Deen Dyal Upadhaya Research Centre In Uttrakhand

[Durga Prasad]

SMA Kazmi
Dehradun, September 25
From next year, Jan Sangh ideologue Pandit Deen Dyal Upadhaya’s anniversary that falls on September 25 would be celebrated in all educational institutions of Uttarakhand. These instructions were passed by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank at a function held here today by the Pandit Deen Dyal Upadhaya Sewa Partishthan to mark the anniversary.

He also announced a grant of Rs 21 lakh for Deen Dyal Upadhaya Research Centre to be set up near the Deen Dyal Upadhaya park in the city. He promised to provide shelter to the poorer under the Deen Dyal Upadhaya Housing scheme.

The Chief Minister also assured the authorities concerned to look into the demand to regularise illegal slum colonies of the city. Calling upon the people to imbibe the spirit of integral humanism as espoused by Pandit Upadhaya, the Chief Minister said the state government had started several welfare schemes under the name of Pandit Upadhaya and the masses, particularly the poor, should benefit from such initiatives.

Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Nityanand Swami said Pandit Upadhaya was a great thinker. Former Uttarkhand Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Bacchi Singh Rawat said it was the dream of Pandit Updhaya that the fruits of development reached the poorest of poor in the country and the state BJP government had been trying to realise his dreams.

Tarun Vijay, a senior journalist, said Pandit Upadhaya was an example of self-service who believed in the unity and integrity of the country. He said the principle of integral humanism propounded by Pandit Upadhaya was an option for capitalism and to keep alive human sensitivities and democracy.