Shifting focus, RSS emphasises on soft skills and social media

Keeping up with the times, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is looking at tweaking its training, with more emphasis on soft skills, social skills and intellectual enhancement, for its workers, sources said, adding that overall period of training could also be reduced.

At present, RSS training, which it calls as Officers Training Camps (OTC), or Sangh Shiksha Varg, is held in three phase spanning 60 days, with last phase being held at its Nagpur headquarters.

Now, the proposal is to divide the training into four phases - Sangh Parichya Varg (two days), Prathmik Varg (seven days), Sangh Karyakarta Vikas Varg 1 (15 days) and Sangh Karyakarta Vikas Vargh 2 (15 days), sources said, adding the training will focus on practical learning.


During the two -- Sangh Karyakarta Vikas Varg - the RSS trainees would be given lessons on the various welfare and societal works done by it, like running schools, working in tribal areas, and working for farmers.

Now with Sangh scaling up its work on Samajik Samrasta (social harmony among different class and castes of the society), Parivar Prabodhan (family values), Pariyavaran Sanrakshan (conservation of environment), the workers will be trained in these aspects as well, which are high on the agenda of Sangh.