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each in zoology, geography, geology and medicine and 10 definitional
dictionaries on social sciences and humanities in the subjects like edu-
cation, economics, economics, social work, commerce, psychology,
archaeology cultural anthropology and history have been published. Some
dictionaries of Education, Economics, Social work, Commerce, Psychology,
Archaeology, Social work, History and Philisophy, Sociology, Library
Science & Western Music are in press. One definitional dictionary of
Modern Algebra is likely to be published this year.
Seminars were held to discuss and finalise the definitions. Con-
solidation, co-ordination and compilation of basic definitional dictionaries
of sciences and social sciences is also in progress.
Procurement of The Commission has been assigned the work of obtaining copy-
Copyrights right of books being translated by the Granth Akademies, the Commission
and the Book Production Boards taken together. So far, 1580 copy-
rights have been secured. The work relating to renewal of copyrights
of 10 books has been completed. During the year the copyrights of 7
foreign publications have been procured.
Terminology In the context of residual terminology, Hindi equivalents of terms
were evolved in the branches of veterinary science, space, science and
management. The Space Dictionary was published last year. The work
of Veterinary Science and Management is in progress.
Departmental Terminology The work of departmental terminology is also progressing. During
the year, the Commission conducted various meetings with the concerned
Ministries/Departments and has finalised various terminologies. The
revised edition of the consolidated administrative terminology is being
prepared. Various meetings with the Languages Directors of Hindi
speaking States, the Central Translation Bureau, and the Department
of Official Language, were organised by the Commission for co-ordina-
tion of various terminologies. A consolidated Banking Terminology is
also under preparation in consultation with the various nationalised banks,
the RBI, and the Department of Official Language (Legislature).
Coordination and Simpli- The work of simplification and co-ordination of the entire Hindi
fication of Terminology technical terms evolved and published so far is being done through
meetings and seminars. Co-ordination and simplification of the entire
terminology upto the alphabet 'Z' has been completed. The revised
edition of various subject-wise dictionaries/terminologies will be published.
Hindi-English Following on the increased use of the publication of Hindi equi-
Glossaries valents of English terms, it was considered necessary to prepare the
counterpart Hindi-English glossary also. One such Hindi-English
glossary relating to basic sciences was published earlier, and the other
Hindi-English glossary pertaining to humanities and social sciences
was published during the year. The third glossary in the series in respect
of applied sciences is under preparation.
Digest/Reading/Monograph Digests/Readings/Monographs on the following subjects have been
brought out : Zoology Geology, Home Science, Physics, Botany (3 issues),
Psychology, Economic (4 issues), Commerce-1, Education-1, Digest for
Technicians (4 issues), Physical Anthropology, Physical Sciences, Biolo-
gical Sciences (2 issues), Earth Sciences and Political Science.
Compilation of medical The compilation of medical terms and phrases in common use in
terms And phrases the South Indian and other State languages was initiated in Telugu,
in common use in Kannada and Marathi during last year. This Year, two meetings were
Southern and other held at Trivandrum and Madras for Malayalam and Tamil respectively.
States
All India Terminology The Commission has also undertaken the work regarding corn-
pilation of terminologies in various Indian languages and their com-
parison with' the equivalent Hindi terminologies and co-ordination
work with a view to evolving a national terminology for their use at all
India level. 6 manuscripts in this regard are in Press and 3 other manu-
scripts are ready to be sent for printing.
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Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, The Kendriya Hindi Shikshan Mandal, an autonomous body es-
Agra tablished in 1961 by the Department of Education, Government of
India, runs the, Kendriya Hindi Sansthan (Central Institute of Hindi)
for organising academic and research programmes for the development
and propagation of Hindi in furtherance of directives contained in article
351 of the Constitution. The Sansthan organises programmes for teaching
of Hindi to different clientele for different functional purposes in
India and abroad. The programmes provide for Hindi teacher's training,
advanced diploma in applied Hindi linguistic aspects of Hindi language
research in psycholinguistics, Socio-linguistic aspects of Hindi language,
production of instruction materials, conducting of language-related surveys
focussing on role of Hindi as a pan-Indian communication medium
and collaborates and provides consultation to Central and State Govern-
ment, agencies on planning and development of the Hindi Language.
The Institute is the apex body working for the improvement of standards
of Hindi teaching and training in the country and for research and exten-
sion work in Applied Hindi Linguistics, comparative and constrastive studies
of Hindi and Indian Languages etc.
