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Malayalam Mission to be formed soon

Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The government proposes to form a Malayalam Mission to introduce Kerala’s culture to the new generation of Malayalis living outside Kerala and help them to learn Malayalam.

The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the report of the committee headed by poet O.N.V. Kurup in this regard.

The Mission will be the responsibility of the departments of Official Language, Non-Resident Keralites’ Affairs and the Information and Public Relations. A society with Chief Minister as chairman would be formed for carrying out the programme.

It will set up Malayalam learning centres in collaboration with Malayali Associations in other States and abroad. The Mission will offer certificate, diploma and higher diploma courses. It would also prepare the text books for the courses. Teachers would have to be deputed by the Malayali Associations, and Mission would provide them training.

An official release noted that a teaching centre had been functioning at the Kerala House, New Delhi, for the last three years. Some 200 learning centres were working under that centre. More than 2,000 persons had passed out from those centres during the last two years. The NORKA had arranged free travel to Kerala to 22 persons who won high ranks.

With the formation of the Malayalam Mission, the New Delhi Centre would also come under the Mission. Centres would be set up shortly in Mumbai and Chennai.

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