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Main activites of the Uttaranchal Sanskrit Academy are given here :::

Construction of Notice Boards at temples and sacred places

It has been proposed by the Academy to construct notice boards and other informative things for all temples and sacred places in Uttaranchal. Ancient historians will be consulted while giving historians information about temples. Thereafter, it will be written down in a comprehensive manner on the notice boards in Sanskrit, Hindi as well as English so that tourists get good, authentic and detailed information enabling them to appreciate these places and temples and slowly it will span the entire state. A tourism and heritage section will be created for this purpose that can keep track of progress of the work.

At a meeting held on 27 February 2004 under the chairmanship of the District head and the participation of the local MLA, administrative officers, Sanskrit scholars, historians and social workers, Rudraprayag was chosen as a sample for this work.

Honours, scholarships/financial assistance

a) Honours: One of the special aims to the Academy is to honour distinguish scholars in the feild of Sanskrit. Application forms for this honour will come out in national and local newspapers and on the internet. Scholars are requested to submit their application along with biodatas, copies of all their publications, already achieved awards and honours and other miscellaneous documents certified by 4 distinguished Sanskrit scholars.
Applications received through an organization would be considered valid as well. Uncertified and incomplete applications will be considered invalid. The amount of the honour may be increased and rules will be put in place for giving the money institutions and organizations as well. The hounour may be given in the name of a scholar after his death as well. Usually, all the honours will be given out in one function. The following is a description of the honours to be distributed by the academy.

1.	International level (1 honour )Rs. 1,50,000.
2.	National level (2 honours)Rs. 1,00,000
3.	Uttaranchal (4 honours) Rs. 50,000.

(Two out of the 4 honours in Uttaranchal will be given out to teachers and scholars in schools, colleges, universities. The other two will be given out to independent writers, scholars, journalist, astrologers)

b.) Scholarship/Financial Assistance : The academy will also give out scholarships / financial assistance to poor and deserving students from various schools and colleges. Application for the same shall be procured through proper channels and have to be attested by the principal of the school our college. Five student will be chosen at the graduate/post graduate stage five will be chosen at the middle school level according merit and will be given Rs. 1000/- and Rs. 500/- annually through the principal. Renewal of scholarship will depend on the progress of the student whose report will be taken from the principal The number of male and female students given the scholarship could be adjusted.

Sanskrit will be sought from various organizations to give scholarships to Sanskrit students.

Organization of meetings, seminars, workshops and teaching programmes

1. It is extremely important to organize workshops and teaching programmes for teachers to ensure the growth of Sanskrit literature. These will be conducted under the watchful guidance of Sanskrit scholars. The workshops will be of a duration of a minimum of 6 days and a maximum of 10 days. They will be organized during summer and winter vacations so as to not disturb the teaching in schools and colleges. These will be compulsory attendance for all teachers of traditional, governmental and non-governmental schools and college. They will be organized once or twice a year. The Academy will bear all the expenses including foods and conveyance. Any Sanskrit school or college may also host the workshops but this will depend on locational factors.

2. In accordance with the objectives of the Academy, workshops of distinguished scholars shall be organized to take decisions regarding curriculum, policy and all simplification of Sanskrit. The proceedings will be published and made compulsory reading at various levels.

Support will be sought from different organizations in this regard so that the curriculum is approved.

Two such meetings will be organized in a year – one at the international level and the other at the national level. Apart from this, meetings and seminars will be held at the state level every 3 months.

Sanskrit Theatre Yatras and Cultural Programmes

The history of Sanskrit theatre begins from the vedic times and one can observe its various forms till today. The theatre persons of the state of Uttaranchal made contributions in this process as well. If it can be proved that the 21 st century theatre treatise ‘Nrityadhyaya' has been written by a writer from Uttaranchal, then it will be the first of its kind by an Uttaranchal theatre person. It can be gauged that there must have been many others and the 18 th century play ‘Sabha Bhushanam' is available as testimony. Plays were developed in the 20 th century as well, the prominent ones being ‘Navya Bharat Natakam', ‘Naranarayanabhyudaya Natakam', ‘Ajeya Bharatam' etc. Play wrights continue to write plays in the present times as well.

Plans have to put in place to take these plays to the common people. These plans will then have to be executed property.

There are many theatre groups and organizations in Uttaranchal which stage plays inside and outside the state but are unable to work property due to lack of resources. A movement have to begin to develop these plays and revive the tradition.

-The Academy has to put in place a committee under whose vigilance this work can go on.

-Theatre groups may be invited through advertisements in newspaper.

-Information should be given in the advertisements that these plays will have to be staged throughout Uttaranchal . One or two theatre groups may be selected and should work under the watchful eyes of the committee. The committee will also hold the right to suggest the plays to be staged.

-The chosen theatre group will be given assistance in 2 installments – before and after a successful staging.

-The plays must be staged in at least 13 districts once and this should be fixed and declared in advance.

-There will be many gains from this process. Those who do not know about Sanskrit will be attracted towards it and it will serve to develop an interest in the language.

-People from all levels will be able to associate themselves with the work of the Academy adding to its growth.

Instruction in the fields of Astrology and Karma-Kand

Uttaranchal has been a centre of astrology and karma-kand since time immemorial. Many experts of these fields have lived in this area during the ancient times. It can be gauged from various ancient documents that Sanskrit was the state language during the Katyuri dynasty. These have been many scholars in this field between 16 th and 19 th centuries – Astrologer Bharat, Mathematician Lakshmipati (Almora), Pt. Hari Datt Nautiyal (Shrinagar), Leelanand Bahuguna, Baswanand Bahugama and Mahidhar Dangwal, Devidatt Joshi (Someshwar), Kriparam Joshi, Mandev Joshi, Ramdatt Joshi, Vishnudatt & Gunanand (Pithoragarh), Mukundram Badhtwal (Pauri), Nityanand Parvatiya (Almora), Nilamber pant, Trilochan pant, Namdev pant, Krishna pant (Almora), Lakshmidhar Joshi (Devprayag), Chakradhar Joshi, Maheshchandra Sharma (Garhwal) etc. However, this great tradition is slowly slipping away into oblivion. It is with this in mind that an employment scheme will be started so that this great tradition can be revived once again.