Lok Sabha Question No. 2348 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-12-13
Subject: Promotion of Indian Lanauges
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Sangamlal Kadedin Gupta, D.K. Suresh, Krishna Pal Singh Yadav, P.P. Chaudhary, Pratap Chandra Sarangi, Rajbahadur Singh, Aparajita Sarangi, Rajendra Agrawal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.2348

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 13.12.2021

Promotion of Indian Languages

## 2348.      SHRI SANGAM LAL GUPTA:

SHRI D.K. SURESH:

DR. KRISHNA PAL SINGH YADAV:

SHRI P. P. CHAUDHARY:

SHRI PRATAP CHANDRA SARANGI:

SHRI RAJBAHADUR SINGH:

SHRIMATI APARAJITA SARANGI:

SHRI RAJENDRA AGRAWAL:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  the  Government  is  planning  to  encourage  Indian  Languages  in education under the New Education Policy;
- (b)  if so, the details thereof;
- (c)  the  steps  taken  under  the  policy  to  rule  out  imposition  of  languages  and medium of instructions in schools; and
- (d) the details of steps undertaken/to be undertaken to facilitate the challenges faced by migrant children due to the said policy?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION (DR. SUBHAS SARKAR)

(a)  to  (d)  :  Yes  Sir.  The  policy  of  the  Government  of  India  is  to  promote  all Indian  Languages  and  several  steps  taken  in  this  regard.  There  are  separate organisations for development and promotion of Hindi, Urdu, Sindhi and Sanskrit languages.  Sanskrit  Language  is  promoted  through  three  Central  Universities viz,  Central  Sanskrit  University,  New  Delhi,  Shri  Lal  Bahadur  Shastri  National Sanskrit University, New Delhi and National Sanskrit University, Tirupati. Hindi is promoted  by  Kendriya  Hindi  Sansthan  (KHS)  Agra,  Central  Hindi  Directorate (CHD),  New  Delhi  and  Commission  for  Scientific  and  Technical  Terminology (CSTT), New Delhi. Sindhi is promoted through National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language (NCPSL),

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New Delhi and Urdu is promoted through National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language  (NCPUL),  New  Delhi.  Central  Institute  of  Indian  Languages  (CIIL), Mysore works for the promotion of all Indian languages including Scheduled/Non-Scheduled  and  Classical  languages  namely  Kannada,  Telugu, Malayalam and Odia.  Development and promotion of Classical Tamil is done by Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT), Chennai.

National  Education  Policy  (NEP)  2020  provides,  wherever  possible,  for medium  of  instruction  to  be  in  the  home  language/  mother  tongue/  local language  upto  at  least  class  5  and  preferably  upto  class  8.  The  policy  also provides for making available high quality text books in home language/ mother tongue and encouraging teachers to use bilingual  approach  while  teaching.  In addition to this, it provides for more Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) and more programmes in Higher Education to use the mother tongue/local language as  a  medium  of  instruction  and/or  offer  programmes  bilingually.    All  India Council for Technical education (AICTE) has issued guidelines permitting technical education institutions to offer their courses in local languages also. So far 19 institutions from 10 states have started offering such courses. AICTE has developed a tool called AICTE Automation Artificial Intelligence Tool to translate English  language  online  courses  into  11  Indian  languages.  Translation  of reference  material  for  Engineering  courses  are  made  available  in  Regional languages on SWAYAM MOOCS portal. Course material including text books and teaching  resources  for  Grades  1-12  are  available  on  DIKSHA  portal  of  the Government in 33 Indian languages and Indian Sign language.  JEE and NEET exams are conducted in 13 Indian languages.

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