{"id":3735,"date":"2021-08-05T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.cblu.ac.in\/?page_id=3735"},"modified":"2022-11-12T05:29:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T05:29:32","slug":"dattopant-thengadi-centre-for-development-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cblu.ac.in\/dattopant-thengadi-centre-for-development-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dattopant Thengadi Centre for Development Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Dattopant Thengadi Centre for Development Studies<\/b><\/p>

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Dattopant Thengadi Centre for Development Studies<\/b><\/strong><\/p>

About\u00a0Dattopant Thengadi Centre for Development Studies, CBLU<\/strong><\/a><\/p>

Rashtra Rishi Dattopant Bapurao Thengadi<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0(10 November 1920 \u2013 14 October 2004) : born in a village Arvi of Wardha district of Maharashtra is known for his unique qualities of institution building, leadership & organizing skills and propounding the Third Way <\/i><\/em>of socio-economic development based on the ideology of Sanatan <\/i><\/em>Dharma. He was greatly influenced by the philosophy Ekatam Darshan<\/i><\/em>\u00a0propounded by Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya. According to him, neither right nor left is the solution to the ills of the world \u2013 degradation of the environment, concentration of income & wealth, unemployment and poverty, exploitation of \u00a0labour, dominance of the western culture and values guided by individualism and self-interest etc.. The real solution comes only from Indian culture based on the dharma<\/i><\/em>\u00a0and is the only solution to the problems. Thengadi Ji was ardent supporter of larger role for MSMEs, use of labour intensive technologies, decentralization of decision making and use of country made products. He was against western motivated globalization.<\/p>

He founded and nurtured some of the well-known and today\u2019s leading organizations such as Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh <\/b><\/strong>(1955) , Bharatiya Kisan Sangh <\/b><\/strong>(1979) and Swadeshi Jagran Manch <\/b><\/strong>(1991). He authored many books of which most referred are: The Third Way; Modernization Without Westernization; What Sustains Sangh?, Our National Renaissance, It’s Directions and Destination; Nationalist Pursuit; The Great Sentinel and The Perspective. <\/i><\/em>Dattopanth Ji was a great scholar, philosopher, visionary and orator yet modest, deeply rooted in the past and completely in tune with the modern time and sensitive to the issues of national importance. His ideas and philosophy is much more relevant than ever and thus needs more research and fair implementation.<\/p>

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RATIONAL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CENTRE<\/b><\/strong><\/p>

Today world community in general and India in particular are facing sever socio-economic crises in many areas. The prominent problems include ; growing problem of un-employment, rising threat to environment, concentration of wealth into few hands and threat to Indian value system including to the family system. Thengadi Ji\u2019s contribution and views on social, economic and political issues, provides an alternative to the philosophies of socialism and capitalism both of which have already failed in the world. It is in this context Chaudhary Bansi Lal University, Bhiwani decided to set up \u201cDattopant Thengadi Centre for Development Studies<\/b><\/strong>\u201d in the faculty of Management and Commerce.<\/p>

OBJECTIVES<\/b><\/strong><\/p>

The center shall endeavor to achieve the following objectives:<\/p>