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ORGANISATIONS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGES
1. Subordinate Offices
(a) Central Hindi Directorate
The
Central Hindi Directorate was established on 1st
March, 1960, by Government of India under the
then Ministry of Education (now Ministry of
Human Resource Development), Department of
Higher Education to promote and propagate Hindi
as well as to develop it as a link language
throughout India in pursuance of Article 351 of
the Constitution of India. The Headquarters of
the Central Hindi Directorate is located at New
Delhi. It has four regional offices at Chennai,
Kolkata, Hyderabad and Guwahati. Ever Since its
inception, the Directorate has been implementing
a number of schemes for the promotion and
development of Hindi.
1) Hindi for Government Servants - Central Hindi Directorate has been conducting a number of courses such as Certificate Course in Hindi, Diploma Course in Hindi, Advance Diploma Course and Course Prabodh, Praveen and Pragya for Govt. Servants. 2) Scheme of publication of monolingual/bilingual, trilingual and multilingual dictionaries, 3) Correspondence courses 4) Awards to Hindi writers 5) Extension services and programmes, 6) Hindi teaching and Promotion through Audio cassettes. 7) Grants to voluntary organisations for the propagation of Hindi including scheme of assistance for publication/purchase of books. 8) Purchase of Hindi books for free distribution.
(b) Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology
The Commission for Scientific
& Technical Terminology (CSTT) was set up on
21st December, 1960 by a resolution of Govt. of
India under the proviso to Clause (4) of Article
344 of the Constitution with the objective to
evolve and define scientific and technical terms
in Hindi and all Indian languages; publish
glossaries, definitional dictionaries,
encyclopedia.; to see that the evolved terms and
their definitions reach the students, teachers,
scholars, scientists, officers etc., to ensure
proper usage/ necessary updating/ correction/
improvement on the work done (through workshops/
seminars/ orientation programmes) by obtaining
useful feedback; to coordinate with all States
to ensure uniformity of terminology in Hindi and
other Indian languages.
1. Preparation and Publication of Bilingual and Trilingual Glossaries involving English/Hindi and other Indian Languages. 2. Preparation and Publication of National Terminology. 3. Identification and Publication of School Level Terminology and Departmental Glossaries. 4. Identification of Pan Indian Terms. 5. Preparation of Definitional Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias. 6. Preparation of University level textbooks, monographs and journals. 7. Grant-in-Aid to Granth Academies, Textbook Boards and University Cells for University level books in regional languages. 8. Propagation, expansion and critical review of terms coined and defined through training/orientation programmes, workshops, seminars etc. 9. Free distribution of Publications.
10. Providing necessary
terminology to the National Translation Mission.
(c) Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore
The Central Institute of
Indian Languages (CIIL) at Mysore, a subordinate
office of the Ministry of Human Resource
Development, was set up in 1969 to help in
evolving and implementing the language policy of
Government of India and to coordinate the
development of Indian Languages by conducting
research in the areas of language analysis,
language pedagogy, language technology and
language use in the society. The Institute
promotes Indian languages through several
comprehensive schemes. For promotion of its
objectives, CIIL organises a number of
programmes.
Regional Language Centres (RLC) There are seven Regional Language Centres located at Bhubaneswar, Pune, Mysore, Patiala, Guwahati, Solan and Lucknow. The centres work for the implementation of the three language formula of the Government and preparation of instructional materials. The RLCs conduct teacher-training programmes wherein the secondary school teachers deputed by States and Union Territories are trained in languages other than their mother tongue.
Under Grant in aid scheme, CIIL provides financial assistance to individuals and voluntary organizations by supporting Bulk Purchase, Publication of manuscripts and Little Magazine in Indian Languages (other then Hindi, Urdu, Sindhi, Sanskrit and English) including tribal languages.
