People’s movement needed to preserve Telugu, exhorts Venkaiah Naidu

Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu has careworn the necessity for a individuals’s movement to preserve Telugu and complement the efforts of the federal government in delivering the advantages of the language and traditions to the longer term generations.

Mr. Venkaiah Naidu participated because the chief visitor on the sixth annual ‘Rashtretara Telugu Samakhya’ convention held just about from town on Sunday.

Highlighting the facility of language to unite individuals throughout generations and geographies, Mr. Venkaiah Naidu referred to as for a concerted effort to preserve, enrich and propagate native languages, cultures and traditions.

“Telugu people should come together onto a single platform for the cause of Telugu language and revitalisation of our local traditions,” he mentioned.

Stating that the neglect of a language would lead to its decline, the Vice-President felt that it was the obligation of each particular person to preserve and promote one’s mom tongue, with out belittling different languages and cultures.

Mr. Venkaiah Naidu additionally underscored the necessity for main training to be in a single’s mom tongue, as envisaged by the National Educational Policy-2020.

Myth dispelled

He famous that the individuals presently occupying high constitutional places of work within the nation, together with the President, the Vice-President, the Prime Minister and the Chief Justice of India, had their main training of their mom tongues, which disproved the favored fable that studying in a single’s personal mom tongue wouldn’t assist them in succeeding of their chosen life objectives.

The Vice-President additionally referred to as for extra initiatives in translating Telugu literature into different Indian languages, thereby spreading the richness of Telugu language and custom far and large.

Appreciating the truth that many cultural organisations continued their work on-line within the wake of the pandemic, he instructed that efforts be intensified to combine language and know-how in the identical spirit.

Noting that there have been greater than a thousand organisations outdoors the Telugu States for the preservation and propagation of Telugu language, the Vice-President recommended the initiative of the organisers in coming collectively onto a standard platform referred to as ‘Rashtretara Telugu Samakhya’.

Himachal Pradesh Governor Bandaru Dattatreya, Minister for Women and Child Development and Social Welfare, Government of West Bengal, Shashi Panja, former Deputy Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Mandali Buddha Prasad, president of All-India Telugu Federation C.M.K. Reddy and president of Rashtrethara Telugu Samakhya Sundara Rao have been amongst those that have been current within the digital occasion.