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SRUTI believes in the philosophy of struggle (sangarsh) and creation (nirman). Struggle is thus a pre-condition for creation. Struggle for collective functioning, struggle for dignity, struggle for justice are important elements in the process of creation. Facilitating and organising processes of community participation and assertion of rights, SRUTI Fellows lead the way on the path of social change. Monitoring village-level government health care centres, alternative education centres, thrift groups and forest protection committees, as well as responding to the various social and economic implications of privatisation-globalisation-militarisation, people's organisations are established as agents of change.These people's organisations or lok sangathans are based on values such as self-reliance (swavalamban), self-respect (swabhimaan), self-rule (swaraj), consensus (sahmati), cooperation (sahkar), equality (samata) and justice (nyaya). Through the processes of building people's leadership, they aim at inculcating and institutionalising these values among marginalised communities in order to create a new social order.
Spread across villages and slums of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Jharkhand, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, and Uttrakhand , these groups are breaking the culture of silence and building a culture of resistance across the length and breadth of India.
Mobilising resources through membership fees and local fund collection drives, SRUTI Fellows create possibilities for self-reliant and selff-sustaining operations at the field level.
