Education is the key to the social change and only through it the world can change, opined the Governor of Uttarakhand Krishan Kant Paul while addressing convocation of the Uttarakhand Sanskrit University at Haridwar on Monday.
Emphasizing on the importance of ancient wisdom, the Governor said that the modern education should be linked with our ancient ideals and traditions.
Congratulating the students he said that more efforts are needed to make the university a centre for excellence. “Focus should be on skill development, research and innovation.
Only then would the Sanskrit university become a centre for excellence as the Nalanda and Takshashila universities of past,” he said. The Governor congratulated the recipients of degrees and hoped that they would set new standards in the world. He said that the university is making consistent efforts to conserve and enrich the Sanskrit, considered language of gods. This language was at the heart of various philosophical works and spiritual and literary texts, he said.
The Governor added that Sanskrit united our country and is a bridge between the north and the south. Terming Sanskrit universities as modern Gurukuls, he said that they have the responsibility of conserving our ancient culture and traditions.
The Governor said that ancient texts of Ayurveda like Charak Sahinta were significant besides many philosophical works in Sanskrit.
He said that Sanskrit needed to be seen through a new perspective today .Many efforts must be made to preserve and nurture it.
It should be linked to modern knowledge and science.
“The Dev Bhasha needs to be made a Jan Bhasha”, he opined.
He expressed happiness at the fact that the university now had a Yog Vigyan Bhawan, an auditorium and a digital library building.
The governor also congratulated the University for adopting five villages in remote and backward areas of the state.
The Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University Piyush Kant Dixit read out the achievements of the university.
large number of Sanskrit scholars and teachers attended the programme.