The vice-chairman of National Council for Promotion of Sindhi Language (NCPSL) Ramesh Varlyani has informed that Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) would start centre for Sindhi Language and Culture to promote Sindhi language from Tuesday (October 4). The Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal will inaugurate centre at IGNOU auditorium in New Delhi at 9:30 am on Tuesday. Varlyani informed that the centre would be functional from this academic year onwards. Now, every year, about one crore Sindhi population of the country will observe October 4 as Sindhi Shiksha Diwas, he said.
The center also aims to make youth conscious of the Sindhi literary and cultural heritage and make them adequately articulate in Sindhi so that they could not only write in this language but also translate into it from Hindi and English, Varlyani said. The center would also help to organise such activities to the expert meetings and seminars and workshops that would help the cause of Sindhi language, he said.
The IGNOU’s action plan for the establishment of the center is to prepare and start a foundation course as part of the Bachelor Degree Programme (BDP) with various components like spoken language, literary language, morphology and grammar (For Sindhi knowing students), Varlyani said. It further plans to start different levels of appreciation courses in Sindhi for beginners (For non-Sindhi knowing students).
Towards a later stage, the IGNOU will be developing PG certificate and diploma programmes and post graduate degree programmes followed by M Phil and PhD programmes, Varlyani said.
It shall also launch translation courses in Hindi-Sindhi-Hindi and English-Sindhi-English and later between Sindhi and other major Indian languages, he added.
Notably, Sindhi is one of the major literary languages of India, recognised in the eighth schedule of the Constitution of India. It was included in the Constitution on April 10, 1967.
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