Students in Sanskrit schools to get financial incentives: CM

Bhopal: Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Sunday that Janapav, the birthplace of Lord Parshuram, near Indore, is being developed to make it a centre of spiritual attainment and tourism attraction. “Janapav will emerge as a divine and grand centre. The state government has made arrangements to give honorarium to priests of temples and incentives to students studying in Sanskrit schools, besides announcing a public holiday on Lord Parshuram Jayanti. Moreover, the government giving Rs 8,000 to students of class 1 to 5 and Rs 10,000 to students of class 6 to 12. The biography of Lord Parshuram will also be taught in textbooks”, Chouhan said while addressing the ‘Brahmin Mahakumbh’ at Jamboree Maidan in Bhopal.Chouhan said that by changing the earlier provision of auctioning land of temples for one year by the collector, now this authority has been given to priests. “It is necessary to cooperate with priests in ensuring proper worship and aarti. Apart from providing a monthly amount of Rs 5000 for temples without agricultural land area, work will be done to get the temples surveyed. Meritorious and economically weak students of Brahmin community will be given education facilities in medical, engineering and other higher education institutions. Land will be arranged for Brahmin community on the basis of availability in Bhopal, so that it will be easy to make provision for educational arrangements and social work. Regarding setting up a separate commission or board for Brahmins, necessary decision will be taken after discussion with prominent people”, he said.Chouhan said that one who knows Brahma or God is a Brahmin. “Brahmins have done the work of preserving Indian life values and culture. Today, the main reason for unity of India is the work done by Adi Shankaracharya to unite India. The work of establishing Shankaracharya's statue and establishment of "Advaita Sansthan" is going on in Omkareshwar. There is no discipline in which Brahmins are not proficient, if Chanakya was not there then Chandragupta would not have been there either. Mangal Pandey fired the first bullet for India's freedom movement. Be it Bismil or Chandrashekhar Azad, they sacrificed their lives for freedom. Tagore, Lata Didi and Makhanlal Chaturvedi were born from Brahmin community”, he said. State BJP president V D Sharma, PWD minister Gopal Bhargava and former Union minister Suresh Pachouri also spoke on the occasion. Earlier, Chouhan participated in the Mahasammelan of Kalchuri Samaj and performed bhoomi pujan for development of Shri Sahastrabahu Bhagwan Temple and community building. Chouhan said that Kalchuri Samaj is a hardworking community, which has contributed to development of the state. The chief minister also honoured Dilip Suryavanshi, national president of Kalchuri Mahasabha.
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