all India council for technical education (AICTE) has directed its affiliated institutions to admit and admit students having Class 10 and Class 12 certificates from the newly recognized Vedic Board. The students who pass the 10th and 12th examinations from this newly established board will get the certificates of Ved Bhushan and Ved Vibhushan respectively.
As reported by The Tribune, AICTE has said in a circular that such students should be treated at par with candidates of all other regular school boards. “You are therefore requested that the Veda Bhushan and Veda Vibhushan certificates granted to the candidates by MSRVVP for educational purposes are at par with the 10th and 12th class certificates respectively,” the AICTE circular given to the colleges said.
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Maharishi Sandipani Rashtriya Veda Sanskrit Shiksha Board (MSRVSBB), run by Patanjali Yogpeeth, was given equivalent status for their certificates by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) in August this year. The new status allowed MSRVSBB students to apply for higher education in other universities and institutions.
Only a few higher education institutions, notably the 17 universities that offered Sanskrit courses, recognized the two certificates for enrollment. These include the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan (New Delhi), Karnataka Sanskrit University (Bengaluru), Sri Venkateswara Vedic University (Tirupati), and Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth (Tirupati).
Following the latest directive from AICTE, higher education institutions are expected to accept the two credentials in future. As per the information available on the official website of Veda Vidya Pratishthan, the students of Vedic Board study Vedas and Hindu scriptures as part of their curriculum.
However, the decision has raised concerns about the capabilities of Vedic boards to take up other courses in higher educational institutions. The report points out that AICTE’s latest directive comes without a comprehensive review of Vedic curriculum to determine whether they meet the requirements for admission to engineering and other technical programmes.
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