Urdu in the land of Urdu
It is safe to say that govt. of UP is not interested in promoting Urdu and will do anything to halt its progress.
Centre's Urdu teaching initiative gets a raw deal in UP
THE Union Government may talk of promoting Urdu language and may also have allotted a good part of the budget for the cause, but the Urdu Teaching and Research Centre of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, being run under the aegis of Department of Secondary and Higher education, Ministry of Human Resource Development Government of India, is practically without any work. The employees of the centre say that although they are getting funds from the Centre, the impediments lie in getting the funds released through the state which seems more interested in promoting its own Urdu Akademi.
Situated at the Madan Mohan Malviya Marg opposite P K Bhawan, the centre was opened to give training in Urdu language and also initiate research work in the language. The project began way back in 1969 and Lucknow was one of the cities selected for the project. The centre appointed teachers to train students in Urdu language through workshops throughout the state. But today, the centre hardly has any work.
Said Rekha Kumar, an employee of the centre, "we are having a tough time maintaining our activities which includes appointing teachers and arranging for workshops as we hardly have any funds with us. A lot of fund is being alloted to us, but they get stuck at the state treasury level and by the time they are released, it is late to organise workshops." A look at the activities of the centre in the past two years betrays inactivity. In May 2004, the centre organised orientation course in script writing for radio & television in Urdu for the scholars of MA (Urdu) in collaboration with the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, AMU, Aligarh, followed by a Seminar on Urdu fiction with special reference to contemporary Urdu novel in collaboration with the Department of Urdu, GMPG College, Rampur, in September 2004. A few smaller workshops for Urdu language followed but no workshops for Urdu teaching could be organised that year. Even in 2005, there were no teaching workshops due to lack of funds.
Said Ghaznafar Ali, one of the coordinators of the workshops at the centre, "We don't really suffer from fund crunch as a lot of money is released from the Union Government to organise such programmes. But when it comes to getting that money through the state treasury, we find it tough and are made to run from pillar to post to get what is due to us. "
Centre's Urdu teaching initiative gets a raw deal in UP
THE Union Government may talk of promoting Urdu language and may also have allotted a good part of the budget for the cause, but the Urdu Teaching and Research Centre of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, being run under the aegis of Department of Secondary and Higher education, Ministry of Human Resource Development Government of India, is practically without any work. The employees of the centre say that although they are getting funds from the Centre, the impediments lie in getting the funds released through the state which seems more interested in promoting its own Urdu Akademi.
Situated at the Madan Mohan Malviya Marg opposite P K Bhawan, the centre was opened to give training in Urdu language and also initiate research work in the language. The project began way back in 1969 and Lucknow was one of the cities selected for the project. The centre appointed teachers to train students in Urdu language through workshops throughout the state. But today, the centre hardly has any work.
Said Rekha Kumar, an employee of the centre, "we are having a tough time maintaining our activities which includes appointing teachers and arranging for workshops as we hardly have any funds with us. A lot of fund is being alloted to us, but they get stuck at the state treasury level and by the time they are released, it is late to organise workshops." A look at the activities of the centre in the past two years betrays inactivity. In May 2004, the centre organised orientation course in script writing for radio & television in Urdu for the scholars of MA (Urdu) in collaboration with the Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, AMU, Aligarh, followed by a Seminar on Urdu fiction with special reference to contemporary Urdu novel in collaboration with the Department of Urdu, GMPG College, Rampur, in September 2004. A few smaller workshops for Urdu language followed but no workshops for Urdu teaching could be organised that year. Even in 2005, there were no teaching workshops due to lack of funds.
Said Ghaznafar Ali, one of the coordinators of the workshops at the centre, "We don't really suffer from fund crunch as a lot of money is released from the Union Government to organise such programmes. But when it comes to getting that money through the state treasury, we find it tough and are made to run from pillar to post to get what is due to us. "
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