Such schools were till now being run in remote forest areas and north-eastern states with the aim of creating awareness among the tribals and the poor and preventing their conversion to Christianity by missionaries. Their scope has apparently been ‘widened now.
According to VHP general secretary Pravinbhai Togadia, these schools are now being set up in border areas too with the purpose of creating mass awareness and inculcating a strong national sentiment in the local populace This would serve to cheek various kinds of anti-national activities including infiltration by ISI and terrorist elements as well as drug smugglers.
Togadia claimed that as many as four lakh Hindus were converted in India every Year while Young children were being sold off to foreigners for large sums of money.
‘Such challenges would have to be
faced with the help of social service activists or ‘sevaks’ who would be
recruited all over the country by the VHP,” he said. Under the Ekal Vidyalaya
plan, schools have already been set up along Nepal border in UP and are
also being started on Punjab border, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader said.