Cultural Life Conferences & Seminars Extension Services Dr. Ram's Center J B Teachers Welfare Trust Higher Qualification

Visvodaya has been in the fore front of education in Kavali division and has done pioneering work in providing education with enlightenment and has lit the lamp of education (TAMASO MA JYOTHIRGAMAYA). It has always tried to impart true values (ASATO MA SATGAMAYA) and tried make education into a means of molding the student into a complete man, idealistic, artistic and above all philanthropic. It believed that true education must liberate man from false ideologies and narrow outlook. In this noble effort Visvodaya has been aided by great people who associated themselves with it and enriched it and its student fraternity by that association and led them to eternal wisdom (MRUTYORMA AMRUTAM GAMAYA). The list of these men of vision is endless but we will try to project a few of them before talking of our achievements. Cultural Life Visvodaya Cultural Festivals were conceived as organs to carry the message of Visvodaya to the people besides providing them healthy recreation. Musicians, poets and artists of high repute were invited to present their art forms. These festivals were aimed at bringing out the dormant potentials of the talented students and also to act as a necessarys corrective to the deficiencies in our education system. In 1956 and 1957 our student-artists represented our University in the Inter-University Youth Festivals held in Delhi and Mysore. S V Bhujangaraya Sarma was the guiding spirit presiding over the cultural life on the campus for three decades. Kuchipudi dance exponent Vempati China Satyam took abundant interest in training our students and presenting the earliest dance-ballets such as Sri Krishna Parijatham and Chandalika on our campus. Most of these ballets, composed by Bhujangaraya Sarma and presented by Dr. Vempati China Satyam were appreciated not only in India but in US (New York, Liver more, Chicago, Boston, Sanfransisco, Los Angles, Atlanta and several other cities). Famous exponents of dance, Yamini Krishna Murthy, Manju Bhargavi and Sobhanaidu to mention a few, enriched our cultural life with their exquisite performances. Sri Bezawada Gopal Reddy School of Fine Arts, under the able direction of Dwaram Bhavanarayana Rao, turned out good work in producing trained singers and later Kowta Rammohan Sastry, a dry pencil artist of national stature, joined this school as a teacher. Children's Festival were held annually, hundreds of school children participating in competitions in sports, music, drama, and dance. The eminent Telugu poet Devulapalli Krishna sastry was a frequent visitor to the campus; three of his prose works were published by Visvodaya. Poets S V Bhujangaraya Sarma (Principal, Jawahar Bharati) Vedula Satyanarayana Sastry (Telugu Faculty) Indraganti Hanumath Sastry (Telugu Faculty) Devulapalli Krishna Sastry K V Ramana Reddy (Political Science Faculty) Artists Vempati Chinasatyam Dwaram Bhavanarayana Yamini Krishnamurthy Manju Bhargavi Sobhanaidu Publications by Visvodaya Bahukaala Darsanam - Devulapalli Krishna Sastry Appudu Puttivunte - Devulapalli Krishna Sastry Pushpa Laavikalu - Devulapalli Krishna Sastry Syama Parni - Mrs. T Anasuya Devi The Problem of Good - A McG C Tampoe Mahatma Gandhi Festival, Vivekananda Festival, Tagore Festival and Shakespeare Quarter-Centenary were celebrated. One act play festivals are Jawahar Bharati Student's Union activities every year. Conferences and Seminars A seminar on Excellence as I see it was organised on the occasion, M R Appa Rao, Vice-Chancellor, Andhra University; M V Raja Gopal, IAS; K V Gopala Swamy and others were participated. College and Community was the subject of another seminar conducted as part of the Silver Jubilee Celebrations (1975-76). Bhattam Srirama Murthy, Minister for Social Welfare; S R Sankaran, IAS; K Madhava Rao, IAS; C Arjuna Rao, IAS and Social Workers Vennelakanti Raghavaiah, Pawani Sreedhara Rao and Nannapaneni Venkata Rao addressed the seminar. Collegiate Educational Conference at Hyderabad Seminar on Mahabharata Conference on the Welfare of SCs, STs and BCs in AP Foundation Session of the AP History Congress Seminar on History of Nellore District Seminar on Agrarian relations and peasant movements in AP Extension Services The object of our extension services is to mold our students into instruments of national reconstruction by exposing them to hard realities of social life and by inculcating in them an appreciation of the dignity of labor. Students have the opportunity of participating not only in NSS and NCC but also in the numerous activities of Dr. Ram's Centre for Social work and Culture. VISVODAYA SEVA SAMITI Sprang into life in 1953, conducted Children's Festivals every 14th of November (Nehru's birthday), laid out roads in the campus, distributed Milk Powder to the needy children and for some time ran adult education centers. In 1954, when the Godavari floods caused large scale destruction in a couple of districts our students and teachers raised donations from the public to help the victims. Two American Peace Crops Volunteers, Daniel Moulton and Statia Kapa, participated in extension programmes and even helped the running of the children's school. The functions of the Seva Samiti were later on taken over by the NSS. National Service Scheme Sponsored by the Ministry of Education - Govt., of India NSS was introduced in the college in 1974 to enable the student volunteer to imbibe the spirit of National Integration and re-construction. Besides participating in the Inter-University and Inter-State Camps, NSS Volunteers did exemplary service when the devastating tidal wave hit Divi Taluka of Krishna District. In collecting rice, clothes and medicines for the victims and in running two special camps at Sangameswaram and Vadarevu, worst hit by the killer cyclone, repaired a damaged road, formed a new and helped the poor in putting up huts. In the 1976, they helped in digging a supply channel, a kilometer long bringing under plough at 20 acre plot of land benefiting 40 harijan families of Tallapalem village near the coast. This supply channel was dedicated to Sri Arthur Cotton. Dr. Ram's Centre Dr. P V Ramachandra Reddy (1915-67) not only inspired the founding of Visvodaya but also was a great source of her hopes and aspirations. The center was inaugurated on 21-01-1998. To perpetuate his memory this center is named after him. Serving as the center for extension services of Jawahar Bharati, it proposes to inculcate the spirit of service in the students and provides some welfare work in the surrounding villages, adopted by Jawahar Bharati. The centre will be organised under 2 separate wings: 1. Centre for Social work 2. Centre for Cultural Activities J B Teacher's Welfare Trust Jawahar Bharati Teachers Welfare Trust with monthly contributions from the teachers of Jawahar Bharati was started in 1965. In the event of the demise of a working teacher, his widow is paid monthly pension from the Trust. This unique Institution is managed entirely by teachers. A similar Trust is functioning prosperously for the administrative staff of Jawahar Bharati. Visvodaya pleaded with the Govt., and made 75 House sites available for the teachers and administrative staff of our institutions. It has now become a residential colony and called Vengalarao Nagar. Old-Age Home on Wheels for the benefit of retired teachers is under contemplation. Higher Qualification Visvodaya encouraged the faculty working here to improve their qualification so as to give the students better class room lectures. The following is the list of the lecturers who acquired doctorate with the help of Visvodaya. Lecturers who did Ph.D. Click here to see the list.