''manav seva madhav seva '' : RSS

RSS was founded in 1925 by Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, who was a doctor in the central Indian city of Nagpur. Hedgewar as a medical student in Kolkata had been a part of the revolutionary activities of the Anushilan Samiti and Jugantar striving to free India from British rul. He had been charged with sedition in 1921 by the British Administration and was imprisoned for a year. After returning to Nagpur, he was briefly a member of Indian National Congress before he left it in 1925, to form the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. After the formation of the RSS, Hedgewar kept the organization from having any direct affiliation with any of the political organisations then fighting British rule. But Hedgewar and teams of volunteers, took part in the Indian National Congress, led movements against the British rule. Hedgewar was arrested in the Jungle Satyagraha agitation in 1931 and served a second term in prison.
The RSS was established as a educational body whose objective was to train a group of Hindus, who on the basis of their character would work to unite the Hindu community so that India could become an Independent country and a creative society

Thursday, February 11, 2010

RSS says no to Bt brinjal

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 07:18 PM PST
A PTI news agency report quoted RSS Sarasanghchalak Shri Mohan Bhagwat rejecting "BT Brinjal". The participants of the NGO meet organised by RSS said that Shri Bhagwat raised a strong apperhension to genetically modified foods. He has expressed support to the agitation by environmentalists and farmers against the "BT Brinjal" and has said that the move by the Central Government compromises the independence of the farmers and also the bio-diversity of India.
The RSS chief opposed move to commercialise Bt brinjal likening the genetically modified crops to infiltration of terrorists. He sought to draw a parallel between infiltration of terrorists and entry of Bt brinjal in the country.
"Bt brinjal has to be clearly rejected", RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat told 'Seva Sangama' programme of Rashtriya Seva Bharathi here.
"People are being consulted only now", he said, and alleged that brinjal had been taken out of the bio-diversity list to facilitate introduction of its genetically modified variety.
"Farmers in India have been into traditional farming for 10,000 years", Bhagwat said.
Meanwhile, 'The Business Standard' has reported that the Madhya Pradesh Government has joined the environmentalists in calling for not allowing BT Brinjal. Madhya Pradesh’s Agriculture Minister Ramkrishna Kusumaria today said that there was no place for BT brinjal in Madhya Pradesh. 
In a welcome initiatie by the Government has decided to make Madhya Pradesh "country’s first model organic farming state". Tha Agriculture Minister said that the state government had prepared a detailed organic farming policy and it would be announced in a week or two. Organic farming was being carried out in 425,000 hectares, he said adding that there was a need to increase this area. Kusumaria said the chemical fertilisers and pesticides had affected the agriculture land in the last 30-40 years.
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West Bengal announces reservation for Muslims in govt jobs

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 07:29 AM PST
KOLKATA: On a day when the Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down job reservation for Muslims, the West Bengal government on Monday announced 10 per cent quota in employment for the community under the OBC category.
The state government declared the quota for the Muslims who were educationally, socially and economically backward in the state.
"We have decided to accept the recommendations of the Ranganath Mishra Commission and will take steps to implement it," chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee told newsmen at the state secretariat without waiting for the Centre's decision on the report.
He said like other states there was reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs in the state. The government, he said, had begun the process of identifying Muslims who were educationally, socially and economically backward. There was 7 per cent reservation for OBCs in the state.
"After identification, we will provide reservation to them under the OBC category," the chief minister said.
Earlier in the day, a Constitution bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court struck down a state law providing 4 per cent reservation in educational institutions and jobs to 15 groups belonging to the Muslim community.
Soon after the court's order, Andhra chief minister K Rosaiah directed the state advocate general D S R Murthy to file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court challenging the verdict.
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