Berhampur: A seminar on ‘The role of college teachers in promoting Odia language in class room’ was organized by Odisha State Bureau of Text Book Preparation and Production with the active cooperation of Berhampur University on Tuesday in the senate hall of the varsity campus.
Gracing the occasion as the chief guest of the function, Minister of Higher Education, sports and youth services, Badri Narayana Patra led emphasis on the topic and the soft nuances in the gap between words.
This is indeed not a conflict between Odia and English language but cooperative and promotional attempts of promoting mother tongue. “One must open the windows of the whole world for information codified in English language but that is not to say to neglect our language”, he added.
“There is no harm to explain difficult concepts of a subject in mother tongue, which can easily understand by the students”, explained the Director of Odisha State Bureau of Text Book Preparation and Production Haraprasad Parichha Patnaik in his welcome and introductory address on the occasion.
“We should not neglect English but we have to accept two languages as well. We have to overcome from the narrow mindedness on this matter as we are living in a globalized world”, said the guest of honour of the inaugural ceremony of the seminar Vice-chancellor of Berhampur University Prof Jayanta Mahapatra.
For the first time, Odisha State Bureau of Text Book Preparation and Production was organized the seminar and function in outside of its curriculum after 41 years of its history. It will move to enrich the Odia language throughout the world, informed it’s Director Haraprasad Parichha Patnaik to The Pioneer.
Among others, Odia Proffessor of Berhampur University and organizer of the seminar Deviprasanna Patnaik, Journalism Proffessor Dr Pradip Mahapatra, writer Abhiram Biswal and other intellectuals, writers were present in the occasion.
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