Not planning ‘one nation, one language’, all equally important: Govt

Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy was replying to a written question in Rajya Sabha whether there is a proposal to have a single language for the country

Current Affairs:The Constitution agrees equivalent significance to every one of the dialects of the nation and there is no proposition for “one country, one language”, the administration educated Parliament on Wednesday.

Association Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy was answering to a composed inquiry in Rajya Sabha whether there is a proposition to have a solitary language for the nation.

“There is no proposition for one country one language,” Reddy said.

The priest’s answer comes in the background of dissent by pioneers of a few non-Hindi talking states and expert Kannada associations, who had rampaged in September after Union Home Minister Amit Shah propopsal discussed ‘One Nation, One Language’.

The clergyman further said that the “Constitution agrees equivalent significance to every one of the dialects of the nation.”

“Language matters are in the simultaneous rundown of the Constitution of India and are inside the official circles of the focal government and the particular state governments,” he said.

He included that awards are not discharged language-wise by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

In answer to an another inquiry, the clergyman said the episodes of common brutality, over the most recent three years, have indicated a “declining pattern” in the nation.

Notwithstanding, no information was outfitted in the answer.

To another inquiry on the quantity of rebellion bodies of evidence documented against people who censured and questioned careful strikes directed by the Army, Reddy said “no such information” is accessible with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) as on date.

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Making a billion go online: FICCI calls for language friendly internet

As much as 70 per cent of Indians are non-English speakers, and the global mission is to bring the next billion people online making the Internet more friendly for their language

Current Affairs:While piecemeal work has been done in building neighborhood language innovation support in India, considerably more should be done, including building a domain where designers see language related coding as an alternative that won’t limit their capacity to do other sort of coding, or the need to interpret between various Indian dialects for more extensive selection of the Internet and related business openings, said members at a meeting held in Delhi on Monday.

As much as 70 percent of Indians are non-English speakers, and the worldwide crucial to bring the following billion individuals web based making the Internet all the more agreeable for their language.

In the previous five years, much progress has been made in language innovation. “From no space names (in neighborhood language) in 2014, to every single (Indian) language today. Much work has likewise been done in voice to content innovation, where individuals can compose by communicating in their own language. We have accomplished a precision in voice-to-content interpretations. Phonetics has additionally improved, consoles have become more client easy to understand, and give better recommendations in prescient content,” said Ajay Data, Co-Chair, ICT and Digital Economy Committee, FICCI.

FICCI-Indian Language Internet Alliance (FICCI-ILIA) is an activity of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, an organization moving in the direction of the advancement of a strong Indian language biological system. On Monday, FICCI-ILIA and the Ministry of Electronics and Information and Technology, MyGov, and Technology Development for Indian Languages sorted out its yearly occasion Bhashantara 2019 for Indian dialects innovation industry.

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