New Delhi based Commission for Scientific andа Technical Terminology (CSTT) works on a project of identifying technical terms which are commonly used in all modern Indian languages or can be acceptable to most of them. All-India Seminar of experts representing 11 Indian languages were organized to identify such terms. So far about 25,000 pan-Indian terms belonging to various discipline have been identified and published in the form of subject-wise glossaries for free distribution among scholars, writers, translators, journalists etc. A consolidated glossary of these terms is in press for final printing.

The CSTT is presently engaged in developing a computer-based National Terminology Data Bank for storing, co-ordinating and analyzing the entire scientific and technical terminology available in Hindi and other Indian languages. It will also help in identifying commonness of terms and linguistic features in Indian languages and facilitate instant dissemination of information regarding terminology in Indian languages.

The Commission has set up a computer-based National Terminology Data Bank to modernize and maximize the process of presentation and publication of its huge corpus of terminology. This will be useful in making the terminology readily available to users. Till date the Commission has evolved about 6 lakhs terms and about 2.80 lakh terms have been fed in the data base of the computer, and the remaining ones are under process. This data-base of computerized terminology will enable the Commission to

1. feed and process new word entries in alphabetical order quickly.
2. modify, alter, add to or take away the word-entries, if required.
3. retrieve the Hindi equivalents of terms whenever needed.
4. obtain laser prints for printing the glossary within short period.
5. classify or group the word entries subject-wise or subject-group wise.
6. obtain English-Hindi or Hindi-English or dig lot editions of the glossaries and
7. prepare the glossaries in the form of floppies/CD which will also be made available for sale in near future.

8. Customized RDBMS for National Terminology Data Bank.

The Commission has so far organized about 300 workshops at different places, where more than 5,000 participants have undergone orientation training in terminology, original writing and translation etc.