Education is essential for development but it should be India-centric: Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat

New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat had reached Gurugram on Friday. Here he/she participated in the inaugural session of ‘Vivibha-2024: Vision for Developed India’. Bhagwat said that education is essential for development but it should be India-centric. he/she said that India needs to create its own development models which can become global examples.

Be India-centric – Mohan Bhagwat

Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat said that development is not possible without education, but this education should be India-centric. We should take good ideas from all over the world, but never become blind followers. It is the responsibility of teachers to guide researchers for research based on Indian knowledge system.

Organized by “Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal – Youth Dimension”, the event featured distinguished speakers like ISRO Chairman S Somnath and Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi along with university researchers from across the country who shared their views on achieving a developed India. . S Somnath highlighted the importance of the next 25 years in India’s journey towards a developed India.

‘Till the 16th century, India was ahead in every field’

Mohan Bhagwat said that from the first century to the 16th century, India was ahead in every field. We discovered a lot a long time ago. We simply stopped and that began our downfall. Giving the example of farming, he/she said that farming has been going on in India for the last 10,000 years, but there was never a problem of pollution of land, water and air. But when farming came from outside, these things started happening within 500-600 years. Bhagwat said, ‘Somewhere there was a lack in India’s vision, due to which development also became one-sided. Development in India should be holistic.

he/she said that nowadays the debate is on whether to develop or protect the environment, as if we have to choose one. he/she said that in human life, it is not about choosing one or the other, but about taking both together. Bhagwat further said that only four percent people want to control 80 percent of the resources. This kind of development has been pushed on people using sticks.

Bhagwat said that those who push technological development, you can see that they are just 4 percent of the population, but they need 80 percent of the resources and to get those resources they use lathi on many people. he/she said that for such development people have to work really hard and work with passion, but many do not get the fruits of those efforts. he/she said that to rekindle passion, lathi should be used on one’s own people, such situations are seen everywhere.