Months after granting classical language standing to Marathi, the Union authorities issued an official notification to this impact on Wednesday, stated Maharashtra minister Uday Samant.
Though the Union cupboard accorded classical language standing to Marathi, alongside Assamese, Bengali, Pali, and Prakrit on October 3 final 12 months, an official notification had not been issued on this regard till Samant met Union Tradition Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in New Delhi on Wednesday.
The demand to incorporate Marathi within the listing of India’s classical languages had been pending for 11 years.
Sadanand Extra, chairperson of the Maharashtra State Board of Literature and Tradition, was additionally current on the assembly, following which Shekhawat handed over the notification to Samant.
“I thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shekhawat ji for issuing the official notification granting classical standing to Marathi. I’ll submit no matter proposals are obligatory within the subsequent eight to fifteen days. A research is being carried out below the chairmanship of Sadanand Extra. Shekhawat has assured us of funding for it,” stated Samant.
Samant added that Shekhawat would go to Pune on January 31, February 1, and a pair of for the inauguration of the Marathi World Convention.
“Right now, on behalf of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, and the cupboard, I thank Shekhawat. We are going to try to protect and promote the Marathi language on the worldwide stage. I additionally thank all of the writers who’ve labored to realize the standing of a classical language,” the minister stated.
“A call was made final 12 months to offer a fund of Rs 2 crore to the Sahitya Sammelan. Equally, the identical fund will probably be allotted this 12 months as effectively. There are Marathi faculties in Delhi and different areas, and we’re additionally working to strengthen these faculties,” he added.
For his half, Sadanand Extra stated he had been working for the Marathi language for a few years. “I additionally wrote the article Garja Maharashtra. This language has a historical past of two,000 to 2,500 years. Maharashtra Prakrit has influenced Sanskrit literature. It’ll now be doable to work for Maharashtra Prakrit and the Marathi language. It’s gratifying that the sooner model of the Marathi language, often known as Prakrit, has additionally been granted the standing of a classical language,” he stated.
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