Sanskrit academy campaign to popularise language in state

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, September 13

The Haryana Sanskrit Academy has started a campaign to promote Sanskrit at the mass level in the state. In this campaign, young Sanskrit scholars are being contacted from all over the state to ensure their participation in promoting Sanskrit along with their regular work.

As part of this teamwork, the youth will focus on event management, language promotion, printing and digitisation.

Sharing more details in this regard, academy director Dr Dinesh Shastri said the main objective was to find the scholars especially the youth, who are associated with Sanskrit and further hone their skills.

The Haryana Government is ensuring complete cooperation with the academy in this campaign. Last year, the academy had organised more than 60 events across the state, he added.

He further informed that it was because of these events that the youth working with the spirit of service have been identified by the academy.

The team of these youth will work under the leadership of the academy for promoting Sanskrit in the state.

He said in the present digital age social platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube have become essential hence the academy too has ensured its reach on these platforms.

Very soon YouTube channel is also going to bring in a new format, where along with lectures of scholars, videos of school curriculum and grammar from Classes III to XII will be uploaded. This will benefit both students as well as teachers, he added.

He said that cartoons, movies and melodious simple songs would be broadcast based on the stories of educative texts like Vedic mantras, Panchatantra and Hitopadesh selected by scholars on social media. The team is working continuously on this.

He informed that lecture series by scholars based on Vedic literature will also be started on YouTube.