In order to bring the students closer to the “ancient wisdom regarding Bharat Varsh”, the Rajasthan education department is likely to make Sanskrit compulsory for students as their third language.
The decision will be possibly implemented in the 4th to 10th Standard in all state board schools. It will be applied to both government as well as private schools. As far as the inclusion of CBSE schools is concerned, the decision is yet to come.
Making Sanskrit Compulsory
As per the reports, the State Education Minister Vasudev Devanani, it’s being tested as to how feasible the idea is. Soon a detailed plan will be prepared and sent to CM Vasundhara Raje and. After that final decision will be made. The aim is to prepare a curriculum focusing on Sanskrit so that it can be made more job-oriented.
Moving on to the figures, the decision will be implemented in 13,983 secondary and senior secondary schools as well as 20,744 upper primary schools, operated by the government. As far as the private schools are concerned, there are 16,239 upper primary units and 14,277 senior secondary units that will come under the ambit of compulsory Sanskrit.
How many schools will have an impact?
Notably, the government had declared 13,500 vacancies for teachers out of which 5,000 positions were allotted to the recruitment of Sanskrit teachers. The aim of the education department is to employ at least 1 Sanskrit teacher in every senior secondary school. This would help them to create Sanskrit scholars among students.
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Why Sanskrit is Important?
Presently, Sanskrit is not a compulsory subject as students have other languages to choose from like Punjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, and Bengali. Although such regional languages are valuable, Sanskrit is quite unique and isn’t confined to a particular state. It’s the oldest language in the world which has great importance around the globe.
Also, coming to the technicality of the language, some may think it’s a little hard to understand but it’s not. There are minimal punctuation marks in Sanskrit and the phonetics is easy to understand. The words are pronounced exactly as they are written unlike English or any other language. It’s believed that learning Sanskrit helps people gain knowledge about ancient literature and helps increase one’s wisdom.
