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the courtsey of a zealous social figure and businessman of Delhi-Shri Adishwar Lal Jain, in memory cf his father, late Shri Deputy Mal Jain, who was a dedicated freedom fighter and a social figure of great zeal and respect.
Dr. L. M. Singhvi, the renowned Jurist and scholar is the Chairman of the Award Selection Committee. The First Award has been presented to the eminent elderly Jain historian Dr. Jyoti Prasad Jain, Lucknow on December 14, 1986 at New Delhi at a public function. The Second Award will be presented to erudite Shri Dalsukh D. Malvania, Ahmedabad on December 25 1987 during the Fourth World Jain Congress.
Ahimsa International has taken up with the Government of India, with the institutions and individuals the need for propagating vegetarianism as a movement and the need for opening separate kitchens and hotels for vegetarian food. A letter written to the Ministry of Tourism had been circulated to all the hotels and restaurants of the country for necessary action. This organisation proposes to further the cause of non-violence and vegetarianism and has approached the Government to reform its nutrition policy and food service to the patients in hospitals, to stop open display of meat-food and for showing compassion to animals.
Suitable literature is also proposed to be brought out and adequate publicity intended to be made about the positive harm and ill effects caused by non-vegetarian food and the virtuous benefits and the salutary effects of vegetarian diet.
Ahimsa International has taken up in hand the work of preparing and publishing a medium sized book upto 200 pages on Jainism. Efforts will be made to make it a commonly accepted book giving traditional and traceable recorded history of this one of the oldest religions of the world, its principles, philosophy, culture and history of the literature etc. It is hoped that the book will be of much interest and use/to the Jains all over, to the researchers and even to a common reader, who wishes to know adequately about this religion without taking pains of reading volumes of its vast canonical and other literature. Ahimsa International has its Head Quarters at Delhi (India) and Chapters at Jaipur, Khatauli & Gwalior.
The First International Jain Conference was held in New York City, U.S.A. on October 3 84, 1981. The Second International Jain Conference was held at London, U.K., on October 1 & 2, 1983. These two conferences with the efforts of Acharya Sushil Kumarji, Shri Chitrabhanuji and others concerned have created a World Forum for the furtherance and discussion of subjects which are of vital importance to the Jains of ths entire world.
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