THEN INDIA SANMARGA IKYA SANGAM - Lautoka Branch

P O Box 144, LAUTOKA                Phone: 666 0199       Fax 666 0761

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LAUTOKA SANGAM VILLAGE    a Millennium Project

“ BRINGING  TOGETHER SANGAM MEMBERS & THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS TO INTERACT IN HARMONY”

NEWS LETTER/UPDATE  16th August, 2005

We are grateful to many to you who believed in the Lautoka Sangam Village project and came forward with the generous donation to enable us to achieve creating this unique Sangam pioneer project in Lovu, Lautoka.

The Lautoka Sangam Village now consists on the 5 acre land, 8 minutes drive from Lautoka City the following:

1. Administrative Building which houses office, meeting room and computer classroom   2.  Large Annexe Function centre/Workshop with kitchen with equipments, storeroom  and gents and ladies toilets  [ Now available for hire for weddings, parties etc.]

3.  Sangam Museum Building made of unique locally produced mud blocks - Opening by   Justice Jai Ram Reddy on 20th August, 2005

4.  Landscape Lawn/Grounds for outdoor activities fully fenced.

5.  Garden - Fruit Trees, Ornamental Trees, Orchid, Noni, Dalo, and  Vegetable patches

6.  Mini Golf Driving range

7.  Artisan Bore wells for 24 hour water supply

8.  Fish Pond

9.  Sheep Paddock

Our future projects pending fund availability are:

    1. Bee Hives

    2. Plant Nursery

    3. Medical / Health Centre

    4. Auditorium

    5. Stalls for selling produce 

    6. Archive building annxe to Museum

    7. Block of accommodation flats for visitors, tuition providers and health workers

                               ............../For information of donors and supporters, we attach herewith extracts from audited financial statements and update accounts as we stand fully transparent and accountable.

Our achievements during the short period of few years is celebrated by our friends and supporters as remarkable and we stand grateful to the liberal financial support that we have been receiving.

 Recently, we have suffered with much sorrow and lain the loss of two of our staunch supporters namely:

Late Mr. Ranga Nadan, Draughtsman of Lautoka who has been at his on cost providing  us with plan and drawings all buildings on he site;

 Late Mr Kaniappa Reddy of Lautoka for his liberal financial support and his close Involvement in our projects. you for your kind donation which we know you will consider deserving in view of our tract record of achievements.

We shall miss them sorely and stand ever grateful for their valuable contributions over the years.

We remain committed to continue with further developments and to meet the cost of these as well as day to day maintenance expenses, we once again approach Mr.G. Naidu 

Lautoka Sangam Village Complex

With kind regards and ever remaining grateful to you,

 

  Sangam Museum Building

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FIJI TIMES - 22 AUGUST 2005

A NEW museum made entirely of mud blocks - with corrugated roofing - has been built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first South Indians to Fiji.

Run by the Then India Sanmarga Ikya (TISI) Sangam, the museum is located at the Sangam Village at Lovu in Lautoka.

While the first segment of the museum, built with mud blocks from the Rotary Village in Ba run by Dijendra Singh, is complete, there are already plans in the pipeline for an extension.

"It gives me great pleasure to see that steadily, slowly but surely the concept of Sangam Village is evolving," chief guest at the museum's launch, former Leader of the Opposition, Jai Ram Reddy said.

"This project holds great possibilities and I congratulate all those who conceived the idea of a Sangam village and worked with dedication and a strong sense of purpose."

Mr Reddy told about 100 people at the opening on Friday that like in all great journeys, the first step was important. He also unveiled a statue of the founder of Sangam, Sadhu Swami Kuppuswamy.

The statue was donated by Mr. Anil Mani, a Sangam member in Sydney, Australia, who also paid for the freight costs.

"I count it as my good fortune to have seen and listened to Swamiji during my young days at the Shri Vivekananda High School," Mr Reddy said.

He said Swamiji's teachings had a profound effect on him and his family. "I hope that you will make this a village where people of all races, and culture can come, meet and call it home."

The Sangam organisation said it would seek funding for computers, television sets, sound systems, cameras and other things to develop the museum and an archive system.

The museum contains farm implements and furniture from early indenture years, old books, old Sangam files, models of South Indian temples and temple wares among other things.

N K Naidu
Director Special Projects
Then India Sanmarga Ikya Sangam
P O Box 784
Lautoka, Fiji
Phone: 679 6660199 Fax: 6660761
Email: nknaidu@connect.com.fj


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