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The VHP has decided to triple its service projects in Vanvasi areas of the country in the coming three years. ?Today 10,000 projects are in full swing and by the year 2006, which is also the birth centenary year of the second RSS Sarsanghchalak, M.S. Golwalkar, popularly known as Shri Guruji, the number of service projects will be increased to 30,000,? informed Shyam Gupt, central joint secretary general of VHP and in-charge of single-teacher school project, being run in Vanvasi areas. He was speaking to mediapersons in Varanasi recently. He was in the city to attend a training camp for the full-time activists and the faculty of single-teacher schools of eastern Uttar Pradesh. Shri Shyam Gupt pointed out that the VHP had decided to create a group of service projects in at least one lakh Vanvasi villages by the year 2011. He added that VHP projects were based on four-point formula?primary education, health, economic progress and self-respect. Today the VHP has its projects running in 10,000 Vanvasi villages of the country, excluding Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. He said that the VHP was engaged in fulfilling the dream of building a self-reliant India based on self-reliant villages. The VHP, by engaging the local people and with the help of the society, has been doing the work that the government of the country should be doing in the Vanvasi areas. ?We shall not stop till illiteracy, poverty and diseases are eradicated from the country,? Shri Gupt asserted.(VSK)