Teaching and Training During the year the Institute conducted 18 different types of courses,
including short-term courses for training and orientation of teachers at
the universities, colleges and school levels, courses ranging from
elementary stage to research in Hindi Language and literature for students
and research scholars from 25 countries, functional Hindi courses
for the officials of Central Government and of the public sector under-
takings, post-M. A. Diploma courses in Applied Hindi Linguistics
and in Translation. It also conducted a B.Ed. level correspondence
course for training of Hindi teachers from non-Hindi speaking States.
The number of in-service teachers trained was 283 in regular courses,
436 in correspondence courses, and 950, in short-term orientation courses.
Material Production, Data collected under the survey on the status of teaching of Hindi
Research and Survey in North-Eastern States were analysed and the report finalized this year.
Work on preparation of supplementary and enrichment material for
school-going-children in States with large tribal population has been under-
taken.
Survey work on function and role of Hindi as a medium of pan-
Indian communication in industrial establishment, conducted last year
in Rourkela and Bokaro Steel Plants has further been extended so
as to cover similar organisations in Mormugao, Vasco, Ponda, Banga-
lore, Mysore and Vishakhapattanam. Coding of questionnaires from
Bokaro and Rourkela has been completed and arrangements for com-
puter analysis of data are being made.
The report on the scientific Hindi register is being finalized and
work hag been undertaken for determining the form and features of the
Hindi register used in trade and commerce (commercialised Hindi)
Work on preparation of instructional material for teaching of Hindi
as a foreign language initiated last year has been furthered. Structural
readers, Readings in Literature and a manual of Hindi composition
for the next level of instruction have been prepared and the material is
being tried out at the, Delhi Centre of the Sansthan.
Language Laboratory and Lessons for teaching Hindi, pronunciation to Manipuri speakers
Audio-Visual Unit have been prepared, taking into account the constrastive features of the
sound systems of Manipur and Hindi. Preparation of cassette kits has
been undertaken for training the school children of Nagaland and Mizo-
ram in reading and comprehension of Hindi.
The institute has acquired two sets of micro-computers under the
"CLASS" programme of the Government of India. They have been
set up at the Agra Headquarters and its Delhi Centre. The requisite
infrastructure is being developed for preparation of instructional material
and packages for computer-aided instruction of Hindi to non-native
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speakers. Some faculty members of the Sansthan have been provided
initial training in the use of computers.
Publications During the period under report the Sansthan published 10 books,
3 issues of Gaveshana and 6 issues of the News Bulletin, together accounting
for a total of 2800 printed pages.
Distribution of Hindi A total of 80 Hindi books (300 copies of each) focussing on
Books to Schools in national themes, have been distributed to schools in tribal areas situated
Tribal Areas in Nagaland, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Andaman and
Nicobar Administration, Sikkim, Ladakh, Goa, besides Bihar, Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan and Orissa. The total cost of the books distributed
was Rs. 1 lakh.
All India Competitions An All India Hindi Essay Competition and two Hindi elocution com-
petitions for in-service Hindi teachers were organised by the Institute.
Seminars/Workshops and The Sansthan conducted 6 seminars and workshops and a series of
Extension Lectures 3 extension lectures. The seminars were on teaching of Hindi : Inter-
national perspectives (September 1985), Constrastative Studies of Indian
Languages (February 1986) and Bharatendu Harischandra Centenary
Seminar (November 1985). Three workshops were organised on Prepara-
tion of Graded Syllabus for teaching of Hindi at school level (August
1985), New thrusts in Applied Linguistic Research (July 1985) and of
Hindi Officers (Translators) on Teaching of Hindi as Rajbhasha (Feb-
ruary 1986).
A series of extension lectures on Hindi literature were delivered by
Prof. K. M. Lodba, Prof. and Head, Department of Hindi Calcutta Uni-
versity, on Distance Education and Language Instruction by Prof O. S.
Deval, Central Institute of Education Technology, NCERT, New Delhi,
and on Multilingualism and language Communication by Prof. D. P. Pat-
tanyak, Director, CILL, Mysore.
Library The Sansthan added 4500 new titles to the library of the Sansthan,
there by increasing the total holdings to 41650. The Sansthan subscribes
to approximately 110 foreign and Indian journals and news papers.
Propagation of Hindi Under the scheme of propagating Hindi abroad, 50 scholarships are
Abroad awarded every year to nationals of foreign countries for the, study of Hindi
at the Central Institute of Hindi. New Delhi. During 1985-86. 38 students
were awarded scholarships and admitted to the Institutes, 9 have, been
admitted on a self-financing basis. A scholarship awarde gets Rs. 650/-
per month and is provided air-fare from his/her home country to Delhi
and back.
