Central Institute of Indian Languages – Diligent IAS 16/07/2019 – Posted in: Press Information Bureau – Tags: BHASHA-BHARATI, LANGUAGE INFORMATION SERVICES OF INDIA
Central Institute of Indian Languages
(Vice President’s Secretariat)
WHAT
The government is planning to shift the Center of Excellence for Studies in Classical Telugu to one of the Telugu-speaking States.
- Presently it is located in the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru.
- Proposals for temporary accommodation were sent to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF INDIAN LANGUAGES
- The institute was established to coordinate the development of India languages, to bring about the essential unity of India languages.
- CIIL through scientific studies, Promote inter-disciplinary research and contribute to mutual enrichment of languages.
- It also contributes to the emotional integration of the people of India.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF CIIL
- Advice and Assists Central as well as State Governments in the matters of language.
- Contributes to the development of all Indian Languages by creating content and corpus.
- Protects and Documents Minor, Minority and Tribal Languages.
- Promotes Linguistic harmony by teaching 15 Indian languages to non-native learners.
LANGUAGE INFORMATION SERVICES OF INDIA
- (LIS India)- Initial work through workshops and meetings of the experts has already commenced and the draft format for an expandable Information site in the public domain has been prepared.
- The work is to be carried out in coordination with a number of university departments of linguistics.
BHASHA-BHARATI
- It is proposed to set up ‘Bhasha-Bharati’ at Mysore.
- It is in collaboration with Sahitya Academy, NBT and a number of other agencies such as channels, and newspaper houses and individual collectors, as a national level resource centre which will house manuscripts, typescripts, notes, correspondences, including un-published and/or incomplete works of modern masters of Indian languages and contemporary writers of India who have lived and written during the period beginning 1947.
Source: PIB
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