| Workshop on development of agriculture, technical glossary concludes | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 11: A workshop on development of agricultural scientific and Technical glossary in Dogri concluded at SKUAST-Jammu.
According to press release, the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT) was set up on December 21, 1960 by a resolution of Government of India under the proviso to Clause (4) of Article 344 of the Constitution with the objective to evolve and define scientific and technical terms in Hindi and all Indian languages; publish glossaries to see that the evolved terms and their definitions reach the students, teachers, scholars, scientists, officers etc. and to ensure proper usage through workshops/ seminars/ orientation programmes. Parliament in 2003 approved a Constitution amendment to include Dogri in the 8th Schedule.
With a view to develop the scientific elementary glossary of agriculture in Dogri language, a five day workshop on the English-Hindi-Dogri glossary was organized from August 6 to 11, 2014 by the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Jammu (SKUAST-Jammu).
Shailender Singh, Assistant Scientific Officer (Agriculture) from the Commission elucidated the objective of the workshop before the experts and invited threadbare discussion before finalizing the scientific and technical terms in Dogri language.
Nautiyal, former secretary CSTT and the Commission's facilitator assisted the experts in coining the technical terms. Experts from various fields discussed and developed Scientific and Technical Glossary of Dogri language. The team of experts involved with developing the glossary were Dr. JP Sharma, Dean Faculty of Agriculture, S. K. Gupta, B. C. Sharma, V. S. Verma, R.K.Gupta, P. S. Slathia, ParshantBakshi, Vishal Gupta from SKUAST -Jammu; Dr. Yash Pal Sharma Jammu University; Dr. N. K. Attri Degree College, Udhampur; and Joginder Pal Saraf (Chhatrapal) Dogri news reader, All India Radio, Jammu an eminent Dogri writer and national award winner. |
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