People of Bharat have always lauded the service activities rendered by various RSS associated organisations in different parts of the country. It is now the turn of the government (run by a Congress coalition supported by Communist parties) to do so. About one third of the 14 voluntary organisations whom the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs has identified in its annual report for their outstanding services, are the RSS associated service organisations. The Ministry of Tribal Affairs implements its welfare schemes for all-round development of Vanvasis (wrongly referred to as tribals) with the help of voluntary organisations. These 14 organisations produced remarkable results through better implementation of the various schemes of the Ministry. The list of 14 organisations includes Vidya Bharati, Sewa Bharati, Deendayal Research Institute, New Delhi, Akhil Bharatiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, Bharat Sewashram Sangh, Rashtriya Sewa Samiti, Andhra Pradesh, Vivekanand Girijan Kalyan Kendra, Karnataka, Rama Krishna Mission and organisations associated with it, Bharatiya Adim Jati Sewak Sangh and its associated organisations, Swami Vivekanand Yuva Andolan Karnataka, Government of India Society, Pune, Akhil Bharatiya Dayanand Sewashram Sangh, New Delhi, DAV Managing committee, New Delhi and Vinoba Niketan, Kerala. Highlighting the role of these organisations, the Ministry in its annual report has said that the organisations had done a good job in implementing the government schemes and they would be encouraged in implementation of developmental schemes in coming years. The Ministry is working on four major schemes with the participation of voluntary organisations. They include grant to the organisations working for the welfare of the Vanvasis, literacy campaigns among Vanvasi women, running of vocational training centres and development of various Vanvasi communities. The report said that the fund granted to these voluntary organisations in the first four years of the Tenth Five Year Plan was utilised hundred per cent.
Based on a report in DAINIK JAGARAN, Hindi Daily dated May 7, 2006
