New Delhi, October 14 (MExN): The Vice President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said that the mother language should be made mandatory for school education in all States. The Vice President said that the language is the soul of a society, the binding thread of human existence and it has been a vehicle, from time immemorial, for communication of thoughts, feelings and ideas, a PIB press release informed. He was addressing the inaugural session of a 2-day International Conference on ‘The Journey of Indian Languages: Perspectives on Culture and Society’ jointly organized by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University (BAOU) and Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), in Ahmedabad on October 14. He further said that our societies have been built on the recognition of the fact that language is the lifeblood of a culture and building block of civilization. The richness of a culture is evident from the vocabulary, the syntax, it added. Naidu also noted that not enough attention is being paid to ensure that children master at least one language well during their schooling stage and this weakens the foundations for further learning, the release said. To that end, the Vice President batted for the need good researches that would aim to cement and enhance India’s tradition of excellent critical, historical, theoretical and creative scholarship across a full range of periods, genres and linguistic research areas, it added.
