Sewa is the manifestation of God—Ajit Mahapatra

Bihar Prant Sewa Sangam in Patna

“Sewa is the supreme duty of a man. Majority of the people live for their individual needs, but those who are sensitive live for others too. Sewa is the manifestation of God,” said RSS Akhil Bharatiya Sah Sewa Pramukh Shri Ajit Mahapatra. He was speaking at Bihar Prant’s first Sewa Sangam organised at Shakha Maidan of Patna on February 2. Around 300 sewa organisations of Bihar attended the Sewa Sangam.

Speaking at the inaugural session, Rashtriya Sewa Bharati (RSB) joint secretary Shri Gurusharan Prasad said an atmosphere of untrust is generating all over the country and the sewa sector too is not untouched from it. There are about 50,000 registered sewa organisations and most of them are rendering valuable services. There is a dire need to strengthen coordination among them so that they can work more effectively.

Kshetra Pracharak Shri Swant Ranjan said sewa cannot be a business. He said the blind aping of the western model has led to many misconceptions. Representatives of many service organisations including Shri Ashok Priyamvad from Vikas Bharati Siwan, Smt Jyoti from Jyoti Kalyan Kendra, Shri Sudama from Gram Vikas Manch, etc also shared their experience. Uttar Poorva Kshetra Sanghachalak Shri Siddhinath, RSB organising secretary Shri Sunderlakshman, Smt Rama Popali of the RSB also spoke on the occasion. —Sanjeev Kumar

Muslim Rashtriya Manch to observe social harmony week

Muslim Rashtriya Manch will observe social harmony week from February 18 to 24. The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting held in Delhi on January 31. The workers from Delhi, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh attended the meeting.

Under the harmony week, the prominent points to be raised are world is a family, all should be happy and well, unite and dot divide, worship your mother, respect others’ mother, coordination in both heat and brain, improve onness, remove alienness, security to all creatures including the cow, medicines to sick, etc.

Today the Manch has units in 25 states of the country. Apart from national convener of the Manch Mohmmad Afzal, co-convener Mohd Imaran, former Vice Chancellor Dr Sarvananda Arya, Navab Shah Mohammad Khan, president of Noor Alam Trust Mehboob Zaidi and Shamakhan of Sahara Kalyan Samiti also spoke on the occasion.