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| CAMPUS: ARAVALI GURUKUL ASHRAM |
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| To build the campus, in the year 2005 we had purchased 236 bighas (94.4 acres) of private extremely high salinity arid wasteland on National Highway - 25 (Old - 112) at Village
Kaparda, Tehsil Bilara, District Jodhpur in Rajasthan on which nothing could grow, nothing could be constructed and there was no
water in/around the said land. Since then, this land has been painstakingly transformed and it now has: |
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- Three kilometers long six feet high boundary wall, with barbed wire fencing on the top.
- 15 lakes, made through rain water harvesting, having capacity to store around 6 crore litres of water with fishes, frogs and even
tortoises which have come to exist naturally inside these.
- Two large bridges constituting the main rain water harvesting structures and three smaller rain water inlet structures.
- Three large size lawns of 2.5 acres each, with solar lights on the periphery of each.
- 28,000 sq. feet of constructed built up space housing the library, computer centres, classrooms, offices, guestrooms with attached
bath rooms, electricity room, guard room, stores, etc.
- A natural amphitheatre-cum-meditation centre, with capacity to seat around 2000 persons.
- Around 10,000 plants and trees which have grown upto 20 feet.
- Five smaller lawns.
- Vegetables, some fruits and lentils grown organically.
- A nursery for the plants' saplings development.
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| Added to the above are hosts of migratory birds visiting the lakes and truly memorable sunrise and sunset with reflections in the
lakes. It is a serene place anybody would feel like just not leaving at all and sitting there for eternity. |
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| The above transformation from barren saline arid wasteland to green campus has been seen and commended by several distinguished
persons and experts from all over India and abroad, as a role model to solve many of our country's problems in a cost-effective
manner. |
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| This unique campus has the people from all over India and abroad visiting to witness transformation of extremely saline wasteland
into green campus, environmental preservation, rain water harvesting, non-conventional energy usage, societal benefit programmes,
various nation-building endeavours and also truly top quality education, with employability, empowerment and entrepreneurship
as the defining themes. |
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| View of one of the 15 lakes on our campus, Aravali Gurukul Ashram, with solar lights around it and Swiss tents perched on the adjacent huge 5 acres lawns for the stay of speakers and participants in an international conference organized by us, with the natural amphitheatre-cum-meditation centre for around 2000 persons in the distant background. |
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