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Progress Report: 2014-18 Progress Report: 2014-18 Centre for Endangered Languages (CFEL) Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan Progress Report: CFEL, V.B. Page 1 Content 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………..4 2. Aims & Objectives……………………………………………………………………..…4 3. Field Survey Module……………………………………………………………………..5 4. Administrative Progress…………………………………………………………………5 4.1 Major Communications with UGC…………………………………………………5 4.2 Major Steps at CFEL, V.B……………………………………………………………6 5. Financial Progress………………………………………………………………………..11 6. Academic Progress……………………………………………………………………….12 6.1 Survey…………………………………………………………………………………12 6.2 Resource Generation…………………………………………………………………13 6.3 Public Awareness Events…………………………………………………………….13 6.4 Academic Events……………………………………………………………..………14 6.5 Academic Participation………………………………………………….…….…….15 6.6 Publication……………………………………………………………………………23 7. Future Plan………………………………………………………………………………..35 8. Long term Plan………………………………………………………………………….. 36 9. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………36 10. Annexure-1 10.1 Kora/Koda 10.2 Kurukh/Oraon 10.3 Birhor 10.4 Kharia 10.5 Mahali 10.6 Bhumij 10.7 Turi 11. Annexure-2 11.1 Report of National Seminar (DIAL-2018) 12. Annexure-3 12.1 Centre’s activities published in Visva-Bharati’s annual report-2016-17 12.2 Centre’s activities published in Visva-Bharati’s annual report-2017-18 13. Annexure-4 2 13.1 Clips of some media coverage …..we have to concentrate on the “...the unity of India has been village being self-contained, and shall always be a unity in manufacturing mainly for use. diversity in which every Provided this character of the language, every religion and village industry is maintained, every culture shall have its there would be no objection to due place.” villagers using even the modern machines and tools that they can Rabindranath Tagore make and can afford to use. Only (Encyclopedia of Eminent Thinkers they should not be used as a means of exploitation of others. pp.28) Mahatma Gandhi (Harijan, 29-8-1936, p.226) 3 1. Introduction Centre for Endangered Languages (‘CFEL’ in abbreviation) is an independent research Centre established by Visva-Bharati (vide REG/O-R/89(vi), dated 26.5.2014) through an office order based on the UGC Sanction order (F. No. 15-6/2012/CU dated 3rd April 2014) of a major national initiative (worth over Rs. 37 Crores) in nine central universities with Visva-Bharati’s CFEL as the nodal Centre. Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh of Rabindra Bhavana, Visva-Bharati was appointed by the University as the Chairman of CFEL with the responsibility of implementing the UGC’s mandate, and to report to the Upacharya, vide another office order on 26.5.2014. 2. Aims & Objectives a. To undertake inter disciplinary research related to endangered languages. b. To undertake fieldwork, research, analysis, archiving and documentation. c. To produce monographs, grammars, grammatical sketches, dictionaries and lexicon, dialect atlases and ethno-linguistic & theoretical descriptions. d. To organize academic events for promoting advanced research. e. To train teachers and students from other departments/centres in Field Linguistics. f. To serve the indigenous and endangered language communities by making accessible the products of the researches of the Centre. g. To promote and foster various domains of endangered languages so as to ensure endangered language communities in maintaining and preserving language vitality. h. To co-ordinate and guide the CFEL clusters and other similar UGC funded projects. i. To form an independent centre purely devoted to the issues of endangered and indigenous languages & cultures. 4 3. Field Survey Module Field survey module is being implemented on based on following architecture: Figure 1 Architecture of work 4. Administrative Progress The administrative progress of CFEL can be divided into following points: 4.1 Major Communications with UGC a. UGC asked for proposal vide letter no. F.No.15-6/2012 (CU) to establish CFELs on 25th Feb, 2013. b. UGC asked for guideline vide letter no. F.No.15-6/2012 (CU) to establish CFELs on 16th April, 2013. c. Visva-Bharati submitted detailed proposal vide letter no. Reg-/UGC-IV/01/07 on 6th May, 5 2013. d. UGC underlined Visva-Bharati as Theoretical Cluster vide letter no. F.No.15-6/2012 (CU) on 11th Dec, 2013. e. UGC showed actual fund allocation vide letter no. F.No.15-6/2012 (CU) on 3rd April, 2014. f. Visva-Bharati submitted technical action plan with higher budget on 19th April, 2014. g. UGC underlined Visva-Bharati as Nodal University for this purpose vide letter no. F.No.15- 6/2012 (CU) on 19th May, 2014. h. Visva-Bharati submitted head wise breakup vide letter no. Ref./CFEL/2014-15 on 4th September, 2014. i. Visva-Bharati submitted detailed head wise breakup vide letter no. Reg-187 on 29th October, 2014. j. Visva-Bharati requested for money vide letter no. Reg-End-Lang/187 on 23rd January, 2014. k. UGC released grant vide letter no. F.82-9/2015 (CU) on 19th August, 2015. l. UGC credited money Rs. 4 Crore vide reference no. UGC-287 on 26th Nov, 2015. m. Visva-Bharati sent Progress Report-2014-15 & 2015-16 on 29th Sep, 2016. n. Visva-Bharati sent Progress Report-2016-17 on 4th May, 2017. o. Visva-Bharati made presentation of its progress at Mid Term Review Committee, held at UGC, New Delhi on 2nd August, 2017. p. Received observation of the UGC- Mid Term Review Committee on 17th Oct, 2017 against presentation made by Visva-Bharati on 2nd August, 2017. 