Writes: Basant Kumar Mohanty
Jawaharlal Nehru University will become the first university in India to teach and research all the 22 major Indian languages.
Its academic council on Friday approved a proposal to upgrade JNU's Centre of Indian Languages to a full-fledged school. It's now an arm of the university's School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies.
Anwar Alam, chairperson of the Centre of Indian Languages, welcomed the decision to upgrade the centre.
Launched in 1974, the centre initially offered master's and research programmes only in Urdu and Hindi. Over the past 10 years, it has been offering research programmes (MPhil and PhD) in Tamil, Kannada, Bangla, Odia and Marathi.
"Once the centre is upgraded to a school, we shall propose separate centres on 22 Indian languages that will offer both master's and research programmes," Alam said.
He said the proposed school would also set up centres for the Adivasi language, Northeastern languages and endangered languages.
[Via: Telegraph]
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