{"id":1206,"date":"2001-09-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/09\/15\/2001-09-15-kolkata-university-won-t-introduce-astrology-course\/"},"modified":"2001-09-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-15T12:00:00","slug":"2001-09-15-kolkata-university-won-t-introduce-astrology-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/09\/15\/2001-09-15-kolkata-university-won-t-introduce-astrology-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata University Won&#8217;t Introduce Astrology Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Daily Pioneer<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>KOLKATA, INDIA, September 15, 2001: Giving a thumbs down to the Central Government&#8217;s move to introduce astrology in the curriculum of universities, Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) here has rejected a University Grant&#8217;s Commission proposal to set up an astrology department and returned a grant of US$31,900. The UGC controls much of the funding for universities in India. &#8220;Our university did not send any proposal to the UGC at all for setting up any department for teaching astrology, which the UGC has renamed as Jyotirvigyan,&#8221; said Vice-Chancellor Subhankar Chakraborty. Mr Chakraborty said the UGC &#8220;on its own&#8221; accorded approval for the establishment of such a department in the university a few months ago and sent a check for the project. The Commission in a communication also granted the appointment of a professor, two readers and lecturers each and establishment of a computerized horoscope bank, he said. &#8220;Our university can never accept this offer of sanction because astrology has not yet been established as a science through laboratory experiments, observations, analysis or research,&#8221; he said. Despite his denials, there is hardly a person in India who would not consult an astrologer, if not frequently, certainly upon ascertaining marriage compatibility for the children and auspicious times for weddings.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Daily Pioneer KOLKATA, INDIA, September 15, 2001: Giving a thumbs down to the Central Government&#8217;s move to introduce,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}