Students, long deprived of knowledge due to lack of availability of texts in Indian languages, have a reason to rejoice. The Ministry of Human Resource Development has decided to translate knowledge texts in 15 basic disciplines, including modern sciences, engineering and social sciences, into all 22 languages listed in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution.
The move comes in the wake of growing realisation that whereas all original knowledge texts, no matter where they were written or developed, were available in English and most other European languages, these were barely available in the languages spoken and used in India.
Now, the government has tasked the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, to begin translating the most significant knowledge texts - at both graduate and postgraduate level - into the Scheduled Indian languages. To begin with, the translation will happen in languages that have an established market in India - such as Marathi, Malyalam and Tamil.
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