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<p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Staff Reporter,</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify">Maharathi Bhasha Samiti of Secretariat
of Maharashtra State Legislature has recommended the Government that the
name of any Government project or scheme should not be in English but
in Marathi. As a first step towards give status of classical language to
Marathi language, Government should take care of using Marathi names to
its projects and schemes at grass root levels, a Samiti recommended.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><br>A delegation of members of Marathi
Bhasha Samiti led by MLA Prof Medha Kulkarni met Maharashtra Chief
Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, on Wednesday, in assembly premises and
handed over the first report and recommendations to the Chief Minister.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><br>Government of Maharashtra has
accepted Marathi language as an official working language in all
Government offices. With an objective to take a brief review of use of
Marathi language in Government ruled and semi Government offices and
suggest some recommendations to Government for improving the usage of
Marathi language in its working, a Marathi Bhasha Samiti having members
of both houses was constituted recently. The committee had organised
three meetings of its members on October 4, 11 and 25 in Mumbai and the
members had discussed plans for usage of Marathi language as
Government’s official language. A report based on the discussions of
members during the meetings was prepared and the members handed over its
<br>suggestions and recommendations to Chief Minister for popularising Marathi language and to increase its use at different levels.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><br>The committee has also presented its
report and proposal for giving a status of classical language to
Marathi to Central Government and Sahitya Akademi has also accepted the
same. The committee has appealed to Marathi speaking Members of
Parliament (MP) and Union Ministers should pursue the matter during the
eve of Lok Sabha session to get the proposal sanctioned in Lok Sabha.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><br>Maharashtra Government has
sanctioned the offices of Regional Divisional Marathi Bhasha Departments
at Nashik and Amravati, but the actual functioning of these offices has
not bee started yet. The committee recommended Government to start
functioning these offices.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><br>Government should also establish
contacts with courts and ask legal authorities to use Marathi as their
official language. Marathi Advisory Committee has already submitted the
draft of Marathi language policy to Government and Government should
immediately think and act on it. The central Government offices are
organising projects like ‘Hindi Fortnight’ in their offices. The
committee has recommended to start such projects in State Government
offices to promote Marathi language. The proposal of linking Directorate
and Library Office to Marathi Department and Government should take
immediate decision on its, a committee stated.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><br>Government should also think to give
concession to Marathi books on the line of Marathi films. There is a
need to appoint Marathi Vigilance Officer in each Government department
and Government should take initiative to appoint such officer in each
department to monitor whether Marathi language is used as an official
language or not, the committee mentioned.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><br>The delegation consisted of
legislators Shirish Chaudhari, Sudhakar Kohale, Sanjay Kelkar, Adv Parag
Alawani, Ramesh Latke, Rajabhau Waje, Harshvardhan Jadhav, Tryambak
Bhise, Dr Jinetdra Awhad, Prof Anil Sole, Adv Anil Parab, Hemant Takle
and Anant Gadgil.</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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