National Testing Service
a) Development of a comprehensive package for Indian languages consisting of the fundamentals of testing and evaluation, to begin with, in three Indian languages ie. Hindi, Urdu and Tamil ; b) Setting up of norms and standards for Inter language comparability at the levels of syllabi; c) To make available at least one set of standardized tests at different levels of education such as primary, secondary, Hr. Secondary, graduate, post graduate and research (like TOEFL and GRE) in at least one major Indian language; d) Academic and financial assistance for developing graded syllabi and mastery in personality test in a more scientific way, in each level of education in different languages; e) Developing teaching modules on testing and evaluation in at least one major Indian language; f) Collecting and documenting the required data covering teachers, learners and specialized work force; g) To create a band of systematically trained manpower resource with about 2,000 individuals at pre university, Graduate and post graduate levels.
The immediate beneficiaries of NTS will include the agencies like the University Grants Commission, Union Public Service Commission, Staff Selection Commission, etc., at the national level and such institutions at the state level, Central/ State Boards of Education, Universities/Colleges/Schools, teachers and learners of languages etc.
Linguistic Data Consortium on Indian Languages (LDC-IL)
The LDC-IL initiative is driven by a consortium of five lead institutions including the CIIL-Mysore, IISc-Bangalore, IIT-Mumbai, IIT-Madras and IIIT-Hyderabad, and has members from among all Institutions and agencies as well as industries interested in Indian languages technology.
The Language Consortium aims to create and manage large Indian languages databases, it will also provide a forum for researchers in India and other countries on working on Indian languages for publishing and building products for language technology applications, translation tools etc The Consortium will address the need to enhance the machine-readable language data in Hindi and other Indian languages on a large scale.
LDC-IL plans to generates income by charging subscription fees so as to make the project self-sufficient. LDC-IL helps the researchers and developers worldwide in the field of developing teat and speech corpora in Indian Languages for language technology applications and National Language Proficiency.
National Translation Mission
NTM is being implemented by Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore as a nodal organization for operationalisation of the Scheme. A Project Approval Committee (PAC) of NTM has been constituted as an apex decision making body vide orders dtd. 27.10.2008. It would be advising the Government of India in matters pertaining to the translation of languages and work as a clearing house for all translation activities. It would also provide links between users of translated materials. In the PAC experts have been drawn from University/deptts dealing with languages and translation, representatives of Booksellers and Publishers Guild, specialists in Translation from private organizations/corporate houses etc.
The first meeting of PAC of NTM was held in December 2008 in New Delhi in which focus was on prioritising the discipline and knowledge text to be translated. There is no significant progress in this regard, however knowledge texts in 14 disciplines are being firmed up for taking up for translation. A searchable database for those who want to register themselves as translators for NTM assignments was developed and integrated with NTM website. Profiles of over 2200 translators have been added to this database.
2. Autonomous Organizations
(a)
Central Institute on Classical Tamil (CICT) Following the commitment of the Central Government under the National Common Minimum Programme, the official recognition to Tamil as a classical language was given by the Government of India vide Ministry of Home Affairs notification no. IV-14014/7/2004-NI-II dated 12.10.2004.
In continuation to the efforts to promote ‘Classical Tamil’, the Union Cabinet approved the proposal of Ministry of HRD for setting up CICT at Chennai in the meeting held on 30.1.2008. There after this Ministry issued a Notification dated 20.2.2008 conveying the decision of the Government of India to establish CICT at Chennai. Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) started functioning from its office at Chennai as an autonomous organization fully funded by the Ministry of HRD; however it has been registered with the Registrar of Societies,Chennai Central on 21.1.2009. The institute has following objectives:-
a) To organize and offer educational and research programmes at postgraduate level in classical Tamil leading to Ph.D. and Post Doctoral Awards. b) To support research projects received from universities and established institutions and also support such field studies as may be relevant. c) To organize national and international Conferences, Seminars and Workshops and support similar efforts in universities and established academic institutions d) To support publication of research studies. e) To support publication of ancient Tamil works in original and its translation in English and Indian languages. f) To promote and encourage studies in the composite nature of Indian culture, with focus on Dravidian component in the Indian civilization and heritage. g) To provide fellowships for doctoral and post-doctoral research in classical Tamil h) To institute awards for outstanding contributions in the area of classical Tamil. i) To promote classical Tamil education in India and abroad. j) To serve as a clearinghouse of information pertaining to classical Tamil.
