23 May 2025, Headquarters, Rashtriya Sainik Sanstha - An online meeting of state level top officials of Rashtriya Sainik Sanstha was held here today. The following office bearers attended the meeting:

Shri Rajan Chhibber, Chairman, National Economic Council

Major General Shri Nivasan Rao, State President, Telangana

Air Commodore Surendra Singh Tyagi, State President, Gujarat

Advocate Arjun Narayan Dev, State President, Jharkhand

Colonel T S Gururaj, State President, Karnataka

Bijoy Kumar Nayak, State President, West Bengal

Dr S Sudarshan Rao, State President, Port Blair

Captain K P Singh, State President, Uttar Pradesh

Colonel Piyush Agarwal, State President, Rajasthan

Lieutenant Colonel R S Tripathi, State President, Delhi

Thakur Ramveer, State President, Dadra Nagar Haveli

Colonel M K Sharma, State President, Uttarakhand

Harishchandra Badrinath Rathore, State President, Maharashtra

Satyajit Sakia, State President , Assam

Pandit R K Tiwari, State President, Chhattisgarh

Colonel Mukesh Tyagi, State President, NCR

P S Singh, State President, Eastern Uttar Pradesh

Lieutenant Colonel Naresh Kumar, State Convenor, Uttar Pradesh

Sharad Kumre, State Convenor, Madhya Pradesh

Rajiv Jolly Khosla, State Convenor, NCR

Ved Prakash, State Convenor, Delhi

Maqbool Malik, State Convenor, Jammu & Kashmir

Ashok Jain, State Convenor, West Bengal

Gaurav Senani Dr. Rajendra Singh Olakh, State Convenor, Western Uttar Pradesh

Charu Takia, State Convenor, Arunachal Pradesh

T Sarelathan, State Convenor, Tamil Nadu

Squadron Leader Narendra Uniyal, National Administrative Council

Satyajit Aribam, National Administrative Council

Colonel Tejendra Pal Tyagi, National President

Detailed discussion in the meeting After this, the following decisions were taken:

1. Basic military training will be started in every state. The syllabus of this training is enclosed. Information will be given in schools on all or some of the topics of this syllabus as far as possible.

2. Rajasthan State President Colonel Piyush Agarwal said that he will share lesson plans on most of the topics of the syllabus very soon.

3. After the extraordinary success of Operation Sindoor, the salary and pension of the soldiers should be exempted from income tax. Just like the income of farmers is income tax free.

4. On the suggestion of Shri Prem Shankar Singh, it was also decided that if the income tax of the soldiers is waived like that of farmers, then the soldiers of Rashtriya Sainik Sansthan will use this money to give basic military training to the youth.

5 Major General Shri Nivasan Rao said that various programs are being run in Telangana for the welfare of ex-servicemen and families of martyred soldiers and now basic military training will also be included in them.