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Khadi Initiative PIDILITE ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20

The Company continued
its association with Mahuva
Khadi Bhandar. As a part
of collaboration with Khadi
Gramodyog Sangha-Samanvay,
Rajkot, 25 solar charkhas and
6 solar looms were provided
to the spinners and weavers
for training and product
development leading,
thereby to self-employment
opportunities and livelihood
promotion. Apart from it,
5 other khadi udyog units
are being provided with
25 solar charkhas and
5 solar looms each.
The initiative focuses on
addressing the need for
modernization, value addition,
weaving, spinning and dyeing,
etc. along with training and LECTURE BY PROF. LEWIS R. GORDON (UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT)
testing to make the khadi
weaving process profitable
for the community.
General Semantics

This year witnessed the Mr. Rajesh Kochhar, Honorary
10 anniversary of Balvant Professor, Punjab University,
th
SOLAR-POWERED CHARKHAS AND POWER LOOM AT RAJKOT KHADI CENTER
Parekh Centre for General Chandigarh in October, 2019;
Semantics and Other Human ‘The Role of Intellectuals in
Sciences and was celebrated the Age of Conformity’ by
with a series of lectures Mr. Ramin Jahanbegloo,
conducted throughout the Executive Director of the
year along with its regular Mahatma Gandhi Centre
programmes like national for Non-violence and Peace
seminars, symposiums, Studies and the Vice-Dean
lectures, workshops and of the School of Law at
a cultural programme in Jindal Global University,
March 2020. Delhi, in November 2019 and
‘A Philosophical Look at Black
The Balvant Parekh Music and its recent Afro-Indo
Distinguished Lecture on Mixtures’ by Professor Lewis
‘Fostering Humaneness:
R. Gordon, University of
PIDILITE ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 delivered by Dr. Sudhir Kakar, The Centre hosted its
Some Reflections’ was
Connecticut in December, 2019.
a noted psychoanalyst
and author in March 2020
th
13 national workshop on
in Baroda.
‘General Semantics and
Western Philosophical Thought:
Under the ongoing Balvant
A Comparative Approach’
Series, several lectures were
prominent speakers in
conducted namely ‘Modern
January-February, 2020.
Hinduism in India’ by
56 Parekh Distinguished Lecture conducted by various