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Vijnana Vihara Residential School is a registered N.G.O. carrying out multidisciplinary activities to promote educational, social, cultural and community development in the North Coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh since 1980, with its base at Gudilova, Anandapuram (Mandal), Visakhapatnam(District). In the beginning, the founding fathers with their sagacity and vision, startedgurukula pattern of educational activity. Later to discharge its social commitment, rural andtribal education alongh with medical, health and other service activities were taken up. to make the community self-reliant, it started providing vocational training cutting across the present commercial trends. Vijnana Vihara Alumni Association formed during Silver Jubilee year has decided to provide wide range of services to improve the Almamater with a mission. Parents, well wishers, old students and philanthropic public including other stake holders are trying to propel us forward to take up number of initiatives for further educational and social reforms.
It is quite and best region respiration peace and tranquility with hills in the south and west and undeniable region at the north and east. It is an ideal spot for studying. The temple of Ranganadh Swamy and Narayaneswara located within the valley 2 km away from the school are an attraction for visitors. The whole surroundings are surcharged with piety, peace, and quietness. All the students, instructors and personnel with their families are living in the campus, respiratory the beauty of nature.
Education is the assimilation of ideas and schooling of thoughts main to the dynamism of person and creativity of persona and not mere book gaining knowledge or stuffing of the mind that ends in stagnation in personality. Education should have a biased hold close to robust and susceptible points of hoary countrywide tradition and lifestyle. It ought to actually have a company draw close to the realities of current India. Above all, it must help human beings to combine the robust and examined elements of modernity.
With this result in view, it's been our endeavor to hold the pristine purity of the land of wildness in which the faculty is placed; to set an example via thoughts social members of the family between students and a team of workers, students and instructors, staff, and management. Likewise, the cultural milieu of the kingdom has been projected in a balanced and high-quality manner through enabling the scholars to respire, a diffusion of curricular and additional-curricular events, explicit, dream and act the ideas Indian culture, purity of nature and freedom of notion.
SCHEME OF VIJNANA VIHARA SOCIETY ACTIVITIES, GUDILOVA
1. Rural Education
I. Vijnana Vihara Residential School (Senior Secondary School - 1980), Gudilova.
A fully residential school with student representation from 13 states.
II. Kesava Vidya Vihara (Upper Primary Free School - 1981), Gudilova.
Provided first generation education for 11 villages. Alumni are helping to the transformation of these villages.
III. Sri SaraswatiVidya Vihara (E.M. High School - 1989), Gudilova.
Its target group is social, cultural,political and economic leaders from surrounding villages. It takes up dharmic jagaran and service
activities in a big way through students and teachers with the help of parents in villages.
IV. Madhava Vidya Vihara (Upper Primary Free School - 2006), Anakapalle.
School in the area where we have constructed 125 pucca houses and community hall in flood affected S.C. colony of Anakapalle.
2. Tribal Education
I.Vivekananda Vidya Vihara (High School - 1993), Sitampeta. Students from 156 tribal
habitations, mostly primitive tribal groups attend. It's being run with alumni and Integrated Tribal
Development Agencie's (ITDA Sitampeta) help. This school has helped in removing middlemen
between ITDA and tribals along with Dharma jagaran & Cultural transformation activity.
II. Single Teacher Schools on Hill Tops.
3. Coastal Education:
I. Smt Potluri Varalaxmi School, Vatsavalasa, Srikakulam District - a free high school for
fishermen.
II. Alluri Sitaramaraju Vocational Junior College (2006), Sitampeta.
2. Fine Arts
i. Bharati Kala Vihara, (Music School - 1992), Gudilova
3. Seva (Service)
i. Workshops & Seminars
ii. Personality Development & Education Activities
iii. Summer School for poor students at Gudilova & Sitampeta for the last 39 years. Rural
students from Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam and East Godavari districts
participate in big numbers
iv Bala Samskara Kendras – 28
v Free Coaching Centres – 2
vi Matrumandalis - 2
vii Prepared text and work books for tribal students which was approved by SCERT.
viii Life skills content and teachers training was given to the Vijnana Vihara by the
composite Andhra Pradesh government.
ix Bhajan Mandalis – 2
x Single Teacher Schools - 2
4. Swavalamban (Self Reliance) - for Atma Nirbhar Villages : 6 centres
i. 3 Tailor Training Centres at Anakapalle, Gudilova & Sitampeta
ii. Skill Development Centre at Gudilova providing certificate courses in Yogic Science,
Health Care, extension of B.V.K.Degree College under UGC Scheme.
iii. Skill Development Centre at Anakapalle - Certificate Courses in Masonry, Carpentry,
Electrician.
iv. ATAL Tinkering Laboratory services are extended to the nearby rural talent.
5. Health
Resident medical officer on the Gudilova campus : Specialists provide their service
every day in Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, Gynecology, Dentistry, ENT, Surgery, Gastro-
Enterology and Dermatology. We shall be developing our rural community health
centre into a 50beded hospital.
Hospital (Curative)
i. ANC – Checking
ii. Free Medical consultations for poor
iii. Free drug distribution in medical camps on different specialities
iv. Child care through Dr. Hedgewar Hospital, Gudilova
v. Diagnostic services at Gudilova
Ambulance Services
i. Stationed at Gudilova
Health Education
i. Reproductive and child health programme
a) B.C.C. b) I.E.C. c) I.D.C.
ii. Awareness on U.I.P.
Iii Health and hygiene is schools
Management Team
Director
Principal (In-Charge)
Teacher Representative
