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humanities and social sciences have been published. Out of these 1,690 books have been published in Hindi by the various Hindi Granth Academies, university cells and the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology.
Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology has been con- cerned with the production of books in Agriculture, Medicine, Engineering etc. During the year, about 16 books were published in these subjects and some are in the process of printing. The titles include both translation as well as original writing.
A meeting of the Directors of State Book Production Boards and Granth Academies and 7 Book Panel Meetings were held in Agriculture during the year. Nine Engineering books in Hindi have been assigned for printing.
Procurement of For translating books of foreign authors in Hindi and other Indian Lan-
Copyrights guages, translation rights of 1473 books have so far been procured. During
the year, translation rights of 3 books were obtained and work pertaining to
obtaining of further copyrights and renewal of copyrights is in progress.
Terminology In the context of residual terminology, Hindi equivalents of terms were
evolved only in those branches, where this work had not been done, such as
Space Science, Veterinary Science and Management. "Space Science Glos-
sary", containing 10,000 words of space science, space terminology and
space application, was published during the year; it was released by the late
Prime Minister Shrimati Indira Gandhi. Engineering Glossary-II is ready for
the press.
Departmental Terminology The preparation of Departmental Terminology is now progressing
smoothly. During the year, about 5,000 terms received from various depart-
ments/ministries of the Government of India have been evolved, appoved or
finalized in various meetings held for the purpose.
Co-ordination and Simplification Co-ordination and simplification of entire terminology of Sciences, Social
of Terminology Sciences, Humanities etc. has been done upto letter R. During the year
nearly 1,200 terms have been finally coordinated in the three different semi-
nars held at Delhi. Thus, so far about 4,200 terms have been coordinated
and simplified.
Hindi-English Side by side with the publication of English-Hindi Glossaries, it was also
Glossaries considered necessary to prepare counterpart Hindi-English Glossaries. Two
such Hindi-English Glossaries relating to Basic Sciences and Humanities
and Social Sciences have been published before. The third Hindi-English
Glossary in the series belonging to the Applied Sciences after making it
press-ready has been sent to the press during the year.
Pan-Indian Terminology The task before the Commission now is to compile, collate and co-ordin-
ate the prevailing terminology in different Indian languages with the terms
prepared in Hindi, the purpose being to explore the possibility of evolving a
national terminology, which could be uniformly used throughout the country
as a standard Pan-Indian terminology. In this connection, All-India Seminars
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were held in the non-Hindi speaking areas and pan-Indian terminology relat-
ing to Biology, Education, Psychology, Psychiatry, Sociology, Commerce,
Economics, Cultural Anthropology, Pharmacy, Medicine, Physics, Geology,
Linguistics, Mathematics, Political Science, Geography, Zoology, Botany etc.
was identified and finalised. This year 4 pan-Indian terminology seminars
were held in Chemistry, Zoology, Geography and Botany at Madurai, Mad-
ras and Calicut. So far about 12,000 basic terms in various subjects were
identified and finalised. Six pan-Indian glossaries have been sent to press.
Compilation of Medical Terms The compilation of medical terms and phrases in common use in the
and Phrases in Common use in South Indian and other State languages was initiated in Telugu, Kannada
Southern and other States and Marathi. Later on this work was taken up in Tamil and Malayalam lan-
guages also. In the Baroda Seminar held last year, work on Gujarati which
has been entrusted to the medical experts of Ahmedabad, was taken up. In
the Hyderabad Seminar, medical terms and phrases of Telugu were finalized.
A seminar pertaining to Kannada is likely to be held shortly at Mysore.
Digests/Readings/ Digests/readings/monographs have been brought out in Zoology, Geo-
Monographs logy, Home Science, Physics, Botany (3 issues), Psychology, Economics (4
issues), Commerce, Education-1. Digest for Health Workers (4 issues), Medi-
cal Sciences (6 issues), Technicians (4 issues), Physical Anthropology, Physi-
cal Sciences, Biological Sciences (2 issues), Earth Sciences and Political
Science, Reading on Education II (Bal Manovikas) and "Ayurvigyan aur
Parivar Niyojan Patrika" (1 issue) have been sent to the press.
Central Institute The Central Institute of Hindi is a national level institution. It was estab-
of Hindi, Agra lished with the purpose of promoting the development of various linguistic
and functional roles of Hindi through well-planned research, educational
methodology, teaching materials and pedagogical aids. It is governed by the
Kendriya Hindi Shikshan Mandal, a registered autonomous body. The insti-
tute organises a number of courses of various levels to meet diverse ends for
Indian and foreign students. The Institute is recognised as an advanced
centre for teaching and research in Hindi as a second foreign language and
related academic areas and also for applied Hindi linguistics, language teach-
ing and translation. While its main campus is at Agra, it has set up centres in
Delhi, Hyderabad and Gauhati.
