The birth centenary of Van Yogi Balasaheb Deshpande, the founder of Vanwasi Kalyan Ashram, was observed on the premises of Vanwasi Kalyan Ashram, lohardaga.
On the occasion, chief guest Somya Julu, the national organisational minister said, “Van Yogi Balasaheb Deshpande had founded the ashram to keep alive the culture, rituals, religion and devotion of Vanwasies. It was to assist them financially too. He had tried to unite the 10 crore of Vanwasies.” “Today, in 13 thousand of Vanwasies villages, 18 thousands and 5 hundreds units of services are being run. Across the country there has been awareness among the Vanwasies. They are uniting now,” he added.
In the programme. Akhil Bhartiya village development head Prakash Kamar, regional organisational Minister Maniram Pal and some others officials members in about 800 were present on the eve. In the programme, Kailash Oraon, Ashok Shrivastav, Umakant lal, Shashidhar lal Agarwal, luxmi Narayan Bhagat, Kumar Vimlesh and Rahagv Rana were present.