<div dir="ltr"><h1 itemprop="headline">New Education Policy to boost Sanskrit, Indian languages: Prakash Javadekar</h1>
<h2 itemprop="description" class="">"Sometimes I feel, that more than the British, we have anglicised our country in the last 50-60 years," the HRD minister said</h2>
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<div class="" id="storycenterbyline">By: <a href="http://indianexpress.com/agency/pti/">PTI</a> | New Delhi |
<span itemprop="dateModified" content="2016-08-17T19:55:03+00:00">
Published:August 17, 2016 7:55 pm</span>
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</span><span class=""><img style="float: none; width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; display: block;" class="" src="http://images.indianexpress.com/2016/08/prakash-javadekar-759.jpg" alt="Musheerabad: Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar interacts with students at a Government School in Musheerabad, in Hyderabad on Saturday.PTI photo(PTI8_13_2016_000212B)">
Musheerabad: Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar interacts with
students at a Government School in Musheerabad, in Hyderabad on
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<p>All Indian languages including Sanskrit, will get a boost under the
New Education Policy (NEP) that the government is working on, HRD
Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday.</p>
<p>“The policy of the Indian government is that there should be
development of all Indian languages. Sometimes I feel, that more than
the British, we have anglicised our country in the last 50-60 years.
However, English too is a good language,” he said.</p>
<p>Javadekar was speaking at the inauguration of an event under which
over a dozen institutions including the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan,
would hold week-long contests and other activities in schools to promote
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<p>On the New Education Policy (NEP), he said the previous commissions had rightfully given a prominent place to Sanskrit.</p>
<p>“We are also moving towards NEP and there was a debate in Parliament.
Nobody opposed the development of Indian languages because through it
we can promote our culture. All Indian languages have their speciality,”
he said.</p>
<p>He said the world over, universities have Sanskrit and the high quality literature and works in it, he said.</p>
<p>The HRD minister said that many school students opted for Sanskrit as it is considered a scoring subject.</p>
<p>No matter what the motivation, it is good it is being studied, he said.</p>
<p>The government has put in public a draft of inputs on NEP and has sought a feedback.</p><p><a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/new-education-policy-to-boost-sanskrit-indian-languages">http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/new-education-policy-to-boost-sanskrit-indian-languages</a><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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