From RSS To Indian Military: Sangh To Setup Army School For Training Children To Become Officers In Armed Forces

The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), in a first such initiative, is set to open an Army school in Uttar Pradesh to train children to become officers in the armed forces, reports Times of India.

According to the report, the school will come up at Shikarpur in UP’s Bulandshar and would be named after former RSS sarsanghchalak Rajendra Singh, also known as Rajju Bhaiya. It will be called the Rajju Bhaiya Sainik Vidya Mandir and Vidya Bharati, the education wing of the RSS which runs over 20,000 schools across the country, will run it.

The construction for the residential school for boys began in August last year. It will follow the syllabus of the Central Board of Secondary Education and will have students from Class VI to Class XII.

“This is an experiment we are doing for the first time in the country and the model can be replicated to other places in future,” Ajay Goyal, regional convener of West UP and Uttarakhand for the Vidya Bharti Uchha Shiksha Sansthan, was quoted in the report as saying.

As per the report, the prospectus for the first batch of students is ready and the applications for admission in the school will be invited from next month. “We will take 160 students for Class VI for the first batch,” Goyal said. The children of martyrs will reportedly get 56 seats under a reservation scheme.