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The Central Hindi Directorate
was set up in March 1960 as a subordinate office of the Ministry
of Education. The Directorate has since been implementing a number
of schemes for the promotion and development of Hindi.
The Department of Correspondence
Courses of Central Hindi Directorate is implementing the scheme
of Teaching Hindi as a second and foreign language to non-Hindi
speaking Indians and foreigners. So far 3.35 lakhs (Approx.) persons
have benefited under this scheme. Teaching of Hindi has also been
established through Cassettes which are prepared by the Correspondence
Courses Department of Central Hindi Directorate.
Under the Scheme of Publication,
the sub-schemes, viz., foreign language dictionary, bilingual/trilingual/New
dictionaries, Bhasha, Varshiki and Sahitya Mala, exhibition and
free distribution of Hindi books are operated. Other publications
include Hindi-Indonesian dictionary and conversational guides on
Hindi-Tamil, Malayalam-Hindi and those on Hindi-Malayalam and Bangla-Hindi,
Hindi-Czech.
The scheme of award and prizes
to Hindi authors helps to popularise Hindi in non-Hindi speaking
states. Under the scheme of ‘Services and Programmes‘ different
schemes relating to promotion and development of Hindi are carried
out.
The Central Hindi Directorate
has been implementing two schemes relating to grants to voluntary
Hindi organisations for the promotion and development of Hindi.
The Central Institute of Indian Languages,
Mysore, a subordinate office has been helping in evolving and implementing
the language policy of the Government of India and coordinating
the development of Indian Languages by conducting research in the
areas of Language Analysis, Language Pedagogy, Language Technology
and Language use in society, a bias towards problem solving and
National Integration.
The Central Institute has the following
three schemes:-
Scheme I. The first scheme
is for the development of Indian Languages through research, developing
manpower, production of materials in Modern Indian Languages including
tribal languages.
- Tribal and Border Languages.
- Socio-linguistics.
- Phonetics.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Materials Production and Training.
- Evaluation and Testing.
- Distance Education.
- Educational Technology.
- Lexicography and Translation.
Scheme II. The second scheme
is for the implementation of Three Languages Formula. This is done
through training of teachers of the secondary schools deputed by
various States and UTs. The RLCs conduct various teacher training
programme and prepare instructional materials. The 10 months Intensive
Course in Indian Languages began in July in different Centres. The
target of admission for this course is SRLC : 120, ERLC : 80, WRLC
: 60, NRLC : 60, UTRC : each 40, Total: 400.
Scheme III. The scheme provides
financial assistance to individuals and voluntary organisations
for publication in Indian Languages (other than Hindi, Urdu, Sindhi,
Sanskrit and English) inclusive of tribal languages. The first Grants-in-aid
meeting was held on Mysore on 10.9.98 which recommended purchase
of 99 books and for publication assistance for 8 Manuscripts.
In order to bring about substantial improvement
in the standards of teaching/learning of English, the Government is
giving assistance through the Central Institute of English and Foreign
Languages (CIEFL), Hyderabad for the setting up of at least one
district centre for English language in each State. Twenty six District
Centres were initially sanctioned. There were eleven District Centres
in operation as on 31st March, 1998 in different parts
of the country. The Government is also providing assistance to Regional
Institutes of English and English Language Teaching Institutes of
different States through the CIEFL for strengthening them. There are
at present two Regional Institutes of English and nine English Language
Teaching Institutes. Apart from this, grants are also given to Voluntary
Organisations/individuals for publication & purchase of books
in English Language.
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