Wherever eyes go, we sigh to see

Be it a day or hours wee

In the mud we find our knees

Thunderous voice rends the ears

Two little eyes dipped in the ocean of tears

Tender soul is infected with fear

Life is nothing but error

Teeming with trauma of terror.

God made comely creature

Apart from the lovely nature

Man made it a field

With red bloodshed filled.

Life is endless tale of peril

In the hands of the devil

No one wants to take a risk

So the corps takes to frisk

By working on the tips

This time terror is to rip

In the guise of will o’ the wisp.

We feel insulted on being frisked

Irritation reaches its zenith

Earth revolves the feet beneath

To see the baggage and bag

Treated as a piece of rag.

(*Vivekanand Jha, The poet and research scholar, from India. He is composing poems on contemporary and relevant themes. He is also performing Ph. D on the poetry of the noted Indian English poet Jayanta Mahapatra.)

Though I don’t have

To give you a gold coin

But I have an open

Heart of mine

Though I couldn’t become

Shakespeare or Einstein

But I would never say

You a byline

If you be my valentine.

Though I meet with

So many girls clandestine

I drink bear, wine and cocaine

I watch pornography online

I would leave

All acts of libertine

If you be my valentine.

Though I like to live

In a family combine

So far I have followed

Parents and elders’ guidelines

Parents have been so far

For me an enshrine

But I would leave them

In the state of pains and repine

Not only that, every night

I would offer you compline

And I would serve you

Like a bovine

If you be my valentine.

Though I don’t afford

To travel by airline

My income doesn’t allow

In five star hotel to dine

I have no good house

But only ravine

But I would manage you

Everything, even though

I have to purloin

The assets of others

Or brother uterine

If you be my valentine.

You have become my lifeline

For you I am ready

To do any adulterine

I would swim

Against any streamline

I can define any doctrine

I would fight

Against even flue of swine

If you be my valentine.

I am mad after your grapevine

On your blossom

I want to recline

With you

I want to entwine

Oh my love!

Make my life illumine

And let us surpass

All glories of pristine

By being my valentine.

To my proposals

You don’t undermine

I am determined

To make you my destine

What I would not do

To see you of mine

If you not

Be my valentine

‘17 August’ is Gutman’s 53 minute documentary that traces the life and ideas of Boris Bezotechestvo who gets sentence to life imprisonment in a very small cell. This cinema is all about his world from four walls and a view from the window. In the ‘Best Documentary above 30 minutes’ category with the Golden Conch award the filmmaker got Rs 3,00,000 in cash as well.

‘The Sun behind the Clouds’ (Ritu Sarin and Sonam Tenzing’s documentary ) won the Silver Conch and Rs 150,000 in cash in Documentary above 30 minutes category. This film tries to tell about Dalai Lama’s efforts to resolve the conflict peacefully. “Anwar- Dream of a Dark Night” (Anwar Jamal) and ‘Nero’s Guests’ (Deepa Bhatia) won the special mention.

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.

India is not only having its geographical-political distinct entity, but it is also a very unique linguistic area. If we are discussing on the condition of Indian languages according to state wise, we find that there is not any language which is purely confined to one language. Even not only bigger languages, also the small languages are having presence in more than one state. Also, in some state the no of language is much more and in some one it is very less. This diversity is the very essence of India.

People living nearby the border of two states, generally know two language. Basically their multilingualism is natural multilingualism. In the same way, tribal community of India know their own tribal language as well the language of the state where they are living. Any person who is bilingual or multilingual by birth, then his/her condition is called Compound Bilingual or multi linguists. Some people due to some cause learn other languages. This type of bilingualism or multilingualism is called co-ordinative Bilingualism/ Multilingualism.

Statistics related to State wise multilingualism in India

1. Assam-            Asamiya, Bangla, Bodo, Karbi, Mishid, Rabha, Dimasha,                 kochh, Kachhari, Deuri, Vishnupriya, Mechh, Lalod,                     Goro, Maar, Hindi.

