Tribal representatives from across nation take part at Samalkha meet

The three-day national workers’ conference organised by the Akhil Bhartiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (ABVKA) was inaugurated on Friday at Seva Sadhana and Gram Vikas Kendra at Patti Kalyana in Samalkha. Bhagwat Kathakar (religious preacher) of Gujarat Ramesh Bhai Ojha inaugurated the conference.

Tribal representatives and workers from across the country including Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Purvanchal and South Indian states were present at the inauguration of the conference.

While addressing the representatives, Ramesh Bhai called upon saints to reach out to the interior of forest regions and interact with communities with katha-pravachan (storytelling).

In the three-day workers’ conference, various issues including the activities and programmes of the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram in different parts of the country will be discussed with the workers in 12 sessions. Workers of the provinces will report their respective programmes and will also get guidance from the officials.

Notably, the All India Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram is running 22,152 projects of education, health, village development, self-reliance, etc for the all-round development of the tribal society through its affiliated units at 17,394 places in the country. The all India workers’ conference is organised by the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram every three years.

After inauguration by RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday evening, the representatives of 80 different tribes of the country would give a ‘message of unity’ by presenting their tribal worship methods as per their customs and traditions and would present their cultural programmes.

In the beginning of the conference, tribal women from Sikkim presented the Buddha prayer. Ramdatt, Joint General Secretary, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS); Antar Singh Arya, president, National Tribal Commission; Urmila Bharti, Tribal Advisory Committee member, Madhya Pradesh; Satyendra Singh, president, Akhil Bhartiye Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (ABVKA); Hira Kumar Nagu, vice-president, ABVKA; Techi Gubin, vice president, ABVKA; Yogesh Bapat, general secretary, ABVKA; Atul Jog, National Sangthan Mantri, ABVKA, and Rambabu Singhal, president, Kalyan Ashram Haryana were present at the inaugural ceremony.

RSS Sah-Sarkaryavah Ramdatt said that Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram was soon going to complete 75 years.