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The All-India Jain Association. (Proposals for the revision of the Constitution.) A friend of the Association writes as follows :
The Association shall be known in future by one name only viz.. the All-India Jain Association instead of by its present two names viz., the All-India Jain Association and Bharat Jain Mahamandal.
In order that prompt attention may be given in future to all matters tended to promote the best interests of the Jain Community at large, the Association shall have the following three main sections, each in charge of a Secretary with their aims and objects as follows :
1. Communal Section. (1) To safeguard the interests of the Jain Community as an Important Religious Minority by securing due representation for the Jains in all Legislative, District, Municipal, Educational and other public bodies of the country.
(2) To secure due representation of the Jain Community as an important Religious Minority in the public services of the state.
(3) To safeguard the interests of the Jain Community in Economic, Religious, Social, and other Inter-Communal matters,
II. Literary Section. (1) To Co-ordinate the activities of the various Jain Literary institutions scattered all over the country in pursuance of such common objects as may be mutually agreed upon between the accredited representatives of the said Literary institutions of three sects.
(2) To undertake the transliteration or publication or both of the sacred Jain books of the three sects, if separate funds are provided by the members of the particular sect desiring the transliteration or publication.
III. Social Section. (1) To pay special attention to the promotion of physical culture among the youths of the Community by encouraging Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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