Was India Better off under British?

Citing rising threat to the nation by various terror groups, he feels that military education is the need of the hour and said, “Even 64 years after Independence, India is being threatened by China and Pakistan. With rising concerns over internal security, we should give top priority to military education to students to make India strong."

He also stressed on the importance of imparting education through the mother tongue and said, “Today, there is an insistence on education in a foreign language (English), instead of education in the mother tongue. As a result, the importance of the foreign language has increased to a large extent in the country," TOI quoted the RSS chief.

The report also says the Central Hindu Military Education Society (CHMES) that runs the BMS, plans to set up a flying club and a pilot training institute along with a centre for service preparation and aeronautic engineering education. "We have received a lot of proposals from states like Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Uttarakhand for setting up military schools there and will soon take a call on this issue," Senior RSS functionary Prakash Pathak was quoted as saying to PTI.