Loka Dharma Seva Foundation Trust (Regd.)
90/2 --[old 153], Beracah Road, Varadhambal Thottam Main St,
Kilpakkam, Chennai-600010
Loka Dharma Seva Foundation
A Grand Plan for Hindu Renaissance and Revival
 
   
 
Founder - International President:
Dr. Bala N. Aiyer, MD.,

Waco, Texas, USA
E-mail: bnaiyer@yahoo.com
Managing Trustee & Coordinator
Dr. R. Subramanian,
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
E-mail: resubramn@hotmail.com
 
 
Protecting the Shashtra Samrakshanam and Loka Samrakshnanam
is akin to Protecting our Dharma and ultimately Protecting the World.
 
 
A Central Body for the Upkeep of our Dharma and our Temples
 
Explanation of Ideas and Organizational Structure - - 01
 

 

 

The Central Governing council or Apex Body should assess and chart out the areas where they will be able to organize local groups and also develop an organizational chart of a three or four tier Board to develop, plan, oversee and supervise the management. The Steering Committee will plan a Management Council for Hindu Temples and Schools. The leadership will give strength to the renovation and management of small temples and will encourage everyone to join hands. The Regional Council will recognize the strength and weakness of the Hindu community at large and in each of the several city and village communities. This will be used in the development and planning for the organization at various levels.

 

The main strength of our Hindu community at every level is the sense of unity and commitment for religious service that will be utilized to raise local funds and local leadership to start the work, while looking for matching funds from outside sources. Unless local commitment and involvement in the early stages of planning and construction is obtained, long term goals in the management and maintenance can not be reached. Improvement in one community will encourage the next group. So, we need to show commitment and progress with leadership. The main weakness of our community is the lack of sense of Team work at every level. In short, this is the sense of autonomy, independent thinking and sense of leadership in few and just the opposite in several others. The long ingrained traditions of family feuds and caste war might also affect this progress which will need compromise and control at every level. This might lead to some people wanting to do it their own way and to develop a hundred blind followers to form their own group leadership.

 
 

The problem of too much central control will lead to a lack of development of local leadership to develop and maintain the organization at each community for the Hindu Temple and school project. This leads to a lack of pride as an incentive for work. There will be lack of interest and a decline of local financial commitment for maintenance in long term. This will create a decline in local support for Temple and school services. The problem of too much autonomy will be the lack of uniformity in development and organization. While autonomy looks very good at the outset, there may also be problems of weakness due to in group fighting with no over-seeing body. This will lead to possible misuse of property and funds which will lead to lack of local public support. This will lead to a failure of leadership, internal fight and a collapse of the project. This will ultimately encourage a political and secular government interference and takeover.

 
 

The solution has to be found by organizing a well knit "Loka Hindu Dharma Foundation" with planned set-up to oversee all small Temples and Hindu educational and social institutes. This will be done in such a way to increase the confidence and faith in the organization and improve the grass root support from the people at large. The apex Governing Council directly under the control and supervision of a Steering committee and a body of Regents who will have the responsibility of planning, executing, fundraising, auditing and legally supervising the hundred thousand small and medium sized semi-autonomous Temples and schools and the regional [divisional] bodies that will be formed in between these two levels. This will give a structure to the organization of Temple managements. At the village and city levels, Local Committees will organize the Temples and schools. They will be nominated or elected periodically from among the local past owners and new donors on a membership basis, by rotation. They should take advantage of the favorable and positive factors in all the points discussed above.

 
 
 
 
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