Over 700 academicians were a part of RSS workshop on making education more ‘Indian’

A two-day workshop organised by the RSS in Delhi saw participation from over 721 academicians and experts, including 51 Vice Chancellors of various central and state universities.

The theme of the workshop was to brainstorm over how to make Indian education more oriented towards ‘Bharatiya perspectives’.

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The workshop, titled Gyan Sangam, was organised over the 25th-26th March weekend, and was held by the RSS-backed initiative called Prajna Pravah.

On Sunday, the main speaker of the workshop was Mohan Bhagwat, the chief of RSS, and senior RSS functionaries Sahkarvayah Krishna Gopal and Suresh Soni were also present at the workshop venue in the national capital.

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Bhagwat spoke about “non-governmental and autonomous Indic thinking," and said, "This is not the alternative but the real attempt to develop a Bharatiya perspective.”

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"Our education was marked with the absence of Indian-ness. The centre of gravity of our education system shifted towards the west,” said J Nandakumar, the head of Pranja Pravah. He added that the event was held so that ways to bring the centre of gravity back to Indic thinking could be brainstormed.

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In the coming days, events like this would be held in various other states in India.

(Image source: Vishwa Samvada Kendra)