The Government of Goa has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology, (CSTT), New Delhi, Ministry of Education.
Director of Official Languages, Prashant P. Shirodkar, Deputy Director; Anil H Sawant, Chairperson of CSTT, Prof Girish Nath Jha, Assistant Directors from CSTT, Mercy Hmar, Dr Ashok Selwatkar and Shalandra Singh; officials from the Directorate of Official Language,
Seby Fernandes, Sneha S Sabnis, Mahajay S. Gad and others were present on the occasion.
Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant said that the collaboration with CSTT is a good opportunity for Goan students to get access to scientific words in Konkani which will help them easily understand the subject. He said that in the long run, this building of lexicon in Konkani will help in the National Education Policy (NEP) in schools and higher education.
This will also be a great boost to the Konkani language, the Chief Minister added. Chairperson of CSTT, Prof Girish Nath Jha, spoke of the mandate the CSTT has in creating technical terminology in India languages. He said that they hoped to establish a Granth Academy in Goa. He further said that the CSTT would like to not just create glossary in Konkani, but also help create content which will be extremely beneficial to students.
The CSTT is the only authority to create , coin, frame technical terminology in Indian languages. This signing of Memorandum of Understanding with Directorate of Official Languages will help prepare, coin and frame technical terminology in
Konkani language. Besides, it will help in creating text books in regional languages and will be useful for translation purpose and research purpose.
Secretary for Education, Prasad Lolayekar, IAS, played an important role in getting the MOU through. A workshop in order to achieve this endeavour was conducted in August and September this year covering fundamentals in Mass Communication/Journalism, Chemistry and Learners Glossary for school level in Mathematics, Environmental Studies and Computer Science. A workshop in Fundamentals in Zoology, Agriculture, and Learners in Chemistry, Computer Science and Maths for High School is currently
on. More are slated to be conducted soon, stated a press release.
