Karimnagar, July 27: Sanskrit education is going through a lean phase in the district, what with the two schools — Sri Rajarajeshwara Ubhaya Vedantha Patashala, Karimnagar, and Sanskrit Patashala, Vemulawada, on the verge of closure.
Run by the Vemulawada temple authorities, both the schools lack staff and facilities.
There have been no recruitments for the past several years. Teachers, however, used to come over on deputation from the Sanskrit Pathasala in Dharmapuri, but this has now been closed down. The managements of the remaining schools have failed to obey the directives of the High Court authorities that mathematics and science subjects be taught along with the language.
The students had approached the court following a decision to transform the pathshalas into Oriental schools. Now they are planning to move the court again to save the schools from further decline. They are at a loss as to why the temple authorities who have been donating funds for construction of dharmasalas at various places have neglected the schools for the past decade.
The lack of interest of the authorities in running the schools is also evident from the fact that they have been showing no interest in admitting new students to the pathasalas — whether directly or through government programmes like Babibata. And this has been the case for the last decade.
Meanwhile, the DEO’s order deputing two school assistants — Balaram and Chandramouli — of the Karimnagar school to the Vemulawada pathasala has come as another fresh blow to the former institution.
DEO N Rameswara Raju issued the orders at the request of the headmaster of the Vemulawada school. Significantly, the temple authorities were not informed about the same, which apparently is a deviation from the rules.
–Agencies–