Panchayati Hall
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Panchayati Hall is a Hindu temple devoted to the goddess Durga and Lord Shiva, located in Jaipur, India.
History
In early 1948, Shri Jhamandas F. Purswani and Shri Tikamdas Bhojraj Purswani came to know that there was a Navab Ki Haveli in Vidyadhar Ka Rasta (Jaipur) which was being used by a local person who had started operating a small flour mill there, when its Muslim owner fled to Pakistan and now, he was being harassed by a Muslim to vacate the place. Shri Jhamandas and Shri Tikamdas contacted the flour mill operator, gave him five hundred rupees (a very huge amount at that time) from their pockets and got the vacant possession of the premises. They shifted the ten families from refugee camp to the Haveli and afterwards, they acquired the whole Haveli through Dept. Of Custodian- Evacuees Properties, legally, to avoid any harassements. In fact, ground floor of the haveli was the stable comprising of about thirty rooms of comfortable area and a huge open ground in the center. Steadily, Khudabadi Sonara Community families of weaker section, started occupying the rooms one by one until all the rooms were in possession of the community. Again, the leaders of the community like Shri Jhamandas Purswani,Shri Tikamdas Purswani and Shri Parmanand Menghraj Vasnani started thinking about the construction of a panchayati hall. In 1951, they started sending messages for this to the community members who were living in overseas. The response was very positive but they had been facing problems in sending the funds due to foreign exchange restrictions in their countries and advised to discuss the matter with the embassies of their countries in New Delhi. Shri Jhamandas Purswani went to New Delhi and approached the sindhi leader Dr. Choithram Gidwani, who knew him very well since the days of freedom movements, in Hyderabad, Sindh. Dr. Choithram solved the problem with the assistance of Ministry Of External Affairs of India. Khudabadi Sonara Community members who were living in overseas gave their contributions to Indian Embassies in their countries and Shri Jhamandas Purswani collected the funds from the ministry, here. Rupees three thousand came from Indonesia and about two thousand came from various other countries. About three thousand were spent in construction of the community hall and the temple of Goddess Durga, where a deity of Lord Shiva was also placed, at open ground of Navab Ki Haveli, Vidhyadhar Ka Rasta (Jaipur). Balance two thousand were kept for helping widows and weaker section of the community. Then, Shri Jhamandas F. Purswani, Shri Tikamdas B. Purswani and Shri Parmanand Menghraj Vasnani handed over the Community Hall and the Temple of Goddess Durga and Lord Shiva to Dr. Udharam Jhamandas Purswani, the president of Puj Khudabadi Sonara Panchayat, Jaipur for the activities of Puj Panchayat and other social functions. This Community Hall and the Temple are still in existence at Navab Ki Haveli, Vidhyadhar Ka Rasta, Jaipur. With above facts, it can be said that the Khudabadi Sonara Community and Puj Khudabadi Sonara Panchayat, Jaipur are the owners of the Community Hall and the temple at Navab ki Haveli, Jaipur.