UPSC CSE WHY
UPSC CSE WHY

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10 Tweets Mar 18, 2023
Today's date (Feb 21) is celebrated as Int'l Mother Language Day (IMLD) by UNESCO✨
Here's all you need to know about IMLD for #UPSC #Prelims & Mains💪🏻🧵
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- Theme 2023
'Multilingual education - a necessity to transform education'
- Purpose
In response to declining state of many languages all over the world (2/9)
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History
- declared on 21 Feb 1999
- Day commemorates struggle of Bangladeshis to protect their mother tongue: Bangla (3/9)
Aim: Protect diverse culture & intellectual heritage of diff regions
- "1 language disappears every 2 weeks"- UN
- Globalization + rush for foreign jobs = disappearance of mother tongue (4/9)
Global Efforts🎉
- 2022-2032: Int'l decade of Indigenous Languages
- Yuelu Proclamation: related to protecting linguistic resources & diversity (5/9)
Indian Efforts
- AICTE to permit B.Tech in 11 native languages
- SSC to conduct exams in 13 languages (other than Hin/Eng)
- SC to make verdicts accessible in all Indian languages
..and many more (all listed on blog, link at end of thread) (6/9)
Constitutional Mandate
- Article 29:No discrimination against linguistic minorities
- Article 120: MPs have right to express self in mother tongue
- Article 350A: Primary instruction in mother tongue
- Article 350B: Officer for linguistic minorities (7/9)
8th schedule: 22 languages.
How to remember these 22 languages? 👇🏻 (8/9)
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You can find comprehensive notes with important quotes, detailed Indian efforts, and way forward on my blog for Free.👇🏻 (9/9)
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