm of radical social change. It is
our understanding that university knowledge is an equal party in creating the
huge inequality in modern societies and in the destruction of nature, therefore
solutions cannot be provided by the same knowledge. The claim is that lokavidya is that foundational knowledge
which can liberate humanity from the crisis it is in.
It
will be a mistake to think of lokavidya
as remnants of traditional knowledge. Lokavidya renews itself every day. Those
who live by lokavidya develop it
constantly based on their needs and experiences and their own genius. Lokavidya integrally embodies the
knowledge of society, nature and morality. In the industrial age, science and
the university were responsible for the refusal to accept lokavidya as knowledge at all and in tune with it the lokavidyadhar samaj was declared
ignorant, stupid and incapable of any initiative. Perhaps the secret of extreme
poverty and exploitation of people and the destruction of Nature is hidden in
this historic indignity heaped on humanity. Lokavidya Jan Andolan challenges
this situation. It is a movement for economic, political, cultural,
philosophical and social dignity of lokavidya.
It is in this that the sources of liberation of lokavidyadhjar samaj lie, and with this the path of liberation of
the whole society.
Those
living by lokavidya are facing
displacement almost everywhere in Madhya Pradesh and with this they are denied
any access to the national resources resulting in a complete destabilization of
their already low incomes. Their lives stand uprooted no end. Singrauli, Sidhi,
Rewa, Satna, Katni, Shahdol, Anuppur, Jabalpur, Baitul, Khandwa, Badwani, Dhar,
Jhabua, Indore, and many more districts of Madhya Pradesh are witnessing
struggles against displacement. The policies of Globalization, privatization
and liberalization have led to Special Economic Zones, Industrial Corridor,
Power Projects and many other such huge initiatives in rural and remote areas
displacing adivasis and peasants from their livelihoods and pushing them into
conditions which disable them from using their own knowledge, lokavidya. Generally in Central India
and also in Madhya Pradesh it is a common site that immense force is used to
wrest control of forest, minerals, water, and all kinds of natural resources
from the people. This Madhya Pradesh conference of Lokavidya Jan Andolan may be
seen as an important link in the developing knowledge movement to challenge
this situation.
Program
Day
|
Subject
|
Time
|
28 Sept. 2012
|
Agaria
Panchayat
with Iron Smelting Demonstration
|
12.00 Noon
|
29 Sept. 2012
|
Keynote
addresses and discussions on the following
1.
The idea of Lokavidya Jan Andolan
2.
Struggles against displacement and the lokavidya
point of view.
3.
Jobs for everybody on the basis of lokavidya with
salaries equal to a government employee.
4.
Electricity distribution policy must be announced
before expansion in power production. Village must get as much electricity as
the metropolis.
|
10.00
in the morning to 6.00 in the evening
|
30 Sept. 2012
|
1.
Lokavidya Jan Andolan in Madhya Pradesh – The Way
Ahead.
2.
Resolutions of the Conference
|
9.00 am to 2.00 pm
|
·
Lokavidya Yatra : From Indore in western Madhya
Pradesh a group is undertaking a Yatra through the rural areas of various
districts to reach Jabalpur and then to Singrauli. Starting on 14 Sept. from
the village Sondwa in dist. Alirajpur, the yatra will move through Dhar,
Badwani, Khargoan, Khandwa, Harda, Hoshangabad and Narsingpur to reach Jabalpur
on 27Sept. (Contact : Sanjeev Daji
9926426858, Indore)
·
Lodging
and boarding arrangements will be made by the organizers.
Awdhesh
Kumar Sanjeev
Daji Ravi
Shekhar Dilip Kumar ‘dili’
Singrauli Indore Singrauli Varanasi
9425013524 9926426858 8225935420 9452824380
Contact
Address :
Office
:
Lokavidya Ashram, Behind Shivaji Complex, Vindhya Nagar, Vill. Dhoti, Baidhan,
Dist. Singrauli (M.P.)
Secretariat of Lokavidya
Jan Andolan : Vidya Ashram, SN 10/82 A, Ashok Marg,
Sarnath, Varanasi-221007
Vidya Ashram
