Minister for Home, Jail and Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department, Ramsewak Paikra, has stressed on the need for preserving Indian culture by all means and for that he said, close association with the Sanskrit language is a must.
Speaking as the chief guest of the closing ceremony of the Sanskrit Week at Shri Chandraudasinacharya Sanskrit University at Digma in Surguja district, the Home Minister observed that Sanskrit is the language of God.
Texts of Ramayana, Mahabharata and other religious books were written in Sanskrit only, he added.
Paikra said, “Sanskrit is the mother of culture and wherever pre-disposition exists lifestyle ought to be good.”
looking at the importance of Sanskrit, special efforts were being made to open Sanskrit Schools in Chhattisgarh, he said.
Paikra said that in Surguja district, tribal children from far off places were getting knowledge of Sanskrit and after completion of their studies they would get benefit in society.
leader of the Opposition in Chhattisgarh Assembly, TS Singhdeo, who presided over the function, said that earlier Sanskrit was taught as an optional subject hence students were not interested and were deviating from Indian culture.
He said “we all need to contribute for preserving Sanskrit language.”
Chhattisgarh Sanskrit Vidyamandalam chairman Dr Ganesh Kaushik informed that a software was in the making and people would get benefit of it in the coming days.
He said that Sanskrit Board was formed in the year 2003 and at that time only 13 schools were in existence in Chhattisgarh. However, at present the figure has gone up to 143.
In Chhattisgarh State Public Service Commission examinations, 50 out of total 200 marks were based on Sanskrit subject.
Founder of Shri Chandraudasinacharya Sanskrit University Darshan Muni also expressed his views. College Principal Rupesh Dubey delivered the welcome speech.