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Source: The Hindu (http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/11/26/stories/0426405v.htm)

Steps to introduce Sanskrit in schools promised

 

By Our Staff Reporter

 

PONDICHERRY, NOV. 25. The Tourism and Education Minister, Mr. K.

Lakshminarayanan has said that the Department of Education would

initiate steps to introduce Sanskrit as optional language so that

students intending to learn it would be enabled to gain

proficiency.

 

Addressing a meeting of the Puduchery Samskrita Sammelan

organised by the Samskrita Bharathi on the occasion of the

valedictory function of the ten-day crash programme to teach

spoken Sanskrit today, Mr.Lakshminarayanan said that contents of

Bagwad Gita and other unparalleled epics of the country written

in Sanskrit, conveyed eternally relevant messages and socially

significant philosophies.

 

He said that students of the present generation had an unbridled

yearning for knowledge and wanted to learn as many languages as

possible without any aversion or negative mentality to any

language.

 

Education should not be confined to a small circle and wider

exposure was important particularly in the current context of

knowledge based society. He said he would initiate without delay

steps by consulting officials of the department to encourage

learning of Sanskrit.

 

The Sanskrit pundit attached to the French Institute,

Mr.Srivatsangacharya who was one of the resource persons at the

special coaching was felicitated by the Minister.

 

The scholar pleaded with the Education Minister to encourage

students to learn Sanskrit in schools and colleges. The facility

of learning it at the grassroots level should be provided, he

stressed.

 

Functionaries of the Samskrita Bharathi submitted a memorandum to

the Minister in this regard.

 

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Happy to read the mail forwarded by my friend prabhakar (pl. read the mail from

the Hindu). I hope that the Govt. of Pondicherry will take its final decision

in the induction of Sanskrit in School Currirulum. This work was begin in the

mid of 90s by the only Sanskrit Teacher of Pondicherrry Govt. Sriman Melpakkam

Vasudevan. By that time through Kalidasa-Samskrita-Kendram Sanskrit classes

were being conducted in and around Pondicherry in the evening time. Govt. of

Pondicherry had sanctioned Rs.3,000/- to the Kendram once in 1996 for the

development of Sanskrit. Hundreds of students were learning Sanskrit including

school and college students/teachers. Even the Oficers of the govt. of

Pondicerry know very well about it. Then the Director of Education Sri.Ramarao,

sent a circular to all Govt. hr.sec. schools for their opinion and the list of

interested students. Few schools sent their willing ness. But asusual this

plan went to the dust bin afterwards. Meantime Sanskrit was started in two

private schools 1) Sri Sankara Vidyalaya and 2) St. Patricks Mat. School and

sanskrit was taught by me. Now both the schools have full time Sanskrit

Teachers in their schools. Then the present Education minister was the closly

associated with then HOme Mininister Sri.Kannan. He also helped for the

development of Sanskrit. I spoke to then Agri. Minister Sri. Visvanathan, who

is the well-wisher of Kalidasa-Kendram, for the development of Sanskrit in

Pondicherry. I am very much happy and welcome the statement given by the

Education Minister. And he should not giveup this matter simply. Sanskrit is

widly taught all over world. This language is away from all politics. This is

learnt and adviced by Europeans. It will be shameful if Indians do not take

care of this language. I request all readers to learn Sanskrit and insist your

friends to learn Sanskrit, the back-bone of the Indian culture and ask others

also to learn this language. Don't leave it simply. Service to Sanskrit is

service to Sanathana Dharma.

 

V.C. Govindarajan, Sanskrit Teacher,

 

Indian School, Al-Ghubra. Oman

 

 

 

 

 

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