{"id":214276,"date":"2022-11-14T19:44:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=214276"},"modified":"2022-11-14T19:44:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:14:56","slug":"shabd-shala-initiative-finding-indian-language-equivalents-for-selfie-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/shabd-shala-initiative-finding-indian-language-equivalents-for-selfie-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabd Shala Initiative: Finding Indian language equivalents for selfie, drones\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cFinding Indian language equivalents for selfie, drones\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 14th November 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology(CSTT) will soon launch the \u2018Shabd Shala\u2019 initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Shabd Shala Initiative?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shabd Shala is a website which will invite suggestions for the translation of words that are recent additions to the English language and are used widely in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People across India can log onto the website and provide suggestions for possible translations of these words or the most prevalent usages in their respective languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The suggestions will not be limited to only 22 languages (covered under the Eight Schedule). People can provide translations in other languages like Bhojpuri and Nagamese.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Selfie\u2019, \u2018drones\u2019, \u2018metaverse\u2019, and \u2018Artificial Intelligence\u2019 are among the new \u201ctechnical\u201d English words that become a part of the Indian psyche and culture but have no formal translations into Indian languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 This initiative will help in finding standardized vernacular versions of these words in common usage.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology(CSTT)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>Established in: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1961 by the Government of India under <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/article-344-of-indian-constitution\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Article 344(4) of Indian Constitution.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Mandate: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">evolve technical terminology in all Indian Languages, propagate its use and distribute it widely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Nodal Ministry: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Headquarters:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cFinding Indian language equivalents for selfie, drones\u201d published in The Hindu on 14th November 2022. What is the News? The Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology(CSTT) will soon launch the \u2018Shabd Shala\u2019 initiative. What is the Shabd Shala Initiative? Shabd Shala is a website which will invite&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/shabd-shala-initiative-finding-indian-language-equivalents-for-selfie-drones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shabd Shala Initiative: Finding Indian language equivalents for selfie, drones\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-214276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700790745,"cached_date":1702562437},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}