Imphal Times Supplementary issue 2 Editorial Protecting Language Diversity in India Imphal Monday, February 27, 2017 By: Pandurang Hegde of its own shall have the right to Mother Language Day (February initiated Technology Development India is one of unique countries in conserve the same.” 21) the founders of the Indian for Indian Languages with the the world that has the legacy of The language policy of India Constitution gave top priority to objective of developing If not thinking of Pema diversity of languages. The provides guarantee to protect the teaching in mother tongues’, information processing tools and Constitution of India has linguistic minorities. Under the enabling the child to develop its techniques to facilitate human Khandu episode, please recognised 22 official languages. Constitution provision is made for full potential. machine interaction without Multilingualism is the way of life in appointment of Special Officer for This concept is in total agreement language barrier, creating and publicize the Frame work India as people in different parts of linguistic minority with the sole with the 2017 theme of United accessing multilingual knowledge the country speak more than one responsibilities of safeguarding Nations World Mother Language resources. agreement Mr. Prime Minister language from their birth and learns the interest of language spoken by Day “to develop the potential of The Government of India under the Manipur goes to the polls on March 4 and 8, 2017 for its 11th additional languages during their the minority groups. multilingual education to be vision of digital India has Legislative Assembly Elections. The electoral fight here has life time. During the colonial rule the first acknowledged in education, mandated the mobile phones sold always been between the Congress and the BJP, but this time Though officially there are 122 linguistic survey was conducted administrative systems, cultural from July 2017 should support all around the bipolar contest has been muddied with rebels from languages, Peoples Linguistic during 1894 to 1928 by George A. expression and cyber space”. Indian languages. This will pave both parties expected to act as spoilers. By virtue of how the Survey of India has identified 780 Griersonthat identified 179 In 1956 reorganisation of states in way for bridging the digital divide, two national parties have conducted their campaigns, the languages, of which 50 are extinct languages and 544 dialects. Due India was carried out with linguistic empowering one billion people who election is billed as a contest between Chief Minister Okram in past five decades. to lack of trained personnel as boundaries that had its own script. do not speak English with Ibobi Singh of the Congress and the BJP under the leadership of The twenty two languages that are linguists this survey had many Sardar Vallab Bhai Patel, the then connectivity in their own Prime Minister Narendra Modi. recognised by the Constitution deficiencies. home minister played key role in languages. This will also enhance The Chief Minister was almost in trouble with BJP digging its are: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, In the post independence era formation and amalgamation of the capacity of large number entire misdeed starting from corruption, various scams including Dogri,Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Central Institute of Indian states based on linguistic people to be part of e-governance that of K-Pro Loktak scam, and rampant appointment of Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Languages (CIIL), based in attributes. and e- commerce. government jobs to the near and dear ones. Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Mysore was assigned to carry out The language policy of India has Despite these efforts by the central BJP on the other hand is facing serious hurdle over its attempt to Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, an in-depth survey of languages. been pluralistic, giving priority to government minority languages are solve the aged old problem of NSCN-IM. While defending the Okram Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and However this is still remains the use of mother tongue in under threat of extinction due to and team’s allegation on the supposedly conspiracy on the Urdue are included in the Eigth incomplete. administration, education and multiple causes. In Andaman and controversial framework agreement here in the valley region, Schedule of the constitution. In 1991 the Census of India listed other fields of mass Nicobar Islands, the death of Boa, the saffron team is facing another crisis in hill district particularly Among these three languages, 1576 mother tongues’ with separate communication. The Language the last speaker of Bo language is to those which are dominated by cadres of NSCN-IM. Sanskrit, Tamil and Kannada have grammatical structures and 1796 Bureau of Ministry of Human one of those instances that have A promise for protection of territorial integrity of Manipur is a been recognised as classical speech varieties that is classified Resource Development is set up to lead to extinction of Bo language thrashing blow to the NSCN-IM which has signed agreement with language with special status and as other mother tongues’. implement and monitor the with the history of 70000 years. the government of India and silencing on the matter is more like recognition by Government of Another unique feature of India is language policy. In recent years the language surrendering to the congress led Okram Ibobi and team. India. The classical languages have the concept of protecting the Supporting the cause of promoting diversity is under threat as speakers Congress team under the leadership of Okram Ibobi is playing written and oral history of more interest of children to get basic and conserving the language of diverse languages are becoming tough with the Naga issue and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s than 1000 years. In comparison to education in their mother tongue. diversity in cyberspace, Union rare and major languages are team inexplicit clarification on the ‘frame work’ agreement with these, English is very young as it The Constitution provides” it Minister of Electronic and adopted after abandoning the the NSCN-IM has left the BJP leaving on stoning frame. Every has the history of only 300 years. shall be the endeavour of every Information Technology Ravi mother tongues. The problem needs political parties including the BJP know that a verbal clarification In addition to these scheduled and State and of every local authority Shankar Prasad cautioned the to be addressed at societal level, in will not help in convincing the people of the state. This issue of classical languages, The within the state to provide Internet providers “the language which the communities have to take NSCN-IM has been sensitized to almost every Manipuri people Constitution of India has included adequate facilities for instruction of internet cannot be English and part in conservation of language since 1997. The death of 21 people in the mass uprising for the clause to protect minority in the mother tongue at the primary English alone. It must have diversity that is part of cultural extending cease fire extension to the state of Manipur is no languages as a fundamental right. stage of education to children linkages with the local and local wealth. Courtesy PIB Feature joke. And this is known to the government of India. It states” Any section of the belonging to linguistic minority means local languages. I appeal to (Author is an independent Well, by not presenting the so called frame work agreement citizens residing in the territory of groups”. make local languages available for journalist and columnist based in between the NSCN-IM and the GoI, Mr. Prime Minister and his India or any part of thereof having Thus, even before the United more internet users”. Karnataka. Views expressed in the team is indirectly giving a chance to Mr. Okram Ibobi and his a distinct language, script or culture Nations declared the International He said that the ministry has article are personal.) team to subside the various misdeed his government had committed to the people of the state for 15 years. The fake encounter case, drug smuggling case, misutilization of National & International News various fund in almost all government department including the Horticulture department, Home Department, PWD etc. and most importantly the infamous Loktak scam at which crores of rupees Bomb attack, police shootout in Indonesian city has been misutilised are being cover up. The so call ‘frame work agreement’ signed between the NSCN- Bandung, Feb 27: A small bomb came from a bomb constructed out the perpetrator tried to burn (the bombings that killed 202 people, IM and the Government of India should be publicized if Mr. Prime exploded in a park in the Indonesian of a pressure cooker, the attacker place),” he told local TV station mostly foreign tourists. Minister and his team is not having any plan of playing Pema city of Bandung today, with the fled into a building belonging to local MetroTV. A sustained crackdown weakened Khandu episode of Arunachal Pradesh. attacker fleeing into government authorities. “He’s from a terrorist network,” he the most dangerous networks but offices and engaging in a shootout Television footage showed armed added, without elaborating. the emergence of the Islamic State with police. police exchanging fire with the man Charliyan said the attacker, whom he (IS) group has proved a potent new REGIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL No one was reported wounded in inside, and part of the building was did not identify, was injured during rallying cry for the country’s the assault in the major city on Java set on fire. the standoff. radicals and hundreds flocked to SCIENCES : IMPHAL – 795004 island which police said was linked Local police chief Anton Charliyan Indonesia, the world’s most populous the Middle East to fight with the (An autonomous Institute under the Ministry of to a “terrorist network”.