What about the Center? The official language at the central level is English as well as Hindi. but it's true that English has been dominating since independence. Legislations, executive's actions, Supreme/High Court's verdicts are primarily in English. Our ministers (those who can speak English) prefer English outside/inside the country. Application forms even for D-grade jobs are printed in English. Therefore one is left with no option but to strive to learn English. These days when government jobs are tightly contested by VCs and private sector requires good English speaking skills, it has become necessary that special schools must strive hard to develop such skills in VCs.
As far as development of local computing solutions is concerned, as I stated in my previous mail, it's on the part of government/leading private firms to take initiative with real interest and commitment rather than to show off pseudo patriotism. They may go for contracts with companies like Ms and insure their profits in the country, or they start developing on their own. If India could develop super computers solely, why can't it develop a mere OS? Regards, Ramit On 11/17/07, Dipendra manocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't you think that by the time 10% population of India tries to teach rest > of the 90% population of India to how to speak English it would be good to > have a PC in our own language where we understand every word of what is > written on it and not just keep struggling with written word which are half > understood? > > The fact is also that official language of UP is Hindi and all letters are > supposed to be written and typed in Hindi only. Similarly official language > of Punjab is Punjabi. The case is the same in many of the Indian states. We > need English till we want to serve and work for over seas customers only. We > really cannot make English as first language of every Indian. Thus why not > have option of computing in our First language and have option of English on > the computers for an important second language which keeps us integrated to > the rest of the world? > > When France can survive without English why can't we? > > Thus the remedy is both ways. We may encourage English education but we also > need Indian Language computing development > > I feel bad when all non-English speaking persons become second grade > citizens in our own country. > > Thanks > Dipendra > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LSanjay > Sent: 17 November 2007 23:10 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AI] Here's Your Diwali Gift! > > You are right. Even if they don't know English, all computer literate > people have good functional skills. But here my concern is a blind person > must be well versed in English to take full advantage of computers this is > not possible for all blinds in third World countries including India. > So far as Windows for Indian languages is concerned, to my knowledge, apart > from some dummy Government Offices, nobody cares about it. The irony is > everybody boasts about their language by enrolling their children in English > Medium and English cultured schools. Why we should not encourage English > Medium schools for blind children in every states and districts? > > > > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
