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AHIMSA TIMES - FEBRUARY 2009 ISSUE - www.jainsamaj.org
Vol. No. 104 February, 2009
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LUXURY STAY AT PARASNATH MOVE TO WOO JAIN YOUTHS The experience of travelling to Parasnath Hills is all set to change in another two years with high-class lodging and dining facilities coming up in the area. With an aim to attract youths to the Jain pilgrimage centre, Shri Digambar Jain Saswat Tirthraj Sammedshikhar Trust, a welfare organisation of the Jains, has embarked on a mega project to set up rest houses, hotels, cafeteria and preaching centres in Madhuban, located at the foot of the hills. The project, Digambar Jain Saswat Vihar, will be wrapped up by 2011. In the first phase, a dharamshala called Niharika
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COURT PROCEEDINGS ABOUT RISHABH DEV TO BE CONDUCTED BY JUSTICE S. B. SINHA - The Supreme Court of India has constituted a bench on the two writ petitions to look into the raging controversy about the control over Shri Rishabh Dev temple near Udaipur in Rajasthan. The bench headed by the Chief Justice Shri K. G. Balakrishan had earlier issued notices to the State Government and others on the 14th may, 2007. The newly constituted bench will now consider the public interest petitions, which have requested that the notifications issued on the 20th January, 07 by thel Assistant Commissioner, Devasthan Deprtment, Government of Rajasthan may be withdrawn, in which proposals were invited from the interested persons to form a management committee for the control of Rishabh Dev temple. As is well known, the issue is about the controversy, whether it is a jain temple or Hindu temple. The Raj. High Court had earlier given a decision that it is a Jain temple. After considering the whole matter, the Supreme Court had also agreed that it was a Jain temple. The apex court had later asked the Devasthan Department, State Government and the concerned parties as to why the matter be not reconsidered and why a district Judge be not appointed to enquire into the whole matter once again. It is indeed saddening to see that a simple issue is lingering in courts and government offices for such a long time and no firm decision is being taken by the apex court, closing the issue once for all.
AMARTYA SEN URGES JAIN INDUSTRIALISTS TO INVEST IN PAWAPURI - Patna, Feb 21: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen urged industrialists belonging to Jain community to take initiative to develop Pawapuri in Bihar's Nalanda district, where Lord Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, is believed to have attained enlightenment. They (Jain industrialists) should invest for its development. The renowned economist, who visited Pawapuri said there was a need to
set up three-star hotels, an engineering college and other infrastructure for the area's development. Sen also recalled that last time he visited Pawapuri in 2003 when he was part of the delegation of former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. Pawapuri is nearly 90 km from Patna. He was in Bihar for a meeting of the mentor group of the proposed Nalanda International University in Nalanda. Sen heads the mentor group.
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has already come up in Madhuban. The five-storeyed building with eight suites was inaugurated on February 15. There are plans to build six more wings comprising three buildings having around 200 rooms, a cafeteria,
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