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SANS was formed not only to awaken the awareness of our youth towards
their social objectives, but also to develop their physical and mental
abilities. Since very few organisations with similar objectives were
existing, youth from different Hindu communities expressed their
desire to be a part of the organisation and soon SANS was performing
like a well oiled unit.
Another objective of SANS was to bring all Hindi speaking people under
one banner and promote the use of Hindi and develop the language
in Tamil Nadu. During the 1960s, there were not too many Hindi
speaking people in Madras and the language had to be developed in the
hearts of the people.
Keeping these objectives in mind, thrust was given to students at
school/college level to enact plays in Hindi, organise oratorical
musical competitions in Hindi and encourage essay writing and
literary activities in Hindi through competitions. An activity in this
direction was the inspirational Hindi play New Hand, a venture
of Shri Brijlal Chowdry. This turned out to be a roaring success.
From 1963 itself, SANS was quite active and focussed in its objectives.
In 1965, during the period when war clouds were hanging over the country,
SANS organised a cultural program (on 21-9-1965) at Kalaivanar Arangam
(then the Children's Theatre) and sent a sum of Rs.5001/- to the
National Relief Fund. It was a big corpus those days.
From 1966, the inter-school debate and essay writing competitions,
together with musical competitions, have been held. In the fields of Sports,
SANS was very active. Chess, cricket, table tennis and other sports
activities were regularly conducted and an annual sports meet was
organised every year.
The very active members during the initial phase of our Sangh were
Shri Gyan Jain, Shri Vithaldas Agarwal, Shri Inder Raj Bansal, Shri
Ramesh Gupta Neerad, Shri Bhagwandas Mangal, Shri Amritlal Agarwal,
Shri S.K.Todi, Shri Lalit Lath and Shri Mukesh Mehta.
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