Safeguarding the Indian art heritage is the need of the moment. Comment.
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Education Ministry approves five Centres of Excellence for newer classical languages · 4 October 2026 · Covers one part · use it in the example
Use the new Centres of Excellence as a current institutional measure to safeguard literary and linguistic heritage, showing that recognition must be backed by research, preservation and digitisation.
- In October 2026 the Ministry of Education approved five Centres of Excellence for Classical Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit, two years after these languages got classical status on 3 October 2024.
- The centres focus on research and scholarship, preservation and digitisation of texts, wider dissemination of classical heritage, and a stronger regional academic ecosystem in Assam, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Odisha and Gujarat.
- Pali and Prakrit have few living speakers, so their texts survive only through scholarship; status is a label, while funded permanent institutions like the Central Institute of Classical Tamil sustain heritage.