We had the fortune of discussing the matters of the needs and the plans with our members on several occasions. We have also discussed with several of our religious leaders and other Hindu community leaders. Our friends also met several times and we all had discussion on these matters in the past one year. As a result of our discussions and tele-conferences, we have now evolved a composite plan to amalgamate, to form a structured organization that will help the Hindu Dharma the position It deserves. The plans are outlined in the following pages and in the attached documents. This includes a grand central area for an Apex Body of Regents, comparable to any great seats of Religion in the world, where the leaders can address the large congregation of our community and hold conferences and symposium. There will be many centers in many cities to organize research and meetings. The main centers will have facilities to encourage the study of the teachings of our great Acharyas, collect and preserve our ancient texts, encourage research studies, university level of courses and lectures. There will be facilities for international students to spend a week or a month to study, organize periodic symposium of research studies, train teachers, preachers and priests. We will also organize a chain of command of a strong organizational structure, initially, to arrange the renovation and reconstruction of thousands of private Hindu Temples all over South India. Later we can extend the plans all over India and around the world. They will also organize a structure to have health, education and social welfare activities and general educational courses and technical studies along with spiritual studies.

Now, we have conceptualized some plans which we are submitting here in the following pages. These are just ideas, still to be modified as and when positive inputs are received. The basic idea is of a Grand Apex center for Hindu Dharma with study and propagation of our faith with equal rights and privileges, training of priests, preachers and teachers. Next is reconstruction and renovation with maintenance of out village Hindu Temples. We also need to lookafter the welfare of our priests, teachers and village Poojaris. Then our children and youth need to be educated aout the texts, the principles and philosphy of Hindu Dharma in a proper way, where our "secular" schools have given them a distorted information about our mythology and traditions. There will be Research facilities and also Health, education and social welfare schemes. These will remain as the four pillars of this project to be developed in several stages on a long term comprehensive planning. We will also raise funds to support other organizations, schools, Universities and Health care facilities to support such activities which will include Spiritually oriented studies, Hindu studies associated with all Masters and Doctorate education as also general social welfare reaserch and activites. We invite all of you to join in our effort with your support and voluntary work. We need people of Hindu community from many parts of the world, from many villages in South India, as also other parts of India and also from many cities in India and around the world. The master plan can be well modified based on the availability of land and architectural designs and needs of the community. The centers and sub-centers can be established in many temples and cities all over the world to teach, to preserve and to propogate our Hindu Dharma for all members of our community.

Council of LDSFT

- Thank you.

--- Bala N. Aiyer,