Priority to mother tongues in New Education Policy: Kishan

The Centre will give top priority to mother tongues in its New Education Policy which will be revealed soon, Telangana BJP President G. Kishan Reddy said He said the Centre has decided to ask courts to ensure that all arguments and judgements are in Telugu.
Addressing the World Telugu Confederation Conference at HICC on Saturday, Kishan said that everyone has the responsibility to protect Telugu. He hoped that primary education, governance affairs and official orders would be issued in the Telugu language.
“In the past, the Telugu film industry used to name films in Telugu. However, now they are using English names for their films. It would be appropriate to give Telugu films names in Telugu,” Kishan said.
The Union Minister said that there is a need to transmit the Telugu language to future generations by digitizing it. He said that there is also a need to digitalise Telugu books available to ensure that they are not destroyed. He said that Telugu schools have been closing down due to the lack of students these days.
“Everyone should think about these consequences. The current generation’s language contains only 30 per cent Telugu words. The remaining are English words. It seems that Telugu may disappear in due course. Telugu should be protected by speaking and writing the language,” Kishan said.