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Production of university-level books Under this scheme, so far 6,170 books in Hindi and regional languages
have been published in 30 subjects covering almost all the disciplines of
humanities, social sciences, basic sciences and applied sciences. Out of
this 1,560 books have been published in Hindi by the various Hindi Granth
Akademies, Cells in the Universities and the Commission for Scientific
and Technical Terminology. So far, 193 books relating to agriculture,
medicine and engineering have been published in Hindi by the Commission.
During the year about 34 books were published in the above subjects
and some are in the process of printing. The titles include both trans-
lation as, well as original writing.
Definitional Dictionaries After the terminology in the various disciplines had been evolved it
was felt that to make the concepts comprehensible it was necessary to
explain them through definitions. Accordingly, the work of preparing
definitional dictionaries in various subjects of basic sciences, social sciences,
humanities, medical sciences, pharmacy, agriculture and civil, mechanical
and electrical branches of engineering continued. So far 14 definitional
dictionaries in sciences-2 each in botany, chemistry, physics, mathematics
and home science and one each in zoology, geography, geology and
medicine-and 9 definitional dictionaries in social sciences and humanities
in the subjects like education, economics, econometrics, social work, com-
merce, psychology, archaeology, cultural anthropology and history have
been published. Some dictionaries are in the press.
Seminars were held to discuss and finalise the definitions. Consolida-
tion, coordination and compilation projects on basic definitional dictionaries
of sciences and social sciences is also in progress.
Procurement of Copyrights The Commission has been assigned the work of obtaining copyrights
of books being translated by the Granth Akademies, the Commission and
the Book Production Boards. So far 1,540 copyrights have been obtained.
The work relating to renewal of copyrights' is also being undertaken from
time to time.
Terminology In the context of residual terminology Hindi equivalents of terms were
evolved only in those branches which had not been done so far such as
veterinary science, space science and management.
Departmental Terminology The work of departmental terminology is now in progress. During
the year about 6,000 terms have been evolved, approved/finalised.
Coordination and Simplification of The work of simplification and coordination of entire Hindi technical
Terminology terms evolved and published so far is being done through meetings and
seminars. Coordination and simplifications of entire terminology up to
letter 'H' has been completed and it is expected that identification of terms
requiring coordination up to letter 'Z' would be completed soon.
Hindi-English Glossaries Side by side with the publication of Hindi equivalents of English terms
as more and more people, use them it was considered necessary to prepare
the counter part Hindi-English glossaries also. One such Hindi-English
glossary relating to basic sciences was published before and the other
Hindi-English glossary pertaining to humanities and social sciences was
published during the year. The third Hindi-English glossary in the series
in applied sciences is under preparation.
Digest/Reading/Monograph Digest/Reading/Monographs in the following subjects have either been
brought out/or are in the advanced stage of publication : Zoology,
Geology, Home Science, Physics, Botany (3 issues), Psychology, Econo-
mics, (4 issues), Commerce-1, Education-1, Digest for Health workers
(4 issues), medical science (6 issues), Digest for Technicians (4 issues),
physical anthropology, physical sciences, biological sciences (2 issues),
Earth sciences and political science.
Compilation of medical terms and The work pertaining to the compilation of medical terms and phrases
phrases in common use in Southern in common use in the Southern Indian and other State languages was
and other states initiated in Telugu, Kannada and Marathi. This year, two meetings were
held at Trivandrum and Madras for Malayalam and Tamil respectively.
All India Conference In the last week of November 1983, an All-India seminar on "Indian
Languages as "Media of Instruction" was inaugurated by the President,
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Several eminent scientists including social scientists professors and linguists
from all parts of the country focused their original views and presented
their well prepared papers in the business session. The conference was
a great success and all the deliberations of the conference would be pub-
lished in the form of a book.
Kendriya Hindi Sansthan Kendriya Hindi Sansthan is an autonomous organization established by
Government of India in 1961 and is governed by Kendriya Hindi
Shikshan Mandal. The Institute is involved in organising programmes for
Hindi-teaching, teaching and training, related areas of research and mate-
rial production, work in India and abroad. The Institute also runs
functional language programmes for the promotion and development of
Hindi. The Institute is also an advanced centre of higher learning for
applied linguistics, Hindi Language teaching, and comparative literature.
Teaching-Training Programmes During this year 113 untrained in-service Hindi teachers are being
given training in the, various whole-time training courses of the Institute.
Moreover, 250 non-Hindi speaking teachers are also being trained in its
affiliated Colleges/Institutions.