2. Meghalaya-         Garo, Khasee, Rabha, kochh, Asamiya, Bangla, Nepalee,                 Hindi

3. Tripura-             Bangla, Tripuri, jamatiya, Riyad, Kookee, Chakma, Mug,                 Hindi.

4. Manipur –         Manipuri, takhul, kabue, Thado, Maar,                             Pahate, Mao, vaipe, Jeeu, Mijo, Hindi.

5. Nagaland –         Riyad, Konyad, Mao, Sema, Ambami, Lotha, Sandtam,                 Chad, Jatiyad,Ckakhesad,Redma, Hindi.

6 Mijoram-            Mijo, chakma, Lakher, Riyad, Nepali, Hindi.

7 Arunachal Pradesh-    Miju, Golad, Nishee, Nokte, Monapa,                     Tagin, Badti, Miniyod, Aapatani,                                 Tadsa, Assamesse, Hindi.

8 Sikkim-            Nepali, Lepcha, Bhotia, Hindi.

9 Andhara Pradesh-    Telugu ,Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Marathi,Oriya,                         Malayalam, Gujarati, .

10. Tamilnadu-        Tamil, Telugu ,Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Gujarati,                     Marathi.

11. Kerala-            Malayalam,Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Marathi.

12. Karnataka -        Oriya, Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Malayalam

13 Jammu-Kashmir-    Urdu, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Hindi

14 Punjab-            Punjabi, Hindi

15 Himachal Pradesh -    Hindi, Punjabi

16 Hariyana-        Hindi, Punjabi

17 Gujarat-            Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi,Punjabi,  Malayalam, Tamil.

18 Maharashtra-        Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam
Punjabi, Bengali.

19 Goa            Konkani, Marathi, Hindi

20 Madhya Pradesh-    Hindi,Telugu, Marathi, Oriya, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati,                 Malayalam, Tamil

21 Uttar Pradesh-    Hindi,  Punjabi,Bengali, Marathi, Malyalam

22 Bihar-            Hindi,  Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi,Telugu, Gujarati, Malayalam

23 West Bengal-        Bengali, Oriya, Telugu,  Punjabi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Hindi

24 Orissa -            Oriya, Telugu, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Hindi

25. Rajsthan -        Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali.

Being the national language Hindi is only language which is having its present all over India. Linguists have divided Hindi region in five sub-language region :

1.Western Hindi: Kadi Boli, Braja Bhasha, Hariyanvi, Kannauji, Bundeli
2.Eastern Hindi:  Awadhi, Bagheli, Chhatisgari
3.Rajsthani Hindi: Marwari, Jaipuri, Mewati, Malawi.
4.Bihari Hindi: Bhojpuri, Magahi, Maithili
5.Pahari Hindi: Garhwali, Kumauoni

In reality, the languages of India, which is spoken by commoner, is not under developed language anymore. If we see in the context of literary and cultural tradition, our languages are still far more developed than the so called rich languages.

The award for Dogri language started in 1960. No awards were in given in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1995, 1997 and 2008 in English language catagory.

The award for Dogri language started in 1970. No awards were in given in 1973,1993 and 1998 in Dogri language catagory.

BACKGROUND:

One of the important recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) is to inter-connect all knowledge institutions trough high speed data communication network. This would encourage sharing of knowledge, specialized resources and collaborative research.

The Government’s decision to set up such a National Knowledge Network was announced in 2008-09. An initial amount of Rs.100 crore was allocated to the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and IT for the establishing the NKC. A High Level Committee (HLC) was also set up to coordinate and monitor the establishment of the NKN.

Implementation strategy and targets :

The architecture of the NKN will be scalable and the network will consist of an ultra-high speed Core (multiples of 10Gbps and upwards). The Core shall be complemented with a distribution layer at appropriate speeds. The participating institutions can connect to the NKN at speeds of 1 Gbps or to the distribution layer through a last mile connectivity bandwidth.

The NKN will provide nation-wide ultra high-speed backbone/data-network highway. Various other networks in the country can take advantage of this ultra high-speed backbone, with national and international reach to create independent and closed user groups.

