Ministry of Education
Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Yogi Adityanath, and Dr. L. Murugan to inaugurate KTS 3.0 on 15th February
Nearly 1200 delegates from Tamil Nadu to attend 10-day-long event
Theme of KTS 3.0 will be Sage Agasthyar
1st time the participants of KTS 3.0 to experience Mahakumbh and visit Ram Mandir at Ayodhya
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14 FEB 2025 8:05PM by PIB Delhi
Union Minister for Education, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan; Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath; and Union Minister of State for Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Dr. L. Murugan will inaugurate the third edition of the Kashi Tamil Sangamam in Varanasi on 15th February 2025.
The objective of the Kashi Tamil Sangamam is to rediscover, reaffirm, and celebrate the age-old links between Tamil Nadu and Kashi—two of the country's most important and ancient seats of learning. The central theme of this edition of KTS will be Maharishi Agasthyar. During the event the delegates will also visit Mahakumbh and Shri Ayodhya Dham. The event will offer a divine experience and bring Tamil Nadu and Kashi—the two timeless centres of our civilisation and culture, more closer.
An exhibition on the different facets of Sage Agasthyar and his contributions to world of Health, Philosophy, Science, Linguistics, Literature, Polity, Culture, Art, particularly to Tamil and Tamil Nadu, etc. and seminars, workshops, book release, etc. will be organised at Kashi during KTS 3.0.
KTS 2.0 was inaugurated by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at Varanasi on 17th December, 2023, with the first-ever real-time, app-based translation of a part of the Prime Minister’s speech in Tamil for the benefit of visiting Tamil delegates.
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