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Acknowledgements
I would like to express my gratitude to Acharya GyanSagarji Maharaj who inspired me to collect the information, about various benefits available to minority communities, from various sources and compile in a book form for information and guidance of Jain community in particular and minority community at large. I would also like to express my gratitude to the many people who saw me for such a compiled information at one place; to all those who provided support in collection of information from various websites, books, talked things over, read, wrote, offered comments, allowed me to quote their remarks and assisted in the editing, proof reading and design.
Above all I want to thank my family members, who supported and encouraged me in spite of all the time it took me away from them. It was a long and difficult journey for collection of such information and compile them. I would like to thank Mr. Pradeep Jain, Mr. Anuj Jain and Mr. Kishore Kumar for helping me in the process of selection, drafting and editing. I am thankful to Shrut Samvardhan Sansthan for bringing out this work in an attractive form. Thanks again to Acharya Gyan Sagarji Maharaj without you this book would never find its way to help the deprived people belongs to minority community, who in real sense are in dire need of these scholarships, loans, grants etc. for upliftment of the status and the community as well.
Last and not least: I beg forgiveness of all those who have been with me over the course of the years and whose names I have failed to mention.
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