Bhav Vardhan Trust -

Following is Exerpts from UN report regarding the Trust:

"Bhav Vardhan Trust (Swadhyay Parivar), founded by Pandurang Athawale, has
succeeded in transforming the lives and attitudes of millions of people. By cutting across
all socio-religious boundaries it promotes “swadhyay” (self-search and self- realization
that God is within us) and the belief that we are the children of the same God and hence are
created equal and related to each other. Their response was spontaneous both for relief and
rehabilitation in several villages in Kutch, as well as Jamnagar, Rajkot and Surendranagar
districts. Based on the concept of brotherhood and succour to those in distress, the
Swadhyay Parivar has been working in many of the earthquake-affected areas. It spurred a
movement for house reconstruction based on self-help efforts of the affected people
themselves. As on 3 September 2001 they were active in 112 villages, had planned
construction/reconstruction of 6,000 houses of which 4,534 houses were already
completed."



Following is the trust information:

Bhav Vardhan Trust (Swadhyay Parivar)

Year of establishment- 1971-72

Core area of work- To support the needy people.

Geographical coverage- All over India .

Core Objectives- Human Resource Development.

Shelter- Supported 4537 families in terms of material for constructing permanent houses.

Dams- Reconstructed 13 storage tanks in 13 villages of Anjar, Bhuj, Rapar & Bhachau talukas. Has also planned 25 stand posts in 4 talukas.

Address :

Head/Regional Office	Nirmal Niketan, Khetwadi, 11th Street , 2, Dr. Wilson Street , Gurgaon, Gurgaon, Mumbai-04	Branch/Field Office	Vasanbhai Naranbhai Ahir, C/o. Shyam Gas Agency, S.T. Station Road New Anjar-Kutch
Contact Person	Mr. Pandurang Shashtri	Contact Person	Mr. Vasanbhai Ahir
Phone	022-3564919	Phone	(O) 02836-40160, ®-02836-42960

Cyber War or Constructive Work?

Some do think that blogs of pro and pre swadhyayee is a cyberwar among them. But well, anti-swadhayayee people have nothing other to do but to keep writing. So, they are blogging, putting messages, publishing news, holding 'prabuddha' meetings.

While real swadhyayees are busy planting trees for MadhavVrund Din and after that their constructive work will continue. Anti-swadhyayees - what constructive work they are doing? And what they will ever do? Do they have goal? Are they doing anything positive? What they are contributing to society or country or culture?

Media - Hardly ever positive!

Gujaratsamachar.com today posted news that there is cyberwar going on between pro-swadhyayee and anti-swadhyayee. And anti-swadhyayee are well ahead in this war. They mentioned few blog pages in this article.

Unfortunately, they mentioned quite a few anti-swadhyayee blogs but they did not mention a single pro-swadhyayee blog. Not only that, they wrote in detail what anti-swadhyayee have to say but not a word regarding what positive blogs have to say. It is just a negative mentality of newspapers. (May be after reading this, one or two positive news will come up, but it won't change their negative psyche). How can they claim to be neutral??

Otherday they listed a site that has lot of negative material about Pj. Dada or A. Didi. But when it came to UN report - they did not even print the link. They just mentioned such report exists. If they would have printed the link, people could have at least visited to see it for themselves.

This is the link to report:
www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/crisis/download/gujarat.pdf


Anyhow, positive news is never masala news so no need to blame our mediocre media for not printing it.

Spiritual Ecopreneurs

On 12 July, 2006 - Swadhyayees will plant 5,000,000 (5 Million) trees/ropes in India out of that 1.2 milliion will be in Saurashtra only. Some villages will be planting 1000 per village while some swadhyay kendra will be planting around 300. There are around 100 such villages in a taluka and that makes 100000 trees per taluka.

Swadhyayees have been bringing this green revolution for many years on the principal of 'Chhod ma Ranchhod' - means - God resides in trees too.

Many scholars around the world have taken note of this eco-friendly experiment of swadhyay as following:

http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/pdfs/gmi38isa.pdf (read page 4)
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&hdAction=lnkpdf&contentId=1410996

Book: Religion and Ecology in India and South East Asia
By David Gosling (Page 144)