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He expressed his sincere thanks for Shri Satish Kumar Jain, Secretary General of the Conference saying that it was due to his untiring efforts of over a year that this Conference was arranged so much successfully, on such a big scale. He also thanked him for bringing out such a useful and big souvenir as its Chief Editor and Chairman of Souvenir Committee and for collecting substantial advertisements and donations for the Conference. The names of Mr. Chander M. Jain and Mr. Kamal K. Jain of Canada need a further special mention as they dedicatedly and sincerely took much pains to collect the advertisements from Canada for the Souvenir, for which they both and the Jain Society of Toronto (Canada) deserve special thanks.
The other special features of the Conference were the Book Exhibition on February 8 and 10, 1985 and release of First Day Cancellation Cover on February 8, 1985. The credit for arranging the Book Exhibition, at which various Jain publishers had exhibited their publications, mainly goes to Shri Mahavir Prasad Jain, Convenor, who took much pains in this work alongwith his colleagues, Shri Anand Prakash Jain and Shri M. L.Jain. The Special First Gay Cancellation Cover, priced at Rs. 2/-, bearing Logo of the Conference and Rs. 1/- Postage Stamp of Gommateswara Bahubali, was mainly the result of the efforts of Shri Satish Kumar Jain, Secretary General and Shri Naresh Kumar Jain and Shri Pradip Jain, both young philatelists of Patna (Bihar-India).
While the work was going on in India to hold the Third International Jain Conference. Dr. T. J. Salgia (Cleveland-Ohio) Vice-President of the North American Organising Committee of the Conference wrote letters to President Ronald Reagan, Mr. Louis Stokes, House of Representatives, US Congress and Mr. George Voinovich, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio informing them about the Third International Jain Conference and the work this Conference was doing to spread the message of world peace and non-violence for entire humanity.
in Canada, Shri Pravinchandra J, Shah, Shri Chander M. Jain, Shri Kamal K. Jain and their associates orgnised a mini Conference at Toronto on Sunday, the 17th February, 1985 to hail and support the big Third International Jain Conference which was held at Delhi a week earlier. It was a gesture of understanding and cooperation by the brethren of North America.
Satish Kumar Jain
Secretary General
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