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= Jeevan Kumar HRF = Mr.S.Jeevan Kumar is a retired Degree College teacher, who has been working in the field of human rights for the past 42 years. He is well known for his activism for promotion of Human rights through Human Rights Forum (HRF), co-funding it with renowned Human Rights activist from Telugu States K. Balagopal.

Activism

He was an active participant in the Telngana Movement in 1969,when he was a student. He associated himself with Telangana Praja Samithi and its founder member Bhupathi Krishna Murthu in Warangal. He has been closely associated with Praja Kavi,Padma Vibhushan Kaloji Narayana Rao,a veteran democrat and peoples’ poet right from his school days. He is Vice-President of KALOJI FOUNDATION, Warangal and Convener of KALOJI CENTENARY CELBRATIONS. He was associated with APCLC (Andhrapradesh Civil Liberties Committee) from its inception in 1977. He was Secretary of Warangal District Unit of APCLC from 1977 to 1985. Late. Balgopal joined APCLC in 1983, and became State General Secretary of APCLC in the State Conference held in Khammam. Since then Jeevan Kumar has been associated himself with K.Balagopal and learnt much about theory and practice of Human Rights. He has proved himself an activist exhibiting clear perspective on violation of rights of the poor, women in the tradition bound society and marginalised people in this country.

Due to severe police repression on him in Warangal, he was compelled to get deputation of his teaching job to Hyderabad in 1992.

In the year 1998, he was in the forefront and founded Human Rights Forum (HRF) along with K.Balagopal, P.Kodand Ram, Late Narendranath, Late Burra Ramulu and others by disassociating himself with APCLC’s perspective. He was one of the three first conveners of HRF, before the organization could build its’ complete working structure. HRF was formed with a strong understanding that violation or denial of rights arises in all situations of structured oppression and inequality and the democratic aspirations arising from all such situations, and resistance to such oppression, whether organized or not, whether collective or isolated, are equally important for the Rights movement: theoretically, practically and organisationally.

HRF is a non-political and non-funded voluntary organization and responds to issues and concerns all over the country and also outside, but for the present its membership and organisation are confined to Telugu States. HRF takes up rights issues and violations through extensive fact-finding investigations, issuing press statements and media releases, circulating leaflets and other forms of literature, organising demonstrations, dharnas, peaceful agitations, public meetings, participating in campaigns, making policy interventions, filing representation petitions and legal interventions.

Mr.S.Jeevan Kumar retired from his teaching job in 2009. He became State President of HRF in 3rd HRF State Conference in October 2009 and remained in office till 2017.He is presently the Coordination Committee member of Telangana and A.P. After the formation of Telangna State in 2014, HRF formed two separate State units for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Other activities and Responsibilities:


 * He is a Human Rights activist exhibiting clear perspective on violation of rights of the poor and marginalised people in this country. He tours all over the State with respective District Committee members of his organization, collects information on violation of rights and places it before the appropriate forums for redressed. At present he is functioning as Coordination Committee Member of Human Rights Forum


 * He was an active member of CONCERNED CITIZEN’S COMMITTEE that strived in organizing talks between the Govt. and Naxalites in A.P.
 * He is an active member of UPADI HAMI HAKKU SADAHNA COMMITTEE, which is putting pressure on the Govt. to implement NREGA effectively.
 * He is an active member in Committee for Prohibition.
 * He is on the advisory committee of CARING CITIZEN’S COLLECTIVE, which was established to take care of the children from the families of peasant’s suicides,  hunger deaths and helping the victims’ families to get compensation
 * He addresses meetings on human rights awareness by touring all the districts and Mandals in the State.
 * He is on the editorial committee of MAANAVA HAKKULU bulletin in Telugu.
 * He regularly appears before the ELECTRICITY REGULATORY COMMISSION to present people’s issues.


 * Member in the Advisory Committee of NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS’ MOVEMENT (NDWM).Presently NDWM is defining domestic work and the wage patterns as the Domestic workers are included in unorganized sector.
 * He is collecting the details of the farmers who died of electric shocks in MEDAK to lobby with the Govt. for compensation to the distressed families.


 * He was convener of the SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE FOR STRUGGLE AGAINST POLAVARAM DAM. Regularly visited the agency to meet the people to be affected under the Dam, and updates people on the developments in the Supreme Court and in the Government.


 * He was an active member in Vth SHEDULE SADHANA COMMITTEE. The Committee is putting pressure on the Centre and State Governments to include tribal villages that are out of Scheduled areas.


 * National human Rights Commission (NHRC) instructed the District Collectors of HYDERABD, RANGAREDY, MEDAK and KARIMNAGAR  to take up the issue of investigation into unrecognized women dead bodies in these Districts along with Jeevan Kumar in the year 2004.
 * Supreme Court nominated him in the panel of observers that monitors the working of SHELTER HOMES by the Municipalities in the State.
 * Government of Telangana appointed him as General Body member of SOCIETY FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND SOCIAL AUDITT(SSAT)
 * He regularly visits SHRC and other institutes like State SC, ST.Commision, women’s’ commission and files petitions on various violations.
 * He occasionally writes on human rights issues in vernacular news papers.
 * He is a member of FORUM FOR BETTER HYDERBAD, representing the issues of slum dwellers in the City and the State arguing that slum dwellers are actual makers of cities.
 * He is one the founder members of CHATRI(Campaign for Housing and Tenurial Rights).This organization works on the housing rights of the poor in cities. Presently he is on the board of Core Committee.
 * He was the founder of Warangal Film Society,first district in Telangana to have such a film society activity.
 * Mr.Jeevan Kumar taught at various colleges named, C.K.M.Arts and Science College, Warangal, A.V.Degree College, Hyderabad and Dharmavanth Degree College, Yakutpura, Hyderabad.He retired from Dharmavanth College in 2009.