Supporting the 'Widow Care Project' at Udaipur, Rajasthan

Since 2004, SVSN has aimed to serve the underprivileged by economic empowerment of the rural population through innovative training in agriculture and animal husbandry; infrastructure improvement of schools; healthcare delivery and awareness training and social awareness against orthodox practices such as child marriage, dowry, etc. Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation is providing financial assistance to support the 'Widow Care Project' at Udaipur, Rajasthan for the year 2019-20. This project is running since 2012 under the aegis of Swami Vivekanand Sewa Nyas, Udaipur. The trust is inspired by the teachings of Swami Vivekanand: 'Daridra Devo Bhava' (To serve the poor is to serve God). While in urban areas SVSN supports financial and health care needs of widows. SVSN has undertaken an endeavour to improve the quality of life of destitute widows residing in Udaipur and neighbouring areas with an objective to provide free monthly medical check-up by doctors, distribution of medicines for the whole month and if necessary refer them to other specialties for surgeries like cataract, dental care; to provide monthly pension to widows so that they can fulfil their basic needs; to provide scholarship, stationeries and uniforms to children of young widows so that they can continue their education and to provide skill development training to young capable widows so that they can earn livelihood.

SVSN organizes a free medical camp in Udaipur which includes eye, sugar and blood pressure check-ups, surgeries and free distribution of full course of medicines for the month for these widows. Monthly pensions were given to needy widows. SVSN organized a free medical health check up camp at Theosophical Society, Udaipur on 30th June 2019 where Dr. I.L. Jain and Dr. J.P. Simlot examined the patients. Blood sugar was done by Mr. S.L. Porwal.

Dr. I.L. Jain examining the patients at the camp

Beneficiaries at the Widow Camp

Academic Initiatives

Development in Maharana Mewar Special Library

Maharana Mewar Special Library (MMSL) is a world-class special library. By the end of this month MMSL has a collection of more than 34929 books of different varieties. Library has special collection of books on Literature, Religion, History, Arts, Zoology, Sports and General Geography about different part of India and globe and rare collection of books on Mewar dynasty.

32 new books were received in this month and all the books were processed in Accession Register. Classification done by Dewey decimal classification 19th Rev. Edition, Cataloguing (AACR II) and Bibliography; details uploaded in Library housekeeping software. Libsys and Eternal Mewar web site http://eternalmewar.in/mmsl. Stamping, tagging and scanning was also performed all these books.

The details and images of important books which were received in June 2019 were Delhi 360: Mazhar Ali Khan's view from the Lahore gate, Artiana: 13-17June 2019, Mahatma Mahapragya, Nirvan ka marg: Dhammapad aur uttaradhyayan, Paramsukh ka path: Dhammapad aur uttaradhyayan, Kisane kaha man chanchal hai, Man ka kayakalp, Anekant he tisara netra, Kaise sochen?, Man ke jeete jeet, Ran ke Sadhak: Kavya sangrah, Yugpurush Bappa Rawal,Chuga le moti hansala , Rashtra-ratna Maharana Pratap, Salumbar ke pratham, Ram ratan mala.