Samikhsya Bureau
Expressing deep concern over the sad state of the country’s oldest language Sanskrit facing the threat of extinction, in Upper House on Thursday the Elders said that the Government should come forward to protect this thousands years old language from extinction and a ‘National Policy’ should be brought to save this language.Raising this issue during the Zero Hours in Rajya Sabha, the BJP member Ashok Vajpayee said that Sanskrit has a rich literary collections, many books on Science, Astronomy had been written in this language.
“A five thousand years old language Sanskrit is known as ‘Dev Vaani’( language of the God), our four Vedas, Puranas, and other religious books were written in Sanskrit. Many books on Mathematics, Science, Astronomy, Medicine were written in this language thousand years back in India which have become matter of scientific interests in foreign universities and research centers”, Vajpayee said.
The Government should, though it is state subject, make a national policy to save this language from extinction, Vajpayee urged the Government.He also said that this would not be possible until Sanskrit language is linked to employment opportunities, the state Governments are relaxing the compulsory Sanskrit education in schools and colleges. The lack of Sanskrit teachers in the schools and colleges have also led to bad shape of the language.
He further said that the foreigners are adopting this language now but this is being ignored in our own country.Many members later associated themselves to this issue in the House.Nominated member KTS Tulsi raised the issue of lack of medical healthcare infrastructure in India.Raising this issue, Tulsi said that the death of 135 children due to ‘Chamki fever’ in Bihar is a matter of great concern. There is huge lack of medical infra-structure in the country.
“As per the latest report, there is only one allopathic doctor over the 10 thousand population. There are 10 lakh doctors in the country but only 20 percent are working with the Government hospitals or its allied institutions. Rest 90 percent work for private sector heath set ups which are beyond the reach of the common man”, he said.He also said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a report said that there are 31 percent medical quacks working in rural parts of India.
