{"id":179613,"date":"2025-07-22T14:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=179613"},"modified":"2025-07-22T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:09:07","slug":"sinha-proposes-sanskrit-as-mandatory-subject-in-iiojk-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/07\/22\/sinha-proposes-sanskrit-as-mandatory-subject-in-iiojk-schools.html","title":{"rendered":"Sinha proposes Sanskrit as mandatory subject in IIOJK schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Srinagar: The occupation administration led by the Delhi-installed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has stirred fresh controversy in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir by initiating a move to make Sanskrit education mandatory in schools across the territory, a step seen by critics as part of a larger ideological agenda under India\u2019s National Educational Policy (NEP) 2020.<\/p>\n

According to Kashmir Media Service, the move comes just days after India\u2019s Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) scrapped Urdu language as a qualifying criterion for the post of Naib Tehsildar in the territory, sparking allegations of cultural imposition.<\/p>\n

Reacting sharply, the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) accused the LG of interfering in governance and education policy in a politically sensitive territory. In a statement, the party expressed concern over what it called a “top-down imposition driven by ideological motives rather than academic merit or local relevance.”<\/p>\n

The NC emphasized that such decisions should emerge from local legislative processes and reflect the linguistic and cultural diversity of the territory, rather than being dictated by external ideological frameworks.<\/p>\n

“This isn\u2019t about promoting a classical language; it\u2019s about sidelining the local ethos and replacing it with a singular cultural narrative,” an NC spokesperson said, warning that such measures could further alienate the population and deepen the sense of disenfranchisement in the already volatile territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar: The occupation administration led by the Delhi-installed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has stirred fresh controversy in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir by initiating a move to make Sanskrit education mandatory in schools across the territory, a step seen by critics as part of a larger ideological agenda under India\u2019s National Educational Policy (NEP) …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":179616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}