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The Hindu
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Integration of labour, industrial and national interest is a challenge in age of technological transformation, says Mohan Bhagwat
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday (July 23, 2025) said the main challenge for the country at present revolves around how to integrate the labour, industrial and national interest in the age of technological transformation. He also called for an assessment of the impact of emerging technologies on society and the labour market in a way that it does not impact jobs. Speaking at an event on the 70th anniversary of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), Mr. Bhagwat said that equality among the workforce will not be achieved until 'people rise above the interests of their own families'. He added that technology makes the human nature a 'bit harsh' and 'somewhat' reduces the respect for labour. 'Mother-like empathy' The RSS chief advised the BMS officials that they must have 'mother-like empathy' for everyone in the sector they are involved in so that they can give equal love to everyone. Stating that technology cannot be rejected and hence it has to be customised as per the need of the society and interest of the labour field, Mr. Bhagwat said: 'Technological transformation is another challenge. Every new technology brings concerns, will it lead to an increase in unemployment? Will it dehumanise us?... Knowledge-based technology needs to be thought about with the new perspective, that is its impact on the field. It can devalue the prestige of shram (labour).' Hailing BMS as the largest labour organisation in the world, Mr. Bhagwat said it has the responsibility to ensure that every emerging situation benefits all sections of society. 'World is watching BMS' 'The world is watching BMS, and it must rise to this responsibility. How to integrate the labour, industrial and national interest in the age of technological transformation is the biggest challenge for tomorrow,' he added. Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, who also participated in the event, appreciated the efforts of BMS to create unity among workers. He said BMS is the only trade union that works based on the cultural and social principles of India. He said the core ideology of the BMS is nationalism and that was the reason why it became the largest trade union in the country. An effective voice: Minister Mr. Mandaviya said as the largest trade union from the country, BMS has effectively raised issues of Indian workers at the International Labour Organization (ILO). The Minister said BMS led all the other Central Trade Unions from India to a recent ILO convention and BMS ensured that all the trade unions spoke in one voice. 'Leaders of other trade unions later told me that the BMS allowed each and every union to place their views at the ILO forum,' he said. He maintained that the present government appreciated the efforts of doctors, nurses and other 'Corona warriors' during the pandemic. He said workers in the country rose to the occasion to fight against an epidemic. BMS president Hiranmay Pandya shared that the 70-year journey of the organisation began in 1955 with the principle of 'Rashtra Hit, Udyog Hit, and Mazdoor Hit' (national interest, industrial interest and labour interest). We have shown the world that labour protesta are not merely about raising slogans, rather it is about constructive nation-building, Mr. Pandya asserted. 'Our next milestone is BMS@100, and we are determined to move forward with renewed vigour and commitment.'
NDTV
2 hours ago
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- NDTV
Need To Assess Impact Of New Technologies On Society: RSS Chief
New Delhi: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday called for an assessment of the impact of emerging technologies on society and the labour market, saying it must be ensured that they do not impact work opportunities. Addressing an event held here to mark 70 years of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh's foundation, Bhagwat underscored the need to pay greater attention to the unorganised sector to ensure that workers do not face any exploitation by their employers. Union Minister for Labour and Employment Mansukh Mandaviya was present at the event, attended by a large number of delegates, including representatives of various trade unions. "Technology is coming ... When new technologies come, they bring many new questions as well. What will happen to unemployment? Will it reduce unemployment, or increase?" Bhagwat said in an apparent reference to Artificial Intelligence and concerns around its use. He said technology makes mankind's nature a "bit harsh" and "somewhat" reduces the respect for labour. "Technology can't be rejected. New technology will come. But how to handle it and ensure that it doesn't affect the labour sector needs to be looked into," he said. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief said the use of new technologies should bring happiness in society, instead of creating "new problems." "That's why there is a need to ponder over (this issue) and act. We will have to do this," he added. The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) is an affiliate of the RSS. Addressing the event, Mandaviya said different trade unions have different work cultures, which align with their ideologies, but the BMS has prepared their working culture according to the Indian lifestyle, "which is reflected in their discussion on labour issues with me." It is the workers who make roads, bridges and other infrastructure, and it is this strength that is driving the development and economic growth of the country, he said. The minister said a delegation, led by the BMS International Labour Conference, presented the India Model at the International Labour Organisation. "We have managed Covid with the India Model and succeeded. Service of mankind is our nature, and that is why India managed the COVID pandemic very well," the minister said. He hoped that the BMS would work for the welfare of workers and the nation with full vigour.
