[lg policy] India: Debate on Telugu language on Sept.7

[Harold Schiffman]

Debate on Telugu language on Sept.7

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'any language which is not implemented in the administrative transactions
and as a medium of teaching will not last long'.

Telugu Bhasha Parirakshana Samakhya founder convenor Velchala Kondal Rao
has appealed to the Government not to go the whole hog in the
implementation of KG to PG in English medium and slow down in the execution
in the interest of promotion of Telugu language.

Expressing a serious concern over the survival of the mother tongue in the
wake of the Government policies meant to promote education in English, he
said that any language which is not implemented in the administrative
transactions and as a medium of teaching will not last long.

In his opening remarks at the round table conference on the need for
protecting Telugu language here on Thursday, he said that the Samakhya
(federation) was a voluntary organisation and collecting the public opinion
on Telugu language policy. It was also making efforts in bringing to the
notice of the Government all aspects of its implementation in different
fields.

The federation was not against the implementation of the KG to PG education
in English medium, but the octogenarian freedom fighter cum educationist
said the samakhya had conducted debates in Warangal, Karimnagar and
Mahabubnagar districts on the subject and would hold a similar one here on
September 7.

Programme coordinator K. Yadagiri said that Advisor to Government of
Telangana K.V. Ramana Chary, Press Academy Chairman Allam Narayana, MP K.
Kavitha and TSPSC Member M. Rajender will participate in the debate. Among
those who would deliver lectures on different topics included Chukka
Ramaiah, S. Lakshmana Moorthy, Ampasaiah Naveen, Kaluva Malliah, C.
Mrunalini, Juvvadi Raghunatha Rao, and K. Ratnakar.

Former Registrar of Telangana University R. Limbadri said that the
onslaught on Telugu language had begun in the wake of globalisation in the
1990s. It lost its sheen as the middle class parents with the desire to see
their children in top jobs started sending them to convent schools, he said.




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