Ecclesiastical Affairs Deptt and Sanskrit Karmakanda discuss school syllabus

GANGTOK, 04 Dec: Ecclesiastical Affairs Department convened a meeting of the Sanskrit Karmakanda teachers to deliberate on the syllabus meant for the schools being run under the administrative control of the department yesterday in the chamber of the Joint Secretary.
The meeting was attended by Deputy Director, K Sherpa, Office Superintendent, Laxmi Shilal and teachers’ representatives from different Sanskrit schools. A Research Scholar Acharya Kamal Dahal from Lingmoo was especially invited as faculty member to give his inputs in this ‘historic meeting’.
A press release from the Ecclesiastical Affairs Department informs that a draft syllabus meant for the primary level that was submitted earlier by some of the teachers was placed in the meeting and discussed at length in terms of the standard of the subjects prescribed. It is further informed that a final draft was prepared after taking into account the valuable suggestions given by the faculty member, which was unanimously agreed by all the teachers present in the meeting.
The meeting also resolved to print books which are unavailable in the market. Following this, the responsibility of writing 2 books i.e. Sanskrit Strotamala and Anubadh 2nd path was entrusted to Kamal Dahal the faculty member while Sanskrit Varnamala meant for class I and II standard was entrusted to the teacher’s committee. It was agreed that the draft manuscript of these books should be submitted by the end of the January 2013.
The department aims to provide the newly prepared text books from the new academic session, it is added.