Writers of Folk Languages will get 'Uttarakhand Sahitya Gaurav Samman' every year

• 07 Apr 2023

Why in News?

On 5 April 2023, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced in the meeting of Uttarakhand Bhasha Sansthan held in Dehradun that this year, 'Uttarakhand Sahitya Gaurav Samman' will be given for Kumaoni, Garhwali, dialects and dialects of the state, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu in folk languages and folk literature, epic, block poetry composition, poetry composition and literature and other prose genres.

Key Points

• It is worth mentioning that for the first time after the year 2014, the meeting of the Management Executive Committee of the Institute was held in the secretariat under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Dhami, in which it was told that folk languages and dialects are the identity and pride of the state and a grand ceremony will be organized in the coming May to honour outstanding litterateurs.
• The Chief Minister said that the creators of the state, who are unable to publish their books due to lack of funds, will be given partial grants in the form of financial assistance from the Bhasha Sansthan.
• This will be a multi-faceted plan of the Bhasha Sansthan, in which reading of research papers, exchange of ideas related to language, literary procession, folk language conference etc. will be organized.
• He also directed the organizing of national and international language conferences in every district of the state and established digital and e-library in a primary school of each district.
• During the meeting, approval was also given to organizing literary seminars in the book fair in association with the National Book Trust in the state.
• In the meeting, an agreement was also reached on the publication of literary and research journals by Uttarakhand Bhasha Sansthan. Along with this, approval was given to organize workshops and training programs for the standardization of folk languages.
• There are different speakers and writers of Garhwali, Kumaoni and Jaunsari dialects in different areas of the state, in whose writing there is a difference of words. There is a need for standardization of Garhwali and Kumaoni language spellings. District and state-level linguistic competitions will be organized by the institute in Uttarakhand.