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Parthasaradhi Junior Artist Username: Parthasaradhi Post Number: 752 Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 160.254.20.253 Rating: |
telugollu hindi meeda edavatamlo artham ledu. mana bhasha meeda manaki istam lenappudu inko bhasha meeda edavatam enduku. dandaga. aa vishayam lo aite tamilollu better. they are fighting against hindi to promote thier language. manaki enduku time bokka. meelo enthamandi inthakamundu meeru matladani manishi telugu vaadu ani sure gaa telisinaa conversation telugu lo start chestaru? nenu chaala mandini choosa 1% kooodaa telugu lo start cheyyaledu. paigaa telugu lo maatladite veediki english sarigga raadu anduke telugu lo maatladutunnadu anukunnaru. idi naa personal experience. స్వీయ ఆరాధన - సర్వ ఆదరణ | ||
Woodpecker Side Hero Username: Woodpecker Post Number: 6288 Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 161.165.196.84 Rating: N/A |
cost of keeping telugu alive - posani's movie budget  | ||
Jawmetri Junior Artist Username: Jawmetri Post Number: 396 Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 59.93.55.76 Rating: N/A |
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~cmedst/gmap/uploaded/Coconut%20and%20 Honey%20Sanskrit%20and%20Telugu%20in%20Medieval%20Andhra.pdf Discusses about Sanskrit and Telugu | ||
Kamal Hero Username: Kamal Post Number: 11928 Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 24.1.202.142 Rating: N/A |
anduke ga antunna .. evariki anyayam jaragakunda laws frame chesukunte badhalu potayi .. but deenni vere level ki teesukelli desam ni mukkalu cheyyadam matram samanjasam kaadu ! "Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working" - Swami Vivekananda "Embracing Islam or Christianity would have meant going away from the cultural soil of India, which I do not wish to do." - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar | ||
Kamal Hero Username: Kamal Post Number: 11927 Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 24.1.202.142 Rating: N/A |
I remember reading some where that classical telugu and kannada languages have as much as 60% vocabulary from Sanskrit. Ofcourse not Hindi! But my meaning is, similarly classical Hindi largely is a replica of Sanskrit itself. So intended to convey that when it comes to classical forms of languages, much problem would not be arising ! ya .. repu discuss cheddam .. too tired ! "Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working" - Swami Vivekananda "Embracing Islam or Christianity would have meant going away from the cultural soil of India, which I do not wish to do." - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar | ||
Zulu Side Hero Username: Zulu Post Number: 3102 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 66.68.181.197 Rating: N/A |
Seperatism stems from inequality and injustice..you can refer to srilanka for example...you dont infringe on my rights..my culture..my language..my land and i wont do it either..simple aint it? Elagaina kalise undali ante..british India lo kooda kalise unnam banisallaga... kalisi undatam okkate kadu priority.. Maathru bhasha vegataipoyina mudanastapu jathi manadhi | ||
Kamal Hero Username: Kamal Post Number: 11926 Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 24.1.202.142 Rating: N/A |
I totally agree with what you say. And since time immemorial .. Bharata Varsha extending from Himalayas till Kanyakumari .. was ruled as different political states .. but it always remained one "geographical and cultural nation with different languages" .. and I am sure, if it could exist in those brutal medieval periods, the same concept can work now and so Hindi need not be imposed. Anduke antunna kada, instead of fighting individually with Central govt against imposing Hindi .. all non-Hindi speaking languages should come together to frame laws that protect one and all ! I am not asking any language to suffer due to joining Indian Union ! That would be the worst of all ! "Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working" - Swami Vivekananda "Embracing Islam or Christianity would have meant going away from the cultural soil of India, which I do not wish to do." - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar | ||
Zulu Side Hero Username: Zulu Post Number: 3101 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 66.68.181.197 Rating: N/A |
aa vudhesem tho chadavamani cheppaledu..db is for knowledge sharing ani ravino cheppadu kada..andukani cheppa..also since i know that this is one of your favourite issue apart from religion..
