‘Sanskrit scholar better than MBBS’

HARIDWAR: Haryana education minister Ram Bilas Sharma on Saturday said that “a Sanskrit scholar is better than an MBBS graduate” as he will never be unemployed because people will keep on buying houses, marrying and having children.

Asking students to “not believe in Google but in Vedas”, Sharma said, “An MBBS or an MBA can lose his/her job but not a Sanskrit scholar. He can become a pandit and perform pujas which are required to be done for several occasions in life.” Speaking on the first day of the Gyan Kumbh organised in Haridwar, the minister said that “Bill Gates’ engineers surveyed all languages in the world and submitted a report stating Panini’s Ashtadhyayi as the best language for computers.”

Sharma also hailed Patanjali’s founder Ramdev as his ‘prerna, shraddha and vishwas’ while talking about stepsthat Haryana has taken to improve higher education, including making Sanskrit mandatory till class XII. He also recalled how the decision of making Sanskrit a mandatory subject from class VI to XII ‘proved beneficial’.