panaji students will soon be able to pursue higher education programmes offered by goa university in ancient indian knowledge systems like vaastu shastra and jyotish shastra as also take up study of the ancient indian languages of sanskrit pali and prakrit vaastu shastra and jyotish shastra are the systems of architectural design and astrology respectively as practiced in ancient indiagoa university is expected to start these courses in the academic year 20192020 this also makes the university rare among varsities to offer higher education in indic knowledge systemson april 5 chancellor mridula sinha assented to the formation of four schools under the university of which the school of sanskrit and indic knowledge systems is oneunder the school programmes will also be offered in the ancient texts like manuscriptology and vedic and puranic knowledge practices like yoga and panchkarma and classical indian philosophy literature poetics grammatics and computational linguisticsheads of all colleges affiliated to the university have been informed about formation of the new schools under goa university through a circular issued recentlygoa university executive council in a meeting held on march 15 approved constitution of the four schools and accordingly the chancellors assent was soughtvicechancellor varun sahni had announced during the universitys annual convocation ceremony in july last year that a school of sanskrit and indic knowledge systems would be set up the announcement was made before president ram nath kovind who was chief guest at the convocation ceremony the subjects to be offered have been spelt out now in the notification issued by goa universitysources said the university plans to offer a masters programme in the new subjects and then expand by offering mphil and doctoral degrees in sanskrit and indic knowledge systemsformer goa chief minister manohar parrikar who was also the education minister had first promised to set up a sanskrit mahavidyalaya to promote education in classical indian languages in his 2014 budget and repeated the promise in the subsequent budget speechesthe sanskrit language and yoga have been pillars of indian culture and education parrikar had said in his budget speech in 2018the three other schools formed under goa university are school of earth ocean atmospheric sciences school of chemical sciences and goa business school some of the existing subjects offered by the university have been grouped under these schoolsfor instance commerce computer science and technology economics and management studies will now come under goa business schoolread the story in bengali