The Sanskrit Academy, Chandigarh, in collaboration with Department of Sanskrit, PU, is organising an Inter-University Sanskrit Speech Competition on September 29. Gurpreet Kaur Sapra, Director Higher Education, UT will be the chief guest at the event aimed at creating awareness about the Sanskrit language.
Universities across northern India, including Delhi University (DU), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi, Himachal Pradesh University (HPU), Shimla, Rashtriya Sansthan, New Delhi, Kurukshetra University and Panjabi University, Patiala are expected to participate. Also, students from city colleges, including Government College, Sector 11, Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector 42, MCM DAV College, Sector 36 are expected to participate.
Udyan Arya, Director of Sanskrit Academy said, "The Academy was founded on July 2, 2012 by students of the Department of Sanskrit, along with IAS officers, advocates and scientists who came forward to invoke students' interest in Sanskrit. We have already organised around 15 Sanskrit-speaking camps."
Talking about the importance of the language, Arya said the youth needed to be encourage to learn the Vedic language that was the source for any kind of knowledge.
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