Missions of the Ashram:
• Experimentation with creative activities related to agriculture, animal husbandry, khadi industry and rural development.
• Carrying out activities based on Gandhiji’s concept of ‘Naye Taleem’.
• Making it a model center focusing on self-reliance employment, agriculture and literacy.
• Cultivating a new social structure of truth and non-violence.
• Encouraging youth and students to take appropriate initiatives for rural development.
• To encourage study and research activities on Gandhiji’s life.
Activities of the Ashram:
• Gandhi Chintana -Mantana and Satsang Program:
The Gandhi Chintana -Mantana and Satsang Program is held every month on 11th at Sabarmati Ashram. So far, 50 programs have been completed. The primary aim of this initiative is to spread Gandhi’s philosophy and foster Gandhi’s values among students and youth’s .
Activities on promotion of Khadi, promotion of use and sale of Khadi materials were launched from February 2021 at Sabarmati Ashram. Khadi accessories are being sold at the ashram for the last two years along with providing information about this to the public visiting the ashram. More than 20 thousand income from the sale of Khadi items has been given to the Khadi Gramodyoga Institute. Diphloma
• Diphloma – Course- Gandhian Thoughts and Actions:
A one-year diploma course has been introduced in the Ashram in the academic year 2021-22 on the theme of Gandhian Thoughts and Actions. Any interested candidates with PUC qualification can study this course. This diploma course aims to impart Gandhiji’s thought, ideas and principles in a skill-based manner.
• Spinning Training:
Spinning training program for a team of university students was launched on February 05, 2021. Mr. Manjunath Kinnala, Secretary of Mr. Maruti Handloom Institute of Gadag-Betageri Nagar and trainees from the ashram will provide this training. Presently the ashram has 2 kerchiefs, a skill development unit in the university dedicated to handicrafts, through which training is being imparted to interested students as part of the Nayitalim programme.
• Service Fund:
Seva Nidhi was established on October, 02, 2021 for social service in line with the vision that service to the downtrodden Dalits is the ultimate worship under the motto “Burning like Samidha in the Yajna of Service”. The money collected in this fund is used for social service.
• Daily Bhajan:
The Nitya Bhajan program was launched on July 03. 2022 in the motivational perspective of Mahatma Gandhi’s Nitya Bhajan. Daily prayer and meditation is conducted in the ashram from 9.30 am to 9.45 am.
Details of total visitors to Shram:
Sabarmati Ashram Interview has been started from December 31. 2024. Public and dignitaries from all districts of the country including Gadag district and from many parts of the country have visited the ashram to view the ashram. So far (Dec. 11, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2024) 39672 people have visited Sabarmati Ashram.
Shri Prakash S. Machenahalli.
Convener
Sabarmati Ashram, KSRDPRU,Gadag