4.2 Major Steps at CFEL, V.B 4.2.1 Infrastructure Development a. Acquired and renovated dedicated building for the Centre. b. Developed moderate work station with two small size class rooms and other required recourses. c. Installed Wi-Fi enabled work place. 4.2.2 Role & Responsibility a. Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh handed over the charge of Chairperson, CFEL on 28th October, 2016. b. Prof. Raman Shivakumar took over the charge of Chairperson, CFEL from 28th October, 6 2016. c. Mr. Rajib Chakroborty, Assistant Professor resigned from his position from CFEL on 9th February, 2017. d. Prof. Rameshwar Prasad Mishra took over the charge of Chairperson, CFEL on 4th March, 2017. e. Prof. Rameshwar Prasad Mishra retired from Visva-Bharati on 31st May, 2017. f. The Registrar, Visva-Bharati acted as the In-Charge, CFEL during May-2017 to Feb, 2018. g. Prof. Kailash Pattanaik took over the charge of Chairperson, CFEL on 19th February, 2018. 4.2.3 Committee In order to smooth and obstacle free functioning, CFEL has constituted some major committees. Some of them are given here: a. Advisory Committee b. Purchase Committee c. Criteria Deciding Committee for Enumerators 4.2.4 Meeting a. Meetings held with SPPEL group working on Endangered Languages at CIIL, Mysore on 11-12th April, 2014. b. A series of brain-storming meetings were held in the first week of May, 2014 in JNU and DU in the presence of all nine CFEL Clusters Universities Vice-chancellors with whom VB-CFEL was to work were contacted by Prof. U.N. Singh to facilitate planning and document submission to UGC. c. Meeting of all research clusters in CFEL held at UGC on 29th May, 2014 to plan for the research methodology. d. The central India Cluster of CFEL meeting was held on 12th-13th July, 2014 in Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak where Prof. U.N. Singh participated as the national co-ordinator of CFEL Cluster. e. An advisory board meeting of CFEL, Visva-Bharati was held on 18th July, 2014 to decide the action plan of the newly founded centre. f. Prof. U.N. Singh has attended a 2-days workshop cum meeting of Administrators of Centre for Endangered Languages Project held at Tezpur University 1-2 August, 2014 7 where action plans of the centres were discussed and resolved. g. An orientation meeting on documentation methodology of Research groups working on Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages was held on 26-27th September, 2014. h. A meeting of Technical Evaluation Committee was held on 27th September, 2014 for purchasing GIS-Based Survey System Tools, Database Creation and Mapping Languages and Culture of small Tribes and Groups plus Training of Survey Personnel and System Maintenance. The evaluation took place on 11th December, 2014. i. First CFEL All India Cluster meeting was held on 6th October, 2015 at Bhasa Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan with the representatives from seven CFEL clusters. j. Meeting of CFEL Advisory Committee held on 28th May, 2016 at the Centre. k. Meeting with renowned documentary maker Mr. Ladlymohan Mukhopadhyay, Ms. Swati Chakraborty and Mr. Soumyajit Gupta with CFEL Chairperson and staffs regarding the suggestion on how to do the documentation and the necessary purchase required for documentation held on 31st May, 2016. l. Meeting with representatives of ADCC Infocad Ltd (the agency helping in surveying through GIS based system and have taken responsibility of other tasks too) regarding the server installation, app development and preparation of time frame for their tasks at the CFEL was held on 30th Dec, 2016. m. Meeting with CFEL Advisory Committee members and University officials regarding the server installation, recruitment of enumerators took place on 17th January, 2017 and was presided by the Chairperson, CFEL. n. Meeting of Criteria Deciding for Enumerators was held on 17th April, 2017 to decide basic criteria for hiring enumerators. o. Meeting with ADCC for requirement of tools at CFEL, Santiniketan on 7th April, 2018. p. Meeting of Scrutiny Committee for panel of enumerators at CFEL, Santiniketan on 24 June, 2018. 8 Figure 2 : 1st Cluster Meeting Figure 3: 1st Cluster Meeting Figure 4: ADCC and University 4.2.5 Visit a. NAAC team visited the Centre on 27th April, 2015. b. Prof. Udaya Narayan Singh visited ADCC, Nagpur to discuss the Field Survey Arrangements and Software Design face to face. c. Three project faculty members attended a meeting of CFEL Southern Cluster was held on 22nd February, 2016 in Central University of Karnataka, Kalburgi.
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