Darjeeling, Aug. 20: Bimal Gurung today said "the GTA would correspond with the Centre and the state government in the Nepali language from now."
The GTA chief executive mentioned that language was “important as it is also our identity”.
“Despite Nepali language being recognized, we have not implemented it properly and this is the reason we are still talking about the importance of the status today. We have started using the Nepali language in the GTA on a small scale and we will have to move step by step,” said the GTA chief executive, addressing an event to mark Bhasha Divas at Gorkha Rangamanch Bhavan in Darjeeling.
The Bhasha Divas is celebrated to mark the inclusion of Nepali in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution among other official languages of the country.
“From now onwards, we will correspond with the state and the Centre in Nepali. It will be their duty to translate it,” Gurung said. “Language is also important as it is also our identity.”
Despite its recognition in the Eighth Schedule, the Nepali language was not widely used in official correspondence for lack of political initiative. English has been the preferred language of correspondence in offices spread across the hills.
Sources in the GTA, however, said that for the past two days the hill body had started using Nepali in official correspondence. “Efforts are being made to prepare official note sheets in Nepali,” said the source. Gurung had announced on July 31 that the Nepali language would be used for correspondence within the GTA.
The inclusion of the Nepali language in the Constitution was not devoid of drama as GNLF chief Subash Ghisingh wanted the word Gorkha language and not Nepali to be included in the Constitution. He did not want the hill people to be identified with Nepalis. Along with Nepali, the seventy-first amendment to the Constitution mentions “Gorkha Bhasa” as “the Nepali language is also known in some areas”.
“Nepali and Gorkha Bhasa are the same. Ghisingh preferred to call the Nepali language Gorkha Bhasa as he thought that would differentiate Nepalis from Nepal and India,” said Suraj Sharma, a poet in Darjeeling.
The demand for putting the Nepali language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution gathered steam from 1956 but political parties failed to deliver much at the time.
On January 31, 1972, eminent people in the hills, fed up with the lack of progress on the issue, formed the Bhasha Samiti, which was later rechristened as the Akhil Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti.
The Samiti took up the task of uniting all political parties, holding mass meetings and spreading the demand for inclusion of Nepali in the Eighth Schedule to other states where Nepali-speaking people resided. The Samiti also met Prime Minister Indira Gandhi repeatedly with its demand. “During our first meeting, she categorically told us it would not be possible to recognise the language and raised security concerns on agreeing to the demand,” Prem Kumar Allay, the late founder secretary of the Bhasha Samiti, had earlier said.
Such was the mass support for the demand that when Indira Gandhi visited Darjeeling to address a public meeting at the St Joseph’s School ground in the mid-1970s and did not announce anything on giving the Nepali language official status, the crowd overran the podium and the Prime Minister had to be rescued from the stage. In 1979, when then Prime Minister Morarji Desai visited the hills, the Bhasha Samiti called a bandh as Desai too had not given any assurance on the inclusion of Nepali.
In 1992, Dil Kumari Bhandari, then the MP from Sikkim, pushed the bill in Parliament for official status to Nepali.
Source: Telegraph
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| Bimal Gurung felicitates former Sikkim chief minister Nar Bahadur Bhandari in Darjeeling on Wednesday. |
“Despite Nepali language being recognized, we have not implemented it properly and this is the reason we are still talking about the importance of the status today. We have started using the Nepali language in the GTA on a small scale and we will have to move step by step,” said the GTA chief executive, addressing an event to mark Bhasha Divas at Gorkha Rangamanch Bhavan in Darjeeling.
The Bhasha Divas is celebrated to mark the inclusion of Nepali in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution among other official languages of the country.
“From now onwards, we will correspond with the state and the Centre in Nepali. It will be their duty to translate it,” Gurung said. “Language is also important as it is also our identity.”
Despite its recognition in the Eighth Schedule, the Nepali language was not widely used in official correspondence for lack of political initiative. English has been the preferred language of correspondence in offices spread across the hills.
Sources in the GTA, however, said that for the past two days the hill body had started using Nepali in official correspondence. “Efforts are being made to prepare official note sheets in Nepali,” said the source. Gurung had announced on July 31 that the Nepali language would be used for correspondence within the GTA.
The inclusion of the Nepali language in the Constitution was not devoid of drama as GNLF chief Subash Ghisingh wanted the word Gorkha language and not Nepali to be included in the Constitution. He did not want the hill people to be identified with Nepalis. Along with Nepali, the seventy-first amendment to the Constitution mentions “Gorkha Bhasa” as “the Nepali language is also known in some areas”.
“Nepali and Gorkha Bhasa are the same. Ghisingh preferred to call the Nepali language Gorkha Bhasa as he thought that would differentiate Nepalis from Nepal and India,” said Suraj Sharma, a poet in Darjeeling.
The demand for putting the Nepali language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution gathered steam from 1956 but political parties failed to deliver much at the time.
On January 31, 1972, eminent people in the hills, fed up with the lack of progress on the issue, formed the Bhasha Samiti, which was later rechristened as the Akhil Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti.
The Samiti took up the task of uniting all political parties, holding mass meetings and spreading the demand for inclusion of Nepali in the Eighth Schedule to other states where Nepali-speaking people resided. The Samiti also met Prime Minister Indira Gandhi repeatedly with its demand. “During our first meeting, she categorically told us it would not be possible to recognise the language and raised security concerns on agreeing to the demand,” Prem Kumar Allay, the late founder secretary of the Bhasha Samiti, had earlier said.
