Material preparation workshop on ‘A Handbook on Scripts of Dravidian Languages’ begins at CIIL

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Mysuru: A five-day workshop on the finalisation of ‘A Handbook on Scripts of Dravidian Languages’ began at National Testing Service-India of Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysuru on Monday.

The objective behind preparing this handbook is to learn the scripts of Dravidian languages through Devanagari Script. In this sense, the present handbook can be used by anyone who is able to read and write Devanagari script and also the individuals who know any one of the Dravidian languages besides knowing Devanagari.

The Dravidian language speakers can also make use of this handbook to learn other Dravidian languages other than their mother tongue.
Dr. Pankaj Dwivedi, Officer In-charge, NTS-I and the coordinator of the programme briefed on the contents of the material and the objectives of the workshop to the resource persons.

The experts invited for this workshop are: Prof. Lakshmi Narayan Aurora & Prof. R.V.S. Sundaram both Former Professors of University of Mysore and Dr. M. Balakumar, Formerly of CIIL; Dr. Rakesh Cherucode, Principal In-charge, SRLC and Dr. Miriyala Sathya Narayana, SRLC.

Besides them, the NTS-I resource persons involved in this work are: Dr. Biresh Kumar, Dr. R. Shakunthala, Dr. M. Narayana Reddy, Dr. AR. Muthukaruppan, Dr. A. Eswaran, Dr. M. Manjunatha, Mr. K.K. Pradeepa and Ms. Anjali V. Kumar.

Prof. Shailendra Mohan, Director, CIIL is the patron of this workshop, according to Dr Pankaj Dwivedi, Officer-in-charge, NTS-I, CIIL.

– Team Mysoorunews