A piquant situation prevails in the Hindi heartland state of Uttar Pradesh. Students at a Sanskrit secondary school in Prayagraj It is unclear which board or commission will undertake appointment of regular teachers in 403 government-aided Sanskrit Degree colleges and 570 Sanskrit secondary schools of the state. Board of Secondary Sanskrit Education, the state government had given the right to …
Government-aided Sanskrit secondary schools in Uttar Pradesh that are over 50 years old are all set to get a major revamp from state government support. For the first time, under Project Alankar— a state government programme that aims to modernise and revitalise secondary schools—funding has been released for the proposed renovations of these Sanskrit schools. Students at a Sanskrit secondary …
Last week, the Assam government decided to drop Islamic subjects from the curriculum of all state-run madrassas and dissolve the State Madrassa Education Board. The changes were necessary “to reform the education system and make it secular”, said Hemanta Biswa Sarma, education minister from Assam’s Bharatiya Janata Party -led government. “As we were, we were secular enough – the curriculum …
The Manipur Students Association Delhi has been opposing the Manipur government’s recent decision to introduce Sanskrit in some schools and colleges describing it as an attempt to ‘impose’ the language. Two executive members of the MSAD were arrested by a combined team of Manipur police and Delhi police on December 9 from Chanakyapuri area in the national capital after they …
