OBJECTIVES

The Balwant Vidyapeeth adopts four basic objectives:

The First and foremost object is the fusion of rural and urban cultures. The educational set up in the country is and has always been predominantly urban in character. The Urban influence is so great that almost all of the city-educated villagers develop distaste for village life and gravitate to the cities. The Urban population, on the other hand, has hardly any appreciation either of the exhilaration or dwarfing influence on life in the village. Village life is far too inconvenient, unwholesome and monotonous for outsiders as also to retain those who can escape its tyranny. Life, therefore, must be made at least tolerable in the villagers. This can be done best by the identification of needs as the supreme plank of our educational program. Rural education must inculcate better living in the community promoting self-employment in mushroom growing, cash-crop cultivation, fisheries, jam, jelly & pickles production and other cottage industries.

 

The second objective is to provide for studies and researches having close bearing on the rural problems. These must directly lead to amelioration of the physical, social, economic, religious and aesthetic life of all the vast humanity, which crowds our countryside. Both the retarding as well as the accelerating forces need intelligent analysis and all researches and educationists have to be marshaled into its term and to find feasible solutions.

 

The third objective is to make provision for the education of boys and girls from the rural areas both in urban and rural occupations to suit their needs, talents and aptitudes. Bulk of the rural population lives in grinding poverty, for which equality of opportunity has been an empty slogan for higher education, a prohibitive financial proposition. The continued existence of gross inequality opportunity is glaring reality.

 

Fourth objective is that although a large percentage of population of India still lives in villages yet, the rural youth are withdrawing from their villages and migrating to urban areas for higher education and jobs creating pressure on cities. The poverty and the cultural background of this population is well known. In order to restrict the migration, this Rural Institute has been established with a vision to provide comparatively better job oriented educational opportunities of their own interest. BVRI is to contribute to the fusion of rural and urban cultures so that life in village becomes convenient, wholesome and full of opportunity.