Madrasas of Uttarakhand will be studying Sanskrit

Uttarakhand Madarsa Education Board Deputy Registrar Akhilak Ahmed said that the board's six-member committee on Wednesday accepted the proposal to include Sanskrit and Computer Science as an Optional Subject.

Dehradun: A committee of Uttarakhand Madrasa Education Board (UMEB) has cleared the proposal to include Sanskrit as an Option Subject in the madarsas of the entire state from next academic session. Simultaneously, it has approved the proposal to include Computer Science as an Option Subject.

Right now, in the madarsas of the state, there is a study of mathematics, science, ayush and sociology as an optional subject. UMEB Deputy Registrar Akhilak Ahmed said that the six-member committee of the board on Wednesday accepted the proposal to include Sanskrit and computer science as optional subjects.

Ahmed said that the proposal will be forwarded to the higher committee of the Board for approval. A few days before the approval to include Sanskrit in Syllabus, Uttarakhand Madrasa Welfare Society had approached the state government to include Sanskrit as a subject.