According to the HSS’s description of Sewa on its 2003 archived website, the organisation looks “after the interests of seva-related issues not only in the respective countries where they have chapters but also take up ‘GLOBAL’ level care of sewa work carried out under the Sangh [RSS] ideology.”
Sewa is presided over by Ramesh Bhutada, the vice-president of HSS, while Saumitra Gokhale, HSS international coordinator, and Shyam Parande, RSS’s foreign department head, serve on its Board of advisors. Notably, Sewa International and RSS headquarters in New Delhi previously shared the same address. As per tax documents, Sewa raised $47.2 million in 2021.
