| Activity | Sriniketan, concerned with life and welfare of villagers and cultivators, and to initiate a dialogue between academic study and research of rural economy / culture and on-field experience. The Institute of Rural Reconstruction was founded in 1922 at Surul at a distance of about three kilometres from Santiniketan. It was formally inaugurated on February 6, 1922 with Leonard Elmhirst as its first Director. The chief object was to help villagers and people solve their own problems instead of a solution being imposed on them from outside |