Saturday, March 31, 2012

The President of India dedicates World’s biggest International Gandhi Research Centre to Humanity


THE PRESIDENT OF INDIA DEDICATES WORLD’S BIGGEST INTERNATIONAL GANDHI RESEARCH CENTRE TO HUMANITY


President Pratibha Patil inaugurated the Gandhi Research Foundation, Jalgaon, on 25th March, 2012. Speaking at a gathering after inaugurating the Foundation, President Patil said she was happy that memorabilia and writings of the father of the nation would be housed in this institute in her hometown.
GRF has so far collected from authentic sources 7350 books, 4090 periodicals viz. Harijan, Navjeevan and Young India etc., 4019 photographs, 75 films, 148 audio of Gandhiji’s speeches, philately items from 114 countries etc. We have over 1,75,000 pages of scanned documents relating to/from the collection of Gandhiji, Vinoba Bhave, Mahadev Desai and historian Dharampal.


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