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AHMEDABAD, MARCH 14
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has called for “Bharat-centric” models of employment generation to strengthen the economy and achieve sustainable and holistic development. In the wake of several youth in the country facing unemployment, the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), the top decision-making body of the RSS, passed a resolution on Sunday to promote work opportunities to make the country self-reliant.
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In the resolution, the ABPS said it wishes to emphasise that the entire society has to play a proactive role in harnessing work opportunities to mitigate the overall employment challenge.
“As we have experienced the impact of the recent COVID-19 pandemic on employment and livelihood, we have also witnessed opening up of new opportunities of which some sections of the society have taken benefit,” it said. The ABPS is of the opinion that thrust is to be given to “Bharatiya economic model” that is human-centric, labour intensive, eco-friendly and lays stress on decentralisation and equitable distribution of benefits and augments village economy, micro scale, small scale and agro-based industries, the resolution said.
“The ABPS calls upon citizens to work on Bharat-centric models of employment generation to strengthen the economy and achieve sustainable and holistic development,” it said.
The three-day meeting of the ABPS concluded at Pirana on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on Sunday.
According to the resolution, the areas like rural employability, unorganised sector employment, jobs to women and their overall participation in the economy need to be boosted. Efforts are essential to adapt new technologies and soft skills appropriate to the societal conditions, it said.
“Our manufacturing sector, that has high employment potential, requires to be bolstered, which can also lessen our dependence on imports,” it said.
The resolution also said that an environment conducive of encouraging entrepreneurship should be created by educating and counselling people, especially youth, so that they can come out of the mentality of seeking jobs only. Similar entrepreneurial spirit also needs to be fostered among women, village folk and people from remote and tribal areas, it said.
“The ABPS feels that we, as a society, look for innovative ways to address the challenges of fast changing global economic and technological scenario. Opportunities of employment and entrepreneurship with emerging digital economy and export possibilities should be keenly explored,” the RSS resolution said.
“We should engage ourselves in manpower training both pre and on job, research and technology innovations, motivation for start ups and green technology ventures,” it said.
RSS plans to present ‘grand narrative’ of India to counter misunderstanding attempts; to expand base
The RSS has decided to collaborate with researchers, authors and opinion-makers on presenting a fact-based “grand narrative” of India to counter attempts to spread misunderstanding about the country abroad and at the domestic level, its senior office-bearer said on Sunday.
This and several other issues, including ways to present a true picture of the Indian society, its Hindu community, its history, culture and lifestyle, were discussed during a three-day meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha.
Ahead of the centenary year celebrations of the RSS in 2025, expanding the footprints of the organisation – the ideological fountainhead of the BJP – not just numerically, but with the aim of carrying forward the idea of nationalism and unity among community members, was also on the agenda of the meeting, in which 1,252 office-bearers and members took part.
Talking to reporters on the last day of the meeting, RSS sarkaryavah Dattatreya Hosabale said, “In India and abroad, there have been efforts, either out of ignorance or deliberate, to spread misunderstanding on the subjects related to India, which has been carried out since the time of the British till all these years.”
There is a need to change this ideological narrative and encourage a grand narrative of Bharat based on facts. There is a need to present a true picture to the society on the subjects of India, its Hindu community, its history, culture, lifestyle, he said.
“A lot of people ,and not just Sangh members, are presenting their opinion on the issue. They have carried out research, written books; their opinions are published in India and abroad. There is a large section of such people. Through networking and collaboration with them, we shall be able to make India’s narrative dominant in the next three-four years,” he said. In its annual report presented here on Saturday, the RSS termed religious fanaticism as a serious challenge and also referred to the recent killing of workers of Hindu organisations in Karnataka during the Hijab controversy and in Kerala.
“Series of dastardly acts revealing communal hysteria, demonstrations, violation of social discipline, custom and conventions under the guise of the Constitution and religious freedom, inciting violence by instigating meagre causes, promoting illegal activities, etc, is increasing,” the report said.
Speaking about the report, Hosabale said, “There are certain disciplines about the society…In Haryana, people fought on the issue of aarti. It is not just right to say we have religious freedom. Someone framed a rule about school uniforms, it is not right to say we will not (follow it).”
He was apparently referring to the Hijab row in Karnataka. “Everybody has got religious freedom. There is a need to strike a balance about where to implement it and not. It is not right to carry out religious freedom under the garb of Constitution. We have started a discussion keeping this in view. Where to ask for what needs to be understood if one has to live with balance and coexistence,” he said.
Hosabale said that discussions were also held on the expansion of the Sangh as it celebrates its centenary year in 2025. The expansion includes geographical and in terms of activities. The Sangh’s activities have reached across 50 per cent of the mandals across the country, including daily shakhas (branches) and weekly meetings, he said, adding that the Sangh plans to complete its expansion plans in the coming two years. It plans to expand in city wards and create one “adarsh” (ideal) village in each district of the country, he said.
“The aim is not to just increase numerically, but carry forward the idea of nationalism and unity among community members. The number of people volunteering to participate in the Sangh activities have increased in the last few years,” he said.
The RSS office-bearer also talked about the Sangh programme to bring to reality the “grand dream of a prosperous Bharat”” that people from different spheres of the society dreamt about during India”s struggle for Independence from the Britishers. Works on post-COVID rehabilitation in the fields of education and employment were also discussed, he said. On a report in local newspapers about a missionary school asking for an apology from students for chanting “Jai Shri Ram”, he said,
“Jai Shri Ram is a way of greeting, and even foreigners visiting India say this. If people oppose it, then children, their parents should question them. It is but natural that society will not tolerate if anything goes against India”s cultural tradition,” he said.
