IANS
Chandigarh, May 30
AAP’s Rajya Sabha member Vikramjit Sahney on Tuesday took up the difficulty of exclusion of Punjabi as a compulsory subject by the Panjab University with Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankhar, who can be the college’s Chancellor.
In a letter to the Vice-President, Sahney mentioned Panjab University was established for the scholars of Punjab they usually can’t be disadvantaged of the privilege to research this language in undergraduate programs.
He mentioned there are over 200 faculties affiliated to the college and college students enrolled with them also needs to get the power to research their mom tongue as it has been performed by different universities like Punjabi University, Patiala, and Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.
He additionally introduced to the discover of the Vice-President that this determination of the Syndicate is opposite to the Punjab Language Act and “wants to be rectified instantly”.
Sahney raised the query on the choice by making the purpose that the Syndicate has no proper to take such a drastic determination when the Board of Studies and the Language Faculty have really helpful to maintain Punjab as a compulsory subject.
In an announcement issued right here, Sahney cautioned that such choices towards Punjab and Punjabi won’t ever be tolerated and all of the Punjabi-loving individuals, whether or not they’re Hindus or Sikhs or Muslims, stand united to foil its implementation.
