NEP Row in J&K as LG Sinha Moves Proposal to Make Sanskrit ‘Mandatory’ in Schools
Jehangir Ali | 20 July 2025 | The Wire
The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference has accused the lieutenant governor (LG) Manoj Sinha of interfering in the government functioning a day after the Sinha’s administration admitted to have moved a proposal to make Sanskrit education mandatory in schools of Jammu and Kashmir.
The proposal to teach Sanskrit in schools across the country is at the heart of the Hindutva ideology and the latest development took place days after the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) struck down Urdu language as a qualifying criteria for the posts of Naib Tehsildar (NT) in the union territory following protests by saffron groups…