Such was the mass support for the demand that when Indira Gandhi visited Darjeeling to address a public meeting at the St Joseph’s School ground in the mid-1970s and did not announce anything on giving the Nepali language official status, the crowd overran the podium and the Prime Minister had to be rescued from the stage. In 1979, when then Prime Minister Morarji Desai visited the hills, the Bhasha Samiti called a bandh as Desai too had not given any assurance on the inclusion of Nepali.
In 1992, Dil Kumari Bhandari, then the MP from Sikkim, pushed the bill in Parliament for official status to Nepali.
Source: Telegraph
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ReplyDeleteप्रभाव पर्छ सृस्टिलाई प्रकाशको गतिमा।.... यी माथिका हरफ मेघालय शिलोंगका नेपालीभाषी पुस्तक ब्यबसायी श्री बिष्णु गौतमले बिगत ५ वर्ष देखि जोड तोडका साथ प्रचार प्रसार गर्दै आएका छन् । उनले प्रकाशन गरेका पुस्तक, बिजक, लेटर प्याड, पुस्तक सुची जताततै यी हरफ देख्न पाइन्छ । नेपाली, अंग्रेजी, खासी र बंगाली भाषामा लेखिएका यी हरफले मातृभाषाको शक्तिले सृष्टिको रक्षा र यस सुन्दर बहुरंगी विश्व-बाटिकालाइ द्रुत गतिमा सुमुन्नत बनाउन टेवा मिल्ने संदेश दिन्छ ।.
जन्मेपछि सम्बाद गर्न सिकेको पहिलो भाषा नै मानिसको मातृभाषा हो । संसारमा ज्ञान, सोच र कल्पनाको बहुरंगी विविधता कायम राख्न पनि मातृभाषालाइ बचाईराख्न र विकास गर्न जरुरि छ । मातृभाषामा दिइने शिक्षाले सम्बन्धित भाषा त्यसको लिपि, जातीय संस्कार र संस्कृतिको विकास तथा समाजमा उत्प्रेरणा र चेतनाको अभिवृद्धि हुन्छ । यदि कुनै भाषा लोप भएर गयो भने त्यस जतिको संस्कृति पनि लोप भएर जान्छ । संस्कृतिक सम्वृद्धिमा सबैभन्दा ठूलो योगदान भाषाको नै हुन्छ । मातृभाषामा दिइने अभिव्यक्ति सबैभन्दा परिपूर्ण र सहज हुन्छ । यदि मातृभाषा सम्पन्न भयनन भने संसारमा धेरै कारोबार हुने सम्पर्क भाषाको अवस्था पनि खोक्रो हुन जानेछ । ससाना हजारौ मातृभाषाका कारणले नै संसारका सम्पर्क भाषा सम्पन्न र हराभरा भएका हुन् । यदि कारोबारी भाषामा लिप्त भएर मातृभाषाको लोप भयो भने ज्ञान बिज्ञानको संसार उराठिलो मरुभूमि जस्तो बन्ने छ । त्यसैले शिक्षा मातृभाषामै हुनु पर्छ । मातृभाषा मानिसको मौलिक ज्ञान, शिप सृजनाको खजाना हो । यस्तो महत्वपूर्ण खजानाको रक्षामा ध्यान नदिएर क्षणिक लाभको निम्ति कारोबारमा चलेका भाषामा मात्र लिप्त हुनु समाजको भविस्य माथि गरेको बेइमानी र बाल अधिकारको हनन हो ।.
प्रसिद्ध साहित्यकार रवीन्द्रनाथ टैगोरले भनेका छन्, ‘मातृभाषामा शिक्षा पाउनु मानिसको जन्मसिद्ध अधिकार हो । हामी जसरी आमाको कोखमा जन्मेका हौं त्यसैगरी मातृभाषा पनि हाम्रो कोख हो । यी दुवै आमा हाम्रालागि सधैं सजीव र अपरिहार्य छन् ।’ उनले मातृभाषाको महत्त्वलाई बुझे र बुझाउने कोसिस गरे । प्रसिद्ध राजनीतिज्ञ नेलसन मण्डेलाले भनेका छन्- इफ यू स्पिक टु अ म्यान इन अ ल्याङ्वेज ही अन्डरस्ट्यान्डस, इट गोज् टु हिज माइन्ड बट इफ यू स्पिक इन हिज ल्याङ्वेज इट गोज टु हिज हर्ट । यदि कसैसँग उसले बुझ्ने भाषामा कुरा गर्नुभयो भने त्यो कुरा उसको दिमागमा मात्र पुग्छ । यदि उसको मातृभाषामा भन्नुभयो भने मुटुसम्म पुग्छ । मण्डेलाले मातृभाषाको द्रुत असरलाई प्रस्ट्याए ।.
संयुक्त राष्ट्रसंघको अध्ययनअनुसार यतिबेला कारोबारमा नचलेका करिब ५३०० मातृभाषा संकटमा परेका छन् । शिक्षामा मातृभाषाको महत्त्वलाई नजरअन्दाज गरेर अबको शिक्षानीति बनाइयो भने सामाजिक र राष्ट्रिय मात्र होइन मानव जातिकै अस्तित्व संकटमा आउन सक्ने स्थिति बन्नेछ । संयुक्त राष्ट्रसंघमा सन् १९९९ बाट यस मुद्दाले स्थान पाइसकेको छ । अब यसलाई संसारभरि उपयुक्त कार्यान्वयनको खाँचो छ ।.
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