ARS(ALL ROUND SERVICE) Program
Convinced of the sad plight of the inhabitants of the backward and socio-economically deprived regions of our planet, Shri Sarkar introduced a new program in the year 1982. He called this program ARS - ALL ROUND SERVICE. On certain pre-determined parameters, he identified 36 locations around the world, and inspired volunteers of AMURT and AMURTEL to prepare plans to improve the lot of the aborigines living in these regions in a balanced manner.
He suggested while preparing the plans, utmost care should be taken, so that their traditional customers music folklore, Spoken language(s), literature whether written or unwritten,herbal medicine and allied health practices, vegetation,forests,plant life, flora and fauna, natural habitats, hills and mountains, water bodies viz. rivers, ponds and lakes, their birds, animals and aquatic life, their art, sculpture and traditional dresses be secured and safeguarded.
Care should be taken that their local industries based on the available natural and mineral resources be maintained and that they are improved with the available technology and scientific methods for the better.
While introducing modern methods of education and hygiene, improved health and medical practices, supply of drinking water and electricity, their traditional system of commercial transactions, trade and local industries, based on local raw materials and the skills of local artisans, are not adversely affected. Before attempting any changes in the indigenous trade and industries care should be taken of providing alternative means of livelihood. Since to the large extent the population in these areas is poor, immediate steps should be taken to improve their economic condition through the application of scientific education and decentralized economic planning.
With the above guidance Shrii Sarkar, began the process of making plans to develop these regions through ARS.
The places identified for ARS sector-wise are:
1. Delhi : (AMURT)
a) Kalahandi(Orissa), b) Palamu(Jharkand), c) Bastar(Chhattisgarh),
d) Telangana(Andhra Pradesh)
(AMURTEL)
Bisoi, (Orissa)
2. Hong Kong : (AMURT)
a) Beijing(China), b)Seoul(Korea), c) Ulaanbaatar(Mangolia)
(AMURTEL)
Macao(Hong Kong)
3. Manila : (AMURT)
a) Philippines, b) Indonesia, c) Burma
(AMURTEL)
Kotakinabalu(Malaysia)
4. Suva : (AMURT)
a) Port Moresby (P and G), b) Guam, c) Hobart (Tasmania)
(AMURTEL)
Suva (Fiji)
5. New York : (AMURT)
a) Haiti, b) Nicaragua, c) Mexico
(AMURTEL)
Guatemala
6. Georgetoen : (AMURT)
a) Peru, b) Bogota (Colombia), c) Brazil
(AMURTEL)
Paraguay
7. Berlin : (AMURT)
a) Greenland, b) Protugal, c) Romania
(AMURTEL)
Romania
8. Quahira : (AMURT)
a) Egypt, b) Sudan, c) Turkey
(AMURTEL)
Crotia
9. Nairobi : (AMURT)
a) Ghana, b) Zambia, c) Kenya
(AMURTEL)
Tanzania
AMURT and AMURTEL is beginning to provide full scope of ARS in these regions.
The services include supplying their basic needs making provisions of food. clothes, shelter, education and healthcare. The objective is to make the people united wihtout any discrimination of caste, color, creed, race or religion. They should ultimately emerge as more self-reliant economically, socially, culturally and spritually.
In the first phase resources are mobilized to
1. Frequently organizing mass feeding, food distiribution, clothes distribution, mdeical camps and health checkups.
2. To guide peoples about water consumption, environmental protection,use of available resources for development and preserving eco equilibrium,
3. To provide neo humanistic education, socio-spritual and cultural support.
4. To learn to form and run co-operatives to become conomically self-reliant. In the subsequent phases more detailed planning is to be done after knowing the area fully well and then understanding their needs -
4.1. Ascertaining today's needs and available resources ( human and natural)
4.2. Ascertaining future needs and projected availability of future resources.
