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There are no takers for PG course in Sanskrit

Krishnaprasad

Bangalore University has 22 seats in the Department of Sanskrit
Only four applications were received for the PG course in Sanskrit

Bangalore: For the first time after the Department of Sanskrit was established in the Bangalore University, no students have opted for the postgraduate (PG) courses in Sanskrit for the academic year 2010-11.

With no students in postgraduate course in Sanskrit in one of the oldest universities of the State, it has come as a setback to the State Government as this year it has established the Karnataka Sanskrit University. One of the objectives for establishing Sanskrit University was to systematise the study of Sanskrit in the existing Sanskrit institutions of Karnataka, since the State has a glorious traditions of literature not only in Kannada but also in Sanskrit

Bangalore University has 22 seats in the Department of Sanskrit. The demand for postgraduation in certain languages, including in Sanskrit, is always low among the students as the last year only seven students had opted for the PG course in Sanskrit.

Even though four applications were received for the PG course in Sanskrit by the University, none of them sought admission to the Sanskrit course during the centralised admission process that concluded last week and all the four applicants chose different courses.

Vice-Chancellor N. Prabhu Dev expressed his concern over growing non-interest among the students to pursue postgraduate courses in Urdu, Sanskrit, Telugu, Tamil and other languages.

Vice-Chancellor of Karnataka Sanskrit University Mallepuram G Venkatesh said that there are many students from Karnataka studying Sanskrit in universities that specialised in Sanskrit and situated in other States. “The Sanskrit Department in all universities in the State need to study why there are not many takers for Sanskrit in our universities,” Prof. Venkatesh added.

Head of the Sanskrit Department Shivaraju C. too has expressed his concern about this trend among the youngsters and said that at least a few students were coming forward to study Sanskrit all these years.

Mr. Shivaraju pointed out students were coming forward to study courses like PG Diploma in Manuscriptology offered by the Department. Also, students of Masters in Human Consciousness and Yogic Science have an option to study Sanskrit. “We hope that some students, who will be admitted to the new four-year integrated BS course, will opt to study Sanskrit as it is one among the language options,” he said.

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