ISJS Jainism Study Notes E5 Vol 04

Author(s): International School for Jain Studies
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies

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CONCLUSIONS:The Boarding Houses started by D. B.J.S. provide shelters to poor boys and girls in Jain Community.
Some Hostels are closed because of unavoidable circumstances. Among Boarding Houses at two Jaysingpur and Devrukh were closed, mainly because of lack of local leader's free service and sufficient financial assistance from local community. Central administration is a unique feature. Local management is changing after every three years. After independence because of state governments policy private, medical, engineering and other colleges were developed with their hostels in campus. So students preferred them to Jain boarding Houses. These Boarding Houses many times provided shelters to freedom fighters during freedom movement and helped national cause, e.g. Nagnath Annan Nayakwadi. With a view to inculcate discipline and good behaviour in the students of boarding houses superintendent and the local authorities of Boarding Houses have made rules and regulations. After the establishment of Veer Seva Dal (1979) a young front for social service of D.B.J.S., boarding houses became the centres of their activities and past students from Boarding Houses provided help to *Panchkalyan pooja' all over India. Help to flood affected people was provided through visits from house to house, Blood donation camps, Alumini Association, free food supply centre, a mess ,Tree Plantation, Antiaddiction drive, Yoga shibirs were arranged. These Boarding Houses are arranging programmes of Mahavir Jayanti, Paryushan Parva, and lecture series on various topics for personal development of students. Yearely tournaments, U.P.S.C. and M.P.S.C. exam training camps, yearly gatherings, inter collegiate elocution, competitions, computer centres, etc. After 1980 purposeful Boarding houses were started in Marathawada area, for bringing together and developing the scattered Jain community in Marathawada. The aim of D.B.J.S. was to educate the needy poor Jains students from rural areas which were fulfilled. Today we find Jain doctors, engineers, trained farmers, industrialists in villages who were past students of Jain boarding houses. It was really a revolution in rural Jain community. Now a day the management of Boarding Houses is hampered some times because of lack of social workers and good leadership. Any status in the management of boarding houses was without any financial gain. So many workers are doing this work after retirement. Some past students from the boarding houses served in Rayat Shikshan Sanstha and Swami Vivekanand Shikshan Sanstha developed the new horizon for rural community. Every Boarding house has library, Temple, gymnasium, mess, auditorium etc which provide for overall development and personality, of students. From 1902 to 2010, the tradition of free service to boardings continued to be maintained by workers of Sabha, maintaining side by side their jobs and business. Now a days all boarding Houses maintained by D.B.J.S. were famous for good behaviour, Co-operative attitude, social service and academic development of society. All Boarding houses have temple, so many Jain people are attached with it. So the Boarding Houses are the centres of Socio-cultural activities of Jain community.
While concluding the paper it can humbly be said that the hope expressed by Chh.Shahu during inaugural ceremony of the first boarding House at Kolhapur has now been partially fulfilled, if not fully by D. B.J.S. through its contribution to the educational advancement of Jain community.
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ORIGINAL SOURCES Annasaheb Latthe's records in Kasturabai Walchand College Library, Sangli, and in his house at Tilakwadi, Belgaum. Proceedings, books and correspondence of the Boarding Houses at Kolhapur, Sangli, Belgaum, Hubli, Ichalkaranji, Kesapuri and Beed its published reports,circulars,souvenir and the back-issues of its mouthpiece 'Pragati and Jinvijay' (1920-2000). Annual reports of Dakshin Bharat Jain Sabha from - 1905-2000.
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