Chief Minster of Tamil Nadu has been designated
as ex officio Chairperson of the Governing
Council of the Institute and it is
administratively headed by a Director. (b) Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra
With a view to advancing the Pan Indian norms of Hindi and its promotion and propagation in the whole of India, a registered autonomous body viz. “Kendriya Hindi Shikshan Mandal” was setup on 19th March, 1960. It is a fully funded autonomous organisation. It runs the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra with its regional centers in Delhi, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Shillong, Mysore, Deemapur, Bhubneswar and Ahmedabad.
The main objectives of the Sansthan are as under:
1. In order to fulfil commitment under Section 351 of the Constitution, the Institute works for the development of Hindi as an all India Language and makes an attempt to coordinate, organize and provide such types of courses which provide access to this objective.
2 To improve the quality of Hindi teaching at various levels; to impart training to Hindi Teachers; to make arrangements for the advanced studies in Hindi language and literature and to promote psycho-linguistic studies of Hindi with other Indian languages. Finally the Institute is engaged in research pertaining to Hindi Language and its teaching.
3 To prepare, publish and distribute the text books at different levels as well as to publish Bibliographics and Research based literature.
4 To publish journals and magazines as related to the aims of the Institute.
5 To coordinate with other organizations working in similar fields by providing them active support, membership enrolment, coordination, assimilation, affiliation etc.
6 To make provisions of fellowships, awards according to prevailing norms of the Institute and promote the application of Hindi Language and its related tasks.
Schemes of the Institution:
In order to realize the aforesaid aims, objectives and functions of Kendriya Hindi Shikshan Mandal, Kendriya Hindi Sansthan has expanded its activities to a great extent. The summary of these schemes has been given as under:-
1. Teaching Related Courses. 2. Teacher-Training Oriented Courses 3. Construction of Teaching Material and Language Development. 4. Comparative and contrastive study 5. Linguistic study of various languages including Tribal Languages. 6. Publication of Research Oriented materials, Extension of Lectures, Proceedings of the Seminar, Triannual Journal ‘GAVENSHNA’ and Annual Magazine ‘SAMANVAYA’ etc.
(c) National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language
The National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language has started functioning as an autonomous body w.e.f. 1.4.1996. NCPUL was declared a National Nodal Agency for Promotion of Urdu in the country devoted to promotion of Urdu language and mainstreaming of Urdu education. NCPUL has also been assigned the responsibility of promotion of Arabic and Persian languages which have played an important role in the development of composite culture of India. One of the significant objectives of the Council has been the transformation of the Urdu speaking population into part of the employable technological workforce in the emerging information technological scenario and the penetration of computer education to the grass root level. NCPUL has been given the role of networking of Urdu organizations throughout the country so that the policies of the Government are implemented in all Urdu speaking areas of the country.
The objectives of the Council as are under:-
1) To promote, develop and propagate Urdu Language.
2) To take action for making available in Urdu language, the knowledge of scientific and technological development as well as knowledge of ideas evolved in the modern context
3) To advise the Government on issues connected with Urdu language as may be referred to it.
4) To undertake any other activity for the promotion of Urdu language as may be deemed fit by the Council.
