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The
dynamics of change over the past decade created a bewildering variety and combination
of academic institutions. Differences in size and quality, ranging from large
institutions with satisfactory levels of quality to very small entities with questionable
standards, and any number of combinations between these extremes, are evident.
In the past, the discourse on educational policy placed coverage and quality as
alternatives to each other. But in the new environments, I think it is imperative
that both these objectives be reaffirmed. Otherwise, we risk abandoning educational
standards in favour of meeting merely the needs of the market. There is no doubt
that, having set high standards, CIIL stands out in the middle of these institutions.
We at CIIL would, therefore, like to see that the institutions that deal with
sensitive subjects like 'Language and Society--.should reaffirm their social commitments
and contribute to our national development planning activity by emphasizing on
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Literacy
level among women in India being alarmingly low, it will be necessary to expand
our school educatiqn system so as to introduce and include as many languages as
possible, so that the girl children are educated in their own languages. For.
this purpose, CIIL should take lead in studying and preparing materials in as
many minority and'triballanguages as possible
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should be a special endeavour of CIIL to promote and document the endangered languages
of India, which are very
much a part of India"s plural cultural heritage.
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drives will be undertaken to promote literary and other creative activities in
minority Languages of India
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Special effort will be made by the CIIL to implement the Constitutional provision
to enrich Hindi, as the official language as well as a language of national importance,
by relating Hindi with other major modern Indian Languages and by drawing from
the lexical resources of these languages.
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Indian
languages will be related to the advancements being made in the area of Information
Technology. To achieve that, Language Technology will be given the required push
to create specialised softwares in Indian languages, on-line courses in language
teaching, and devlopment of translation tools,etc.
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will be our effort to make the new genration aware of our rich literary and linguistic
heritage through translation of contemporary and classical texts, and also by
creating a Manuscriporium of the Contemporary writing in Indian Languages, and
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traditional knoweldge bases and learning systems available in our Sanskritic and
Perso-Arabic tradition will be researched into and promoted to make them useful
for application in modern day society.
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tradition of female literacy India |
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UDAYA
NARAYANA SINGH
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