This information is totally wrong!! I dont know what you meant by the word "draw".. Telugu - Hindi relation was never and will never be like say..Gujarati-Hindi or Punjabi-Hindi relation.. the reason is pretty simple..we have two distinct language groups in India.. 1.Indo-Aryan and 2.Dravidian language groups.. Telugu, tamil kannada and malayalam belong to the dravidian language group and they are NOT derived from sanskrit.. now this has nothing to do with Aryan-Dravidian theory... you can call them X group and Y group if you want refer to any linguist and let me know if you come across anything that states otherwise.. migatha post antha chadavaledu..I will reply tomorrow.. Maathru bhasha vegataipoyina mudanastapu jathi manadhi | ||
Ipc302 Side Hero Username: Ipc302 Post Number: 4484 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 24.167.20.113 Rating: N/A |
the problem is the 1% of hindi chauvinists are the guys framing rules and trying to impose their language on the rest of the population...we never imposed or language on non-telugu speakes ...all we are saying leave us alone....u should understand that hindi is as much alien to us as english is...this sort of regional attitude is what causing problems in many states especially NE states....india is not just some north or south states...don't tell that the country has no future without a uniform language to converse in....from ancient times the country never had any uniform language or culture ....the diversity is what is key to the nation and not some regional chauvinism in the garb of national unity that is being projected on non hindi speakers | ||
Kamal Hero Username: Kamal Post Number: 11923 Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 24.1.202.142 Rating: N/A |
"Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working" - Swami Vivekananda "Embracing Islam or Christianity would have meant going away from the cultural soil of India, which I do not wish to do." - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar | ||
Kamal Hero Username: Kamal Post Number: 11922 Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 24.1.202.142 Rating: N/A |
hehe .. mammalni chapati batch lo kalipesaava annai? Just because, we say we do not have a problem with Hindi .. Telugu ni chinna choopu choose vaallam .. leda Telugu vaallam ani cheppukune arhata teesesaara? Jokes apart - My point is, I do accept some Hindi speakers trying to impose Hindi on other languages. The complaints usually arise from Tamilnadu, AP, Maharashtra, Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Gujarat etc .. almost in the same order. But why does this happen? Let us think about it pragmatically. Like there are Tamil, Telugu, Marathi Chauvinists, there are also similar Hindi Chauvinists. Let us for the sake of argument assume, we have 1% chauvinists in Telugus and Tamils, and consider telugu speaking population as 70 million and tamil speaking population at 60 million .. that gives us a number of 1.3 million chauvinists in both languages. Now take the count of Hindi, it has almost 350 million speakers. And even at the modest 1% estimate, we would have 3.5 million chauvinists in Hindi .. almost 5 times the number of telugus and 6 times the number of tamils .. and thats what fuels resentment in those lesser number of chauvinists anedi naa understanding .. ika pothe .. since most of the Indian languages draw heavily from Sanskrit, with an exception of Tamil (actually a tamil friend of mine said .. tamil has 35% of vocabulary drawn from sanskrit prior to dravidian movement of 1940s, I did not verify!) .. what we speak is vernacular versions of Sanskrit if we go by classical languages definition of respective languages .. then where is the reason for collision with Hindi or Tamil or some other language? Though essentially I am totally opposed to the view that one language can be imposed on others ! How do we deal with situation? Make it a point to get whatever is the correct share of each language, as for me, quarreling over "Indian languages" is kind of trivial ! How do you get the correction done - fight collectively with other languages! But yes, I am totally totally opposed to separatism in India and if there is any semblance of such a motive, the movements have to be crushed indiscriminately ! Period ! My two aNaas ! "Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working" - Swami Vivekananda "Embracing Islam or Christianity would have meant going away from the cultural soil of India, which I do not wish to do." - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar | ||
Ipc302 Side Hero Username: Ipc302 Post Number: 4483 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 24.167.20.113 Rating: N/A |
not sure how much? they gave the classical status a year or so ago... will be surprised to see any budget allocations also | ||
Zulu Side Hero Username: Zulu Post Number: 3100 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 66.68.181.197 Rating: N/A |
