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OUR BUILDINGS.
All our public buildings are as a rule looked after by the Sheths-one, two or even more, who are mostly business men-men of wealth and position in a particular society-as headmen are supposed to be responsible for their maintenance and management. All repairs, additions and alterations to suit the present day needs are done under their control--of course more or less guided by the head workman. Even all our private buildings are mostly similarly done individually under personal care and supervision. I would now request the attention of all concerned, to the presenta conditions and changes in construction and material brought to our use by modern science.
We spare little when we have got to spend more. This can be explained thus. Number of our temples demanding urgent repairs and maintenance is large and is increasing. We have got to erect buildings for many a public institutions. Our existing buildings need much to bring them up to the present standard of sanitation and requirements. This all means demand for money. On the other hand, men of wealth-men like Sheth Pethad, Vastupal, Tejpal and many others - are no more amongst us. Also unfortunately we are living in a period when habits of simple and cheap liviog are leaving us, when our wants are fast increasicg, when educational and such other expenses are ever growing and competition gets harder and harder.
Purely from an economic point of view it will be quite uunecessary to erect a building of the most enduring material. unless it is desired to produce a monumental result. In about a hundred years or say even iu much shorter period, sanitary requirements, methods of suitable planning will bave so much changed, business methods will have been so much revolutionised, internal arrange. ments will have been quite out of vogue, character of the locality will have so utterly altered that the wisest course tien will be to re. build. Even this day we find many a building--private as well as public-erected centuries and decades back in a thoroughly substaus
| SR No. | 536505 |
| Book Title | Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald 1909 Book 05 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Mohanlal Dalichand Desai |
| Publisher | Jain Shwetambar Conference |
| Publication Year | 1909 |
| Total Pages | 438 |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Shwetambar Conference Herald, & India |
| File Size | 11 MB |