Nanaji Deshmukh

Shri Nanaji Deshmukh is the founder of Deendayal Resarch Institute a voluntary Non Governmental Organization (NGO) established in the year 1969. He is a social worker reformer, original thinker and above all a man of action who dedicated his life to the service of motherland. His field work, rural development and social reconstruction, started with Gonda experiment in the year 1978 which spread to other needy places in the Country like Beed (Maharastra) and Chitrakoot (M.P.).

Shri Nanaji believed to the core that upliftment of the rural poor and strengthening the village life is the only solution for our Country’s progress. His precepts “Gramodaya” and “Swavalamban” reflects the philosophy of the great personalities and States men like Swami Vivekananda, Bala Gangadhar Tilak and Mahatma Gandhi. In him a great visionary and down to earth practical personality are blended together which is a rarity in nature. That is why, activities of all these centers ware conceived and designed in minute details by Shri Nanaji. The success of these programmes are mainly due to the detailed planning and able execution under the constant guidance of Shri Nanaji.

Several thousands of youth inspired by his personality and magnetized by his touch are participating in the programs. The results achieved are always unique, astonishingly successful and even amazing some times. Well all this was and is possible only because of radiant presence of Shri Nanaji. It is the legacy of Dr. Hedgewar, Shri M.S. Golwalkar (Guruji) and Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya that is being carried out by Shri Nanaji in every thought and deed. True to this legacy Shri Nanaji believes that a nation or its constituent can never achieve an independent progress at the mercy of foreign funds. Shri Nanaji in spite of his several visits to foreign countries and easy accessibility to foreign funding agencies, never entertained the thought of raising money through these agencies. Time and again he stressed and is incessantly stressing this dictum. The resources required for every project, programme and endeavour of Deendayal Research Institute came from persons associated with or influenced by Deendayal Research Institute activities or from the Govt. of India. Thus Deendayal Research Institute under the leadership of Shri Nanaji stands as a unique Non-Governmental Organization dedicated to the service of ourmotherland in its own unique way.

Since it is not possible to detail every activity he executed; we present in brief some of the important major projects (both completed and on going) in the following pages. However for the benefit of comprehensive understanding of the nature and particularly the magnitude of work of Deendayal Research Institute we are enclosing the detailed charts and brochures depicting the various activities.