After kicking up a storm with his recent statement that the BJP Government in Haryana would be going in for “saffronisation of education system”, Haryana Education Minister Ram Bilas Sharma on Tuesday tried to tone down his statement. While addressing the media at his office on Tuesday, Ram Bilas said that the present BJP Government is making efforts to encourage Sanskrit language in schools and suggestions of educationists and psychologists is being taken to include shlokas of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita in the syllabus according to the study capacity of students.
The Haryana Government has decided to include Bhagavad Gita in the school curriculum from the next academic session for students from class Vth to XIIth. The Education Minister said that Sanskrit is considered the most appropriate language for the use of computers according to a survey conducted. Today one might find unemployed engineers and MBBS but no Sanskrit educationist is found to be unemployed.
Sharma said that the foreign embassies of various countries located in New Delhi also have a demand of Sanskrit educationists for the translation of Hindi and English language. He said that he had emphasised on the importance of Sanskrit in his Republic Day speech too. On being asked about the case pending with Punjab and Haryana High Court about the recruitment of JBT teachers in the previous government regime, he said that the previous government had recruited 1,058 JBT teachers in 2010 and 8,500 in 2013. The court had directed to investigate the selection procedure by the Vigilance Bureau and they have found some flaws in this matter, he added.