Nevertheless the state of Andhra Pradesh is being considered on of the pioneering states in the country, increasing poverty is the existing fact in the state, Despite the area is getting development, the majority of people are still remaining poor and dwelly in acute poverty. The opportunities or programme meant for poor have not been reaching the real beneficiaries. In this context,
Mr. K.Sahadevaiah and like-minded colleagues have come forward to commit themselves for the development of the poor people, as with their own participation, that was the main reason why NAVAJEEVAN come into existence in the 1996.

NAVAJEEVAN is a mass initiative totally devoted towards the integrated development of primitive tribal, scheduled caste and tribal community people in the remote villages of Nellore, Kadapa and Chittoor District. And coastal of Bay of Bengal sea dwelling people. Where there was people are under much difficulty circumstances. These people have no other means of earning to maintain their except by their daily fishing and agriculture labour in daily wages process. And these people are facing many problems as and when there is no work then no food for them. Due to the above drastic situation, most of them are migrating to various places so far from here to get livelihood.

In this severe position , some of social development activists are decided to solve problems of the people of this region by tapping locally available resource , in order to relate employment opportunities to the deserved target families in the villages for which we had special thrust on the effective development of women and children in the I initial stages we have conducted participatory Rural appraisal ( PRA) in all our adopted villages to know the situation people and their problems during the time of PRA we collected information from local villagers and analyzed the problems as follows.

Illiteracy, lack of proper health care facilities lack of employment migration lack of water for irrigation etc as according to the above problems the people have given highest priority to eradication of illiteracy to make the above vision in reality K.Sahadevaiah who is the President, and other likeminded 6 persons as governing body to NAVAJEEVAN had decided to start some integrated development projects for the sustainable development of aboriginals of this region other downtrodden communities. He himself approached several organizations for support and guidance Mr.K, sahadeviah is a noted social activist in this area and he was very much tried to make these people to aware in their rights and responsibilities

MAJOR OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANISATION:

• To foster the development of the women children disadvantaged marginalized groups in the society.

• Empowering the poor by way of offering services to give minimum access to development through rights approach

• Streamlining the holistic development of the poor and vulnerable in the society that is leading hand to mouth and precarious living conditions.

• To motivate and education the masses as about their own development and to prepare them to tap all resources meant for them.