Theliyadu mama..but i guessing it wont be even a fraction of what they spend on Hindi.. Ikkada Oka issue undi..telugu,tamil..kannada and sanskrit are classical languages, Hindi is not..so asalu Hindi meeda spending anedaniki saraina reasoning kooda ledu Maathru bhasha vegataipoyina mudanastapu jathi manadhi | ||
Eluri_kurradu Side Hero Username: Eluri_kurradu Post Number: 8736 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 173.30.2.223 Rating: N/A |
Telugu pracheena bhasha ki entha spend chestuntaru yearly? | ||
Ipc302 Side Hero Username: Ipc302 Post Number: 4482 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 24.167.20.113 Rating: N/A |
Definitely the onus is on us to promote our language or not to be subjugated by having to speak some other enforced language..... | ||
Ipc302 Side Hero Username: Ipc302 Post Number: 4481 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 24.167.20.113 Rating: N/A |
this is just a waste of tax payers money to create a pseudo-national language when infact there cannot be one in a country like ours | ||
Zulu Side Hero Username: Zulu Post Number: 3099 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 66.68.181.197 Rating: N/A |
Yeah idi chaala common brother,..ilanti experiances naku chaala ayyayi..DB lo pointout chesthe adi mana inferiority complex ani telugu valle selevicharu..kontha mandi..em chestham? khandistham.. anyways Regular northies ni thittukuni upayogam ledu...Telugu vallam manake information lekapothe vallaki ekkadanundi vosthundi cheppu information..so the onus is upon us.. I almost argued with a tamilian that Hindi is our National language  ..that was 8 years ago..though..we are that ignorent.. comedy entante recent ga Oka JP interview choosa..aa caller asked about language development and its effect on society..and he reffered Hindi as National language..JP Narayana did not correct it  .. I dont know if is ignorent on this issue or just didnt find this that big a deal to correct. Maathru bhasha vegataipoyina mudanastapu jathi manadhi | ||
Zulu Side Hero Username: Zulu Post Number: 3098 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 66.68.181.197 Rating: N/A |
Opika vunte E Site choodandi, Hindi development ki unna programs..costs etc ki. http://www.rajbhasha.gov.in/dolst_eng.htm Btw, Monna discussion lo evaro annaru Hindi, telugu, tamil anni official languages yee ani.. In reality Hindi is the principle official language of Indian Union, English is associate Offical Language. They made this change in 1963..(Earlier English was priciple Official language and Hindi was associate) 10.5.1963 : Keeping in view the provision made in Article 343(3) and the assurance given by Shri Jawahar Lal Nehru, the Official Languages Act was enacted. Accordingly, Hindi is being used as the Official Language of the Union and English as an associate language. Offcourse E Change ni oppose chesina vallandarini regionalists..seperatists ani birudu ichi satkarincharu..kiki Maathru bhasha vegataipoyina mudanastapu jathi manadhi | ||
Ipc302 Side Hero Username: Ipc302 Post Number: 4480 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 24.167.20.113 Rating: N/A |
nenu unde chotu lo ekkuva mandhi hindi speakers and eppudu ayina manam telugulo matladithe chalu vacchi u have to talk in hindi ani cheppevaru...manam kooda ayithe english lo ne matladali especially if there are non-hindi speakers | ||
Zulu Side Hero Username: Zulu Post Number: 3097 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 66.68.181.197 Rating: N/A |
comedy entante..govt officials, politicians and certain ministers ki kooda theliyadu..that India doesnt have a National Language ani.. Look at this, Finance ministry mentions Indian National Language: http://karnatique.blogspot.com/2009/09/and-now-hindis-are-co ming-for-your.html Maathru bhasha vegataipoyina mudanastapu jathi manadhi | ||
Eluri_kurradu Side Hero Username: Eluri_kurradu Post Number: 8732 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 173.30.2.223 Rating: N/A |
tokkalo hindi ni tokkeyyali | ||
Zulu Side Hero Username: Zulu Post Number: 3096 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 66.68.181.197 Rating: N/A |
http://karnatique.blogspot.com/ Maathru bhasha vegataipoyina mudanastapu jathi manadhi | ||
Ipc302 Side Hero Username: Ipc302 Post Number: 4479 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 24.167.20.113 Rating: N/A |
a blog link pani cheyyatledhu | ||
Ipc302 Side Hero Username: Ipc302 Post Number: 4478 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 24.167.20.113 Rating: N/A |
I think Hindi is becoming the curse for other languages....sometime back Kapil sibal wanted to make hindi as the official medium of education... indulo mana tappu koooda undhi ...evadu kanipisthe aaditho hindi matladathamu and hindi matladatam raakapothe edo inferiority fel avutharu...vacchi aani hindi kooda use chesthamu...personal ga choosindhi emite ante chapathi gallatho english matladatam better....hindi national language ani adhi andariki ravalani kooda chepparu naaku chala mandhi ....kontha mandhi undevaru nepali gallatho kooda hindi matladevaru....AP lo andariki hindi vacchu ani kooda cheppina vallu unnaru nakaithe enduku anthe hyd lo andariki hindi vacchu antaru | ||
