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13/09/24 09:39 AM IST

Role of CSTT

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  • In alignment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, to impart education in the Indian languages for an improved understanding and improved teaching-learning outcome, the government has initiated technical education, including engineering and medicine in Indian languages.
About CSTT
  • The CSTT, established on October 1, 1961, focuses on preparing standardised scientific and technical terminology in Indian languages.
  • It regularly publishes a range of bilingual, trilingual, and multilingual glossaries, definitional dictionaries, and monographs, besides publishing quarterly journals named ‘Vigyan Garima Sindhu’ and ‘Gyan Garima Sindhu’. The CSTT also takes up the publication of university-level textbooks through its Granth Academies, textbook boards, and publication cells located in various parts of the country.
  • It also undertakes the publication of administrative and various departmental glossaries that are widely used by government departments, institutions, research laboratories, autonomous organisations, and public sector units besides organising workshops, seminars, symposiums, conferences, orientation, and training programmes to increase the use and popularise the standard terminology of Hindi and other Indian languages
Website-Shabd
  • The CSTT glossary search website, “Shabd,” is hosted at ‘https://shabd.education.gov.in’. “Shabd” is a data server that features all the glossaries of CSTT in digital searchable mode.
  • Other institutions or agencies preparing dictionaries can also host their work in digital form on this platform.
  • The aim is to showcase a central repository for all the terminologies prepared in or for Indian Languages.
  • The platform allows users to search for scientific and technical terms in Indian languages and provide feedback on existing equivalents prepared by CSTT.
  • The search options include language, subject, dictionary type, and language pairs. It also allows users to search specific glossaries or the entire collection.
  • The entire collection which as of now includes about 322 glossaries has about (21,84,050 headwords). This covers disciplines in Humanities, Social Sciences, Medical Sciences, Engineering, Agricultural Sciences, and more than 60 subjects such as Journalism, Public Administration, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Psychology, Physics, Economics, Ayurveda, Mathematics, Civil and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Political Science, Agriculture, Culture, Transport, Geology, Capital Market, Cell Biology, Broadcasting, Music and Finearts, CSIT, AIML, Linguistics, Forestry, Entomology, Plant Pathology, Soil Science, Nematology, Sericulture, LIS, and others.
Source- The Hindu

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