NCPUL is implementing the following programmes:
1. Calligraphy and Graphic Design Centres. 2. Financial Assistance to 57 NGOs towards selected activities for promotion of Urdu. 3. Bulk purchase of books to encourage writing of valuable books by bonafide authors/editors/translators etc. 4. Provide financial assistance to individuals/NGOs for printing manuscripts in Urdu after due evaluation by experts. 5. Financial assistance to small and medium Urdu Newspapers. 6. Publication programme for production of quality children literature and textbooks of Urdu medium schools. 7. Organize seminars, symposia and workshops for promotion of Urdu 8. Diploma in Urdu Courses through Hindi and English mediums 9. Urdu on-line programme 10. Certificate and Diploma course in functional Arabic
(d) National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language.
The
National Council for Promotion of Sindhi
Language (NCPSL) was established as an
Autonomous Registered Body under the Department
of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource
Development (HRD), Government of India under the
Societies Act. of 1860 (Section 21) on 26th May,
1994 under Registration No. 1085 Vadodra
(Gujarat). The Headquarters of the Council is
now at Delhi. Objectives of the Council:-
1. To promote, develop and propagate Sindhi Language.
2. To take action for making available in Sindhi Language, the knowledge of Scientific and Technical Terminological development as well as the knowledge of ideas evolved in the modern context.
3. To advise the Government of India on issues connected with Sindhi Language and advising on education as may be referred to it.
4. To undertake any other activity for the promotion of Sindhi Language as may be deemed fit by the Council.
NCPSL is implementing the following programmes:
1. Awards. 2. Financial Assistance to Individuals for publication. 3. Bulk Purchase of books/Magazines/ Audio-Video Cassettes / CDs/ VCDs. 4. Sindhi Language Learning Course.
(e) Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan,
Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi is an autonomous organization established by the Government of India in the year 1970. It is a nodal agency for the propagation, promotion and development of Sanskrit Education in the country. It is fully funded by the Government of India in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education. It has been granted the status of a Deemed University from 7.5.2002. The Sansthan is having 10 campuses at Allahabad, Lucknow, Puri, Guruvayoor, Sringeri, Jaipur, Mumbai, Jammu, Garli and Bhopal. The Vice Chancellor is the Chief Executive Officer of the Sansthan.
Objectives and Functions of the Sansthan:-
(a) To undertake, aid, promote and coordinate research in all branches of Sanskrit learning including teacher’s training and manuscriptolgy, to bring out inter-linkage with the out-come of modern research in the context of relevant fields and to bring out publications.
(b)
To establish, take over and administer Kendriya
Sanskrit Campuses in the various parts of the
country and to associate with any other
institutions with similar objectives. (c) To serve as a Central administrative machinery for the management of all the Kendriya Sanskrit Campuses established or taken over by and to provide effective coordination in their academic work in order to facilitate interchangeability and migration of staff, students and research scholars and national division of work amongst the Campuses in specialized fields.
(d) To act as nodal agency for Govt. of India to implement their policies and programmes for the development of Sanskrit.
(e)
To provide for instruction and training in such
branches of learning as it may deem fit.
(f)
To provide for research, advancement and
dissemination of knowledge. (g) To undertake extra mural studies, extension programmes and field outreach activities to contribute to the development of society.
(h) To do all such other acts and things as may be necessary or desirable to fulfil the objectives of the Institute.
(i) To undertake, aid, promote, develop and preserve Pali and Prakrit Languages.
Adarsh Sanskrit Mahavidyalayas / Shodh Sansthans:-
The Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan is operating 24 Adarsh Sanskrit Mahavidyalayas / Shodh Sansthan under the scheme for financial assistance to Institutions recognised as Adarsh Sanskrit Mahavidyalayas / Shodh Sansthans. The objective of the Scheme is to support and promote traditional Sanskrit learning and research. For this purpose assistance is extended under this scheme to Sanskrit Mahavidyalayas for conducting courses at the level of Prak Shastri, Shastri and Acharya and to Shodh Sansthan for organising and conducting research, both at doctoral and post doctoral levels. The Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan financially assist Mahavidyalayas / Shodh Sansthans to the extent of 95% the admissible expenditure for recurring items and 75% on non- recurring items of expenditure. Each ASM has a managing Committee, on which the Chairman of the Committee and one Sanskrit Scholar are appointed by the Government of India for a term of three years.
