Team News Riveting
Raipur, August 4
Walking down the memory lanes, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in Chhattisgarh did not falter to recite a Sanskrit sloka uninterruptedly that he had learnt three and a half decades ago.
The District Collector of Champa-Janjgir, Taran Prakash Sinha has been on a campaign to visit schools across different development blocks. The move is aimed to tighten the system and note down the flaws. It would facilitate imparting quality education and also boost the morale of teaching staff.
In the series, the IAS officer of 2012-batch reached a school in Javalpur under Baloda development block. While interacting with the students, he asked anyone to recite a Sanskrit sloka. He offered to reward the students in a bid to make them at ease.
A student named Devendra stood up to narrate the stanza. Sinha interrupted and said this was not the right pronunciation. He then narrated, Śailē śailē ca māṇikyaṁ mauktikaṁ na gajē gajē. Sādhavō na hi sarvatra candanaṁ na vanē vanē. It meant, all the mountains do not have the precious stones, you will not get pearls from all the elephants; Noblemen cannot be found everywhere, sandalwood is not found in all the woods.
Sinha said when he was in 9th standard some 34 years ago, he had learnt the sloka by-heart. The IAS officer fluently and incessantly spoke the sloka.
Another student Deepakshi also recited a sloka and also translated a sentence in Sanskrit. The District Collector later gave away prizes to both the students amidst applause from co-students.
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