national translation mission (india), a new government funded program Options

[arnab]

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Translation has a future. The National Knowledge Commission, set up in 2006 by the Prime Minister, has cleared the setting up of the National Translation Mission (NTM) in just the last week of June. To be implemented by the Mysore-based Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), the ambitious exercise will also involve the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), the National Book Trust (NBT), the University Grants Commission (UGC), the Sahitya Akademi, the Granth Akademies and public library networks.

NTM will be expected to make available good-quality translation of knowledge-based texts into all eighth Schedule languages — that's 22 at the last count —Assamese, Bangla, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali Oriya Punjabi Sanskrit Santhali Sindhi Tamil Telugu And Urdu. Its brief includes generating high-quality translation tools such as dictionaries and software, education of translator, development of scientific and technical terminology in all of the above and promotion of machine translation and machine-aided translation.

The plan is to translate 2,500 books in this plan period and another 8,000 in the next five years. The central government has released Rs 99 crore under the 11th Plan. Part of these monies will be used to hire the 8,000 translators 2,000 copy editors and 2,000 evaluators required for the mission.

[shahpar]

thanks so much! clicking on the titles worked.

now i can read the english short stories for class XII kids for free!

i started with this one by anees jung, called lost spring, about street urchins in hopeless poverty

-shahpar

[raavi]

thanks so much! clicking on the titles worked.

now i can read the english short stories for class XII kids for free!

i started with this one by anees jung, called lost spring, about street urchins in hopeless poverty

-shahpar

A very sad story, Shahpar. To think that when i was I little girl, I would have loved sitting around playing with bangles all day!

Perhaps the greater objective of this project is to preserve Indian languages, given that English is widely known, and often considered to be a better language to learn and preserve in terms of 'prospects' for middle class people. This is brilliant news.

vaathsyaayana, I really would help if I knew Tamil...I wouldn't even be able to do Bengali and Hindi, as reading the script currently involves wheeling my eyes from one charcter to the next. At the pace of a bullock cart. On a pot-holed village road.