Parari
| Parari | |
|---|---|
| village | |
  Parari Location in Bihar, India | |
| Coordinates: 25°34′53″N 84°01′52″E / 25.581292°N 84.031205°ECoordinates: 25°34′53″N 84°01′52″E / 25.581292°N 84.031205°E | |
| Country |
 India |
| State | Bihar |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Maithili, Hindi |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
Parari, also called Heetan Parari or Hetan Parari, is an ancient farming village located in Bihar, India, between the modern cities of Patna and Varanasi. The exact location is 25 degrees 36.90 minutes North and 84 degrees 3.55 minutes East.
The village can be reached by travelling East by train from New Delhi to Buxar railway station, then from Buxar, Parari is seven miles north east towards the Ganges River.
School
There is a school in Parari called the Baal Vikas Kendra (Centre for Child Development) that serves the local educational needs for both girls and boys. This school was first funded and founded by Dr. Suresh Chandra Tiwari and was implemented locally by Mr. Bindeshwari Tripathi and his family. The school began as a simple hut and has flourished into a cement building over the past two decades. Funding has been mainly from the US. This school emphasizes education as a means to improve the general human condition.
Tree planting programme of Dr. Suresh Chandra Tiwari
This Rajnikant Foundation, in Parari, has established a tree planting programme that was started in the 1980s as a means to encourage the local population to plant more trees and to abstain from cutting down older trees. This program was spearheaded by Dr. Suresh Chandra Tiwari (1927–2010).
Rajanikant Foundation
The Rajnikant Foundation is a non-profit NGO named after Mr. Rajnikant Tiwari (1901-2004) who was born in British India. Mr. Rajnikant was a freedom fighter, and activist, and a teacher. He lived a very simple life in service of others. The Foundation was established by Mr. Satish Chandra Tripathi with the help of his uncle, Dr. Suresh Chandra Tiwari (1927-2010) who was the only child of Mr. Rajnikant Tiwari. Presently, the Rajnikant Foundation supports the Baal Vikas Kendra and the tree planting project.
2014 has been a major year of construction for the Rajnikant Foundation. The first scaled down near-replica of the Parthenon was constructed on the campus. This construction was dedicated to the ancestors. The Parthenon is to be used for student assembly, assembly hall for the village elders, and for general purpose assembly for the entire region. Most of the structure is cement but there has been generous use of Makrana Marble on the outer surface. The Parthenon is simple yet elegant and represents purity of young children who come to this place to learn. Funds from the Rajnikant Foundation were also used to complete the main building of the Balvikas Kendra in Parari and renovate the Devi Asharphi School in Deokuli. The ancestral Dharmshala near Deokuli is currently being renovated and should be complete by early 2015.