Re: 'dyeus' chronology

[Moderator Note: This thread has clearly outlived any usefulness
that it may once have had; I'm allowing these two posts from
Shivraj and, if he wishes to make one, a single response from
Francesco and declaring the thread closed. -BMS]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "bmscotttg" <bm.brian@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "shivkhokra" <shivkhokra@> wrote:
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> > I am afraid Dr Brighenti is showing once more that he has *no
> > idea* about India and things related to India. Teaching of
> > Sanskrit has been made compulsory by the govt of India.
>
> > The central government in India has a dedicated ministry of
> > education which is responsible for producing books under NCERT
> > and setting curruicula for *all* central govt schools in India.
>
> > Here is their web site:
> > http://www.education.nic.in/secedu.asp
>
> This is actually the main page of the Department of School Education
> and Literacy dealing with secondary education; that department and
> the Department of Higher Education are the two departments of the
> Ministry of Human Resource Development, which has replaced the
> Ministry of Education. (All of this information is from that site.)
>
> > Some excerpts on what Govt of India says on the curricula:
>
> > "Teaching of three languages - English, Hindi & Sanskrit from
> > Class VI to VIII is compulsory. In Classes IX and X, any two
> > languages out of English, Hindi and Sanskrit can be offered.
> > Sanskrit can also be taken as an elective subject at +2 stage".
>
> Shivraj is being less than honest. This refers specifically and
> only to the Kendriya Vidyalayas (Central Schools). These were
> established primarily to 'provide uninterrupted education to the
> wards of transferable Central Government employees'; the first
> point in their four-part mission statement is 'to cater to the
> educational needs of children of transferable Central Government
> employees including Defence and Para-military personnel by
> providing a common programme of education'.
>
Please don't use adjectives that you don't have any idea about. In any town the number of central govt employees is in dozens while a single central govt school teaches many thousand students. These schools have extremely low fees as they are subsidized by Govt of India. So yes in these schools kids from all states and union territories are taught sanskrit.

-Shivraj