The NKN will have about 25 core Point of Presence (PoPs) and 600 secondary PoPs. It will connect around 1500 Institutions. The physical infrastructure (setting up of core network) is expected to be completed in a span of 24 months.

Major impact :

NKN will enable scientists, researches and students from diverse spheres across the country to work together for advancing human development in critical and emerging areas. NKN will catalyze knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer between stakeholders seamlessly – that too across the nation and globally. NKN is expected to encourage a larger section of research and educational institutions to create intellectual property. NKN would enable use of specialized applications, which allow sharing of high performance computing facilities, e-libraries, virtual classrooms and very large databases.

Health, Education, Grid Computing, Agriculture and e-Governance are the main applications identified for implementation and delivery on NKN. Applications such as Countrywide Classrooms will address the issue of faculty shortage and ensure quality education delivery across the country. The crux of the success of the Knowledge Network is related to the education related applications, databases and delivery of services to the users on demand.

Current status of Initial Phase:

In the initial phase a core Backbone consisting of 15 Points of Presence (PoPs) have been established with 2.5 Gbps capacity. Around 40 institutions of higher learning and advanced research have already been connected to the network and 6 virtual classrooms setup.

The main objective of the JRF-NET is to identify, through this national competitive examination, those talented students who could be enrolled for Ph.D. programmes in specific science domains, across India’s scientific and academic institutions and also to identify those who fulfil the eligibility criteria for employment as lecturers across various academic institutions.

The brief details of the proposal are:

Increase in the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) through CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) by two fold over the Tenth Plan period.  During the Tenth Five Year Plan a total of about 6000 young students benefited by availing CSIR-JRF through NET.  In the Eleventh Plan CSIR proposes to increase the number by two fold.
The total cost of providing fellowships for about 12000 students in the Eleventh Plan is estimated at Rs.444.34 crore.

The proposed increase in intake of JRF-NET fellowships with the attractive remuneration would help in attracting talented youth to take up scientific research as a career and help address the issues related to shortage of scientific manpower in the country.

The biggest beneficiaries of this programme would be the University system and scientific institutions across India as they shall be able to attract bright minds for their scientific programmes/research.  It will also benefit students from all over the country who are keen to take-up scientific research as a career.

The programme will be implemented by Human Resource Development Group of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, which conducts National eligibility Test (NET) across the country in 25 cities and at 125 exam centers.  A total of about 12000 students would be benefiting through JRF-NET in the Eleventh Five Year Plan.

BACKGROUND:

Recognizing the need to identify and nurture young scientific talent who could be enrolled for Ph.d. programmes across India’s scientific institutions.  Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) started in 1983 a research fellowship scheme as a national responsibility.  This was a unique step to fulfil India’s growing ambition to become a scientific & technological power house.  In 1989, NET was recognized by UGC as pre-qualification for Lectureship and was renamed as CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test for Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship.  Since 1990, NET is being conducted twice a year in the month of June and December.

NET exam is held across the country in 25 cities and at 125 exam centers in five subject areas viz. Life Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Earth Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematical Sciences.  Selection is made through two paper system.  Currently more than 1,50,000 students have been writing the NET exam each year.  The CSIR-NET has established an enormous credibility in the country and it has become a bench mark for selecting candidates for pursing Ph.D. programme, appointment either as a lecturer or a project research fellow or for employment in various R&D organization all across the country.

In the recent times serious concern has been expressed by educationalist, scientists, policy markers etc. over declining interest of students to take up careers in basic sciences.  There has been an emphasis on enlarging the pool of scientific manpower to contribute towards S&T development in the country which is the reliable benchmark to become a developed nation.  In order to achieve this goal focused efforts are required to be made to identify and nurture bright young students who can take up scientific research as a career.  The present programme is one such focussed effort in this direction.

Under the Eleventh Five Year Plan, an amount of Rs. 8000 lakhs was allocated for NSD for the entire Plan period.