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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has decided to expand its
activities and networking across the- globe.
Towards this, it conducted a week long 'Workers Camp' at Chennana
Hally in Bangalore from March 23 to 29, soon after the
'Pratinidhi Sabha', in which 51 selected representatives from 32
different countries participated.
Senior Sangh parivar leaders including RSS Sarsangh Chalak Prof
Rajendra Singh and Vishwa Hindu Parishad working president Ashok
Singhal addressed the delegates and explained the need to expand
activities of the Sangh abroad.
According to Shyam Parande, organiser of the Sangh activities
abroad, the RSS, which has its presence in over 92 countries, has
conducted similar camps before also.
In 1990, such a camp was organised in Bangalore in which about
200 Sangh workers from 20 different countries had participated.
In 1995, another camp was conducted in Vadodra, Gujarat, in which
about 380 workers from 26 different countries participated.
In 1997, a special training camp was held in Bangalore and 62
selected workers from eight prominent countries attended the 20
day camp.
The same year, a similar training camp was conducted in Pune for
women RSS workers abroad in which about 40 sevikas' (women
workers) from eight different countries took part, Parande said.
The RSS conducts its activities abroad under the banner indu
Sevak Sangh' and senior RSS Pracharak Dr Shakar Tatwavadi has
been deputed to cordinate activities of the HSS.
Keeping London as the headquarters, Dr Tatwavadi cordinates HSS
activities in different countries.
According to Parande, the Sangh has its regular shakhas in about
25 countries.
The Sangh in its camp recently held at Bangalore has chalked out
a definite strategy to promote its activities and philosophy
among the Hindus abroad, particularly among the youth and
students.
Parande said that apart from the regular sakhas, the Sangh in UK
was active among students under the banner 'National Students
Forum'.
Detailing activities of the RSS, Parande said: "In UK and the US,
the Sangh is active in the universities. There we conduct regular
ilans' (meetings) and our swayamsevaks inspire them with our
ideology. Now in almost all universities, we have our workers."
In UK, the Sangh had started its activities way back in 1965.
The very next year it had organised a Hindu seminar to create
awareness among the Hindus there.
Now the Sangh is regularly organising training camps and other
activities there. The Sangh workers there collect funds for
different, RSS affiliated organisations in India like the
Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram, which is active among the tribals.
In the USA, the Sangh has as many as 150 regular sakhas.
The Sangh is also active among the student community under the
banner 'Hindu Students Council'. The HSC has branches in about 50
universities in the US According to an HSC activist from the US,
"The first chapter of the HSC was started at the University of
Maryland in 1988: the second at the North Eastern University in
Boston in 1990: and the third at the University of Michigan in
1991. In 1991, we had seven chapters. We now have 50 chapters
with over 1,400 signed, paid members and over 7,000 participate
in our programmes."
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