{"id":34672,"date":"2022-11-10T12:12:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T06:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34672"},"modified":"2025-04-20T16:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T10:39:18","slug":"mother-tongue-survey-of-india-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mother-tongue-survey-of-india-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Tongue Survey of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mother Tongue Survey of India (MTSI) \u2013 About, number of mother tongues in India, mother tongue in education<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has completed the Mother Tongue Survey of India (MTSI) with field videography of the country\u2019s 576 languages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Mother Tongue Survey of India (MTSI)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a project that surveys the mother tongues, which are returned consistently across two and more Census decades.<\/li>\n<li>It also documents the\u00a0linguistic features of the selected languages.<\/li>\n<li>The National Informatics Centre (NIC) and the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) will be documenting and preserving the linguistic data of the surveyed mother tongues in audio-video files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Number of mother tongues spoken in India<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the 2011 linguistic census data released in 2018, there are more than 19,500 languages and dialects spoken as mother tongues in India.<\/li>\n<li>These 19,500 languages were further grouped into\u00a0<strong>121 categories<\/strong>\u00a0of mother tongue after linguistic scrutiny and rationalising.<\/li>\n<li>According to 2011 linguistic census data,\u00a0Hindi is the most spoken mother tongue\u00a0by 52.8 crore people of the country, accounting for 43.6 per cent of the population.<\/li>\n<li>Following that, 9.7 crore people or 8 per cent of the population spoke\u00a0Bengali, making it the country\u2019s second most popular mother tongue.\n<ul>\n<li>It should be noted that mother tongue is a designation given to a language by the respondent of the survey.<\/li>\n<li>It need not be identical with the actual linguistic medium.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Mother tongue in education<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In September 2022, President Murmu emphasised that talent development in science, literature and social sciences can be more effective\u00a0if taught in one\u2019s mother tongue.<\/li>\n<li>In July 2022, Union Home Minister said that pursuing education in a language other than one\u2019s mother tongue\u00a0prevented 95 per cent of Indians from achieving their true potential.<\/li>\n<li>Keeping this in mind, the\u00a0<strong>National Education Policy (NEP), 2020<\/strong>, aims to promote mother tongue and regional languages.<\/li>\n<li>The new\u00a0<strong>National Curriculum Framework<\/strong>\u00a0(NCF) for the foundational stages (ages 3 to 8) of education has recommended that mother tongue should be the primary medium of instruction in schools for children up to eight years of age.\n<ul>\n<li>The new NCF, launched by Education Minister last month, deals with pre-school and classes I-II.<\/li>\n<li>It emphasises the virtues of the mother tongue as the primary medium of instruction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Linguistic Survey of India (LSI)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>LSI is a regular research activity in the country since the 6th Five Year Plan.<\/li>\n<li>The primary objective of the present Linguistic Survey of India is to present an updated linguistic scenario.<\/li>\n<li>It further aims to provide necessary inputs to the social\/educational planners in respective States for their planning to attain the envisaged 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