{"id":210468,"date":"2022-10-14T19:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=210468"},"modified":"2022-10-14T19:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:32:33","slug":"who-was-bharat-ratna-nanaji-deshmukh-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-social-reformer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-was-bharat-ratna-nanaji-deshmukh-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-social-reformer\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Bharat Ratna Nanaji Deshmukh? All you need to know about the social reformer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201cWho was Bharat Ratna Nanaji Deshmukh? All you need to know about the social reformer&#8221; <\/strong>published in <b>The Times of India <\/b>on\u00a0<strong>11<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>October 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h5>What is the News?<\/h5>\n<p>Recently, Nanaji Deshmukh&#8217;s birth anniversary was celebrated.<\/p>\n<h5>About Nanaji Deshmukh<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Born in<\/strong>: Maharashtra in 1916.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contribution to Education<\/strong>: He is believed to have established Saraswati Shishu Mandir (SSM), which runs a chain of private schools in India and is said to be the educational wing of the RSS.<\/p>\n<p>He started the country&#8217;s first SSM at Gorakhpur in 1950 and was the founder of Deendayal Research Institute (DRI) situated at Chitrakoot.<\/p>\n<p>He was also responsible for starting India\u2019s first rural university, Chitarkoot Gramodya Vishwavidyalaya.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Role in JP movement<\/strong>: He played a key role in the Jaya Prakash (JP) movement against the Emergency in 1974. Deshmukh was the main force behind social activist Jayaprakash Narayan\u2019s agitation for total revolution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contribution to Rural Development<\/strong>: Deshmukh, through Deendayal Research Institute (DRI), set up alternative rural development models based on traditional knowledge in the remote areas of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh (MP).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other reform movements<\/strong>: <strong>a)<\/strong> Desmukh actively participated in the Bhoodan Movement started by Vinoba Bhave, <strong>b)<\/strong> Nanaji played an important role in carrying out a social restructuring programme in over 500 villages of UP and MP, and <strong>c)<\/strong> He carried out the reformation of agriculture and cottage industry, rural health and rural education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awards and recognition<\/strong>: He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cWho was Bharat Ratna Nanaji Deshmukh? All you need to know about the social reformer&#8221; published in The Times of India on\u00a011th\u00a0October 2022. What is the News? Recently, Nanaji Deshmukh&#8217;s birth anniversary was celebrated. About Nanaji Deshmukh Born in: Maharashtra in 1916. Contribution to Education: He is believed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-was-bharat-ratna-nanaji-deshmukh-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-social-reformer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who was Bharat Ratna Nanaji Deshmukh? All you need to know about the social reformer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-210468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704864479},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}