After the historic event of the unification of Rajasthan, 'Hindi
Vidyapeeth' added new dimensions to its basic objectives. It became a
leading Non-Government Organisation during the course of its journey
and the founder Pandit Janardan Rai Nagar renamed it as Rajasthan
Vidyapeeth. Early sixties proved to be the landmark in the
history of Rajasthan Vidyapeeth when it decided to meet the challenges,
which started springing up after independence. The first Prime Minister
had deep faith in democracy and he decided to spread the message of
sharing responsibilities at the grass-root level. As a result the
Panchayati Raj institutions came into existence. Rajasthan Vidyapeeth
also decided to join hands with the GOI to share this responsibility
and established Community Centres Department and Janata College during
the Second Five-Year plan. The objective was to provide benefits to the
people of remote villages. It was the beginning of the full-fledged
Institute of Adult & Continuing Education. During this period,
Vidyapeeth started the new unit, which is called JANPAD, with the
objective of propagating the knowledge of day-to-day local and national
affairs for the urban society through black-board / broadcast service
mass communication being the aim.With the dawn of independence, there
was a dire need to provide opportunities for higher education to the
underprivileged section of the society, specially in the Tribal belt.
The Evening College (Shramjeevi College) was the outcome of this idea.
The basic objective of establishing the Evening (Shramjeevi) College
was to admit the students who worked during day-hours and wanted to
educate themselves for better job opportunities. During this period
Rajasthan was also emerging as a potential state of Union Government of
the India. Availability of trained professionals for industry /
business was the urgent need of the time.
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