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the doctrine. Thus the temple and the monks/nuns form the basic components of Jain community development or social work for Jains primarily. One will therefore find special institutions, side by side with major temples, like upāšrayas (for monks and nuns), dharmaśālās for travelers and poor/destitute, orphanages, Women's homes, libraries, schools and at times dispensaries/specialized small hospitals (e.g. bird's hospital at Lala Mandir Delhi).
Pilgrim places like Nakoda (Rajasthan), Palitana (Gujarat), Parasnath (Jharkhand), Shri Mahavirji (Rajasthan) Shravanbelgola (Karnataka) and Hastinapur (UP) and hundreds of others also play an important role in enhancing social and religious duties of Jains.
Special mention is to be made of pilgrim towns like Shri Mahavirji (Rajasthan) and Shravanbelgola (Karnataka) where besides the holy temples and dharmaśālās, facilities for education, health services, homes for destitute and employment generation are being provided for local poor people in particular.
5.1 Jain organizations engaged in Social works i. Education Statistics reveal that there are over 4400 schools all over India established and / or managed by Jains catering to 4-5 million students of all age groups.
The schools range from top of the line (Pathways, Modern, Heritage in Delhi, DPS Aligarh, Mahavir in Jaipur to name a few) to very good (Mahāvīra, H. L. Jain, Mrigavati in Delhi) schools catering primarily to non-Jain students.
Similarly there are 100s of colleges in professions like engineering, medicine, management etc. established and run by Jains. S.P.Jain School of management in Mumbai is considered to be one of the finest management schools of India. Lately there is a rush to establish Jain universities (Mangalayatan, Prakrit at Shravanbelgola, and Jain Vishva Bharati in Rajasthan) as well as a premier management institute like Indian school of Business (Hyderabad) in Mumbai also.
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