Source: The Hindu, November 21, 2000
BHOPAL, INDIA: The Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Mr. Digvijay Singh, has announced the setting up of a Sanskrit Board by January, 2001, to promote the language. Mr Singh said this at a function organized by the Avdhesh Pratap Singh University in Rewa the other day. A task force, comprising Sanskrit scholars, would be set up to identify the existing resources of Sanskrit and to make recommendations for its development, the Chief Minister announced.