(f) Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Ved Vidya Pratishthan, Ujjain
Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Ved Vidya Pratishthan, Ujjain, an autonomous organization was established for the preservation, conservation and development of Vedic Studies through establishing and supporting Ved Pathshalas in January, 1987 in New Delhi. It’s Headquarter was shifted to Ujjain in May, 1993.
The objectives of the Pratishthan are:
(i) To preserve, conserve and develop the oral tradition of Vedic studies for which the Pratishthan undertakes various activities such as, supporting traditional Vedic institutions and scholars, providing fellowships/scholarships, undertaking production of audio/video tapes, etc.
(ii) To foster the oral tradition of intonation and recitation of Vedas through the human agency;
(iii) To encourage and ensure involvement of dedicated students in higher research in the field;
iv) To provide for research facilities to students with the background of Vedic knowledge and to equip them with sufficient scientific and analytical outlook, so that modern scientific thought contained in the Vedas, particularly in the disciplines of mathematics, astronomy, meteorology, chemistry, hydraulics, etc. could be linked with modern science and technology and a rapport established between them and modern scholars;
(v) to establish, takeover, manage or supervise Vedic Pathashalas/research centres all over the country, maintain or run them for any of its objectives;
(vi) to revive and administer such of the endowments and trusts as are defunct, or not properly run;
(vii) to give special attention to Ved Shakhas which are extinct and for which human repositories can be identified, and to prepare a detailed list of Pandits related to these Shakhas;
(viii)to ascertain the present status of oral traditions relating to the Vedas, particularly intonation and recitation peculiar to various regions, Institutions and Mathas in the country;
(ix) to collect information about the state of textual material, printed manuscripts, texts, commentaries and interpretations, etc. of the various oral traditions of the Vedic Shakhas;
(x) to collect information about the present state of recordings, both audio and visual, available in the country;
(xi) to undertake research, for advancement of scientific knowledge in Vedic texts and Vedic literature from the earliest time of Vedic period till the present, including areas of science, agriculture, technology, philosophy, yoga, education, poetics, grammar, linguistics and Vedic tradition and to provide for library, research equipment, research facilities, supporting staff and other technical manpower; and to undertake all such activities as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the objectives of the Pratishthan in accordance with the Memorandum of Association.
3. Language Universities
There are five Language Universities out of which two Deemed to be University are for promotion of Sanskrit Language and three Central Universities, one each for promotion of English and Foreign Language, Hindi Language and Urdu Language. These Universities are funded by University Grants Commission. They do not constitute part of Language Bureau’s budget.
(a) Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, New Delhi
Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, New Delhi was established in 1962 with the objective of preserving learning of Shastras as well as promotion of Sanskrit Language, literature, philosophy through teaching and research. The Institution was declared as “Deemed to be University” in the year 1987. The institution receives annual grants through University Grants Commission for meeting their expenses.
Shri Lal Bhadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeethya, New Delhi, provides courses of study from Shastri to Vidya Vachaspati (D.Litt.). Since 1997-98, Vidyapeetha has also been offering diploma in Vedic Literature and conducting refresher courses for teachers. It also offers progrmmes leading to two degrees, namely Vidya Varidhi (Ph.D.) and Manod Uppadhi (Honorary D.Litt.). The Vidyapeetha has four faculties namely: Sahitya, Sanskrit, Darshan and Ved Vedanga. These faculties have eighteen departments viz. Sahitya, Puranetihasa, Prakit, Nyaya Vashaishik, Sannkhya Yoga, Advaita, Vedanta, Jain Darshan, Sarva Darshan, Mimamsa, Vishishtadvaita Vedanta, Veda, Dharam Shastra, Vyakaran, Paurohitya, Jyotish, Shiksha Shastra, and Shikshacharya. The Vidyapeeth has introduced two new courses namely P. G. Diploma in Vastu Shastra and Medical Astrology.
