Puri: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated India’s second ‘Rashtriya Adarsha Veda Vidyalaya’ (National Model Vedic School) on the premises of Central Sanskrit University in Odisha’s Puri on Tuesday.
The model vedic school has come up on the Shri Sadashiv Campus of the university. The residential school will be provided education free of cost. Apart from imparting education on four vedas – Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, and Atharvaveda, courses like Science, English, Mathematics, Vedic Mathematics, Social Science, Computer Science and Agriculture will be offered.
According to sources, the Puri campus is the first vedic school outside the main campus of the Maharishi Sandipani Rashtriya Ved Vidya Pratishthan at Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain. Four more such schools will come up Badrinath in Uttarakhand, Sringeri in Karnataka, Dwaraka in Gujarat and Guwahati in Assam.
The academic session of the new school will start from 2022-23 and admission on basis of merit will be done to Veda Bhusan fourth (Class-IX), Veda Bhusan fifth (Class-X), Veda Vibhusan first (Class-XI) and Veda Vibhusan second (Class-XII).
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