RSS to train teachers on imparting national values

New Delhi: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat will be addressing 100 teachers from varsities across the country on ways to leave behind colonial ways of imparting knowledge and imbibing national values in students at a seminar at Delhi University.

A two-day seminar from March 25 to 26, titled “Gyan Sangam”, is being organised by the RSS at Hansraj College.

The panelists for the seminar on “How to free teaching system from colonial values and establish national values in them” include the Rashtriya Swayam-sevak Sangh (RSS) chief, and its joint general secretary Krishna Gopal, among others.

The concept note for the event says that foreign elements “destroyed” India’s thousands-year-old education system and its centres, burnt our libraries and insulted Indian knowledge tradition.

“While on one side Turkish and Mughal invaders destroyed our temples, the English have established an education system which has made people lose their trust in the Indian education system,” it says. India has to develop a “social and intellectual” point of view which will be able to solve problems of its current generation, it adds.

“We have to make students free of colonial values and establish national values in them,” it reads. Around 100 teachers associated with the Sangh, and RSS workers from various universities will participate in the event.

It will hold discussions on subjects like Political Science, International Rela-tions, History, Archaeology, Science, Sociology, Communications, Theatre, Literature and Economics.