Language Universities want to be treated on par with Central Universities

Language Universities want to be treated on par with Central Universities

‘Dravidian languages are ancient and as important as Sanskrit, Urdu and Hindi’

Hampi: Vice – Chancellors of four language universities in South India have pleaded with the Union Government that the Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Dravidian universities be treated on par with the Central universities in the country.

Addressing a joint press conference here on Wednesday, B.A. Vivek Rai, Vice-Chancellor Kannada University, Hampi, C. Subramanyan, Vice-Chancellor, Tamil University, Thanjavur, Lakhminarayan, Vice-Chancellor of Dravidian University, Kuppam, and Bhaktavatsala Reddy, Registrar of Potti Sriramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad, said that there Dravidian languages were ancient and also as important as Sanskrit, Urdu and Hindi and wanted the Union Government to recognize the language universities on a par with other Central universities.

They have also urged the Union Government and the University Grants Commission (UGC) to enhance the budgetary allocations to enable the allocations to enable these universities to undertake collaborative programmes on a regular basis and also joint projects of translation of classic works in each of these four languages.

In addition, all Vice-Chancellors decided to meet the Chief Ministers and Ministers for Education and Culture in each of the States in South India and urge them to allocate more funds for the language universities established by them.

All the Vice-Chancellors (except. A.manjulatha of Telugu University) were here to participate in the third meeting of the Forum of Dravidian Language Culture Universities formed by them in mid 2005.

Dr.Subramanyam said that the main objective of forming the forum was to strengthen the relationship between the Dravidian language-speaking people, besides undertaking collaborative projects to explore the best in each of the four Dravidian languages.

The meeting discussed taking up joint research projects on various topics, including culture, folklore, archaeology, music, manuscript, ancient water management and indigenous medicine system and the like. “For this, we need a lot of funds and we, through out forum, decided to approach the Union Government,” he said.

Dr.Lakshminarayan said the Central universities, few in number were getting around 80 per cent of the total grants allocated for higher education and remaining 20 per cent was distributed among the rest of the universities, numbering over 168, including the Dravidian language universities.

Language Universities want to be treated on par with Central Universities

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