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Odisha Government has decided to set up a Commission for Preservation and Promotion of Tribal Languages

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Bhubaneswar29/1/24: The Odisha Government has decided to set up a Commission for Preservation and Promotion of Tribal Languages of Scheduled Tribes of the State.

A proposal in this regard has been approved at the State Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday.

The Commission aims at preserving and promoting 21 tribal languages in Odisha. It will encourage multilingual education, documenting and preserving tribal languages, promoting the use of those languages, protecting linguistic rights among several enriching activities for the development of the tribal languages.

In the education system under the Multilingual Education (MLE) programme, all 21 recognized tribal languages by the State are included.

The Commission will also work towards the inclusion of tribal languages like Ho, Mundari, Kui, and Saora in the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution by pursuing with the Centre which has not included these languages in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution despite several initiatives by the Nabin Sarkar.

The Cabinet passed a resolution for inclusion of 169 communities in the ST list of Odisha.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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