(a) whether it is proposed to provide financial assistance for the teaching and promoting languages specified in the Eighth schedule of the Constitution and bringing out multilingual dictionaries;
(b) if so, the details thereof; and
(c) if not, the reasons therefor?
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE
DEVELOPMENT (SHRI JAYASINGRAO GAIKWAD PATIL)
(a),(b) & (c): The Government is already implementing
scheme for providing financial assistance to voluntary
organizations for the development and propagation of all the
languages. Included in the VIIIth Schedule of the
Constitution. These schemes include, inter alia, financial
assistance to non-Hindi speaking States/Uts for the
appointment of Hindi to teachers and to Hindi speaking
States/Uts for the appointment of Modern Indian languages
teachers, appointment of Urdu teachers and Sanskrit teachers
in secondary and senior Secondary Schools etc. Further, the
Government have also established Institutions like Central
institute of India languages, Mysore; Central Hindi
Directorate, New Delhi, National Council for promotion of
Urdu language, New Delhi; Commission for Scientific and
technical terminology, New Delhi, National Council for
Promotion of Sindhi Language, Vadidara; Kendriya Hindi
Shikshan Mandal, Agra; Rashtriya Ved Vidya Pratishthan,
Ujjain , of these; the Central Hindi Directorate has
brought our Bhartiya Bhasha Kosh in 14 languages &
Tatsamshabad Kosh in 15 languages. The bilingual/ Multi-
lingual dictionaries in various Indian languages. All these
schemes are proposed to be continued in the Ninth Five year
Plan.