<div dir="ltr"><div><h1 class="">From Menu cards to TV shows: Panel recommends changes to promote Marathi language <br></h1></div><div class=""><br></div><p><strong>Mumbai:</strong> Appointment
of special officers to ensure ‘correct’ use of Marathi on TV channels
in Maharashtra; making Marathi subtitles compulsory for movies and
programs of other languages aired in the state; menu cards should be in
Marathi in hotels and restaurants; 50 percent reservation in
multi-national companies for Marathi speaking people and linking
promotions and increments of bureaucrats to use of Marathi in work.
These are only a few of the recommendations of a panel set up by the
Maharashtra government to prepare Marathi language policy.</p><p>A 30
member advisory committee headed by the noted educationist and writer
Nagnath Kotapalle was constituted by the previous congress-NCP
government to prepare Marathi language policy for the next 25 years. The
committee was asked to make recommendations to preserve and promote the
Marathi language and offer suggestions to the state government on
framing guidelines for its proper use.</p><p>The draft prepared by the
committee has been put up on the Maharashtra government’s website for
public feedback till February 25.</p><div id="attachment_1854579" style="width:390px" class=""><a href="http://s4.firstpost.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/books-AFP.jpg"><img style="display: inline;" class="" src="http://s4.firstpost.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/books-AFP.jpg" alt="Representational image. AFP" height="285" width="380"></a><p style="width:370px" class="">Representational image. AFP</p></div><p>As
per the recommendations, it has been suggested that the movies or TV
shows in other languages being shown in Maharashtra should have
subtitles in Marathi. Also, the various shows aired on the national
television channels, which are either in English or other region
languages, should be in Marathi if they are being shown in Maharashtra.</p><p>It
also suggested that 30 percent of a movie crew should be Marathi
speaking people if it wants any tax exemptions in Maharashtra. The names
of the hotels and restaurants, menu cards and receipts should be in
Marathi across the state.</p><p>While the preference should be given to
the Marathi speaking people in government jobs, there must be a 50
percent reservation for Marathi speaking people in the multi-national
companies, the draft recommends.</p><p>Apart from these, the panel
recommended that whether the all the government officials including IAS
are using the Marathi language or not should be mentioned into their
service records. The government also should set up a Marathi medium
university on around 500 acre plot to conserve and make the Marathi as a
global language.</p><p>Kotapalle, who headed the committee, said that
the recommendations are made a view to make the Marathi as the language
of knowledge that will automatically create more job opportunities for
Marathi speaking people. "Many TV shows like <em>Chhota Bheem, Mickey Mouse</em>
have dialogues in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and other regional
languages but not in Marathi because we are not insisting for it. So,
such programs should be in Marathi if they are being shown in
Maharashtra," he told <em>Firstpost</em>.<br></p><div class=""><div class=""><br></div></div><br>
He added that 30 percent crew of a film and 50 percent reservation in
multi-national companies will help to get the jobs for Marathi speaking
people. “Few government agencies use the Marathi in day to day
functioning. There should be 100 per cent use of Marathi in the
government agencies and in the judicial bodies. The collector is
supposed to learn the local language within three months after his
posting as per the rule, which is in force since British era. But, it is
not strictly followed in the state,” he explained.<p>He further
hoped that the recommendations should be implemented by the next year.
The recommendations given in the policy were feasibly possibly and could
be implemented practically.</p><p><a href="http://www.firstpost.com/india/from-menu-cards-to-tv-shows-panel-recommends-changes-to-promote-marathi-language-1854545.html">http://www.firstpost.com/india/from-menu-cards-to-tv-shows-panel-recommends-changes-to-promote-marathi-language-1854545.html</a><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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