Hindustan Times
3 hours ago
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- Hindustan Times
Mohan Bhagwat flags threats to jobs from AI, calls for labour-centric tech policy
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday said that emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence could impact employment and reduce respect for labour. He called for urgent assessment and policy responses to safeguard workers' interests. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat addressing an event in New Delhi.(PTI) 'Technology is coming... When new technologies come, they bring many new questions as well. What will happen to unemployment? Will it reduce unemployment, or increase it?' Bhagwat said at an event in Delhi marking 70 years of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), the labour wing affiliated with the RSS. Stressing that technology 'can't be rejected,' Bhagwat said it should be 'customised' to suit the needs of society and protect the dignity of labour. 'Technology makes mankind's nature a bit harsh and somewhat reduces the respect for labour,' he said. His remarks come amid growing debate over the role of AI and automation in India's workforce, particularly in the unorganised sector, which employs nearly 90% of the labour force. Bhagwat said the sector needs urgent attention. 'The unorganised sector is vast. Even within the organised sector, there's an unorganised aspect. We need to work for this sector and their self-respect,' he said. Union Minister for Labour and Employment Mansukh Mandaviya, who also spoke at the event, said trade unions operate differently based on their ideological orientation, but the BMS aligns its work culture with 'the Indian lifestyle.' He said the 'India Model' was presented by a BMS-led delegation at the International Labour Organization (ILO), showcasing how India managed labour welfare during COVID-19. 'We have managed COVID with the India Model and succeeded. Service of mankind is our nature, and that is why India managed the pandemic very well,' Mandaviya said. Bhagwat used the occasion to reflect on the BMS's growth and called for a new model for labour organisation aligned with evolving global realities. 'We had to operate within the existing system. Times have changed now, and perhaps it's time for us to create a new model based on our ideology and the changing global landscape,' he said. 'They used to say to Thengadi ji, 'Your saffron flag cannot be hoisted in this field.' But after 70 years, we have become a global giant and the No. 1 workers' organisation in the country,' he added. Bhagwat also flagged concerns about the wider impact of tech-driven transformation. 'Technological transformation is another challenge. Knowledge-based technology needs to be thought about with a new perspective—it can devalue the prestige of shram (labour),' he said. Calling the 'Udyog Pariwar' concept—a framework that positions workers and employers as part of the same industrial family—a unique contribution by BMS to the labour movement, Bhagwat said many international trade unions are observing its model closely. But he added, 'The objective of 'Workers Unite the World' is still a distant dream.' 'If labourers suffer, society suffers. Working for labourers is our primary inspiration,' he said.
India Today
3 hours ago
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- India Today
Sowjanya rape-murder: Case that first sparked Dharmasthala outrage 13 years ago
"Sowjanya's power has turned divine. The power of a minor who was brutally raped and murdered is now exposing the horrors that have happened in Dharmasthala", former RSS and Hindu Jagarana Vedike activist Mahesh Shetty Timarody told India Today Digital. Timarody is seeking justice for the alleged victims of Dharmasthala, and his remarks came even as a Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigates the allegations of young women being sexually assaulted and murdered and being buried in different parts of the popular temple town in SIT was formed after a whistleblower, who claims to be a former sanitation worker employed by the temple trust, alleged that he was forced over the years to burn and bury the bodies of women, including students, who were raped and murdered. Several activists, lawyers, and the state commission for women also demanded a thorough investigation. Some of the alleged perpetrators of the crime are related to the temple trust, they sanitation worker appeared in court under heavy police protection, his body wrapped from head to toe with only a transparent strip over the eyes to help him navigate. He had come to testify about the allegations he made, claiming he was forced to dispose of over a hundred murder victims, many of them women who, he alleged, were sexually assaulted, between 1998 and 2014. Before the current claims brought Dharmasthala to national headlines, the first case that sparked massive protests in the temple town was the rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl, Sowjanya, in even after over a decade and massive protests, no one has been held guilty of Sowjanya's rape and a pre-university student studying at Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College in used to live with her now-dead father, Chandappa Gowda, and mother Kusumavathi in Ujire of Dharmasthala was a middle-class family, with the father working as a contractor for the Public Works Department (PWD) in Belthangady for several years, and the mother a RAPE-MURDER CASE: WHAT HAPPENED IN 2012On October 09, 2012, in