The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), a government recognised institution that offers distance education courses is set to start degree and certificate programmes in Vedic and Indic studies.
The course in Vedic studies will be offered in association with a religious faction, the Swaminarayan Sect.
The university will also set up a chair, named after Sect–Swaminarayan Chair, for which a MoU has been signed with the organisation that was founded in Gujarat and is a subsect of Vaishnava Hinduism.
According to sources, the University will offer certificate and degree courses in the study of Vedas and Indic studies in three languages Hindi, English and Gujarati.
Read more of this in a report by Smriti Kak Ramchandran published in Hindustan Times....
