------------------------------------------------Ashtadashi Project------------------------------------------------

In 2015, Ministry of Education (formerly Ministry of Human Resource Development), had constituted a thirteen (13) Member Committee under the Chairmanship of Shri N. Gopalaswamy, Chancellor, National Sanskrit University (formerly Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha), Tirupati for suggesting a long term Vision and Roadmap for next ten years for the development of Sanskrit with the terms of references as under :

• To assess and review the present schemes for the development of Sanskrit and Veda vidya.
• To study and suggest ways and means to bring qualitative change in Sanskrit Education both in School Education and Higher Education.
• To suggest vision and an action plan for the development of Sanskrit in next ten years.
• To suggest measures to integrate Sanskrit studies with other disciplines like Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Medical Science and Law etc.
• To suggest ways and means to use new methods of imparting Sanskrit Education with the help of modern tools and technologies.

As recommended by the Committee and approved by the Government of India, the University invites proposals from various sources for undertaking Project for sustaining growth of Sanskrit.