{"id":8261,"date":"2022-11-16T09:23:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T03:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8261"},"modified":"2025-03-29T01:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:28:52","slug":"shabd-shala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shabd-shala\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabd Shala"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Shabd Shala:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>People across India can log onto the \u2018Shabd Shala\u2019 website and provide suggestions for possible translations of these words or their most prevalent usages in their respective languages.<\/li>\n<li>After collating all the suggestions, the Technical Words Selection Committee will zero in on the most popular or appropriate translations for each word, following which a glossary would be brought out in all the respective languages.<\/li>\n<li>The committee, to be constituted in consultation with the Education Ministry, will comprise of subject experts in science and technology, and experts in linguistics and the Sanskrit language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>The Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established on October 01, 1961 in pursuance of a Presidential Order dated April 27, 1960.<\/li>\n<li>Presently, CSTT is functioning under Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India with its headquarters at New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>The main objective is to evolve standard terminology, propagate its use, and distribute it widely.<\/li>\n<li>The commission is mandated to collaborate with State governments, universities, regional textbook Boards, and State \u2018Granth Academies\u2019, which are nodal bodies in-charge of providing translations of English textbooks in local languages for institutions of higher education.<\/li>\n<li>Eighteen States were mandated to have Granth Academies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/government-body-turns-to-crowdsourcing-for-translation-of-recently-added-english-words-into-indian-languages\/article66129042.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabd Shala website will facilitate translation of words that are recent additions to English language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8261","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\/8261","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=8261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}