Redundant syllabus or chasing money 151; PU students shun Sanskrit

Talking to Newsline, Prof Shankar Jha, chairperson of the department said: 8220;We are losing our heritage and the government needs to take immediate steps to restore the same. There are no incentives available for students studying Sanskrit at the higher level and, thus, the government needs to start thinking on those lines.8221;

While adding that students over the years have started finding the language boring and useless, Prof Jha suggested that more scholarships need to be made available to students to retain their interest in the language.

The dismal picture continues at the doctorate level as well with hardly four or five students doing their

PhD every year from the department.

A majority of those who choose to stick to the subject comprise the civil service aspirants, for whom Sanskrit serves as a scoring subject.

For the students, it is the 8220;age-old syllabus8221; that has caused them to loose interest in the subject.

Sunil, a student from the university added, 8220;Anything and everything becomes boring if we don8217;t change it.

The syllabus for all the subjects should be revised regularly.8221;