ABVP launches ‘Mission Rakshak’

The ABVP has started ‘Mission Rakshak’ to stop the spread of Covid. Under the campaign, the ABVP activists will do thermal screening, distribute masks and encourage people to get themselves vaccinated. ABVP’s Ritika Palsara said the ABVP activists would go door to door in rural areas to achieve the objectives of the mission.

Conference on ‘self-reliant’ India

The three-day national integration conference on ‘Self-Reliant India: Towards Swarajya in Ideas’, organised by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), started through Cisco Webex. Prof Makarand R Paranjape, director, IIAS, and convener of conference Prof Rajvir Sharma said the roots of self-reliant India were linked with the Swadeshi movement in the past. In this webinar, several eminent individuals would present their research papers, in which they would talk about the historical background of Swaraj, role and contribution of the RSS in Swaraj and mathematical or political independence in ideological Swaraj.

Restore Nehru’s plaque: NSUI

The NSUI demanded that the plaque outside the HPU library should be restored. NSUI’s state secretary Rajat Singh Rana said the plaque was removed while the renovation of the library was going on. He said the construction was over, but the plaque had not been put up again. NSUI’s Babita Pojta said while the HPU had been spending money for building a statue of Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the campus, the administration was reluctant to put back Nehru’s plaque.