Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sanghralaya (IGRMS) is working for national integration, and promotes research and training for salvage and revitalisation of vanishing but valuable linguistic traditions. In this series, Sangrahalaya organised a workshop commemorating ‘International Mother language Day’.
In this workshop officers and employees of Sangrahalaya hailing from various States of the country addressed the workshop in their mother tongue. The workshop was chaired by DS Rao, Head of Officer, IGRMS, he said in Telugu ‘Mother tongue is our identity’ and explained by translation.
Thereafter, BK Chatterji, Administrative Officer addressed the workshop in Bengali, he said, “Several developed and developing nations are touching heights due to their mother language. We have the great example of Japan, which became one of the economic and industrial superpower of this century without leaving its mother language behind.”
Addressing in Garhwali, RM Nayal said, “Indeed or nation is developing but it’s also true that the common man is not getting full benefits of the development. Unless achieve success in promoting our mother languages other achievements lose their spark.”
On this occasion HBS Parihar spoke in Brij, lt Col Nitinraj Deshpandey and Deepak Chaudhary spoke in Marathi, Anand Tehanguria spoke in Chhattisgarhi, Praveen Narad spoke in Korku, Sudeepa Roy, Renu Day and Tapas Biswas spoke in Bangla, Subendu Kumar Singh and Srikant Gupta spoke in Bhojpuri, Rajendra Jharia spoke in Bundeli, P Shankar Rao spoke in Telugu and Mohammad Rehan spoke in Urdu and expressed their views on mother tongue. Officials of IGRMS participated in the workshop with great zeal and gave valuable suggestions for promoting respective mother languages. Vote of thanks was given by Mohammad Rehan.