From The Hindu Archives, March 13, 1976: Sanskrit catalogue project needs a saviour

Madras, March 12: The Catalogus Catalogorum project of the Madras University’s Sanskrit Department will have to be abandoned if the Department does not get aid to continue the work beyond March 31 when the 10-year UGC assistance will end. The work is an alphabetical register of Sanskrit and allied works and authors.

This catalogue of catalogues, which will serve as a valuable basic tool of research scholars in Sanskrit, religion and philosophy, has been receiving UGC aid during the Third and Fourth Five-Year Plans. The UGC has informed the Department that it cannot continue the aid anymore. It has, however, suggested that the Madras University may seek help from the Rashtriya Samskrita Samsthan, New Delhi or Union Education Ministry for completing the project.

The Registrar of the Madras University wrote to the Samskritha Samsthan in November, 1975 but the Samsthan has not replied so far. 

The Union Ministry has asked the UGC to continue the help, but the latter has firmly declined saying that it could not extend the aid beyond the 10-year period.