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</div><p>New Delhi, Nov 9 : The British Council is set to host the 11th 
Language and Development Conference in New Delhi from November 18 to 20.
 The conference is being hosted in association with Deen Dayal Upadhya 
Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) of the Ministry of Rural Development,
 Jawaharlal Nehru University and Research Council of UK.</p>
<p>This conference is expected to attract over 300 policymakers, 
academicians and researchers working in the area of languages and 
development from India, Asia, Africa and other parts of the world. Some 
of the eminent speakers who will be present at the conference are Ajit 
Mohanty, Osama Manzar, Rukmini Banerji, Birgit Brock- Utne, James 
Simpson and Srikant Sarangi.</p>
<p>This is the first time that India will be hosting this prestigious 
international conference. The conference’s main theme will be 
‘Multilingualism and Development’ with three sub themes, which includes 
multilingualism and the metropolis; language, technology and 
multi-literacies; and multilingualism, marginalization and empowerment.</p><p><a href="http://www.siasat.com/news/british-council-set-host-language-and-development-conference-866079/">http://www.siasat.com/news/british-council-set-host-language-and-development-conference-866079/</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/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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