In a recent announcement, MP government announced its plan to start a one year course in astrology, 'vaastu' and purohit vidya. The main aim of starting these course in ancient Indian culture is to face the challenges of modernity.
According to state Education Minister Vijay Shah, these courses will start from this year.
Addressing a two day national workshop on Astrology in Bhopal, the minister also said that these are the part of ancient Indian culture and government will take all the necessary steps to prevent and promote them.
"Astrology, vaastu, and purohit vidya, are an important part of Indian's ancient culture. State government will take necessary steps for their conservation and promotion. The school education department will start a one-year course to study these subjects from this very year," Mr. Shah said.
After complaining how our country's ancient culture is getting affected by the modernity of the society the minister commented 'astrology impacts human lives, the courses of events and climate change. We need to study astrology to understand these changes'.
He further announced that the workshops on different topics of "science of astrology" and their "relevance in today's world" will be conducted in every district headquarter.
Last April, IIT-KGP also announced a course on Vastu to help students becoming well-round architects.
Justifying the decision of IIT Kharagpur, the head of Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management of the Institute, Prof. Joy Sen then said, "Vaastu shastra should be followed to curb ongoing unplanned urbanization. Incorporating Vaastu principles in designs of buildings could make buildings more eco-friendly since principles of layout, measurements, ground preparation, space arrangement and spatial geometry are well defined in Vaastu Shastra".