Zulu Side Hero Username: Zulu Post Number: 3095 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 66.68.181.197 Rating: N/A |
Ruj & kamal kurrollu opika chesukuni E thread chadavamani korika.. kudirithe E Blog kooda chadavandi http://karnatique.blogspot.com/,..wealth of information Maathru bhasha vegataipoyina mudanastapu jathi manadhi | ||
Zulu Side Hero Username: Zulu Post Number: 3094 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 66.68.181.197 Rating: N/A |
Hindi is not the National Language of India: Gujarat High Court by Santosh Kumar Agarwal for Global Village January 27, 2010 Delivering a judgment recently on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), the Gujarat High Court dismissed the claim by the petitioner that Hindi is the National Language of India. The High Court Bench which included Chief Justice S.J.Mukherjee said that Hindi can be termed as an official language of India which is used widely in official work, but there is no notification issued (by the central government) conferring any national language status to Hindi. Elaborating further, the court said that there is no denial that Hindi has been accepted as a national language by large section of people in India and that Hindi is spoken and written in Devnagari script (the ancient and vedic era language Sanskrit is written in Devnagri script) by large number of peoples in India. But it is also a fact that Hindi is not the National Language of India. The judgment was delivered in connection with a PIL filed by one Suresh Kacharia, asking the court to make it mandatory and direct the manufacturers of packaged items to print all manufacturing details including the price on the packet in Hindi Language. The bench delivered the aforesaid judgment while dismissing the PIL and stated that in view of the above facts the court was unable to give any directions to the central or state governments as well as packaged item manufacturers for printing packaging details in Hindi. Here it will be of interest to know that as per 2001 census of India, out of the total national population of 1027 millions, Hindi is the mother tongue of 366 millions mostly concentrated in the northern and central states of India. Maathru bhasha vegataipoyina mudanastapu jathi manadhi | ||
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http://karnatique.blogspot.com/2009/09/december-10-1946-in-i ndian-parliament.html December 10, 1946 in the Constituent Assembly of India Posted by Kiran Rao Batni on Sep 2, 2009 An interesting article by Ramachandra Guha from The Hindu archives shows how some sense reigned in the Constituent Assembly on 10 Dec 1946. The question is - why is the Hindi imposition nonsense continuing even to this date? Why is Hindi the only Indian language which enjoys official status at the center? HINDI CHAUVINISM Sunday, Jan 18, 2004. by Ramachandra Guha I HAVE recently been reading the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India. These are a treasure-trove; invaluable to the scholar, but also well worth reading by the citizen. Among the topics debated by the Assembly were federalism, minority rights, preventive detection — topics that were contentious then, and continue to be contentious now. However, by far the most controversial subject was language: the language to be spoken in the House, the language in which the Constitution would be written, the language which would be given that singular designation, "national". On December 10, 1946, effectively the first day of business, R.V. Dhulekar of the United Provinces moved an amendment. When he began speaking in Hindustani, the Chairman reminded him that many members did not know the language. This was Dhulekar's reply: "People who do not know Hindustani have no right to stay in India. People who are present in this House to fashion a Constitution for India and do not know Hindustani are not worthy to be members of this Assembly. They had better leave." The remarks created a commotion in the House. "Order, order!" yelled the Chairman, but Dhulekar then moved that "the Procedure Committee should frame rules in Hindustani and not in English. As an Indian I appeal that we, who are out to win freedom for our country and are fighting for it should think and speak in our own language. We have all along been talking of America, Japan, Germany, Switzerland and the House of Commons. It has given me a headache. I wonder why Indians do not speak in their own language. As an Indian I feel that the proceedings of the House should be conducted in Hindustani. We are not concerned with the history of the world. We have the history of our own country of millions of past years." The printed proceedings continue: "The Chairman: Order, order! Shri R.V. Dhulekar (speaking still in Hindustani): I request