Indian Language Education Initiatives and CSTT’s Role

• The government has initiated technical education in Indian languages in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
• The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has introduced “AICTE Technical Book Writing and Translation” in 12 scheduled Indian languages.
• The government is collaborating with technical education departments to distribute books in Indian languages for the libraries of each degree and diploma-level institution.
• The Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT) has launched a website offering technical terms in all 22 official Indian languages for various educational subjects.
• CSTT, established on October 1, 1961, focuses on preparing standardised scientific and technical terminology in Indian languages.
• The new website, “Shabd,” is a data server that features all the glossaries of CSTT in digital searchable mode.
• The website allows users to search for scientific and technical terms in Indian languages and provide feedback on existing equivalents prepared by CSTT.
• The website contains words taken from various definitional dictionaries, glossaries, and reference materials published by CSTT over the years.
• The portal has had 1,36,968 hits since its launch in March this year.
• The collection includes about 322 glossaries with about 21,84,050 headwords, covering disciplines in Humanities, Social Sciences, Medical Sciences, Engineering, Agricultural Sciences, and more than 60 subjects.