A unique form of teaching in Kuchinda Rishikula Ashram in Kuntra Dumermal village, at the initiative of the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will begin very soon with teaching of ‘Veda’. This will be the first Veda Vidyalay in western Odisha and will be affiliated to Kendriya Veda Sanskruta Sansthan.
Deputy Director of the Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Vedabyasa Pratisthan, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, Sanjay Srivastav visited the Kuchinda Ashram and discussed with the trustee members of the Ashram to start the course from the current academic year, informed former MLA of Kuchinda Rabi Naik.
“The students of the entire Kuchinda sub division and the region will get the benefit of such new education here,” said head of the Rishikul Ashram, Swami Jeevan Muktananda Puri Maharaj. “Further, this is an innovative effort to keep the Sanatan Parampara (tradition) alive for the future and make the present generation aware of the Veda and its importance in the present day context,” Swamiji said.
From the month of March this year, the course curriculum will begin in the Ashram and Minister Pradhan will inaugurate it, he said further.
All the trustee members of the Ashram including Dr Rajkumar Badpanda, Sajjan Agrawal and others have thanked Pradhan, for establishing such an institution in the tribal dominated Kuchinda sub division.