Forty four foreign students, deputed under the Propagation of Hindi
Abroad Scheme of Ministry of Education, Government of India and under
various cultural exchange programmes with various countries, are being
trained in Hindi at 4 different levels.
During the year, 765 non-Hindi speaking Hindi teachers belonging to
various States and Union Territories are being given training in Refresher/
Remedial Courses at the Agra, Hyderabad and Gauhati Centres of the
Institute.
Language Awareness Camps The Institute organised special programmes for strengthening the train-
ing of 140 participants belonging to its affiliated Hindi teachers training
Course for the untrained teachers in the non-Hondi speaking regions. In
the cultural mainstream and linguistic milieu.
Parangat Correspondence and The Institute has started a B. Ed. level Parangat Correspondence
Contact-Course Course for the untrained teachers in the non-Hindi speaking regions. In
the Second Course 340 participants have been admitted. Arrangements
are being made to run personal contact programmes in Delhi, Agra,
Hyderabad, Nagpur, Poona, Ahmedabad, Mysore, Gauhati etc. In the
first course 179 teachers were given admission and the final examination
was held in May, 1983. It is planned to admit 500 applicants in the Third
Course.
Material Production and Research On the request of Madhya Pradesh Government the Institute has pre-
pared a text book-Adi-Bharati Part-2 its accompanying Exercise Book,
a book on Arithmetic and a Teachers Mandal for tribal language speaking
children of Kurukh, Korku, Gondi, Bhili and Halbi tribes under the Scheme
for Preparation of Teaching Material. In all 20 books have been prepared
and are being used at present in the schools.
"Adi Bharti-Part-3", the accompanying Exercise Book and Teachers
Manual will be ready during the current session.
One hundred teachers who are going to use this teaching material have
been given training in Agra during May-June, 1983.
Under the scheme for 6 North-eastern States/Union Terrtories, a Mizo-
Hindi Dictionary has been prepared. Four dictionaries for the tribal
languages of the area are also under preparation. A beginning has been
made for printing of materials prepared for teaching Hindi through a
Correspondence Course to the All India Central Services Competitive
Examinations Candidates. The Sansthan has also undertaken the job of
helping in evaluating and revising the language teaching materials in the
5 languages of the Sikkim State on the request of the Government of Sikkim.
Under the similar scheme evaluation of Hindi teaching text books of
Nagaland, and Manipur governments is also being done with a view to
making necessary revisions.
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The Sansthan has also prepared the first draft of the Hindi Pronoun-
ciation Lessons and a selection of readings for Hungarian Speakers.
At present there are 33,000 volumes in the libraries of the Headquarters
of the Sansthan at Agra and its various centres.
At the instance of the nodal Ministry for organising Third World Hindi
Convention, the faculty members, research assistants and administrative
personnel took part in the Convention, and organised Book Exhibition
and Exhibition for Technical Aids.
The Sansthan published the following books during the year
1. Premchand aur Bhartiya Sahitya
2. Aadhunik Ekanki Sangrah
3. Hindi Kavya Sangrah
4. Aadhunik Nibandh Sangrah
5. Aadhunik Kahani Sangrah
6. Hindi Ka Samajik Sandarbh
7. Gaveshana 40, 41, 42
8. Sansthan Bulletin 58-61, 62-63
Seminars Workshops The Sansthan organised a Seminar on Bilingual Language Education
in December, 1983.
A Seminar-cum-Workshop was organised for preparation of Teaching
Points for teaching of Hindi as a second language.
Under the Scheme, of Extension Lectures, Dr. Shiv Mangal Singh
'Suman' will deliver a lecture on "Kavya Bhash" and Prof. Vidya Niwas
Misra will speak on "Sampreshenparak Vyakaran aur Bhartiya Prampara"
during the year.
Exchange Programme During 1983-84, 40 Teachers and Evaluators participated in various
academic programmes of national and international significance. During
this year 56 scholars were invited to deliver lectures in various courses
of the Sansthan at its centres. About 250 specially invited guests took part
in the various Programmes arranged by the Sansthan.
Propagation of The Scheme to promote Hindi Abroad is in operation immediately in
Hindi Abroad Carribean Countries like South East and West Asia and in advanced coun-
tries like the U.K., the U.S.A., the USSR, France, West Germany and
Japan.
The Scheme has a provision of awarding 50 scholarships every year
to the students of different foreign countries for study of Hindi at Central
Institute of Hindi, New Delhi. During the year 1983-84, 44 students have
been admitted on scholarship basis at the Institute and about 6 students
are studying on self-financing basis. The selected scholars are entitled to
Rs. 650/- per month as scholarship and air fare from their home country
to Delhi and back.
