Current Projects of the BCK

             

The current projects of Bharatiya Chetna Kendra 

Bharatiya Chetna Kendra (Indian Consciousness Centre) works for total individual and community development under the framework of the Indian cultural values, which it seeks to promote. Four of its current projects are given hereunder:

PROJECT 1:  A total livelihood solution centre: a country which used to be the richest in the past is now home to the largest number of poor today. To help people find a viable livelihood, the BCK has evolved a solution that is to be put into effect by setting up total livelihood solution centres, ideally in every block. But at first a mother centre has to be created as a pilot which will leave nobody in that area unemployed in three to five years.

PROJECT 2:  A Gita Dham in every Panchayat

To be established finally in every Panchayat, It will have a temple of the Gita; it will have an auditorium for religious and spiritual instruction mainly through instructional films; a small library and a wellness center. The Gita Dham is a place where the Hindus will be taken to a higher level of Hinduism, and all other communities will be helped through total education, health services and self-employment training with assistance for removal of poverty with the help of a Total Livelihood Solution Centre, which has been indicated in ‘Project 1’ above.

PROJECT 3:  A national and an international edition of the Gita

The BCK plans to publish an edition that will have the following features: it will have the approval of the heads of most of the main sects of Hinduism and the Shankaracharyas and will bear their signature; it will have a directory at the opening of the book listing all words used in the Gita with reference of the verses in which they have occurred, enabling the seeker to locate the verse of his choice based on the recollection of any of the words used in that verse; it will have another alphabetical directory listing the various spiritual and temporal issues like moksha (liberation), world peace, terrorism; corruption, bribery, bhakti, gyan, yagya, tapasya, to name a few. In the Indian languages it will have three editions: one subsidized edition for the poor for Rs. 5 or 10, one for the middle class for Rs. 50; and a deluxe edition for Rs. 200 or 300. The international edition will be first published in English priced tentatively around 10 US dollars. The profit from the higher cost editions will be used for publishing the editions for the poor.

PROJECT 4:  A Gita in every home­­

In the midst of the invasion of the Western cultural values, the contact of the new generations with the books. which have thus far been spreading the Indian values and culture is increasingly being lost. To prevent this, the BCK plans to bring the Gita, the Ramcharitmanas and certain other books to every home which are fast vanishing. Till the special edition of the Gita is published by the BCK, the plan is to distribute the edition of the Gita published by the Gita Press which costs rs 20 per copy.

We will make a presentation or furnish more details on the project in which an individual or company is interested.