Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha, Prof Kapil Kapoor said that there is a need to establish the link between the language and the employment. English is dominant because it is directly associated with employment, he added. “If we succeed to delink this connection and establish a relationship with Indian languages and Indian languages, then Hindi and other Indian languages would certainly flourish. There is also a need to eradicate the linguistic pyramid erected in the fields of education, law and justice,” said Prof Kapoor while addressing the concluding ceremony of two-day ‘Indian languages Conference’ on Sunday.
The function was organised under the joint-aegis of Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University, Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas, New Delhi and laxminarayan College of Technology in Bhopal. Prof Kapoor was present as the Chief Guest of the concluding ceremony of the two-day event.
“We must not forget that the epic and mathematician to the world was given by India. We should respect Sanskrit language and it should be made compulsory. He said that Sanskrit was not destroyed before 1947, the way it has been after independence. We should come out of the illusion of considering Sanskrit and other Indian languages as dead language,” he added.
In the combined session of the conference, the language consultant of Human Resource Development Ministry, Acharya Chammu Krishna Shastri said that the success in the field of language could be achieved by winning people’s heart and soul. There should be more social efforts in the promotion of the language vis-à-vis government initiatives. He appealed everybody to celebrate the Matribhasha Diwas (Mother Tongue Day) with full pride and dignity. He said that there should be training for teaching languages in the country.
linguist, Premnath Pandey said that language could be kept alive only with the dent of practice. Vice-chancellor of Hindi University, Bhopal, Prof Mohanlal Chhipa said that 94 per cent of the people in unorganised sector speak Hindi and are self-employed. Therefore, the idea that employment could be gotten with English only.
Vice-chancellor of Journalism University, Prof BK Kuthiala asserted stressed that Hindi and other languages could be promoted only with the efforts at both individual and organisational level. For this, we would have to expedite our efforts. He felt that there was a need to prepare an agenda as to how could Hindi and Indian languages could be promoted on Wikipedia.