NEW DELHI: The Central Sanskrit Universities Bill, 2019, was passed by the Lok Sabha on December 12. Once enacted into law, it will convert three existing Sanskrit teaching and research institutions into Central Universities and pave the way for new ones to come up.
The three deemed universities are:
The three deemed universities are Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan and the Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth in New Delhi and the Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth in Tirupati.
While the Sansthan dates back to 1970, Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth was set up in 1962. The Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth in Tirupati came up in 1961. All three were granted deemed university status by the UGC later.
Granting of central university status to the three has been a long-standing demand from Sanskrit scholars.
It will be a shot in the arm for the institutions, which being Deemed-to-be universities, do not have powers to grant affiliation to colleges and attract more students from within India and abroad.
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