danapur all is not well with the historic brajkishore memorial house located at kurji in patna paucity of funds lack of accommodation facilities poor maintenance and government apathy are responsible for the miserable condition of the memorial house which has about 25000 rare books in different languagesfounded in the year 1955 on the bihar vidyapeeth land the brajkishore memorial house is duly registered with the bihar government under the societies act 1890 though the entire building has been built on donations collected from generous people the memorial house is better known for the maulana majhrul haq library opened in 1974 on its premises according to librariancumcaretaker of the brajkisore memorial house yogeshwar mahto there are only 150 members of the library who pay rs 70 as the annual membership fee the library subscribes to 25 magazines and eight newspapers for the benefit of its members the annual expenditure for the upkeep of the memorial house is about rs 15 lakh while its resources are limited and do not exceed beyond rs 85000 each year thus the resource crunch has badly affected the the library he said adding that four staff of the house are lowly paid but they have dedicated their lives for the cause of this memorialcumlibrary housethe first president of the country dr rajendra prasad had donated about 12000 books to this library from his own library at the rashtrapati bhawan in 1960 the bihar vidyapeeth too had donated about 10000 books to the brajkishore memorial trust in the 1960s and 1970s since then few books were added to the library due to the financial constraintslater jayaprakash narain had also contributed about rs 180 lakh for the allround development of this memorial house in 1972 according to sources a sum of rs 6000 is spent each year on the pest control though a few rare books have been damaged efforts are being made to preserve other precious books of the library said the caretaker of the house the then secretary of the brajkishore memorial trust acharya badri nath verma had obtained a little financial assistance from the state government in 1970 since then no government help has been provided to this library despite sending several reminders in this regard sources addedthe memorial house has of late become a research centre for many scholars who are doing work on the gandhi sahitya gandhian literature many sanskrit scholars also visit this centre from different places of the country to carry out their valuable worksapart from meagre source of income though the annual membership fee subscriptions the memorial house earns a little bit from the rent of the hall which it gives to people for social purposes otherwise it would have been very difficult to maintain the daytoday affairs of the houseunder the new plan the trust has decided to house the maulana majhrul haq library in a separate building for which construction works are going on the land of the bihar vidyapeeth at kurji with the financial assistance of rs