Sri Lankan students off to India to study Hindi
View(s):Thirty-six Sri Lankan students have been selected to study Hindi in India through scholarships from the Government of India (GOI).
The Indian Government sponsors their visit, academic fees and local hospitality for the nine-month course at the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan (KHS) or Central Institute of Hindi, Agra from August 2024 to May 2025.
Before their departure, High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Santosh Jha interacted with them where he highlighted the role of Hindi language and literature in strengthening the millennia-old cultural, linguistic, literary, and religious ties between India and Sri Lanka.
The links between Hindi and Sinhala words and the origins of words were also discussed.
The selected students include six from the University of Kelaniya, four each from the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre, University of Sri Jayewardenepura and Rajarata University in Anuradhapura, two each from the Sri Palee campus of the University of Colombo, Buddhist and Pali University, University of Sabaragamuwa and University College of Matara and three from the Jethavanarama Buddhist Monastery.
Hindi is being taught in almost 100 institutions including renowned schools and Universities of Sri Lanka.
The cultural arm of the High Commission of India, Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre has been coordinating this scholarship since 2011. In the last 13 years, over 170 students from Sri Lanka have been awarded this scholarship titled “Propagation of Hindi Abroad”. This year, the highest number of students has been selected from Sri Lanka.
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