Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today called for protecting and promoting various Indian languages through the use of mother tongue in different fields from education to administration.
Inaugurating a webinar Mr. Naidu stressed the need for giving a special thrust to the respective official language by every State Government.
Observing that language was the lifeline of a civilization, he said it denotes the identity, culture and traditions of the people. Mr Naidu said language plays an important role in preserving music, dance, customs, festivals, traditional knowledge and heritage.
He said language would gain popularity only through widespread usage. Mr Naidu said it was a fallacy to think that progress could be achieved only if education was pursued in English.
He highlighted that Research has shown that those who are proficient in their mother tongue can learn other languages with equal ease.
Mr Naidu said that it was also not correct to think that modern research could be conducted only if one was proficient in English.
He gave example that about 90 per cent of the top 40-50 countries in the Global Innovation Index are those in which education was imparted in their respective mother tongues.
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