SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh Chief minister Virbhadra Singh at present announced that Sanskrit shall be offered as a obligatory discipline in all govt schools within the state.
Presiding over a assembly at Himachal Sanskrit Academy, the manager Minister advised the academy officers to make earnest efforts to promote Sanskrit.
Whilst assuring that there will probably be no dearth of money, Singh requested the officials to arrange programmes and tasks and put up the equal to the valuable govt.
The minister praised the old language and stated that it used to be a best form of the Vedic language, that existed 1000s of years in the past, even before the earliest high languages of the world like Greek, Hebrew and Latin etc, got here into the image.
He directed the Academy to complete the formalities for take over of Tungesh Sanskrit institution at Cheog village, to ensure its better functioning.
Singh also ordered to switch the ownership of 'Divya Jyoti' month-to-month journal to the academy and permitted newsletter of study journal (bi-annual) of the academy jointly with Himachal Pradesh University.