The Ministry continued to maintain 3 Hindi teachers at Surinam,
Guyana and Trinidad, two part-time teachers in Sri Lanka and one full
time Librarian in the Embassy of India at Kathmandu. It is also proposed
to send a two member Indian delegation to the GDR (East Berlin) in
connection with the work for preparation of German-Hindi/Hindi-German
dictionary and conversational guide, in February, 1984, under Indo-GDR
Cultural Exchange, Programme.
B. PROMOTION OF MODERN INDIAN LANGUAGES
Production of University-level Books The programme for production of university level books was launched in
in Regional Languages 1968-69 with a view to facilitating early adoption of the Indian languages
as media of instruction in various disciplines at the university stage. Under
the programme, 6,170 books have been published as on 1st December,
1983 out of which 1,455 are translations. A large number of books are
in various stages of production.
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Core Books Production Programme Core books of medicine are being brought out with the cooperation of
National Book Trust. In medicine six books have been published. The
colour Atlas of tropical dermatology, the production of which was taken
up in 1980-81 has been completed. Two more books on medicine are in
preparation.
Assistance to Voluntary Organisa- Under this scheme, financial assistance is given to voluntary organisations/
tion and Education institutions for educational institutions for promotion and development of Indian languages.
Propagation of Regional Languages The scheme is being continued in the Sixth Five Year Plan. It has proved
to be very useful as it not only enlists cooperation of, but also helps those
engaged in the preparation and development of Indian languages. The term
"Indian Languages" includes all the languages, other than Hindi and Sanskrit
as set out in VIIIth Schedule of the Constitution and other recognised
languages (including tribal languages) used in India.
Production of Books in Urdu The Taraqqi-e-Urdu Board was set up in 1969 with the Education
Minister as its Chairman to advise the Government on the production of
academic literature in Urdu. The Board has since been re-constituted in
December, 1983. The Board is a subordinate office of the Ministry of
Education and Culture.
Under the guidance of the Board, three dictionaries (English-Urdu, Urdu-
Urdu and Urdu-English) each in five volumes were completed and the stu-
dents' Urdu-Urdu dictionary containing about 42,000 entries is already in
the press. 1,35,000 technical terminology in different subjects have been
finalised. Urdu encyclopaedia has been compiled in 12 volumes of which
Volume-I will be assigned for printing. 410 books on various subjects,
including books published by NCERT and re-printing, have been published.
Out of 18 glossaries six are already completed. Ten subject panels have
been constituted in different disciplines.
Twenty calligraphy training centres are in operation in different places
in the country. A separate scheme for setting up of calligraphy centres
exclusively for women is under active consideration. During the period
wider report five book exhibitions were organised at different places in the
country. Urdu Books/publications worth Rs. 3,45,000 have been sold.
Promotion of Books in Sindhi Started in 1975, the objective of the scheme is to bring educative books
In Sindhi for the benefit of Sindhi students. Some of the important activities
undertaken to develop Sindhi language are as follows : Nearly 8,000 copies
of Sindhi books produced during the year' 1982-83 have been distributed
free of cost to approved school/college libraries. Under the scheme 18 titles
have been published so far out of which 11 books have been brought out
during the current year. Under the publishers collaboration scheme six
titles were brought out during 1983 to give incentive to Sindhi publishers.
As far as Sindhi terminology is concerned, nearly 40,000 technical terms
have been identified so far and the task of coining Sindhi terminology is to
begin shortly. An amount of Rs. 1,25,000 was sanctioned to the Vishwa
Sindhi Sammelan held in 1983. In addition, institutions which are engaged
in the development and propagation of Sindhi language and literature are
granted financial assistance to enable them to organise Sindhi seminars,
mushairas, conferences and symposia.
A cash award to Sindhi writers is in operation since 1979. Five awards
@ Rs. 2,500/- each are given to writers annually. The awards for the
year 1983-84 are to be declared soon.
Central Institute of Indian Langua- The Institute has by now taken up 52 tribal languages for linguistic des-
ges, Mysore, and Regional Languages cription and material production. The work includes preparation of phonetic
Centres readers, grammars, dictionaries, school primers, adult literacy, Primers and
collection of folklore besides imparting inservice training to Writers and
teachers in tribal languages. The Institute has developed a model of bilingual
education for the use of tribal and other minority languages as medium of
instruction at the primary level. So far 23 Phonetic Readers, 9 Grammars.
3 Dictionaries, 6 Folklore collections, 7 Primers have been published or are
under publication.
Material Production In an effort to produce various types of instructional materials including
auto instructional materials for teaching/learning Indian languages as first or
second languages for different categories of learners such as school students,