(b) Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati
Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha (RSV), Tirupati was established in 1986 with the objective of preserving learning of Shastras as well as promotion of Sanskrit Language, literature and philosophy through teaching and research. The Instituion was declared as “Deemed University” in the year 1987.
RSV provides courses of study in various disciplines ranging from Prak Shastri (Intermediate) to Vidya Varidhi (Ph.D) in addition to Diploma and Certificate Courses. The Pedagogy Department of this Vidyapeeth is functioning as an Institute of Advanced Study in Education (IASE) and promotes the use of modern technology. A computer center was established in Vidyapeeth to accelerate its publication activities. The Vidyapeetha has four faculties having nine departments namely, Sahitya, Vyakarana, Nyaya, Jyotisha, Advaitavedanta, Dvaita Vedanta, Visistadvaita Vedanta, Research and Publication and Physical Education.
(c) English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.
The erstwhile Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad has been incorporated as a Central University by the name of English and Foreign Languages University, under the English and Foreign Languages University Act, 2006 which came into force on the 3rd August, 2007.
The main objectives of the University are to provide instructional, research and extension facilities in teaching of English and foreign languages and literature; to train language teachers in methods and approaches appropriate to the Indian context; to provide expertise in language and teacher education to foreign professionals; and to evolve indigenous ways of testing of languages' proficiency. Besides its main campus at Hyderabad, the academic activities of the University are also undertaken in its campuses at Lucknow and Shillong. The EFLU is now also proposing to expand its reach and services off-shore. A proposal of EFLU to set up a campus in Malaysia is under active consideration of the Ministry.
(d)
Mahatama Gandhi Antarashtriya Hindi
Vishwavidyalaya
The University has four schools, namely : School of Language, School of Literature, School of translation and interpretation and School of Culture. It has six departments for Peace Studies, Dalit and Tribal Studies,Women Studies, Mass Media and Communication, Ahimsa and Peace Studies and Buddhist Literatutre. At present, the University is running six M.A courses, 6 M. Phil/Ph. D and three diploma courses in French, Spanish and Chinese.
The University has organized 10 national seminars/conferences and 4 workshops during 2007-08.It has also signed an MOU with University of Kelania, Sri Lanka for establishing Buddhist Study Centre at Wardha. The University is developing its infrastructure and has entrusted construction projects worth Rs.28.46 crore to the CPWD.
(e) Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad
The Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) was established at Hyderabad in 1998 with the mandate to promote and develop Urdu Language and to impart higher, technical and vocational education in the Urdu medium through conventional as well as distance mode.
There are 6 Schools of studies, fourteen Departments and a Directorate of Women's Education offering on-campus education at postgraduate and research level, with an annual intake of 940 students. The University has 135 teaching and 302 non-teaching staff on its strength. The University offers 3 Post-Graduate, 3 Under-Graduate and 7 Diploma/Certificate programmes through distance mode with over 70,000 students on its roll. At present the University has nine regional centres at Patna, Ranchi, Delhi, Bangalore, Bhopal, Darbhanga, Srinagar, Mumbai and Kolkata.
The University has established 3 constituent colleges (Colleges of Teacher Education) - one each at Darbhanga, Bhopal and Srinagar, two model schools at Darbhanga and Hyderabad, and a centre for professional Development of Urdu Medium teachers, the UGC-Academic Staff College and the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive policy at its Head Quarters. Apart from these, Industrial Training Institutes at Hyderabad, Darbhanga and Bangalore have also been started.
An
Instructional Media Centre has been established
on the campus to augment the distance education
programmes of the University. In an effort to
reach out to Urdu speakers, the University has
entered into an MoU with Doordarshan for airing
its infotainment content on the DD (Urdu)
Channel, which was inaugurated on 9th January,
2008.
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