Vhp To Set Up 700 Vedic Schools

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has decided to set up 700 Vedic schools in the country over the next few years. These residential schools will be located at district headquarters and will operate on the Gurukul model.

The Gurukul system is an ancient Indian system of education which requires a student to stay with and serve his "guru" or teacher until his education is complete. Education here is imparted free of cost.

Details of the Vedic school will be announced at a Vishwa Veda conference planned in Delhi from December 9-13.

Eminent Indian and foreign scholars working on the Vedas are expected to attend the conference, Vishwa Hindu Parishad media cell chief Lokesh Pratap Singh said.

 

The Vedic schools will conduct a three-year course in the four Vedas in original script. Each school will consist of 15 students and a teacher.

The students would be subsequently encouraged to take over as Vedic by the BJP protested against it.

Three years back, VHP working president Ashok Singhal had set up a Vedic school at the VHP headquarters in Delhi. Fifteen students who completed the course are likely to be nominated as teachers at the. There are very few Hindus who have read the Vedas, he said.

The VHP also plans to keep Vedic literature teachers to establish a chain of persons well-versed in Vedic literature, Singh said.

A presentation on these lines had been planned for the recent conference of state education ministers but was dropped after ministers from states not ruled for ready reference in all major temples in the country.

The organisation has ordered 3,000 copies of the four Vedas for temples in Delhi. It is also creating a website on the Vedic conference.

Singhal said till such time when Vedic learning becomes compulsory in schools, the VHP would prepare the ground for Sanskrit learning Internet with pictorial illustrations on the Vedas.