{"id":119672,"date":"2017-03-09T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T06:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=46386"},"modified":"2017-03-09T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T06:52:34","slug":"assam-govt-make-sanskrit-compulsory-hindu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119672","title":{"rendered":"Assam govt to make Sanskrit compulsory | The Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">The Assam government on Wednesday said it will implement the Cabinet decision to make Sanskrit compulsory till Class VIII only after having \u201cgeneral consensus\u201d and removing \u201cpractical difficulties\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-14269002-17431037\">\n<p>Making a statement on the recent decision which has evoked sharp reactions from all sections of society, Assam Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, \u201cThe decision was taken in-principle but implementation will happen after general consensus and removing practical difficulties\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_hoverrDone\">He informed the Assembly that the government will try to build a consensus after taking opinion from all important organisations of the State. Mr Sarma also said there are other issues in implementation of the decision like lack of Sanskrit teachers and the government will not appoint anyone from outside the State.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assam government on Wednesday said it will implement the Cabinet decision to make Sanskrit compulsory till Class VIII only after having \u201cgeneral consensus\u201d and removing \u201cpractical difficulties\u201d. Making a statement on the recent decision which has evoked sharp reactions from all sections of society, Assam Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, \u201cThe decision was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}