Teaching-Training During the year under review, 1898 persons were trained in various
Programmes teaching and training courses organised by the Institute. Some of these are
discussed below:
Training Courses for the A large number of participants from non-Hindi speaking States took
University and School Teachers admission in various courses of the Institute which ranged from the courses
from primary school language teachers to the courses for teachers of the post
M.A. classes. The course-wise participation was as follows: (a) Nishnat-12
(b) Parangat-61, (c) Parangat through correspondence-376, (d) Praveen-12,
(e) Special Intensive Course (Nagaland)-11, (f) Four-year Teacher Training
Diploma (Nagaland)- 12, (g) Post-M.A. Applied Hindi Linguistics Diploma-35,
(h) Post-M.A. Translation Theory and Practice Diploma-53.
Courses for Foreigners Four full-time and one short-term courses for teaching Hindi to foreign
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students are organised. During the year, 46 foreign students from Yugosla-
via, Columbia, USA, Korea, Thailand, France, Guyana, Brazil, Cuba, Japan,
West Indies, U.K., Italy, Germany, Poland, West Germany, Surinam, South
Africa, Fiji, Netherland and Mauritius took admission in the four full-time
courses. A special short-term course was organised for 10 Iraqi students on a
request made by the Embassy of Iraq in India.
Language Camp A language camp for trainees of the teacher-training colleges affiliated to
the Institute was organised at Agra. The participants in the camp came from
Manipur, Mizoram, Assam, Nagaland and Karnataka. During their ten-day
stay in the Hindi speaking area, they exchanged views on academic and cul-
tural aspects. They were also acquainted with various processes and metho-
dologies of teaching Hindi.
Intensive Course for The Institute organised two 2-month and two 3-month intensive pro-
non-Hindi speaking Central grammes for teaching functional use of the official language for non-Hindi
Government Officials speaking officials of the Central Government.
Refresher Courses On request from the non-Hindi speaking states, advanced refresher
courses, special and short-term refresher courses were organised at Agra,
Hyderabad and Gauhati for the teachers of Hindi from primary level to the
University level. During the year, 1170 teachers were trained in these
courses.
Research and The research projects undertaken in the Institute include contrastive stu-
Material Production dies of Hindi and other Indian languages, delineation of the nature of pan-
Indian Hindi and its linguistic analysis, socio-linguistic survey and research,
preparation of curriculum, teachers' manual and ancillary aids for use in the
tribal areas. Some of the important research and material production pro-
grammes included the following:
(i) Teaching Material for foreign students: The process of teaching Hindi
has been divided into six stages for the purpose of preparation of teaching
material for foreign students. Twenty-three volumes are expected to be pre-
pared to meet the demand of the six stages of teaching. During the period
under review, 9 such volumes were in different stages of preparation, viz., in
structure oriented lessons (2 vols), Lessons for writing skills (3 vols), Genre-
based lessons (1 vol), Hindi literature Reader (2 vols) and Graded vocabul-
ary; and
(ii) Research and Material Production for Tribal Languages: Work on the
following projects was undertaken:-
(a) Survey of Hindi Teaching and Hindi Usage in Noth-Eastern States:
Under this project Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Arunachal
Pradesh are being used as locales for conducting a survey of the operational
domains of Hindi, compiling samples of language use and collecting views
about Hindi language from teachers, social workers, government officials,
politicians and members of other strata of society. The process will help in
preparing the description of linguistic errors for each region, and which in
turn, will form the basis for preparation of region specific teaching materials.
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The data is being analysed now.
(b) Learners' Dictionary and Pedagogical Grammar: Keeping in view the
lack of proper learners' dictionaries and pedagogical grammars in the North-
Eastern States, work is being done in the Institute to prepare such dictiona-
ries and grammars for selected languages using advanced principles of lin-
guistics. In the first phase, material has been collected from six language
regions for Bilingual Learners' Dictionaries. After carrying out contrastive
studies, pedagogical grammars will be prepared.
(c) Material production for North-Eastern States: A meeting was orga-
nised with the officials of the Education Departments of the North Eastern
States for the purpose of making an assessment of the requirements of mate-
rial for Hindi teaching. The preparation of material has been initiated.
Language Technology and The following projects were being carried out:
Audio-visual Material
(a) Remedial Pronunciation Lessons for Foreign Students: A set of 30 pro-
nunciation lessons has been prepared for foreign students on the basis of the
analysis of the difficulties faced by them in pronouncing Hindi words. A signi-
ficant feature of these lessons is that in addition to the pronunciation, the
meanings of the words are given in various foreign languages. Lessons are
taped on cassettes and can be listened by a student at any time.
