Frequently Asked Questions

The Vivekananda Kendra has been working in Arunachal Pradesh for the last three decades to develop this beautiful eastern-most State of India as a MODEL STATE exemplifying the theme DEVELOPMENT TROUGH CULTURE.

Work at the grassroots became a felt need. And so was launched the Vivekananda Kendra Arun Jyoti Project in 1993- a multi-dimensional Service Project for Arunachal Pradesh. With its five forums- Education, Health, Youth, Woman and Culture- Arun Jyoti works from the grassroots up with the theme of Development Through Culture.

Following are the key areas of “Arun Jyoti” Project.
• Non-formal eduction to the Arunachalees for attainingfull literacy in10 years.
• Awareness camps for woman in the field of Child Care, Health and Hygiene to prepare woman to play their full role without losing their traditional roots.
• Anganwadi teachers training to promote Child Care and Welfare.
• Organization of Sports and Cultural meets and rallies to develop the personality of the youth.
• Eco camps for youth and students to increase the consciousness, that nature is sare-not just an asset.
• National integration Camps to strengthen the national vision of the people.
• Bharat Darshan tours to enable the people to get Personal experience of the intimate culture and civilization linkage with the rest of Bharat.
• Social service Camps and relief activity promote community sense and self – development.
• 1)Adventure camps and padayatras to promote self- confindence and courage.

Arun Jyoti envisages ABHYUDAYA – equitable raising of all sections of the society identifying potential, creative leaders from within the society it serves. Since society is multi dimensional, these creative leaders will also have to be drawn from different walks of life. Hence Arun Jyoti work is classified under the Panch Mancha-s. The Cumulative effect of these Manch-s is to create a great socio-cultural awakening that recognizes and projects the unity behind the apparent but essential variety of our National life.

The bharatiya system of Health care takes into account the existence of layers of existence beyond the material. Hence health necessarily has to be on all levels. Arun Jyoti activities seek to promote proper health care for the society.

Sanskaras, character-building values, are given right from the inception and consciously so in Bharat. These values can chiefly be classified as personal, civic, social and patriotic. In Arunachal Pradesh too, traditional community life continues to instill these values from childhood onwards. To nature the same is the aim of the Arun Anoupacharika Shiksha Manch. Activities of Anoupacharika Shiksha Manch- Balasankar Vargas, Balwadies, Children’s Camps, Teachers’ orientation camp, Yoga Varga, Yoga Prashikshaks Trg., Yoga Satra, Yoga Therapy.

“My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation; out of them will come my workers. They will work out the problems like lions.” -Swami Vivekananda

Youth indicates the pulse of the nation. To tap and channelize their innate dynamism and idealism is the task of Arun Jyoti’s Yova Manch. The activities of Yuva Manch Samuhik Suryanamaskar, Youth Camps, Karkarta Prashikshan Shivir, Motivation Camps, Concentration Development Workshop, Personality Development Camps, Padayatra, Competition- Translation, ect.

Motherliness, hardwork, sacrifice, intelligence, and sense of responsibility are the characteristics of Indian women. Systematic onslaught on these qualities, primary to her physical attributes are degrading women to commodity value rather than upholding the grand ideal of Hindu womanhood – the mother – the first Guru of the family. Since the socio-economic, culture health of the society itself rests with women, Arun Jyoti organizes Mahila Jagrati Shivirs and Matra Sammelans. These camps are meant to both empower women and make them play a more conscious role in developing the society.

Last year a new chapter was added to Arun Jyoti activities when its co-ordinated efforts with the Vivekanada Kendra institute of culture, Guwahati and the people of Arunachal resulted in two Seminars. Seminars of this kind help in documenting our traditional systems, and also in understanding the logic and wisdom of our ancestors with due respect to them.