The Ministry continues to maintain 3 Hindi teachers in Surinam,
Guyana, and Trinidad, 2 part-time teachers in Sri Lanka and one full-time
Librarian in the Indian Embassy at Kathmandu. Hindi books worth Rs. 2
lakhs are supplied to our Embassies/Missions abroad.
B. PROMOTION OF MODERN INDIAN LANGUAGES
Central Institute of The Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, undertakes training
Indian Languages, research development and extension functions for the development of
Mysore modern Indian languages. Through its regional centres it provides in-service
training to language teachers. It has also been engaged in research in and
survey of tribal languages.
In tribal and border languages, Mishmi grammar, mishmi Phonetic
Reader. Ao-Hindi-English Dictionary and Car Nicobarese Primer were pub-
lished. Mao Grammar and II Level Primers in Dungar Warli. Davar Warli,
Jenu Kuruba and Car Nicobarese were completed. Grammars of Dorli Bison
Horn, Madia, Bhujij Gutob and Car Nicobarese and Dictionaries of Bison
Horn, Madia are expected to be completed before the end of the year.
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Bilingual Primers in Warli and Jenu Kuruba were tried out in Rajas-
than, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Karnataka and the bilingual education
programme evaluated. A meeting of the officers of the Department of Edu-
cation and NCERT from these States and Union Territory was called to
review the work and plan for future experimentation.
Language officers of Arunachal Pradesh were trained in field linguistics.
Primers in 16 Naga languages will be revised according to the new syllabus
of the Government of Nagaland. The Institute is providing its expertise for
the evaluation of language textbooks in Manipur. It will also train the lan-
guage teachers of Kok Borok in Tripura.
A seminar on Word Formation in Tribal Languages, a Workshop on
Common Phonological Features in Indian Languages and a seminar on
Common Words in Indian Languages were organised. Preparation of a
dictionary on common words in Indian languages is also planned.
Media/Technology
Support A Phonetic Laboratory was established and phonetic problems of Mao
and Apatani analysed. A training programme in experimental phonetics was
conducted. A workshop on voice modulation and a workshop on pronuncia
tion dictionary of proper names at the regional level will be organised.
A Computer Laboratory was established and EPSON micro-computer
and two BBC computers were installed. The staff of the Institute were trained
in BASIC programming. Sample software in teaching Tamil and Kannada
were prepared. Programmes for monitoring of academic projects of the
Institute and for book acquisition in the libraries will be prepared.
Cassette Courses in 4 languages were completed and released by the
Ministry of Education. A video programme on Indian Scripts will be com-
pleted by the end of the year.
Publications The Literacy Atlas will be revised with reference to the 1981 figures.
The tribal language atlas will be completed.
Model Mother Tongue Reader for Class 1 in Malayalam was prepared
and used on an experimental basis in 27 schools. Level II book in this lan-
guage will be prepared by the end of the year. Standard 1 textbooks in
Bengali, Tamil and Telugu were prepared for schools in Andaman & Nicobar
Islands. Level 2 books in these languages will be prepared by the end of the
year. Handbooks for teachers of primary schools in Kannada, teachers of
children from linguistic minorities communities in Tamil and Kannada were
prepared. A special purpose course for the officers of Survey and Settlement
of the Government of Karnataka and in Tamil for the IAS and IPS proba-
tioners of Tamil Nadu were prepared. Pictorial Glossaries in Seven Langu-
ages including Oriya and Urdu will be published.
The Institute has prepared for the Government of Tamil Nadu a sylla-
bus for teaching Tamil by the Open School programme. Materials for the
Radio-cum-Correspondence Course in Tamil for Teachers of Standard 1 and
2 were completed.
Following the two volumes on Hindi Speaking States and Eastern States,
another volume of bibliography of linguistic research covering all-India lan-
mines like Sanskrit and Urdu was completed. A seminar on documentation
is to be conducted to work out the scheme for the development of compu-
terised data base on Indian languages and for automation of library services.
Twelve new publications were brought out as of December 1985 and 8 more
publications will be brought out before the end of the year.
Training With a grant from the Government of Karnataka the Institute has
launched a programme of Composite Correspondence Course in Kannada
for those of the Karnataka Government officials who do not know Kannada.
Over 1000 such officials have registered for this course.
As part of its training programmes, which result in handbooks and
primers mentioned above,primary school teachers in Kannada, teachers of
children of linguistic minorities in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and teachers
of the experimental school using the Model Mother Tongue Renders were
trained in the new methods, and materials developed by the Institute.