Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) (Hindi: अखिल भारतीय विद्यार्थी परिषद, English: All Indian Student Council), is a right-wing all-India student organisation working in the field of education. It is the student wing of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).ABVP was founded in 1948 and formally registered on 9 July 1949.As of May 2013, P. Murali Manohar is the
National President, Umesh Dutt is the National General Secretary and Sunil Ambekar is the National Organising Secretary of the organisation.The group runs projects and programmes aimed at national integration and using social consciousness to solve economic and other problems. They also run programmes designed to improve the abilities of individual students, including:
Book-Bank
Students' Vacation Employment Bureau
First Class First Felicitation functions
Inter-collegiate and inter-university music competitions
Painting competitions
Literary competitions
Student writers' meets
Sports meets
Social participation camps
Personality development camps
Technical, Medical, Management, and Agri student workshops
Technical exhibitions
Indo-foreign Students' Bureau
Study circles and art circles
Students' Experience in Interstate Living
My Home is India
Students for Development
It also campaigns for educational and university reforms and competes in student-body elections in colleges and universities to achieve these goals.
