The Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed a public interest litigation petition seeking to declare unconstitutional a CBSE circular to all schools affiliated to it to celebrate Sanskrit Week from August 7 to 13.
The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice S.K. Kaul and Justice M.Sathyanarayanan, passed the order on the petition filed by P. Pugalenthi, an advocate.
The advocate said the Director (Academics, Research, Training and Innovation) of the CBSE had sent the circular on a false premise that Sanskrit was the mother of all languages. The essence of the communication was nothing but imposition of Sanskrit on children by means of a false notion that learning the language would enable them to learn other languages easily, the petitioner said.
