Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on tuesday announced the extension of translation services to six languages in Parliament, including Bodo, Dogri, Maithili, Manipuri, Urdu, and Sanskrit.
Om Birla said, ‘that previously, translation services were available in 10 languages- Assamese, Bengali, Gujrati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu along with Hindi and English. Now we have included six more languages Bodo, Dogri, Maithili, Manipuri, Urdu, and Sanskrit. Additionally, as human resources become available, we are working to provide simultaneous translations in 16 languages’, He said. ”India’s Parliamentary system is a democratic framework that provides in so many languages. when i discussed at the global level that we are making this effort in 22 languages in India, everyone on the international platform praised it. Our effort is that, for the 22 languages that are officially recognised, we aim to include them in the future as well,’ Om Birla said.