Social issues

Social issues

Social issues – Samu lagna (Mass wedding) Ordinary people spend way beyond their means in weddings which leaves them with a lifetime of debts. Pujya bapu through Anand Dhara programme or any other programmes when he visits any of the villages, he encourages the community leaders and the village elders (Sarpanch) to promote ‘Samu lagnas’ (mass weddings) where the cost of staging a wedding is shared between hundred or so families thus saving huge amounts of money which could be put towards setting up the new couples homes.

Another initiative, the Anand Dhara programme has started is creating youth and women groups in each village to empower them. This initiative has been very successful whereby few village youth or women or both groups have taken on the responsibility of keeping their village clean and also starting to do a lot of positive activities amongst themselves.