At the University. Jawaharlal Nehru (Republic of India) will create a Center for Open Education in Russian. The issues of cooperation with the Indian Conference in the field of promoting the Russian language were discussed at a working meeting in Moscow at the Ministry of Education of Russia with a professor at the Center for Russian Studies at the University. Jawaharlal Nehru Sonu Saini.

From the Russian side, the event was attended by Deputy Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Public Relations of the Ministry of Education of Russia Idris Gazdiev, coordinator of the World of Opportunities project of the United Russia party Roman Romanov, Vice-Rector of the Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University (NSPU) named after Kozma Minin Lilia Erushkina.

Vice-rector of NSPU named after Kozma Minina Lilia Erushkina spoke via video conference about the recent visit of a delegation from the Nizhny Novgorod Pedagogical University to India on behalf of the Russian Ministry of Education. Representatives of NGPU them. Kozma Minin visited five universities, including the University. Jawaharlal Nehru. The Vice-Rector of the Pedagogical University noted that the Indian students communicated with the delegation in Russian.

Professor at the University Jawaharlal Nehru Sonu Saini spoke about the Union of Indian Russian Translators. The Union of Russian Translators has already translated the works of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mikhail Zoshchenko and other Russian and Russian writers. The professor shared the idea of ​​selecting 100 works of Russian literature and translating them into different languages ​​of the states of India (including Hindi), as well as training the young generation of Russianists in India.

Sonu Saini also said that today in the city of New Delhi, the Russian language is taught in two schools, where students and graduates of the University. Jawaharlal Nehru, the issue of opening electives in three schools is being worked out.

Sonu Saini announced the creation, together with Russian universities, of a club for the development of oral speech “Window to Russia”. Communication of students in the club and their speeches on various topics are held in Hindi and in Russian.

At the end of the meeting, the parties agreed to study the creation of a competition for schoolchildren in India, aimed at learning the Russian language. Its winners will be able to go on vacation to one of the summer shifts at the Artek International Children's Center.