Gyandhara

Author(s): Gunvant Barvalia
Publisher: Saurashtra Kesari Pranguru Jain Philosophical and Literary Research Centre

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c) Non-flexible earmarking of the amount procured through donations. Due to lack of flexibility, huge un-utilised surplus goes on mounting under certain heads while certain other heads normally fall short of funds. Paucity of funds under certain heads do lead to situations where routine welfare activities also suffer so expansion of such benevolent activities by those trusts obviously become almost impossible.
d) In order to satisfy the ego of religious leaders, new places of worship come up very close to already existing ones resulting in injudicious and wasteful spending of the community's scarce resources. e) Mind boggling amount is spent over parties hosted for marriages and religious functions. Organizers fail to understand that it is essential to curtail such expenses or even skip such events all together and instead make available funds for more important projects like: (i) Education Value education and secular
education
(ii) Providing
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technical training and
apprenticeship facilities to the youth
(iii) Subsidised Medical facilities and health
insurance
(iv) Afforadable Housing facilities
(v) Preservation and digitization of thousands of
books kept in jaina bandanas
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