The Federation of Educational Development on Wednesday held a conference for the promotion of Urdu language in the capital. The body also presented a memorandum to Delhi Education Minister Kiran Walia, remarking on the absence of Urdu from government offices.
President of the federation, Abdul Alim Barni, said: “Considering that Urdu has been granted the status of second official language, there should be an Urdu translator and typist in all departments of the Delhi government and all three municipal corporations of Delhi.”
The federation said the language had not been given enough attention in the decades since independence, thus “the recommendations of the Sachar Committee should be implemented with immediate effect in order to uplift the minorities”.
To this, Walia said, “It is not true that Urdu has been put on the back burner. The government recently increased salaries for Urdu teachers from Rs 11,000 to Rs 23,000 and we have also advertised for 100 vacancies for Urdu teachers under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.”
The minister also said the government is taking the Urdu language to the bylanes of Delhi through various measures. “We have tied up with the Agha Khan Foundation in Nizamuddin and we are teaching children the history of the place through storytelling in Urdu,” she said.
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