Consequences
- An expert committee was set up for this purpose on the direction of the Hon'ble Prime Minister and later the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) was given the responsibility of taking action on the Cabinet's decision.
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Subsequently, for the purpose of implementing the scheme, an SFC meeting, chaired by Mr. B.S. Baswan, the then Education Secretary, was held at the MHRD with the officials from the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Culture and from the Planning Commission, and its Minutes was approved on July 14, 2005.
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Schemes on Language Development
It was noted that the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), an apex institution set up in July 1969 under the Language Division of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, was already engaged in the development of Tamil under its various schemes in promoting, propagating and preserving the Tamil language in Tamil and non-Tamil speaking areas and amongst the persons whose mother tongue is not Tamil.
The CIIL has Regional Language Centres in the cities at Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Lucknow, Mysore, Patiala, Pune and Solan. Although the main emphasis is on Indian languages and linguistics, the Institute is working in developing materials and products in print, audio, video and computational modes. In addition, the Institute takes enormous interest in the allied disciplines. It has separate groups in Testing and Evaluation, Language Technology, Folklore, Geography, Psychology, Sociology, Statistics and Translation.
Plurality square
The following is the plurality square that delineates the activities of the CIIL that cut across linguistic and disciplinary boundaries:
Salient Features of the Scheme
- It would bring linguists, literati, historians, archaeologists, art historians, epigraphists, etc., under one banner to explore various aspects of Classical Tamil.
- It would also research into the consequences and effects that Classical Tamil had on other major Dravidian languages in the ancient and medieval times.
- CIIL shall be responsible for implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the scheme.
The broad divisions of the scheme
- Tamil Language Promotion Board
- Centre of Excellence for Classical Tamil (CECT)
- Honours and Awards
- Fellowships (Doctoral & Post-doctoral)
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