ALL INDIA PEOPLE'S SCIENCE NETWORK
This is an organisation that links together 40 groups working in different
parts of India in the area of People's science.
People's science is application
of science and technology to people's problems. The process
in interactive and scientists/ technologists and the people together
shape S&T.
This interaction could
be in the form of
- using science to
demystify claims of God Men or superstitions
- critiquing the misuse
of S&T for destruction - economic, ecological, warfare etc.
- finding technological
application to problems faced by rural artisans
- improving their
skills through upgarding their technological knowledge
- evolving educational
tools for making the study of science a joy of learning
- functional literacy
programmes
- health and sanitation
MAJOR PROGRAMMES, CAMPAIGNS AND INTERVENTI0NS
IN THE LAST TEN YEARS
* Campaign against Union Carbide and hazardous
technologies.
* Efforts and relief and rehabilitation
of the victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the worst chemical disaster in
the World.
* Organisation of Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha
(a nationwide people's science road show) for creating scientific awareness
and science popularisation. Four caravans moving from the four corners
of the country, traveling about 2000 Km. converged into a major science
rally in Bhopal.
* Organisation of Bharat Gyan Vigyan Jatha
( a nationwide literacy building campaign with the solgan "literacy and
science for the people") covering over 36,000 villages.
* Initiating total literacy campaign
in over 300 districts.
* Organisation of Joy of learning
(a campaign to make teaching of science a matter of joy in the learning
process) The total solar eclipe provided an oppurtunity to add the
element of Cosmic Voyage Programme under which campaigns were launched
to enable children to see the solar eclipe safely through filters and also
discover the wonders of the sky.
* Developing literacy to health
intervention in centers for women and children.
* Organising Samtha Jatha (women's
campaigns) for equality and education of women.
* Publication of large number of books
for children and neo literates
* Organisation of Sven People's Science
Congresses.
FOR MORE DETAILS WRITE TO : karao@nda.vsnl.net.in
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