Autonomous institute objected but Centre pushed it to help Ramdev get school board

Monday, 21 June 2021Newsdesk

The Centre overruled objections from an autonomous institute, and changed a crucial agenda item in its council meeting records, to push the bid by Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth Trust to set up the Bharatiya Shiksha Board (BSB), a national school board on Vedic education.

New Delhi, 21 June 2021

This entire process was rushed through in two months so that the approval was in place hours before the Model Code of Conduct for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections kicked in, official records investigated by The Indian Express reveal. At the heart of the process is an unsuccessful pushback by the Ujjain-based Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan (MSRVVP), an autonomous organisation under the Education Ministry, working on encouraging and preserving “Ved Vidya”. At a meeting of its Governing Council held in January 2019, MSRVVP, which wanted to set up its own board, was asked to appoint a private sponsoring body for putting BSB in place. The meeting was chaired by Prakash Javadekar, the then HRD Minister, who by virtue of his office was also head of MSRVVP.

Source -The Indian Express