the evening, around 7.00 pm, the family of Sowjanya started worrying. Their daughter had not returned from college. The family started searching for Sowjanya, and a group of villagers also gathered to accompany them. It was raining extensively that family claims that their daughter went missing while returning from an interview with a Mangalore-based YouTube channel, Kudla Rampage, Sowjanya's mother recounted, "Sowjanya had gone to college without having any food in the morning. It was an auspicious day of Hosa Akki (the day when families have new rice). My daughter had told me I'll come and have my lunch later. I couldn't even see her last time as I was busy with the daily chores inside the kitchen."advertisementSowjanya was last spotted alighting from the government bus near the Netravati river bank around 4.00-4.15 pm, according to her maternal uncle Vittal Gowda and other locals."When Sowjanya didn't return home, I anxiously called my brother (Vittal Gowda) at 7.00 pm and asked him that did he had by any chance seen Soujanya, and she even wished him in the evening," said her searching for the missing Sowjanya in every possible place, her father filed a missing complaint at the local police station late at night. Sowjanya's family had to file the case at the Belthangady police station, which is 15 km away from even after being a very popular temple town of Karnataka with thousands of devotees visiting every day, had no police station in the town. It was after this case that a police station was set up by the Karnataka state government under pressure in family and the police found Sowjanya's body the following day inside a forest located across a gushing stream near Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheswara Yoga and Nature Cure Hospital at Mannasanka. Sowjanya's clothes were torn, and her undergarments were missing, according to news spread like wildfire in the village, sparking massive police initiated an investigation to identify the perpetrator of the October 12, 2012, Mallik Jain, Ashrith Jain, Ravi Poojary, Shivappa Malekudiya, and Gopalkrishna Gowda, all working under Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Temple Trust, run by D Veerendra Heggade, caught a person named Santhosh Rao from the Bahubali entry point near the person, Santhosh Rao, was beaten by the public before being handed over to the police. According to the police reports, Santhosh was spotted in the area four days before the crime. Reports suggested he might have been suffering from depression or other psychiatric was from Karkala town in Karnataka's Udupi District. He worked in a hotel in Karnataka's Chikkamagaluru. His father was a retired government teacher, and his mother was a retired employee of the local Belthangady Police initially investigated the Sowjanya case, and later the case was transferred to the Crime Investigation Department (CID) within a month by the then Home Minister R CID submitted a 15-page report to the state government and named Santhosh Rao as the prime accused, according to The New Indian Express. It also gave a clean chit to four accused whom Sowjanya's family had accused in the CID report sparked massive outrage and protests in Dakshina Kannada an intensive public outcry, the then Siddaramaiah Government in 2013 handed over this case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which officially started the investigation in March CBI probed the case, and after a long trial, the CBI special court in Bengaluru acquitted Santhosh Rao on June 16, 2023, due to lack of the verdict, the court cited the failure of the prosecution to prove Rao guilty, and also highlighted significant lapses in the initial stages of investigation and evidence the verdict of the CBI special court, protests erupted and activists launched the 'Justice for Sowjanya' campaign. The activists and the family of the victim demanded the case be reinvestigated. But in 2024, the Karnataka High Court rejected the plea for a fresh investigation and said, "no purpose will be served even if reinvestigation is permitted".advertisementDespite all these years and all the developments, the big question — If not Santhosh Rao, if not the four other accused, then who raped and killed Sowjanya — remains sister, in an interview, sobbed and said, "When I see my sister's friends today, happily married and having a family, I always remember my sister and think that if she were alive today, even she would have been in the same happy situation.""In remembrance of our daughter Sowjanya, we planted a sapling in the place where her body is buried. Today, the plant has grown, nature has done its duty, but the agencies that had to get us justice have failed," Sowjanya's mother father, Chandappa Gowda, passed away on January 19 this year after battling cancer. He fought to get justice for his daughter but died without any closure. Sowjanya's case erupted in 2012-13, and it is over a decade now that allegations that hundreds of women, raped and murdered, have been buried in Dharmasthala.- EndsTrending Reel
News18
8 hours ago
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Syllabus Row Heats Up: Mohan Bhagwat Vs Congress on History BJP Rahul Gandhi News18
Syllabus Row Heats Up: Mohan Bhagwat Vs Congress on History | RSS | BJP | Rahul Gandhi | News18 Last Updated: India Videos | Amid the syllabus row, says history has been taught through a Western lens — 'India has no significance'Congress chief hits back: 'The of is different from the history of the country' n18oc_india News18 Mobile App -
