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Activities
CED maintains two reference and information centres. Virtually of course we are present at www.doccentre.net. The centre in Mumbai, which is also the registered office, houses a good collection of clippings - post 80s for most topics, and three decade old on critical issues. The archives of the clippings are house in a three storied stacker at Bangalore.

History
The history of the Centre for Education and Documentation goes back to the sixties and seventies when as part of students movements, and youth social work organisations, a few friends decided to work full time in social work. They formed an organisation called VISTAS, which worked in villages in Maharashtra, a state in India. At that time there were hardly any independent NGOs as such. Those that existed were either linked to the Church, religious organisations, or they were standard Associations like Lions Clubs set up by rich persons in their free time. One of the felt needs of the organisation as soon as they started work in the villages was information, analysis, on the local and larger situation, as well as knowledge on what other groups were doing in the villages. These groups were influenced either by Gandhian thought (Sarvodaya), Marxism (including Naxalism) or by radical movements inspired by liberation theology.

Publications
PAL, 8.22mins, Telugu with English subtitles. Highlights of the People's Tribunal on livelihoods and Climate Change (South India), 22 October 2010. In season, the bird called pala-pitta arrives. When the pala-pitta sings it means that the rains are coming. It is a sign which says get your plough in shape...

(Write to us for a copy) Highlights of the People's Tribunal on livelihoods and Climate Change (South India), 22 October 2010. PAL, 26.22mins, Telugu with English subtitles.