Adopting British education system was blunder: Satyapal Singh
New Delhi, June 30: Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development Satyapal Singh on Saturday said the country's intellectual class was "corrupt" which is unfortunate and adoption of the British education system was a "grave mistake".
"Those who were to lead in the field of intellectuality, academia got corrupted," Singh told a gathering after launching book "Politics Of A New India" here.
He said four mistakes were committed in the country -- first, people were divided on lines of religion; second, states were created on the basis of language; and third, society was divided into castes.
"But the fourth mistake was grave. We adopted British education system and the school of thought."
Saying the Indian culture was misinterpreted by the western world, Singh said there was need to bring a new education system.
He also said that he was still "firm" on his past statement on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution of man was "scientifically wrong".
"I had given a statement on monkey. I think well before I speak. I am a science student. Nobody gave a thought to it," he said.
"Ancestors of those who believe (Darwin's theory) may have been monkey. But not of mine."
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Tirupati laddu row: Samples of Ayodhya Ram temple 'prasad' sent for testing
Ayodhya, Sep 27: The Food Safety and Drug Administration Department on Friday collected samples of 'elaichi daana' or cardamom seeds being distributed as 'prasad' at the Ram Janmabhoomi temple here and sent them for testing, officials said.
The action was taken following a complaint lodged through the Integrated Grievance Redressal System (IGRS), Assistant Food Commissioner Manik Chand Singh said.
Singh said the samples were procured from Haiderganj, where the cardamom seed offerings are prepared and sent to the Jhansi State Laboratory for comprehensive testing and evaluation.
Prakash Gupta, the officer in charge of the Ram Temple trust, revealed that on average, around 80,000 packets of cardamom seeds are distributed daily as a sacred offering.
Amid a row over the alleged presence of animal fat in laddus at the Tirupati Temple in Andhra Pradesh, the chief priest of the Ram temple here on Thursday questioned the purity of ghee being sold nationwide and said 'prasad' should be prepared under the supervision of temple priests only.
