Excelsior Correspondent
HARIDWAR, Dec 14: At a ceremony here today, the University of Patanjali has been recognized as a ‘Cluster Center’ by the Gyan Bharatam Mission, Ministry of Culture.
In this regard MoU was signed in the presence of Patanjali University’s Chancellor, Yogaguru Swami Ramdev, Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Acharya Balkrishna and Gyan Bharatam Mission’s Project Director, Dr. Anirban Dash, Dr. Sridhar Barik (Coordinator, NMM) and Vishwaranjan Malik (Coordinator, Digitization, NMM).
Speaking on this occasion Swami Ramdev expressed gratitude to the PM Modi, Home Minister, Amit Shah, Culture Minister, Gajendra Shekhawat and the entire team of Gyan Bharatam Mission.
He said that the Gyan Bharatam Mission is a living example of PM’s vision for preservation of India’s culture-based knowledge tradition.
Dr. Acharya Balkrishna informed that so far 33 MoUs have been signed under this mission, of which 20 are Cluster Centers. Of these 8 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, digitized 42 lakh pages and undertaken the research and republication of more than 40 manuscripts.
A handout stated that 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 contributing to the preservation of Indian culture.
On this occasion, Dr. Anirban Dash, Project Director of Gyan Bharatam Mission stated that under the Gyan Bharatam Mission, University of Patanjali will act as a cluster center and it 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.
On this occasion Dr. Sadhvi Devpriya, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Ancient Studies at University of Patanjali, along with Dr. Anurag Varshney, Dr. Satpal, Dr. Karuna, Dr. Swati, Dr. Rajesh Mishra, Dr. Rashmi Mittal, students and scientists from the Patanjali Research Institute were also present.
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