you to allow me to move my amendment. The Chairman: Order, order! I do not permit you to proceed further. The House is with me that you are out of order." At this point Dhulekar finally shut up. But the issue would not go away. In one session, members urged the House to order the Government to change all car number plates from English to Hindi. More substantively, they demanded that the official version of the Constitution be in Hindi, with an unofficial version in English. This the Drafting Committee did not accept, saying that the foreign language could better articulate the technical and legal terms of the document. When a draft Constitution was placed for discussion, members asked for a discussion of each clause in Hindi. To adopt a document written in English, they said, would be "insulting". Under the British, English had emerged as the language of higher education and administration. Would it remain in this position after the British left? The politicians of the North thought that it should be replaced by Hindi. The politicians and people of the South preferred that English continue as the vehicle of inter-provincial communication. Jawaharlal Nehru himself was exercised early by the question. In an essay of the late 1930s, he expressed his admiration for the major provincial languages. Without "infringing in the least on their domain", said Nehru, there must still be an all-India language of communication. English was too far removed from the masses; so he opted instead for Hindustani, which he defined as a "golden mean" between Hindu and Urdu. Like Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi thought that Hindustani could unite North with South and Hindu with Muslim. It, rather than English, should be the rashtrabhasha, or national language. As he saw it, "Urdu diction is used by Muslims in writing. Hindi diction is used by Sanskrit pundits. Hindustani is the sweet mingling of the two". In 1945, he engaged in a lively exchange with Purushottamdas Tandon, a man who fought hard, not to say heroically, to rid Hindi of its foreign elements. Tandon was Vice-President of the All India Hindi Literature Conference, which held that Hindi with the Devanagari script alone should be the national language. Gandhi, who had long been a member of the Conference, was dismayed by its chauvinist drift. Since he believed that both the Nagari and Urdu scripts should be used, perhaps it was time to resign his membership. Tandon tried to dissuade him, but, as Gandhi put it, "How can I ride two horses? Who will understand me when I say that rashtrabhasha = Hindi and rashtrabhasha = Hindi + Urdu = Hindustani?" Partition more-or-less killed the case for Hindustani. The move to further Sanskritise Hindi gathered pace. One can see this at work in the Constituent Assembly, where early references were to Hindustani, but later references all to Hindi. After the division of the country, the promoters of Hindi became even more fanatical. As Granville Austin observes, "The Hindi-wallahs were ready to risk splitting the Assembly and the country in their unreasoning pursuit of uniformity." Their crusade provoked some of the most heated debates in the House. Hindustani would not have been acceptable to South Indians; Hindi, even less so. Whenever a member spoke in Hindi, another member would ask for a translation into English. When the case was made for Hindi to be the sole national language, it was bitterly opposed. Representative are these remarks of T.T. Krishnamachari of Madras: "We disliked the English language in the past. I disliked it because I was forced to learn Shakespeare and Milton, for which I had no taste at all ... (I)f we are going to be compelled to learn Hindi ... I would perhaps not to be able to do it because of my age, and perhaps I would not be willing to do it because of the amount of constraint you put on me. ... This kind of intolerance makes us fear that the strong Centre which we need, a strong Centre which is necessary will also mean the enslavement of people who do not speak the language of the Centre. I would, Sir, convey a warning on behalf of people of the South for the reason that there are already elements in South India who want separation... ., and my honourable friends in U.P. do not help us in any way by flogging their idea (of) `Hindi Imperialism' to the maximum extent possible. Sir, it is up to my friends in U.P. to have a whole-India; it is up to them to have a Hindi-India. The choice is theirs... ." The Assembly finally arrived at a compromise; that "the official language of the Union shall be Hindi in the Devanagari script"; but for "15 years from the commencement of the Constitution, the English language shall continue to be used for all the official purposes of the Union for which it was being used immediately before such commencement". Till 1965, at any rate, the proceedings of the courts, the services, and the all-India bureaucracy would be conducted in English. In 1965, attempts were made to introduce Hindi by force, sparking widespread protests in Tamil Nadu. In 1967, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) rode to power in Tamil Nadu on the back of these protests. Wisely, the Union Government extended the use of English in inter-State communication. But from time to time, the chauvinists of Hindi try to press their case. In his previous term as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav wrote a letter in his language to the Chief Minister of Kerala, E.K. Nayanar. Mr. Nayanar replied in his language. It was a brilliant riposte: for while Hindi was not widely spoken in Thiruvanthapuram, in Lucknow, Malayalam was not known at all. Maathru bhasha vegataipoyina mudanastapu jathi manadhi | ||
