{"id":29812,"date":"2025-02-02T01:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T20:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29812"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:34:18","slug":"bharatiya-bhasha-pustak-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bharatiya-bhasha-pustak-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharatiya Bhasha Pustak Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bharatiya Bhasha Pustak Scheme Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Union Budget 2025-26 has announced Bharatiya Bhasha Pustak Scheme to provide digital-form Indian language books for students.<\/p>\n<h2>About Bharatiya Bhasha Pustak Scheme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a new initiative aimed at making learning more accessible by <strong>offering digital textbooks and study materials in various Indian languages<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Under the Bharatiya Bhasha Pustak Scheme, <strong>students in schools and universities <\/strong>will be able to <strong>access textbooks and learning resources in digital format<\/strong>s.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The scheme is designed to benefit students from different linguistic backgrounds by <strong>providing study materials in regional languages.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The initiative aims to bridge the gap in educational resources for students from diverse linguistic groups.<\/li>\n<li>This initiative also <strong>complements the government\u2019s<\/strong> previous steps to enhance educational infrastructure, such as the <strong>ASMITA (Augmenting Study Materials in Indian Languages through Translation and Academic Writing) initiative.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about ASMITA Initiative<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an initiative to <strong>develop 22,000 books in Indian languages<\/strong> in the next <strong>five years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a collaborative effort of the <strong>UGC and the Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti,<\/strong> a <strong>high-powered committee under the Ministry of Education.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The primary objective of this initiative is <strong>to promote and integrate Indian languages<\/strong> more deeply <strong>into the education system<\/strong>, thereby enriching the learning experience and making it more inclusive.<\/li>\n<li>This project is seen as part of a broader strategy to enhance the accessibility and quality of educational materials across various Indian languages.<\/li>\n<li>Thirteen nodal universities have been identified to lead the project, along with member universities from various regions.<\/li>\n<li>TheUGC has also created a <strong>standard operating procedure (SOP) for the book-writing <\/strong>process in each assigned language.<\/li>\n<li>The SOP includes the identification of nodal officers, authors, allocation of title, subject, and programme, writing and editing, submission of the manuscript, review and plagiarism check, finalisation, designing, proofreading and e-publication.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bharatiya Bhasha Pustak Scheme FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. How many languages have been recognized by the Indian Constitution ?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Indian Constitution recognizes 22 languages under the Eighth Schedule.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is a High Powered Committee for Promotion of Indian Languages constituted by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the University Grants Commission (UGC)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. UGCcame into existence on 28th December, 1953 and became a statutory Organization in 1956, for the coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of teaching, examination and research in university education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/budget\/union-budget-2025-education-gets-better-budget-allocation-more-money-for-iits-central-universities\/article69169651.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharatiya Bhasha Pustak Scheme is a new initiative aimed at making learning more accessible by offering digital textbooks and study materials in various Indian languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}