PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/Haridwar
The University of Patanjali was recognised as a cluster center by the Gyan Bharatam Mission, Ministry of Culture, at a ceremony held in Haridwar on Sunday. A memorandum of understanding in this regard was signed in the presence of the university’s chancellor Swami Ramdev, vice-chancellor Acharya Balkrishna and Gyan Bharatam Mission’s project director Anirban Dash, among others.
Speaking on the occasion, Ramdev thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home minister Amit Shah, Culture minister Gajendra Shekhawat and the entire team of the Gyan Bharatam Mission. He said that the Gyan Bharatam Mission is a living example of the PM’s vision for the preservation of India’s culture-based knowledge tradition.
Balkrishna informed that so far 33 MoUs have been signed under this mission, of which 20 are related to cluster centers. Of these eight are universities and University of Patanjali is the first Yoga education-based Cluster Center. He informed that University of Patanjali has already preserved more than 50,000 ancient texts, digitised 42 lakh pages and undertaken the research and republication of more than 40 manuscripts. As a cluster center of Gyan Bharatam, Patanjali will now be able to further enhance this work and train and encourage 20 centers, connecting them to this mission and contributing to the preservation of Indian culture.
Speaking on the occasion, Dash stated that under the Gyan Bharatam Mission, University of Patanjali acting as a cluster center, will not only conduct research on manuscripts based on Yoga and Ayurveda but will also connect this research to an educational revolution and disseminate it to the country and society.
