"VHP is planning to introduce a toll-free helpline service at Hindu pilgrim places from this April," VHP's international secretary Praveen Togadia told mediapersons at Banaskantha in Gujarat on Monday.
The helpline is aimed at helping pilgrims searching for accommodation, emergency healthcare in case of accidents and for vehicle breakdown service, Togadia, who is on a personal visit here, said.
"A large number of Hindu organisations have come forward to help us in this direction," he added.
Togadia said that the volunteers at the proposed helpline would help pilgrims in communicating with their family members. He said with this the worries of family members will end and in case of accidents relatives will get information from the toll free helpline.
He said that a helpline service had been started in Nagaland on trial basis and its success had been exemplary. This idea has inspired VHP to start help line services across all Hindu pilgrim centres in India.
Togadia requested doctors to spare at least two hours for poor patients and provide free service to those who cannot afford to spend money.
On Justice Rangnath Mishra Commission's report recommending reservation for Muslims and Christians, Togadia said that VHP would take the issue to streets of every village and town across the country if the reservation was given to any one other than existing Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe and Other Backward Class.
"The Union government will have to bear the brunt of the wrong policy," he warned.
The report of the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities, headed by former Chief Justice of India Rangnath Mishra, was tabled by Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid in the Lok Sabha recently.
The commission has recommended ten per cent reservation for Muslims and five per cent for other minorities in government jobs and favoured Scheduled Caste status for Dalits in all religions.
