Rajasthan hospitals will hand over new mothers their baby’s horoscope when they send them home after the delivery, if a proposal being mulled by the State government is implemented.
The hospital-delivered horoscope would also suggest what the newborn should be named, the proposal says.
The proposal was initiated at a meeting on January 3 by the State’s Education Department.
The Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Sanskrit University, Jaipur, was made the nodal agency to prepare the proposal.
The department was following up on the Congress election manifesto that promised to encourage the study of Sanskrit, and also set up a ‘Vedik Sanskar evam Shiksha Board’ to promote Vedic knowledge.
The proposal on horoscopes has been prepared and forwarded to the government for further action, Ashok Sharma, the university’s registrar said.
The proposal has suggested six names for the horoscope scheme with ‘Rajiv Gandhi Janmapatri-Naamkaran Yojna’ being one of them.
The scheme’s pilot project will be rolled out in five government hospitals in Jaipur as a free service, says the proposal.
At a later stage, the scheme will be implemented in all government and private hospitals if the proposal is accepted. New parents will pay ₹51 for this at government hospitals and private hospitals will charge ₹101.