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//The DOL has a budget that has steadily increased over the years. This year, the budget allocated is nearly Rs 36 crore. In comparison, the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, which does work that impacts the health of millions , gets Rs 25 crore. The National Archives of India get just over Rs 20 crore. Even the Central Drug Standard Control Organisation, which carries out the crucial function of ensuring quality and safety of drugs sold in the country, gets less than Rs 32 crore. In the last decade alone, DOL has been allocated over Rs 200 crore. // Chass... | ||
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/What-it-costs-to-ke ep-Hindi-alive-Rs-36-crore-/articleshow/5304154.cms LOST IN TRANSLATIONIf Hindi continues to struggle to establish itself as a pan-Indian official language more than six decades after independence, it is not for lack of funds. The central government spends crores of rupees each year to promote its use. An army of translators and Hindi officers in the department of official language (DOL) under the home ministry keep themselves busy translating reams of government material, bringing out journals and newsletters meant to promote the use of Hindi for official purposes of the union. Eight regional offices have also been established to monitor the implementation of the official language policy. There is also a retinue of people who expand administrative glossary by finding Hindi equivalents for commonly-used English terms. Never mind the fact that even Hindi speakers might find the English terms more familiar. The Official Language Resolution of 1968 adopted by Parliament stated that "concerted measures should be taken for the full development" of all the languages under the Eighth Schedule of the constitution, besides Hindi, as it was necessary for "the educational and cultural advancement of the country" . "The reality is that no language gets even a tenth of the budget that Hindi gets. Even our embassies have courses teaching Hindi, but no other languages. The Centre funds innumerable seminars and events for Hindi. There is hardly any funding for other languages," points out Prof V Arasu, head of the department of Tamil in Madras University. D K Pandey, joint secretary , DOL, says that his department is merely carrying out what the Official Language Act stipulates by training officers in using Hindi. "We don't use any funds to promote Hindi outside the central government offices. The human resources development ministry is responsible for the promotion of all languages in the Eighth schedule, including Hindi," adds Pandey. The DOL has a budget that has steadily increased over the years. This year, the budget allocated is nearly Rs 36 crore. In comparison, the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, which does work that impacts the health of millions , gets Rs 25 crore. The National Archives of India get just over Rs 20 crore. Even the Central Drug Standard Control Organisation, which carries out the crucial function of ensuring quality and safety of drugs sold in the country, gets less than Rs 32 crore. In the last decade alone, DOL has been allocated over Rs 200 crore. Besides the money allocated to DOL, it is mandatory for every department, ministry, nationalised bank, institute, PSU, in short, thousands of offices across the country, to have a Hindi division ensuring thousands of jobs for people from the Hindi belt. These departments have Senior Hindi Officers, Hindi Officers, Assistant Hindi Officers, senior translators, translators, junior translators, Hindi typists and so on. Several thousand crores are spent on keeping them at work. "All that the people in Hindi divisions do is harass officers insisting that they sign their names in Hindi, keep tabs on how many letters you write in Hindi and so on. They spend their time putting up name plates and sign boards in Hindi even in non-Hindi speaking states. What sense does that make?," asks an exasperated civil servant. "Such partiality to Hindi ignoring other languages in a country that claims to be multilingual is bound to cause heartburn," says a government employee from a non-Hindi speaking state. Maathru bhasha vegataipoyina mudanastapu jathi manadhi |
