An international level seminar on Sanskrit will be held from June 28 to 30, instead of a national seminar which was earlier being planned for May 20 and 21.
This seminar will be in keeping with the vision of Governor Aziz Qureshi who strongly believed that Devbhumi Uttarakhand should make efforts to establish Sanskrit as a language of the masses.
A meeting was held at Raj Bhawan to discuss the preparations for the international seminar. Present at the meeting were VC of Sanskrit University Prof Mahavir Aggarwal, secretary Arun Dhaundiyal, additional secretary Nidhi Pandey, finance controller Poonam Sobti, ADCs Dr YS Rawat and Maj PPR Chaudhary, Comptroller Pramod Chamoli, CSO JC Arya, private secretary Rajendra Chauhan and additional director (information) Hansi Brijwasi.
During the meeting, Governor said that depending on the availability, President Pranab Mukherjee would be invited to inaugurate the international Sanskrit seminar. He said heads of Sanskrit universities and institutions, scholars, writers and linguists from all over India as well as from Germany, Indonesia, Mauritius, Pakistan and Nepal and some other countries would be invited to the seminar.
He said experts of other languages would also be invited who would give suggestions regarding linking Sanskrit to prominent Indian languages as well as to computers and Science and technology.
The Governor said that an action plan should be prepared at the earliest for ensuring success of the seminar which would be the first of its kind. He told Prof Aggarwal to soon present before him a blueprint for the arrangements and preparations for the proposed seminar.
The Governor said that Sanskrit was an invaluable heritage of our country besides being the glory of our culture and civilization.He said that since Sanskrit was a scientific language, it would be easily acceptable as a language of the masses in this age of computers.