Mumbai.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has decided to focus on environment protection
and water conservation in near future. Also, it has mulled an idea to train its
swayamsevaks in handling the natural calamities.
The
Sangh's Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal meeting began at Keshav Srushti at
Uttan near Mumbai today. Sarsanghchalak Dr. Mohan Bhagwat and Sarkaryawah
Suresh ‘Bhaiyaji’ Joshi garlanded the images of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and
Bharat Mata at the beginning of the meeting.
RSS Sah
Sarkaryawah Manmohan Vaidya briefed the reporters at a nearby complex Rambhau Mahalgi
Prabodhini after the meeting started. He informed that the Sangh organises two
meeting every year, one in March and another before Diwali. The office bearers
at Prant, kshetra as well as National level participate in the meeting. The
meeting has been organised in Mumbai as a part of the regular exercise. It is
attended by 350 delegates from across the country and it will go on till
November 2nd.
Dr. Vaidya
said that a range of contemporary issues of national importance will be
discussed at the meeting. Also, there will be discussion on the Sangh's work
done in last year and the work to be done in coming year as well as some new
projects to be undertaken by the Sangh.
He said
that the Sangh has undertaken several initiatives since 2010 to expand its
horizon. Today, there are around 55,000 shakhas from Ladakh to Andaman and
Tripura. Sangh work is spread across 850 districts and 6,000 talukas. Sangh
shakhas are running regularly at 90 percent blocks. In Sangh structure, 10 to
12 villages fall under one mandal. There are such 56,000 mandals in which we
have grouped all these villages. Sangh has its presence in 58 percent of these
mandals so far.
In last
three years, there is 5 percent increase in our work in number of mandals and 3
percent in the shakhas. In all, around 31,000 villages have shakhas. Out of
total shakhas 82 percent are in rural areas whereas 18 percent are in urban
areas.
Vaidya
said that Sangh has mulled an idea to train swayamsevaks to tackle natural
calamities. The syamsevaks dedicatedly work in the natural calamities but they
are not trained for it. In this meeting, there will discussion on how to train them
to tackle the calamities.
At
present, Sangh is running 1.5 lakh social projects. "We are conducting
survey of the swayamsevaks across the country to know their inclination towards
social work. We will also discuss how to connect them to several projects as
per their inclination."
He said
that Sangh has started an activity for protection of Indian cows, cow oriented
farming and health care on the basis of cow products. Brazil and New Zealand
have already recognised its values. "We have started an extensive work in
this regard after 2010. 1500 new Gow Shallas have been set up by now. There are
experiments going on cow urine and dung at the various cow research
institutes."
There
will be special discussion on water conservation and environment protection initiatives
to be taken by Swayamsevaks along with Society at large. Vaidya informed that
rural development activities are going on since 1998. Their effect is visible
in 600 villages. We have launched a similar kind of work in other 2000 villages
based on the results of these 600 villages.
Sangh
has undertaken an important work in the form of an activity called as Kutumb
Prabodhan. The families are being scattered now-a-days. The Sangh is concerned
on how to keep the families together.
While
addressing a question on Ram temple, vaidya said that this is neither an issue
of Hindu-Muslim nor Temple - Mosque. When Babar’s General had intruded there
was not a situation that he could not get land for offering namaz. There was
ample of land. He could have constructed mosque there. He had demolished the
temple. Excavations by the Archeological Department have already proved that
there was a temple at that particular site. According to Islamic intellectuals
even Prayer(Namaj) at forcefully occupied other’s land is not accepted and even
Supreme Court in its judgement has accepted that Mosque is not necessary
for offering namaz.
Ram
temple is an issue of national self respect and honour. Just as reconstruction
of Somnath temple done by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Then President Dr.
Rajenra Prasad had attended the pran pratishtha ceremony at Somnath temple,
Similarly, the government should acquire the land and hand it over for
construction of Ram temple. The government should enact a law for this.
Akhil
Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh Arun Kumar and Sah Prachar Pramukh Narendra Thakur
too were present at the briefing.
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