(b) Pronunciation Lessons for Assamese and Manipuri Speakers: A set of
lessons has been prepared for trainees speaking Assamese and Manipuri
languages. These lessons will be used in the affiliated training colleges of the
Institute at Gauhati and, Imphal.
(c) Language Laboratory: The language laboratory of the Institute was
reinstalled at the new premises. It has already become fully functional and is
being used for improvement of oral skills of the participants in various
courses of the institute.
Sociolinguistic Survey A sociolinguistic survey was conducted for studying observable diffe-
rences and variations at different levels of Hindi. The results of the survey are
now ready for publication. Another survey was conducted in industrial towns
of Rourkela and Bokaro in order to understand the nature of pan-Indian
Hindi, and to assess the mental attitudes of the personnel working in these
towns. Based on a well-planned questionnaire administrered to various lin-
guistic groups, the findings of the survey would help in understanding the
nature of the composite culture of India. it should also be possible on the
basis of the information that will become available to determine the commu-
nicative competence and functions of the pan-Indian Hindi.
Publications Following publications were brought out by the Institute: Vyavharik Hindi
Abhyas Path (Practical Hindi Exercises), Hindi Oriya Vyakaran Kotiyan-
Vyatireki Adhyayan (Contrastive Study of Grammatical Categories of Hindi
and Oriya),Hindi Punjabi Kriyapad bandh-Vyatireki Vishleshan (Contras-
tive Analysis of Verb Phrase in Hindi and Punjabi), Ao-Hindi Shabt Kotiyan
- Ek Vyatireki Adhyayan (A Contrastive Study of Lexical Categories of
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Hindi and Ao), Hindi Evam Malayalam Menaget Sanskrit Shabdavali (The
Loan words in Hindi and Malayalam), Truti Vishleshan: Sidhant aur Vyavhar
(Error Analysis - Theory and Practice), Bhasha Adhigam (Language Acqui-
sition), Bhasha Shikshan Vidhiya (Language Teaching Methods), Shikshan
Samagri Nirman; Bhag-I (Preparation of Teaching Material - Part-I), Shik-
shan Samagri Nirman, Bhag-2 (Preparation of Teaching Material - Part-II),
Svan Vigyan (Phonetics), Gaveshna - Nos. 42 and 43, Sansthan Bulletin -
Nos. 62 to 65, Samanvay - No. 26. Under its free distribution scheme, books
on childrens' literature were distributed in North Eastern States of Mizoram,
Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland and also in the tribal
and backward areas of Jammu & Kashmir, Laddakh, Goa, Sikkim, Andaman
& Nicobar, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and Rajasthan.
Symposia/Workshops The following symposia/seminars and workshops were organised:
i) A three-day symposium was organised to commemorate the birth
centenary of Acharya Ramchandra Shukla. Renowned scholars from differ-
ent parts of the country took part. The proceedings of the symposium are due
for publication soon.
ii) A national seminar was organised during the year to discuss the prob-
lems of language shift and language maintenance. This Seminar was consi-
dered necessary in view of the fact that a complete and partial shift towards
Hindi is observed, coupled with decrease in the proportion of speakers in
various Indian languages and specially tribal languages. The proceedings of
the seminar are to be published at an early date.
iii) A symposium was organised to take stock of the teaching methodo-
logies, curriculum design and related problems in teaching of Hindi in the
international context. It was attended by a large number of scholars associa-
ted with the subject. Alongwith other topics of interest, a special discussion
was held on the international nature of Hindi. A graded Hindi curriculum was
also prepared; it is expected to be of great use in teaching of Hindi in India
and abroad.
Extension Lectures The Institute has been organising series of extension lectures by well-
known scholars on Hindi literature, linguistics and education. During the
year, four extension lectures were organised.
All India Competitions An All India Hindi essay competition was organised on the contributions
of Smt. Indira Gandhi towards National Integration. Similarly, two All India
debates were organised for the trainees of various Hindi teacher training
colleges affiliated with the Institute.
Library 2083 volumes were purchased on various subjects like Education, Psy-
chology, Linguistics, Hindi Literature, Literature of Indian Languages, Lexi-
cology, Childrens' Literature etc. The total number of volumes in the Institute
Library is now 32,000. Institute also subscribes to 80 research journals and
25 daily newspapers. A sum of Rs. 85,000/- was spent on the purchase of
books, journals and newspapers.
Propagation of Hindi Abroad The programme of promoting knowledge of Hindi abroad is at present in