'From 1 AD To 16th Century, India Has Been Pioneer In All Fields But...': Mohan Bhagwat

Gurugram: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday spoke on journey of development India has taken through its history, saying that for a long time, India was considered a pioneer in various fields, but later on environment problems also started arising in country.

"If we talk since 1 , till 16th century, India has been a pioneer in all fields. We h alrey discovered a lot of things. We just stopped and hence began our downfall. Now look at farming itself, in India farming has been happening for past 10,000 years but problem of land, water, air being polluted was never re. But when farming from outside came, n se things happened in 500-600 years. So somewhere in vision of India things were lacking, which is why development also happened unilaterally. In India development should be done holistically," Bhagwat said in Gurugram.

Bhagwat inaugurated a conference titled 'Vision for Viksit Bharat (VIVIBHA) 2024' at SGT university in Gurugram today.

During his dress he furr highlighted that re is a debate between development and protecting environment, however, it is about doing both of se things toger inste.

"Noways debate which happens is wher to do development or protect environment, as if we need to choose one or or. In lives of humans, it is not about choosing one or or but taking both of m toger," he ded.

He said that just four per cent of people are looking to control 80 per cent of resources, claiming that this of development has been pushed by 'using stick' on people.

" people who push for technological development, n you can see it is just 4 per cent of population but y need 80 pc of resources, and to get those resources n y want to use stick on many people. For this of development people have to work really hard and work with passion, but fruits of those efforts are not reaped by many. To reinvigorate passion, stick should be used on ir own people, se situations are seen all over," he ded.